2018 MLB Thread

[spystud13 2371]

Nice little11-run swing administered by Oak tonight. 

[Goo Punch 4275]

All 3 of those guys will be there come October. Sevy is as talented a pitcher as there is, Tanaka turns it up in crunch time, and you can never count out veteran presents. And Cashman isn’t done making moves, genius. He’ll get another starter before the playoffs. Granted the trade market for starters is embarrassingly bad this year but he’ll find a serviceable one.

 

 

 

[texifornia 58842]

2 minutes ago, spystud13 said:

Nice little11-run swing administered by Oak tonight. 

God I love everything about this team except staying up past midnight to watch their inevitable comebacks. That and the fact we're somehow still only third in the division.

[Goo Punch 4275]

All 3 of those guys will be there come October. Sevy is as talented a pitcher as there is, Tanaka turns it up in crunch time, and you can never count out veteran presents. And Cashman isn’t done making moves, genius. He’ll get another starter before the playoffs. Granted the trade market for starters is embarrassingly bad this year but he’ll find a serviceable one.

Sevy will be pitching in the wild card game, and then if you win that you get to go up against boston or houston with Tanaka and CC starting on the road. Good luck.

[UTexasFight 9790]

Rangers should have used more position players tonight.
Only half joking.
Couldn’t have done any worse than Bibens-Dirxx who gave up 3 in the 10th...3 days after throwing 87 pitches and giving up 11 runs in 107 degree heat.

[Helobious 9766]

18 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

 

Sevy will be pitching in the wild card game, and then if you win that you get to go up against boston or houston with Tanaka and CC starting on the road. Good luck.

 

The Yankees have owned Houston & Boston this year. It’s the fluky one game wild card anything can happen shit that is concerning if it gets to that.

[spystud13 2371]

Anthony Gose throws 100 in AA for them now, good chance he’ll be up sooner rather than later. 

[UTexasFight 9790]

I want to enjoy this Dodgers/Philly game that’s now in the 16th...except that the know somewhere Manfred is going to use this an example of why MLB needs to start a runner on 2nd in extras soon.

[spystud13 2371]

The immortal Trevor Plouffe with a 3-run yack off Kike to end it in 16.

[Fozzz 152]

lmao at JD sending down DeShields and starting Tocci in CF.  What a dumpster fire.

[WBT 20887]

Yeah, how can you keep a .204/.300/.270 guy down on the farm?

[TheFlagship 466]

An OBP greater than SLG is something special.

[Beau Vine 55836]

9 hours ago, texifornia said:

God I love everything about this team except staying up past midnight to watch their inevitable comebacks. That and the fact we're somehow still only third in the division.

BP has Oakland at a 50% chance to make the playoffs; Mariners at 42%. 

All respect to MC Fresh Breath, but this A's team is fucking fun right now. 

 

Also, the NL WC race could be a doozy.

[Beau Vine 55836]

9 hours ago, spystud13 said:

Anthony Gose throws 100 in AA for them now, good chance he’ll be up sooner rather than later. 

Holy shit, I didn't realize that guy was a pitcher now...

[Beau Vine 55836]

8 minutes ago, TheFlagship said:

An OBP greater than SLG is something special.

Someone wrote an article about this last week.  IIRC, DD is the first guy to do it in several years.  It used to happen more often.  It motivated me to look up Lance Blankenship.

[Fozzz 152]

DD is a 4th/5th OF on a decent MLB team, but Tocci is a joke.  Shows how incredibly thin the Rangers are that they are dead set on keeping that dude around.  

[TheFlagship 466]

Tocci is awful but he really should be in AA. The rangers for whatever reason want to see what he becomes in 2-3 years, but they have to keep at MLB level cause of the whole rule 5 thing. 

I cant recall the last time a team purposely kept someone so bad at the MLB level just because he was a rule 5 pick. Any others?

[MC Fresh Breath 4075]

36 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

BP has Oakland at a 50% chance to make the playoffs; Mariners at 42%. 

All respect to MC Fresh Breath, but this A's team is fucking fun right now. 

 

 

 

I hate baseball.

 

[SurlyBDR 23105]

 

Edited July 25, 2018 by SurlyBDR
just realized this is an Iowa high school game

[dbecks 442]

Rays trade Nathan Eovaldi to the Red Sox for a (not very good) prospect. 

[WBT 20887]

53 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

DD is a 4th/5th OF on a decent MLB team, but Tocci is a joke.  Shows how incredibly thin the Rangers are that they are dead set on keeping that dude around.  

I looked up Tocci and he's at .143/.234/.190 so now I see you're point.  I didn't get why you would be upset about DDJ being sent down but...yikes.

[MC Fresh Breath 4075]

25 minutes ago, SurlyBDR said:

 

 

I'm only writing this to save you the pain of a blistering reply from Spy, friend,  but this was already posted on the previous page, and referenced by the top post on this page.  

[henrygandorf 29223]

10 hours ago, Helobious said:

The Yankees have owned Houston & Boston this year. It’s the fluky one game wild card anything can happen shit that is concerning if it gets to that.

yes, regular season means totally everything all the time awesome.

the real question is whether aaron boone has the stones to start tanaka in the wc game, knowing full well he won't win the alds without severino going twice.

