John from Cincinnati Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Kershaw shut down indefinitely. "Just an arm kind of thing." - Dave Roberts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Add Sonny Gray to the list of folks already hurt If I wasn’t at work I would be attempting to remove these britches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kronos Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Watching Mariners versus A’s game on MLB.com right now. The news crawl mentions a 20 second pitch timer being tested throughout spring training. Fuck that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kronos Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 On 2/21/2019 at 10:27 PM, Serious Darius Bagfelt said: San Diego will go for the billion dollar bats and Dollar General arms because that always equals success. Well it somewhat did for the 1993 Jays Didn’t the Jays have Jack Morris and that pitcher who crashed his airplane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 4 minutes ago, Captain Kronos said: Watching Mariners versus A’s game on MLB.com right now. The news crawl mentions a 20 second pitch timer being tested throughout spring training. There are a lot of restrictions on when it is and isn’t used. Its basically the version they have been using in the minors and by almost all accounts you don’t notice it at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kronos Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 That’s good to hear, anyway. I’m just a bit of a purist about baseball not having clocks. I understand that they probably feel the need to do it in order to speed up the TV a little bit and keep people from changing channels. And it makes me sad that that’s a necessity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 2 hours ago, Captain Kronos said: That’s good to hear, anyway. I’m just a bit of a purist about baseball not having clocks. I understand that they probably feel the need to do it in order to speed up the TV a little bit and keep people from changing channels. And it makes me sad that that’s a necessity. The players simply don't play the game the way purists remember. There's literally no hustle between plays like there used to be (ex: hitters used to be in the box waiting when the pitcher got the ball back after a groundout). Pitchers and hitters both are terrified that the next pitch will actually have to happen so they do everything they can to delay it. I'm a purist for the most part and I recognize that the players have actively - unintentionally but actively - tried to make the game worse to watch. 3-1/2 games are nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kronos Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 How does the pitch clock work, then? It sounds like what you’re saying is the batters are avoiding having to step in and take a pitch. Would that not penalize the pitcher? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Apparently Craig Kimrel is prepared to sit out this season if nobody gives him the Aroldis Chapman type of deal he wants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill S. Preston ESQ. Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Harper and Realmuto is as good as any 3-4 or 4-5. Phillies and Padres are the likely spot for Keuchel, with Houston still talking. This is going to be a fantastic season and lots of buyers from what I see on paper NL East - Phillies, Mets, Braves, Nats NL Central - Brewers, Cubs, Cards, Reds, Pirates NL West - Dodgers, Padres, maybe the Giants AL East - Red Sox, Yanks AL Central - Indians, Twins AL West - Astros, A’s 2019 Astros are pretty stacked Chirinos, Stassi Gurriel, Altuve, Bregman, Correa, White, Diaz Reddick, Springer, Brantley, Kemp Verlander, Cole, Miley, McHugh, James Osuna, Pressly, Rondon, Devo, Peacock, Valdez, Harris #25 Marisnick, Guduan, K. Tucker, C. Perez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSC Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Just saw Albert Pujols leg out an infield single in his first at bat of the spring. FRESH LEGS, BABY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SorceressKnight Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 19 hours ago, Captain Kronos said: How does the pitch clock work, then? It sounds like what you’re saying is the batters are avoiding having to step in and take a pitch. Would that not penalize the pitcher? From how it works: Pitcher has to throw in 20 seconds or the batter gets one ball to the count. If the hitter leaves the box with 5 seconds on the clock, they take a strike. It seems to work on paper, but in practice I can see teams coming up with signals for "the batter needs to readjust, take enough of a lead so that the pitcher will be forced to throw to keep you on base"...so if the pitch clock is going to work, then it needs to come with a "two strikes for the baserunner" rule: During any given at-bat, the baserunner can try to take a lead twice- but on the third time the baserunner tries, they MUST attempt a stolen base (and if they merely stay on-base a third time, they're called out.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyWhioux Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 retrain umpires not to give hitters time out every time they want it and/or retrain hitters not to assume they'll get time out on demand. cap the number of timeouts a hitter can call during an at-bat if necessary. It's only fair now that Mound Visits are capped. