2018 MLB Thread

[DanRydell 799]

The season started all of 4 days earlier than usual, in which time there were 4 postponements. It has fuck all to do with games being postponed on April 15.

[youdunnf'dup 2147]

Exactly. And you're not going to shorten the season, so it is what it is. It's an anomaly 

[Bone3421 716]

Its not an anomaly...happens every year

[DanRydell 799]

13 minutes ago, Bone3421 said:

Its not an anomaly...happens every year

There were 4 postponements last year prior to 4/16.

[Bone3421 716]

And how does that counter what i said? Games being ppd in april isnt an anomaly. 

What if i told you that out of the 20 games ppd in target fields (twins) short history 13 have been in april

If it happens every year its not an anomaly

[DanRydell 799]

And how does that counter what i said? Games being ppd in april isnt an anomaly. 
What if i told you that out of the 20 games ppd in target fields (twins) short history 13 have been in april
If it happens every year its not an anomaly

4 is a small fraction of 24.

[Goo Punch 4275]

1 hour ago, DanRydell said:

The season started all of 4 days earlier than usual, in which time there were 4 postponements. It has fuck all to do with games being postponed on April 15.

So we can’t lkay games out west, in Mexico, in Puerto Rico, etc to start the season? I don’t claim to have all of the answers when it comes to creating a working 162-game schedule, but do know that trying to play early-April games in places like Denver, Cleveland, Chicago, Minnesota, and NYC doesn’t work. You can count on there being shitty weather in these places every single year. 

[Bone3421 716]

You seem to believe i was arguing numbers with you....i am not

You want say only 4 games but i am talking april and its not anamoly since all of april had 12 ppd games last year

[UTexasFight 9288]

Maybe there should only be 154 games!

[Bone3421 716]

Dont need to go to 154...start season around 4/15-4/20 and bring back double headers...gives you in the neighborhood of 165 days to play 162

Play a  doubleheader  every other week and your done in september 

[VivaNaranja 460]

Doubleheaders every week won't fly. Owners hate them because they make less revenue and players hate them because they are exhausting.

 

Can't start the season later because then the WS is in the middle of November.

 

You can't play April games in warm weather cities for multiple reasons. Warm weather teams don't want all of their home games to be stacked in April and May when the crowds come in the Summer. Cold weather teams don't want to play on the road for a month before their home opener in May when they just finished spring training.

 

Not to mention the worst attended teams in the sport are in Miami, Oakland, and Tampa so it likely wouldn't help attendance that much.

[Vic Mackey 46581]

Doubleheaders every week won't fly. Owners hate them because they make less revenue and players hate them because they are exhausting.
 
Can't start the season later because then the WS is in the middle of November.
 
You can't play April games in warm weather cities for multiple reasons. Warm weather teams don't want all of their home games to be stacked in April and May when the crowds come in the Summer. Cold weather teams don't want to play on the road for a month before their home opener in May when they just finished spring training.
 
Not to mention the worst attended teams in the sport are in Miami, Oakland, and Tampa so it likely wouldn't help attendance that much.

Their attendance sucks no matter what time of the year so you might as well have them start off the year at home. Not like their fans would even notice they are gone if they make lengthy summer road trips.

[henrygandorf 28609]

bryce harper.

 

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[Beau Vine 53625]

This isn't fair.

 

[Helobious 9393]

Judge hit career homer number 60 today. Fastest in MLB history to reach that mark (197 games)

[Beau Vine 53625]

Holy shit:

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TORONTO — Late Sunday night, a group of weather-beaten ballplayers filed into a charter bus after touching down here in Toronto. Bleary-eyed from a flight delay in Kansas City, tested by another postponed game, they had a short commute down a Canadian highway to the team hotel. Most were ready for bed.

Third baseman Mike Moustakas trudged to the back, his usual spot. Reliever Kevin McCarthy buried his head in his phone. Blaine Boyer, a 36-year-old relief arm, chose a seat at the front, near Alex Gordon, Ian Kennedy and Drew Butera.

