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59 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

 

That game was nuts. Crazy b9th. In 5 save attempts this season, the white sox have blown 4 of them.

 

Best part about this stat is that their one save was in a rain-shortened 7-inning game.

 

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There’s no denying the Pirates’ poor performance under Shelton, but it’s also hard to pin that performance on a skipper who was never handed much to work with. Nutting’s mention of acting with “urgency” feels borderline farcical at a time when, for the second straight year, the Pirates have baseball’s top pitching prospect obliterating Triple-A lineups as the back end of the major league staff flounders.

Last year, it was Paul Skenes, who didn’t make his MLB debut until May 6 and promptly took baseball by storm. Skenes started the All-Star Game, won NL Rookie of the Year and finished third in Cy Young voting. This year, Bubba Chandler is sitting on a 2.25 ERA and 38.3% strikeout rate in seven Triple-A starts. The Pirates’ fourth and fifth starters, Bailey Falter and Carmen Mlodzinski, have ERAs of 5.06 and 6.16, respectively. Jared Jones, their second- or third-best starter, has been on the injured list all season. It’s impossible not to wonder if Nutting feels burned by Skenes earning a full year of service by virtue of that Rookie of the Year win and is thus waiting even longer to pull the trigger on Chandler’s promotion.

Beyond the contradictory nature of those “urgency” comments and the Pirates’ actions with Chandler, Nutting has flatly refused to invest in the team via free agency. The Pirates have never signed a free agent to a larger contract than the three-year, $39MM deal signed by Francisco Liriano more than a decade ago.

As shown in MLBTR’s Contract Tracker, they haven’t signed a single free agent to a multi-year deal since their nearly decade-old signing of righty Ivan Nova on a three-year, $26MM contract. Not only that, the Pirates have only once topped $8MM on a one-year free agent deal in that same span — Aroldis Chapman’s $10.5MM contract in the 2023-24 offseason. Using that same data from our Contract Tracker, the Pirates have spent a total of $173.65MM on free agents since their last playoff appearance a decade ago.

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Sox win the series vs. the Rangers. Glad that is over and I can go back to watching games vs. Radio.

Blackouts for day games are fucking stupid.

1 minute ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

 

 

Yeah, he is pretty good.

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Aaron Judge is basically prime Barry Bonds and nobody cares lol. He's doing what he's doing in an era where nobody can fucking hit.

I miss having MLB network. Social media is trash and this world has turned to shit

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Three-time All-Star center fielder Chet Lemon, who won a World Series with the 1984 Detroit Tigers, died Thursday at his home in Florida. He was 70.

"He was sleeping on his reclining sofa," his wife, Gigi Lemon, told the Detroit Free Press. "He just wasn't responsive."

Lemon had battled a rare blood disease for the past three decades and had suffered a series of strokes, leaving him unable to walk or talk.

Lemon played seven seasons with the Chicago White Sox from 1975 to '81 and nine with the Tigers from 1982 to '90. He batted .273 with 215 homers, 884 RBIs, 973 runs and 1,875 hits in 1,988 games.

Lemon set a still-standing American League record for outfielders with 512 putouts during the 1977 season.

He led the American League with 44 doubles in 1979 and made the All-Star teams in 1978, 1979 and 1984.

Lemon batted .294 with a run, an RBI and two stolen bases against the San Diego Padres as Detroit won the 1984 World Series in five games.

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48 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

Pittsburgh Pirates, rebuilding since 1992.

 

It's so embarrassing how the team has been mismanaged for so long. 

The ballpark is beautiful. The team has good history. The ownership sucks.

 

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I said it upthread about the Marlins, who have a payroll of $65 million.  Teams like Miami and Pitt (who isn't as bad at $90 mil, but still), just don't invest in their roster and that is worse than the heavy spending teams.  Odds they sign Skenes to a long term deal when he's eligible are close to zero.  

I just saw that the Dodgers have $117 million in contracts to injured players.

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I’m proud of the Rockies. After winning two in a row, they knew they had to dig deep and lose at least the next five. 

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55 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

Down 11-1 after losing the first game 10-2. That's not good

Or it’s great if you want ownership to sell the team!

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3 hours ago, MrX said:

I’m proud of the Rockies. After winning two in a row, they knew they had to dig deep and lose at least the next five. 

Six.

Lost 2nd game of DH 11-1.

 

This seems like where they couldn't possibly NOT fire Bud Black.

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23 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

This seems like where they couldn't possibly NOT fire Bud Black.

He's the 5th longest tenured manager in MLB.  Why fire him now?

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7 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

You should go find Slorch. 

We were on 3rd base side right at the outfield grass.  Beautiful day for baseball, but it was absolutely a contending team vs a last place squad.  Gotdam the Rockies suck. 

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2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Six.

Lost 2nd game of DH 11-1.

 

This seems like where they couldn't possibly NOT fire Bud Black.

There’s no one left inside the front office to shove into the manager slot

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1 hour ago, WBT said:

He's the 5th longest tenured manager in MLB.  Why fire him now?

Because they're not only bad, they also play like they don't give a shit.  

 

Absurd number of plays like this:

And partly because I'm sort of a managerial job grim reaper.  When I was a kid, Frank Lucchesi got fired after I had gone to a Rangers game.  I was at Don Wakamatsu's last game with the Mariners; I was also at Bo Porter's last game.  

 

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6 minutes ago, MrX said:

There’s no one left inside the front office to shove into the manager slot

Hey, Todd Helton managing in 2025 would be the most Montfort thing ever.

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