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SorceressKnight Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 6 minutes ago, BobbyWhioux said: retrain umpires not to give hitters time out every time they want it and/or retrain hitters not to assume they'll get time out on demand. cap the number of timeouts a hitter can call during an at-bat if necessary. It's only fair now that Mound Visits are capped. If they do this, then they could add some strategy to the mix on both sides: For a hitter during an at-bat, they get one strike per timeout they call, without the pitcher having to throw (so it also doesn't do the "yeah, strikeouts are okay because they burn up pitch counts" factor.) For the pitching team- you get one free mound visit/one free pitching change an inning. You want more than that, it counts as an intentional walk (not just to limit mound visits, but to backdoor into the "three batters per pitcher" move- it's worth it to end the inning with that specialist, or what's the point: You get out a lefty but the next batter up walks.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 On 2/23/2019 at 11:33 AM, Captain Kronos said: Didn’t the Jays have Jack Morris and that pitcher who crashed his airplane? Pat Hentgen, Al Leiter, Dave Stewart, and Juan Guzman were definitely not Dollar General arms. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 16 hours ago, BrianS81177 said: Apparently Craig Kimrel is prepared to sit out this season if nobody gives him the Aroldis Chapman type of deal he wants. That's a great strategy. Kimbrel just needs to accept reality, he's not getting that kind of deal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 10 hours ago, Bill S. Preston ESQ. said: Harper and Realmuto is as good as any 3-4 or 4-5. Phillies and Padres are the likely spot for Keuchel, with Houston still talking. This is going to be a fantastic season and lots of buyers from what I see on paper NL East - Phillies, Mets, Braves, Nats NL Central - Brewers, Cubs, Cards, Reds, Pirates NL West - Dodgers, Padres, maybe the Giants AL East - Red Sox, Yanks AL Central - Indians, Twins AL West - Astros, A’s 2019 Astros are pretty stacked Chirinos, Stassi Gurriel, Altuve, Bregman, Correa, White, Diaz Reddick, Springer, Brantley, Kemp Verlander, Cole, Miley, McHugh, James Osuna, Pressly, Rondon, Devo, Peacock, Valdez, Harris #25 Marisnick, Guduan, K. Tucker, C. Perez I wouldn't count out Colorado in the NL West. I think the Rays have improved from last year's 90 win team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 11 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said: That's a great strategy. Kimbrel just needs to accept reality, he's not getting that kind of deal. Kimbrel's agent immediately responded to that report saying it was untrue Let's all remember where the original report came from... Jim Bowden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocco Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Am I the only one who finds it weird how the Nats don't seem to care much about trying to bring Harper back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 So, I wasn't as down on the Padres signing Machado as a lot here. It's a ton of fucking money but at least they have the best farm system right now in baseball. Theoretically they will have a window where their young guys are getting paid scraps and Machado/Hosmer are making the real money and they can compete in the NL West. What's in this for the Phillies? Harper + ? = World Series? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 19 minutes ago, Rocco said: Am I the only one who finds it weird how the Nats don't seem to care much about trying to bring Harper back? They offered him 10 years $300M. I don't think anyone should go higher than that. Phils apparently will.. but that's a fair deal. Harper said no, time to move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Plus - the arrival of Juan Soto gave them cover too So the money they could have been spending on Harper they spread out to sign Patrick Corbin and they SHOULD have an easier time extending Anthony Rendon and Trea Turner 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 4 hours ago, CSC said: Just saw Albert Pujols leg out an infield single in his first at bat of the spring. FRESH LEGS, BABY! You lie, Pujols hasn't legged out an infield single since little league! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 1 hour ago, RIPPA said: Kimbrel's agent immediately responded to that report saying it was untrue Let's all remember where the original report came from... Jim Bowden With the kind of deals being signed, Kimbrel and his agent should have backed off topping Aroldis Chapman's deal pretty early, especially coming off a bad postseason. I think he would have been signed by now if he were willing to take a Zack Britton (3 yrs/39 mil w/ the 4th yr option) or Adam Ottavino (3 yrs/27 mil) deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 The real question is, will he be holding his hand up in that weird style all season too? I'm a Red Sox fan(I don't follow them nearly as closely as I used to, or watch nearly as much baseball as I used to) and watching Kimbrel in the post season was nerve racking. Going for a enormous deal after doing a gas can impression is pretty dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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