Here sat the 2018 Royals. In 18 days, they had won just three times. In all, they had played just 16 games, the season ravaged by a brutal Midwestern spring. They had weathered snow-outs and frigid wind chills and wet days in which they could not feel the baseball. They had stood frozen on baseball fields in Detroit, Cleveland and Kansas City. On Monday, they would lose a chance to play when the roof at Rogers Centre was damaged by falling ice from the nearby CN Tower.

It has been that kind of season.

Yet, none of that could compare to the story of late Sunday night. In the minutes after the Royals' traveling party headed out into the night, a large chunk of ice would smash into the windshield of the players' bus. A bus driver, a local named Fred Folkerts, would be blistered by shards of glass. And Boyer, acting on instinct, would hop up and grab the wheel, hoping to make sure Folkerts could still see.

“He was bloodied up,” Boyer said. “The whole bus was rocked. It seemed like we got hit by an IED or something crazy.”

What actually happened, the full story of how a piece of ice smashed into the bus’s windshield, is still not totally clear. Yet a basic sketch was culled together on Monday, in interviews with players and coaches who shared the harrowing story with The Athletic.

“It was insane,” Moustakas said.

“That could have been real serious,” third-base coach Mike Jirschele said.

“We’re lucky that we’ve even got a team,” manager Ned Yost said.

Yost’s tone was mildly flip. The situation produced no serious injuries. Folkerts, the bus driver, was examined by paramedics and released at the scene. Yet in the context of this season, an unmerciful run of horrid weather and freak mishaps, it was a bewildering moment, Yost said.

In the minutes before impact, he was sitting on the traveling party’s first bus, which is usually reserved for coaches, staff members and members of the broadcast media. As the two busses chugged down the highway, the first one zoomed under an overpass. Two large “ice boulders,” as Yost described them, appeared to jar loose, flying backward at the second bus. Sitting in his seat near the front, Boyer had a perfect view. He could see a larger chunk fly to the side. He saw a second chunk headed right for the windshield.

Inside the bus, the sound of the impact stunned the players. Starting pitcher Jason Hammel thought the bus collided with the overpass. McCarthy thought it sounded like a thunderous “gust of wind.” Kennedy looked up from his seat, and Boyer was already at the wheel, his arm reaching toward Folkerts.

“He got up there and was like, ‘You all right, sir?’ ” Kennedy said.

 

Blaine Boyer (Photo: Ed Zurga/Getty Images)

The bus was traveling close to 55 mph at impact. The crash sprayed shards of glass shrapnel back to the third row, landing near outfielder Jorge Soler. Moments later, Butera joined Boyer at the front as they helped Folkerts guide the bus to the side of the road.

“The fellow that was beside me, he kept talking to me,” Folkerts said of Boyer, recalling the scene from his home on Monday night. “He was asking me silly questions: ‘Are you a hockey fan? Do you follow baseball?’ But now that I’m sitting here with my wife, I think he was keeping me from going into shock.”

Boyer downplayed his role in the near disaster. He is in his first season in the Royals’ bullpen and his 13th in the majors. He is here to offer guidance to a young bullpen and experience and professionalism to a clubhouse. As he spoke about his role, he sought to heap praise on Folkerts’ composure.

“He was a stud,” Boyer said. “That guy Fred was a trouper. He had shards in his face, and he was locked in on trying to get the bus slowed down.”

Boyer did not seek attention, of course. Yet inside the clubhouse, the image of him at the wheel was burned into his teammates’ minds.

“He saved us,” Gordon said, smiling as he walked toward the batting cage on Monday afternoon.

“Talk to Blaine,” Moustakas said.

In the minutes after the crash, after Boyer had helped Folkerts guide the bus to the side of the highway, they waited for an ambulance and police. Folkerts called his company, asking for another bus.

“We pride ourselves in making sure the players are taken care of,” he said.

Folkerts has driven a coach bus for nearly 25 years here in Canada, he says. He’s semi-retired now. But he has spent the last six years working for Pacific Western Transportation. He enjoys shepherding athletes around. Good hours, interesting people. So, as he was treated by paramedics on late Monday, his head still bleeding, he worried about his next shift.

