MLB N/V September: Jose Fernandez's Start Pushed Back to Monday

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soggybagel: Aug 6, 2006; The official account of NFL Tackle Phil Loadholt.

Let's talk Football.

The Twins are a lot of garbage but the pace that Brian Dozier has been on post all-star game is incredible.

# ? Sep 5, 2016 23:17

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 22:43

will_colorado: Jun 30, 2007

Poque posted:

Blue Jays, Marlins, Brewers, Yankees, ~~and Rockies~~ still don't have any complete games.

# ? Sep 5, 2016 23:41

corn on the cop: Oct 12, 2012; Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

â Corey Dostoyevsky

giants update: bad

# ? Sep 5, 2016 23:53

Probad: Feb 24, 2013; I want to believe!

soggybagel posted:

The Twins are a lot of garbage but the pace that Brian Dozier has been on post all-star game is incredible.

3 HR / 4 RBI is a very Brian Dozier day

# ? Sep 5, 2016 23:57

alpha_destroy: Mar 23, 2010; Billy Butler: Fat Guy by Day, Doubles Machine by Night

Probad posted:

3 HR / 4 RBI in an 11-5 loss is a very Brian Dozier day

I mean, I think the score is relevant too. I always feel bad for cool players on poo poo teams.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 00:10

Pancakes: May 21, 2001; Crypto-Rump Roast

alpha_destroy posted:

I mean, I think the score is relevant too. I always feel bad for cool players on poo poo teams.

Free Mike Trout.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 00:15

BigBallChunkyTime: Nov 25, 2011; Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.; Illegal Hen

Edwin Jackson of all people struck out 11 Red Sox in his start today.

Fucker.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 00:23

Atomizer: Jun 24, 2007

CubsWoo posted:

Even without Strop and Rondon the Cubs won Bullpen of the Week last week, going 27.2 innings and allowing 5 runs on 18 hits while striking out 33, walking 10 and earning 3 saves.

Wait the Cubs have a good bullpen now, I'm confused

Say what you will about the Cubs bullpen, but one thing every fan can say about their own team's bullpen is that it's not as bad as the Brewers'. :stare:

Also, I take back everything bad I said about Heyward, Coghlan, and Soler; dudes are swingin'!

# ? Sep 6, 2016 00:54

Ice To Meet You: Mar 5, 2007

https://twitter.com/evanwoodbery/status/766287626101854209

Manager of the year.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 01:14

ozymandius1024: Mar 15, 2006; You don't yank on the Spine of God

Ice To Meet You posted:

https://twitter.com/evanwoodbery/status/766287626101854209

Manager of the year.

And it was only lately that he finally got his OPS over .700. I enjoy this Justin Upton that hits like a major league LF.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 01:46

Julio Cruz: May 19, 2006

Ice To Meet You posted:

https://twitter.com/evanwoodbery/status/766287626101854209

Manager of the year.

If only it hadn't taken him 4 1/2 months of watching Upton produce a sub-.700 OPS to make that decision.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 02:19

chilihead: Nov 5, 2010; Is this real life, or is this fantasy?

Ice To Meet You posted:

https://twitter.com/evanwoodbery/status/766287626101854209

Manager of the year.

Uh, Justin Upton does this every year. He always has one month where he plays like a hall of famer and you think he's turned the corner.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 02:49

UZR IS BULLSHIT: Jan 25, 2004

Jesus christ Greinke

# ? Sep 6, 2016 02:56

bawfuls: Oct 28, 2009

Retail Slave posted:

Edwin Jackson of all people struck out 11 Red Sox in his start today.

Fucker.

I was there, it was awesome. Crowd was probably 75% Red Sox fans. I don't own any Padres stuff so I wore a Toronto cap. Jackson also had two excellent PAs where he saw a lot of pitches and drew walks.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 03:14

Atomizer: Jun 24, 2007

In the continuing saga of former-Cubs-pitchers-that-I-continue-to-follow-due-to-some-obsession, Clayton Richard continues to be a solid starter, and I found this interesting article about Joe Nathan.

Nathan seems like even more of a cool dude after reading that. He was understanding and sympathetic about his untimely release from the Cubs, and shares my regret about how it all happened just a few days before sending multiple other dudes to the DL. The article mentions a 30-day lockout period that would've prevented him from returning to the Cubs, but I still don't understand it; from what I've been able to gather he could've been recalled to the roster within 10 days of designation, and the first guy to leave for the DL went after 6 days IIRC. Is anyone more familiar with the contractual terms that would explain this?