[SurlyBDR 23105]

23 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

 

I'm only writing this to save you the pain of a blistering reply from Spy, friend,  but this was already posted on the previous page, and referenced by the top post on this page.  

Well, shit. 

[henrygandorf 29223]

with the trade deadline coming up, i thought this was an interesting read (not sure if posted) on the most valuable contracts in mlb:

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2018-trade-value-1-to-10/

looks like the top al teams are gonna be on top for a while, considering most of the top 10 comes from the 4 best teams in the league.

[clapclapclap 9000]

1 hour ago, dbecks said:

Rays trade Nathan Eovaldi to the Red Sox for a (not very good) prospect. 

Depends on how he conducts himself, but Boston expects a maestro performance and thinks they can get The Four Seasons out of Eovaldi.

[Beau Vine 55836]

31 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Depends on how he conducts himself, but Boston expects a maestro performance and thinks they can get The Four Seasons out of Eovaldi.

I assume this is a really good joke that went over my head because I'm a cultural boob?

[Goo Punch 4275]

play on words with vivaldi?

[clapclapclap 9000]

 

[spystud13 2371]

Yoenis out 8-10 months with surgery on both heels. Good return on that contract. 

Edited July 25, 2018 by spystud13

[henrygandorf 29223]

mets poised to make a run in the year 2030.

[Aldo Raine 122]

mets poised to make a run in the year 2030.

Bonilla paid off by then?

[UTexasFight 9790]

Bonilla paid off by then?

He will be by the All Star Break! July 1, 2030 I believe

[henrygandorf 29223]

if they were smart, they would go ahead and trade degrom.  they'd get a really nice return and he likely won't pitch a single important game for the mets ever.  i hope they don't, because he'll end up going to the red sox, yankees, or dodgers, but that's gotta be the move.  no reason to keep him.  although they're the mets, so they likely don't consider reasons when making decisions.

[Brew 3049]

That has to be the biggest waste of a pitching staff ever. They have no ability to put anyone around them and need to just go ahead and cash in on the whole bunch and try and restock their garbage farm system. 

[Helobious 9766]

It’s an example of why you shouldn’t build your team around young pitching. Sure you might make a good run for a season or 2, but long term it’s a poor strategy. Pitchers are more apt to get hurt or stop performing. Meanwhile the Cubs, Astros, Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, etc. built around young hitters and are all well positioned for multi-year success. 

[shnsajax 3605]

1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:

if they were smart, they would go ahead and trade degrom.  they'd get a really nice return and he likely won't pitch a single important game for the mets ever.  i hope they don't, because he'll end up going to the red sox, yankees, or dodgers, but that's gotta be the move.  no reason to keep him.  although they're the mets, so they likely don't consider reasons when making decisions.

I think the problem with trading him is that they won't be able to get the value they think he is worth from any team. You look at what the Yankees got for both Miller and Chapman, and Degrom is worth the package for both combined. Or what the Cubs gave up for Quintana and have to double it. Its just too hard to find a match to even make the trade. 

[Goo Punch 4275]

4-out save for brad hand today. struck out three, didn't give up a base runner. 

[Dutchrudder 11229]

The New York Yankees have acquired former All-Star reliever Zach Britton from the Baltimore Orioles for three minor league pitchers in a trade announced Tuesday night.

The deal sends right-handed starter Dillon Tate, left-handed starter Josh Rogers and righty reliever Cody Carroll to Baltimore.

[Fozzz 152]

Too bad for the Yankees the best SP on the market is JA Happ.  

[Henry Hill 3156]

[Goo Punch 4275]

i think you were looking for this?

 

[Brew 3049]

5 hours ago, Helobious said:

It’s an example of why you shouldn’t build your team around young pitching. Sure you might make a good run for a season or 2, but long term it’s a poor strategy. Pitchers are more apt to get hurt or stop performing. Meanwhile the Cubs, Astros, Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, etc. built around young hitters and are all well positioned for multi-year success. 

That doesn’t even make sense especially when that starting pitching is on team friendly contracts. The Mets have done a horrible job with free agents and the draft. They should have been able to put a team around that staff and then they could weather the injuries that inevitably came up.

[Beau Vine 55836]

On ‎7‎/‎22‎/‎2018 at 8:43 PM, spystud13 said:

Can’t remember if I posted this last week, but the “Only in Hollywood” episode that replays on MLB Net @ 9:00 tonight is worth a record. 

Thank you for the heads up.

Holy shit that was great.

[spystud13 2371]

The ‘90s Braves one is really good too. 

[Underdog 29108]

😠

[spystud13 2371]

And there’s another Khris Davis bomb against Texas. 

[texifornia 58842]

5 minutes ago, spystud13 said:

And there’s another Khris Davis bomb against Texas. 

And another. 9th inning comeback part deux!

Edited July 26, 2018 by texifornia

[texifornia 58842]

And Treinen finishes it off. This series has been about finding 3 exciting different ways to excruciatingly break the Rangers' spirits. Here's to #4 tomorrow. 

Edited July 26, 2018 by texifornia

[spystud13 2371]

24 in 48 games for him against Texas since joining Oak.