It will come on Tuesday. Folkerts is set to drive the Royals to Rogers Centre for a doubleheader, a result of Monday's postponement. He would like to offer thanks, he said.

“These guys were phenomenal,” he said. “They guys basically helped take over.”

 

[Beau Vine 53625]

 

This shit needs to change.

 

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The Yankees have a decision to make this Wednesday. Should they call up top prospect Gleyber Torres to shore up their injury-riddled and underperforming infield, or should they wait? The decision isn’t purely about on-field performance. It is also about Torres’ service time and just how willing the team is to expose itself to accusations of shenanigans regarding that service time.

To qualify for free agency, a player must accrue six full years of service time at the major-league level. To qualify for a full year of service time, a player must spend 172 days in the major leagues. As of Friday, there were just 171 days left in the 2018 Major League Baseball season. However, for minor leaguers such as Torres, who are already on their teams’ 40-man rosters, there is an extra layer of complexity involved.

Players on a major-league team’s 40-man roster who appear in the minor leagues are there on assignment: either a rehabilitation assignment at the tail end of a disabled list stint, or an optional assignment. Rehab assignments count as major-league service time. Optional assignments typically don’t, but there is an important exception. If the player in question spends fewer than 20 days of the season in question on optional assignment and the remainder of the year in the majors, the player is credited with a full year of major-league service time. Tuesday, April 17, is the 20th day of the 2018 major-league season. Thus, any player on optional assignment recalled on or before Tuesday who does not return to the minor leagues later in the year will be credited a full year of major league service for 2018.

As the relative value of young, team-controlled talent has increased, teams have begun to manipulate their top prospects' major-league debuts in order to delay their free agency. The most blatant example of a team manipulating a player’s service time to delay his free agency occurred three years ago. In 2015, Cubs third-base prospect Kris Bryant hit .425/.477/1.175 in spring training, leading the majors with nine home runs, but spent the first two weeks of the season in Triple A, ostensibly to work on his fielding. As soon as there were just 171 days left in the major-league season, however, Bryant was in the majors, starting at third base. As with Torres and the Yankees this week, there were injury and performance reasons to motivate Bryant’s promotion that April. However, it was clear from the end of spring training just how long Bryant would be in the minors and why.

In April 2016, the Rangers called up outfield prospect Nomar Mazara with 176 days remaining in the season, five days before the service-time cutoff. However, four notable pitching prospects — the Rays’ Blake Snell, the Twins’ José Berríos, the A’s Sean Manaea, and the Tigers’ Michael Fulmer — made their major-league debuts just a couple of weeks later, in a six-day span from April 23-29. All will be eligible for free agency a year later than Mazara. Last year, the most notable late-April call-up was Dodgers slugger Cody Bellinger. He debuted on April 25 and will thus be under the Dodgers’ control through the 2023 season.

Of those late-April call-ups, Bryant, Fulmer, and Bellinger all won their league’s Rookie of the Year award. Here, separated into a few distinct categories, are a dozen top prospects who could follow in their footsteps this season — as soon as they get past those service-time cutoffs, of course.

Spring training storylines:

Gleyber Torres, IF, Yankees (40-man)

Given a legitimate shot to win the Yankees’ second-base job in spring training, Torres failed to impress. However, in his first 10 games back in Triple A, the third-best prospect in baseball, per Baseball Prospectus, has hit .385/.405/.564. Meanwhile, the Yankees are off to a middling 7-7 start, and their infielders not named Didi Gregorius have hit a collective .223/.274/.357. With cornermen Brandon Drury (vision problems) and Greg Bird (ankle surgery) on the disabled list, and rookie second baseman Tyler Wade a mere 3-for-32 going into Monday's play, there would seem to be nothing standing in the way of the 21-year-old Torres’ promotion come Wednesday.