# ? Sep 6, 2016 03:23

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Pitcher wins etc, but for some reason a vocal segment of Yankee fans refuse to bestow the title of Ace upon Tanaka.

https://twitter.com/YESNetwork/status/772807697372700676

# ? Sep 6, 2016 04:04

TheIncredulousHulk: Sep 3, 2012

Inspector_666 posted:

Pitcher wins etc, but for some reason a vocal segment of Yankee fans refuse to bestow the title of Ace upon Tanaka.

https://twitter.com/YESNetwork/status/772807697372700676

I'm starting to think the only purpose the "ace" designation serves anymore is to slight good pitchers.

N: Rougned Odor hit his 30th dong of 2016 today, becoming the 7th player since 2000 to do that in a Age-22-or-under season

V: The other six are all legit superstars, so that's some pretty good company to be in!

# ? Sep 6, 2016 04:42

bawfuls: Oct 28, 2009

Greinke gave up 8 runs and 5 dingers in his return to Dodger Stadium today. I'm becoming more and more convinced he's a brilliant Dodgers double agent. He fleeced a division rival for money, and is now tanking his value and in particular giving up runs to the Dodgers. Before long he will return to the LA, with Arizona eating a bunch of his contract. Then he will miraculously find his groove again.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 05:58

Ice To Meet You: Mar 5, 2007

chilihead posted:

Uh, Justin Upton does this every year. He always has one month where he plays like a hall of famer and you think he's turned the corner.

Let me put it this way: A couple more games like this and he'll be back up to 0 WAR for the season. And this stretch spans as many plate appearances as Madison Bumgarner gets for an entire season, so the stats are just as meaningful.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 11:40

tadashi: Feb 20, 2006

bawfuls posted:

Greinke gave up 8 runs and 5 dingers in his return to Dodger Stadium today. I'm becoming more and more convinced he's a brilliant Dodgers double agent. He fleeced a division rival for money, and is now tanking his value and in particular giving up runs to the Dodgers. Before long he will return to the LA, with Arizona eating a bunch of his contract. Then he will miraculously find his groove again.

Or he sees an opportunity to get the hell out of Arizona if he just pitches so poorly they have no reason not to trade him to the first team that will cover all his salary.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 12:57

will_colorado: Jun 30, 2007

bawfuls posted:

Greinke gave up 8 runs and 5 dingers in his return to Dodger Stadium today. I'm becoming more and more convinced he's a brilliant Dodgers double agent. He fleeced a division rival for money, and is now tanking his value and in particular giving up runs to the Dodgers. Before long he will return to the LA, with Arizona eating a bunch of his contract. Then he will miraculously find his groove again.

the Dbacks getting Greinke and Miller reminds me what Colorado did when signing Hampton/Neagle in 2000.

It set the Rockies back for just over five years.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 13:04

GoatSeeGuy: Dec 26, 2003; What if Jerome Walton made me a champion?

will_colorado posted:

the Dbacks getting Greinke and Miller reminds me what Colorado did when signing Hampton/Neagle in 2000.

It set the Rockies back for just over five years.

In this scenario which one gets caught with the hooker?

# ? Sep 6, 2016 13:52

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

TheIncredulousHulk posted:

I'm starting to think the only purpose the "ace" designation serves anymore is to slight good pitchers.

The main knock people use against Tanaka is "NOT ENOUGH WINS!" which is hilarious if you look at his pitching lines from this year.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 14:21

IcePhoenix: Sep 18, 2005; Take me to your Shida

# ? Sep 6, 2016 15:10

Der Meister: May 12, 2001

Well I guess it wasn't simply a scalp hematoma as Shoemaker wound up having surgery for that line drive.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 15:47

CubsWoo: Aug 17, 2005; Where the big boys RAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH FUCK YOU

MiLB ended their season last night - who do you expect to be called up for the rest of the year for your team? For the Cubs, I would expect to see Patton, Concepcion, Candelario, Almora and Kawasaki on the MLB roster for a good part of the last 25 games.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 17:24

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

CubsWoo posted:

MiLB ended their season last night - who do you expect to be called up for the rest of the year for your team? For the Cubs, I would expect to see Patton, Concepcion, Candelario, Almora and Kawasaki on the MLB roster for a good part of the last 25 games.

All of the Yankees affiliates above GCL/Rookie ball are in the post season ( :smug:

), and even with that the only guy that I'll say would get called up for sure is OF Mason Williams, although I wouldn't be shocked to see Cesar Puello and Jake Cave (both OF), and maybe even 3B Donovan Solano too.