Ronald Acuña Jr., OF, Braves (non-roster)

By mid-March, Acuña appeared to be this year’s Kris Bryant, a blue-chip prospect (Baseball Prospectus and Baseball America both had him ranked first overall coming into this season) who flat-out raked in camp and appeared to be blocked from the Opening Day roster only by service-time concerns. Acuña hit .344/.393/.548 in 243 plate appearances in Triple A to finish last year, and .432/.519/.727 with four homers and four steals in Grapefruit League games this spring. However, in direct contrast to Torres and the Yankees, Acuña is off to a slow start back in Triple A (5-for-33 with 12 strikeouts in eight games), while the Braves are off to a surprisingly strong 8-6 start, and their primary left fielder, 27-year-old Preston Tucker, is hitting .300/.341/.575 with three home runs. The Braves can and will wait for Tucker to cool off and Acuña to heat up before bringing up their 20-year-old stud.

Nick Senzel, IF, Reds (non-roster)

The four prospects who appeared to have the best chances to break camp with their major-league teams this spring were Acuña, Torres, Senzel (ranked seventh by both BP and BA), and the Phillies’ Scott Kingery. Kingery was the only one who did, thanks in large part to his agreeing to a six-year contract that eliminated the Phillies’ service-time concerns prior to Opening Day. Drafted as a third baseman with the second overall pick in 2016, Senzel appeared to be in the running for the Reds’ shortstop job in camp, but didn’t do enough at the plate to push José Peraza, who is just 14 months older. Senzel has since been blocked at the hot corner for the foreseeable future by the Reds’ decision to extend incumbent third baseman Eugenio Suárez. As a result, the 22-year-old University of Tennessee product has been getting the bulk of his playing time in his debut Triple-A season at second base. Given that he is learning a new position, his bat has remained cold, and Scooter Gennett is off to a solid start with the major-league club, Senzel might have to wait until after the Super Two cutoff (likely sometime in early June) to be seriously considered for a promotion.

Also on the 40-man:

Eloy Jiménez, LF, White Sox

The fourth-best prospect in the game per Baseball America and arguably the top power bat in the minors, Jiménez went 4-for-7 with a pair of home runs and a triple in four Cactus League games before being reassigned to minor-league camp in mid-March. A pectoral strain has since delayed the start of his regular season, but, despite that delay and the fact that he will return to Double A to start the season — he has just 18 games above High A under his belt — don’t be surprised to see the 21-year-old make the majors after the Super Two cutoff. If so, he could tear into the league’s second half in a manner that recalls Gary Sánchez’s dazzling 2016 debut.

Willy Adames, SS, Rays

The key piece acquired from the Tigers in the 2014 David Price trade and a top-20 prospect coming into this year according to both BP and BA, Adames might finally be ready for his close-up. At 22, he already has a full-year of Triple A under his belt, he raked in camp (.364/.400/.727, 2 HR, in 10 games), and the major-league incumbent, Adeiny Hechavarria, is both in his walk year and off to a slow start (9-for-47 with no extra-base hits). The Rays might wait for Adames’ bat to heat up a bit in Triple A, but it seems like a lock that he’ll be their starting shortstop sooner rather than later.

Stephen Gonsalves, LHP, Twins

Gonsalves isn’t a blue-chip prospect like the other players listed here. He just snuck onto Baseball America’s top 100 at No. 97 — and missed Baseball Prospectus’ top 101 entirely — but he might have the clearest path to major-league playing time. The Twins have yet to use a fifth starter this season and won’t need one until next Tuesday, giving Gonsalves time to make his third minor-league start of the season, rest and recover. Minnesota’s top pitching prospect, the 23-year-old lefty hasn’t allowed a run in either of his first two starts for Double-A Chattanooga this season and worked 5 1/3 hitless frames in the first of those two outings. The Twins might prefer to give Gonsalves more development time and plug the remainder of Ervin Santana’s absence with Phil Hughes, but a setback in Hughes’ recovery from his oblique injury and another strong outing by Gonsalves could change their mind. Either way, Gonsalves seems likely to be in the major-league rotation before the year is out.

Other elite prospects (non-roster):

Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 3B, Blue Jays

The Little Impaler has played just nine games above High A. But with Josh Donaldson on the disabled list with a bum throwing shoulder and the team still boasting the third-best record in the American League, the Blue Jays have to be awfully tempted to rush their top prospect. Guerrero just turned 19 in March and is probably a first baseman (or designated hitter) over the long run, but he went 7-for-13 with a home run in his brief time in major-league camp, has hit .361/.419/.639 in his initial exposure in Double A, and was rated the game’s third-best prospect coming into this season by Baseball America. If Donaldson is slow to return and Yangervis Solarte cools off in his absence, we could see Guerrero ahead of schedule.

Michael Kopech, RHP, White Sox

Flame-throwing Kopech fired the wrong kind of warning shot in spring training, walking seven men in seven innings, but he has shown better command in his first two starts for Triple-A Charlotte. With Miguel González pouring gasoline on opposing lineups thus far, and Carlos Rodón likely out until at least June following shoulder surgery last fall, the White Sox could be tempted to bring up their ostensible Chris Sale replacement somewhere around his 22nd birthday on April 30.

Already debuted (all on 40-man):

These last four prospects all made their major-league debuts last September and would thus need to remain in the minors into May to avoid accumulating a full year of service time between the 2017 and ’18 seasons. However, the dates on which they could no longer get to 172 days of service, listed below, will all arrive in the next four weeks.

Willie Calhoun, LF, Rangers

Accumulated service time: 20 days

Cutoff date: May 3

Despite the perceptions that Calhoun was sent down in mid-March due to service-time concerns, the Rangers are one team that doesn’t appear to let service time dictate its roster moves. Again, they called up Mazara just five days before the cut-off in 2016. First baseman Ronald Guzmán was promoted on Friday despite the fact that he was already on the 40-man. He would have had to remain in the minors through Wednesday to be ineligible for a full year of major-league service time this season. More likely, Calhoun’s cold bat (after a hot start, he went 2-for-his-last-23 in major-league camp without a walk or extra-base hit) and limited exposure in left field (just 43 starts prior to this season) motivated the 23-year-old’s demotion. Since then, Guzmán’s promotion has pushed Joey Gallo into left field, blocking Calhoun for now, but Calhoun has hit safely in 10 of Triple-A Round Rock’s 11 games thus far and could make things interesting on the Rangers’ depth chart next month.

Víctor Robles, CF, Nationals

Accumulated service time: 25 days

Cutoff date: May 8

Adam Eaton’s ankle injury and Michael Taylor’s slow start would appear to have created room in the Nationals’ outfield for Robles, Baseball Prospectus’ No. 2 prospect, who went 5-for-13 to open his debut season at Triple A. However, Robles, who will turn 21 in late May, hyperextended his left elbow attempting a diving catch on April 9 and hasn’t appeared in a game since. Robles is sure to return to the majors at some point this season, but his ultimate assignment might be replacing Bryce Harper in next year’s lineup.

Walker Buehler, RHP, Dodgers

Accumulated service time: 26 days

Cutoff date: May 9

Buehler’s service time will likely be less of a concern to the Dodgers this year than his workload. The 23-year-old had Tommy John surgery just two months after L.A. drafted him 24th overall in 2015, missed most of the 2016 season, and threw just 98 innings between the minors and majors last year. Buehler impressed in a brief look in spring training (seven strikeouts against one walk in four scoreless innings), and has continued to do so with Triple-A Oklahoma City (11 Ks against two walks in nine innings with just two runs allowed). However, he’ll likely be limited to 140-150 innings this season, at the absolute most, nine of which he has already thrown. Still, given their disappointing start (5-9 after Sunday’s win over the Diamondbacks), the Dodgers might not be able to resist calling on the fireballing Buehler should a hole emerge in the major-league rotation.