EDIT: He won't get called up, but LHP Nestor Cortes has a chance to win 4 rings in one year since he's pitched a game at every level from A- to AAA this season :v:

EDIT2: And they called up RHP Bryan Mitchell and LHP James Pazos today, who I figured would both stay in AAA for the post-season since they're coming off of DL stints...

Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Sep 6, 2016

# ? Sep 6, 2016 17:40

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Retail Slave posted:

Edwin Jackson of all people struck out 11 Red Sox in his start today.

Fucker.

It will be 2050 and Edwin Jackson will still alternate between 8IP 12K and 1.2IP 8ER.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 18:23

Ice To Meet You: Mar 5, 2007

Because it's Detroit, the guy that people are ~~praying hardest to come up~~ complaining the most about not being called up is a relief pitcher.

He's pretty good though

Ice To Meet You fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Sep 6, 2016

# ? Sep 6, 2016 18:38

New Concept Hole: Oct 10, 2012; 東方動的

Luigi Thirty posted:

It will be 2050 and Edwin Jackson will still alternate between 8IP 12K and 1.2IP 8ER.

I would have gone with no-hitters and all-hitters.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 19:18

Ammat The Ankh: Sep 7, 2010; Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!

None of the Giants' top prospects are on the 40-man roster and they'll probably just pick up a third catcher.

Though Giants top prospect Tyler Beede did win the PCL ERA title, I don't see him getting called up until 2017 at the earliest.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 19:24

New Concept Hole: Oct 10, 2012; 東方動的

They seem more dedicated to letting Posey die on the field than ever this year, so I'm prepared for them to put Trevor Brown on the DL and go without any backup catchers the rest of the way

# ? Sep 6, 2016 19:31

Scob: Jul 17, 2005

cards really control their own destiny for a wild card

5 vs pirates
4 vs brewers
4 vs giants
3 vs rockies
6 vs cubs
4 vs reds

only 1 day off the rest of the season, but most teams are probably in the same situation. The giants and pirates games are really important and they need to split with the cubs.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 19:41

ALFbrot: Apr 17, 2002

Scob posted:

cards really control their own destiny for a wild card

5 vs pirates
4 vs brewers
4 vs giants
3 vs rockies
6 vs cubs
4 vs reds

only 1 day off the rest of the season, but most teams are probably in the same situation. The giants and pirates games are really important and they need to split with the cubs.

congrats on your five automatic wins, the pirates have completely mailed it in

# ? Sep 6, 2016 19:45

Crazy Ted: Jul 29, 2003

IcePhoenix posted:

Since August 1st he has ten doubles and nineteen home runs in ~35 games with an OPS of something like 1.250.

Supposedly he tweaked his batting stance sometime around the All-Star Break and worked on it some more in the middle of July. Yeah, I'd say he did. And, if you look the highlights of his three home runs from the other day he hit the living poo poo out of all three of them.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 19:53

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

ALFbrot posted:

congrats on your five automatic wins, the pirates have completely mailed it in

It's breaking my heart that the Pirates are in freefall. While I still enjoyed the wins, I really didn't want the Cubs to sweep them last week.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 20:03

IcePhoenix: Sep 18, 2005; Take me to your Shida

Crazy Ted posted:

And, if you look the highlights of his three home runs from the other day

Don't mind if I do!

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/vtp_player_tracking/v1140839483?game_pk=448916

# ? Sep 6, 2016 20:06

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

News: The Rays have a "peak performance coach."

quote:

ST. PETERSBURG � Evan Longoria has had the journal in his locker for years, using it for typically no more than scribbling fantasy football tips.

But this spring, at the instruction of Howard Falco, the "peak performance coach" the Rays brought into camp, Longoria grabbed a pen and got busy.

First, Longoria, for the first time he can remember, wrote out the key statistics for each year of his career to provide a base. Then, his assignment was to jot down specific numerical goals for this season, such as how many home runs he could hit.

Falco's theory was to give it permanence on paper as a point of reference to look at during the season and, more importantly, to get Longoria to think aggressively and aim high.

"It's really the first time I've ever done it," Longoria said. "In talking to Howard Falco � about making some mental changes and the possibility of things if you really believe it, and for me, he said to write some numbers down and you'll be shocked at the end of the year."

Longoria won't yet reveal his target, but with 31 homers in the books and his career high of 33, set seven years ago, clearly in sight, it seems that the exercise has paid off.

And, if anything, that Longoria may have aimed too low.

"The number I wrote down was a little bit higher than 30, so if I can get to that number I wrote down � it wasn't 40, but 40, I feel like, if I have a great month it's definitely attainable," Longoria said. "I don't want to put a limit on what's possible."

Views: Can he teach the rest of the roster how to hit too?

# ? Sep 6, 2016 20:15