Francisco Mejía, C/LF, Indians

Accumulated service time: 31 days

Cutoff date: May 14

Cleveland appears very happy with its defense-first catching tandem of Yan Gomes and Roberto Pérez, which is under team control through 2021 (Pérez through 2022). As a result, Mejía, the game’s top catching prospect due more to his bat than his receiving skills, has been getting work in left field this season after failing his audition at third base in the Arizona Fall League. The outfield experiment remains in its early stages, as Mejía stuck to catcher and designated hitter in major league camp. However, the 22-year-old switch-hitter also went 8-for-19 in the Grapefruit League, with half of his hits going for extra bases. Mejía has since gotten off to a slow start with Triple-A Columbus, which isn’t terribly surprising given this is his first exposure at that level, and he has been splitting his time between two positions at which he needs to improve. Still, it likely won’t be long before his bat forces the Indians to make a decision about his position and find room for him on the major-league roster. If that moment doesn’t arrive until May 14, however, Cleveland will have an extra year to figure out how to maximize Mejía’s value.

 

[Scraps 13461]

Judge hit career homer number 60 today. Fastest in MLB history to reach that mark (197 games)

60 is such a milestone homer.

Plz let is know when he gets to 70!

[Helobious 9393]

23 minutes ago, Scraps said:

60 is such a milestone homer.

Plz let is know when he gets to 70!

DM me your email and I’ll add you to my Judge fanclub newsletter. Daily updates on his baseball exploits and personal life.

[Beau Vine 53625]

The Twins have played 11 games.

The Rockies, Padres, and Rangers have played 18.

[Bone3421 716]

43 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

The Twins have played 11 games.

The Rockies, Padres, and Rangers have played 18.

Its almost as if Minnesota is not made for baseball outside in april....who knew 

[youdunnf'dup 2147]

17 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

So we can’t lkay games out west, in Mexico, in Puerto Rico, etc to start the season? I don’t claim to have all of the answers when it comes to creating a working 162-game schedule, but do know that trying to play early-April games in places like Denver, Cleveland, Chicago, Minnesota, and NYC doesn’t work. You can count on there being shitty weather in these places every single year. 

The argument against this is the teams out west and in the south don’t want so many home games at the beginning of the season (when school isn’t even out yet). Not sure how good of an argument that is, but that’s what I’ve heard on multiple occasions when this is brought up.

[DanRydell 799]

Its almost as if Minnesota is not made for baseball outside in april....who knew 

Yeah, Minnesota building a new ballpark and not going with a retractable roof was probably unwise.

[spystud13 2371]

Giants manager Bruce Bochy told reporters before the game that Longoria tweaked the ankle while standing in at the plate for Derek Holland's bullpen session. Bochy said the third baseman will likely be out a few days.

 

That’s a fucked up way to get hurt. 

[Beau Vine 53625]

The White Sox -- A's game is worth watching just for the uniforms, even if it's 8-0 in the 7th.

[Beau Vine 53625]

Uh-oh:

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An island-wide blackout has hit Puerto Rico, which is struggling with an increasingly unstable power grid nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria hit the U.S. territory.

Electric Power Authority spokeswoman Yohari Molina tells The Associated Press that crews are investigating the cause. Officials said Wednesday it could take 24 to 36 hours to fully restore power.

Another Twins' game postponed?

Edited April 18, 2018 by Beau Vine

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

http://www.espn.com/espn/now?nowId=21-0778290298999545616-4

Here's the official statement from the Puerto Rico Series Director of Operations John Blakeman on the general power outage in Puerto Rico and whether it would affect the Indians-Twins game tonight, scheduled for 7:00pm ET on ESPN: "This has not taken us by surprise. We are fully prepared. Every area of Hiram Bithorn Stadium can run on generators that have a capacity to run for 48 hours. The main building runs on two generators, one of 400 kilowatts and another one of 200 for a total of 600 kilowatts. Each light tower operates with an independent generator of 200 kilowatts. The game will not be affected at all."

[Rustic Horn 885]

13 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

The White Sox -- A's game is worth watching just for the uniforms, even if it's 8-0 in the 7th.

Yep, nicely done....

 

 

[Stros 153]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2771044-anthony-rizzo-we-play-too-much-baseball-open-to-pay-cut-for-less-games?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial

Rizzo= a pussy

 

Edited April 18, 2018 by Stros

[spystud13 2371]

Are there 11 people at the Bal/Det game? Holy shit. 

[UTexasFight 9288]

Are there 11 people at the Bal/Det game? Holy shit. 

I was going to make a comment about there being the same amount in Tampa... but yeah, that is a sparse crowd in Detroit.

Miggy with a birthday bomb

[Beau Vine 53625]

This is amazing:

 

[spystud13 2371]

There are somewhere between 360-390 position players in the sport, there is no worse player than Carlos Tocci. Holy fucking Tebow, he is fucking horrendous. 

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

Bautista signed a minor league deal with the Braves: http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/23232648/jose-bautista-agrees-minor-league-deal-atlanta-braves-play-3b

[spystud13 2371]

This fucking Spanish shit is fucking unbearable. 

[Netzer 157]

¿Qué?

[VolenteHawk 495]

Bottom of the 14th in Oakland, tied at 11. James Shields is your new pitcher of record for the White Sox...2nd career relief appearance. A’s warming up 2 guys for a possible 15th. Only one of them is actually a pitcher.

 

[VolenteHawk 495]

2 hours ago, VolenteHawk said:

Bottom of the 14th in Oakland, tied at 11. James Shields is your new pitcher of record for the White Sox...2nd career relief appearance. A’s warming up 2 guys for a possible 15th. Only one of them is actually a pitcher.

And only the 2nd longest game of the night. Twins/Indians to the 15th in Puerto Rico.

 

[WBT 20131]

2 hours ago, VolenteHawk said:

Bottom of the 14th in Oakland, tied at 11. James Shields is your new pitcher of record for the White Sox...2nd career relief appearance. A’s warming up 2 guys for a possible 15th. Only one of them is actually a pitcher.

 

 

35 minutes ago, VolenteHawk said:

And only the 2nd longest game of the night. Twins/Indians to the 15th in Puerto Rico.

 

Hey Manfred, go fuck yourself.  This is great.

[spystud13 2371]

Jason Kipnis misplayed that DP ball about as bad as humanly possible. 

Edited April 19, 2018 by spystud13

[Fudge Nuggets 18825]

Anyone else use the mlb.tv app?  I started using it last year and loved it, but this year's version has taken away a lot of the shit I liked most.  For example, you could watch the game and overlay the radio broadcast or even go with just ballpark sounds.  This year that feature is gone.  If you want to hear the radio broadcast you can't see the game.

The condensed games are also much worse this year.  In the past you had only ballpark sound and got to see everything of significance.  A clip is shown for everyone reaching base, all strikeouts were shown, and usually the last out of every half inning.  This year they have trimmed it down and have the home TV audio feed.  The past version let you really get a feel for how the game progressed because you got all the important shit.  This year's version is just a slightly expanded highlight reel.

Shit's terrible... wish they would just go back to what they had last year for options.

[Helobious 9393]

The Red Sox are off to a somewhat good start. 15 - goddamn 2. 

[Fudge Nuggets 18825]

2 hours ago, Helobious said:

The Red Sox are off to a somewhat good start. 15 - goddamn 2. 

Yankees mathematically eliminated by the ASB.

[Underdog 27966]

3 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Yankees mathematically eliminated by the ASB.

Helloboys on suicide watch, everyone rejoices? 

[Scraps 13461]

On the flipside the Reds blow donkey dick  3-15

 

#FreeVotto 

[spystud13 2371]

And they ain’t got a manager. 

[Scraps 13461]

Yeah welcome back Jim Riggleman for the time being.....good lord 

[txhorns 2400]

8 hours ago, Helobious said:

The Red Sox are off to a somewhat good start. 15 - goddamn 2. 

It is glorious!

[Underdog 27966]

WIcked good?

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11 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Anyone else use the mlb.tv app?  I started using it last year and loved it, but this year's version has taken away a lot of the shit I liked most.  For example, you could watch the game and overlay the radio broadcast or even go with just ballpark sounds.  This year that feature is gone.  If you want to hear the radio broadcast you can't see the game.

You can open a second window for audio and mute the video window.  Which works great for a half inning, after which the video audio turns itself up at each commercial break and coming back from each break.  So stupid.

Perhaps that can be worked around by opening the radio side on a separate device, but I haven't cared enough to try that.  

Edited April 19, 2018 by clapclapclap