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It'd be nice to be .500Quote:
Originally Posted by manonfire101
Braves have 2 of the top 5 pitching prospects in the minors atm imo.
Yeah I know. But if prospects where guaranteed then they wouldn't be prospects.
Blue Jays need better 2nd baseman and outfielders and improve starting pitching and bullpen
I like their chances man. Not many guys get to AA before 20 and perform well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanosuke
Anyone else gonna watch the mlb draft?
I'll prolly be swappin back and forth, Yankees game starts right around the same time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
tell me who blue jays took spencer
Judgement day this season, mother of God.
Blexican put my favorite team as blue jays
Mike Zunino is hitting .385 with a 1.316 OPS, 8 HRs and 26 RBI IN THE MONTH OF JUNE!
There are 10 days left.
I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen a player who was that bad for that long get this hot. Never.
This is a guy with 1200 at bats and a career batting average of .190. He was sent down to the minors last month for probavly the 4th time. I honestly thought we'd never see him again.
He might be mainlining roids or maybe he sold his soul. Whatever it is, it's working.
Babip luck. He's always had the power, he's just running into a lot of balls. Hopefully this makes him more confident in the bigs and he can become a real starter, his minor league numbers have always been pretty decent.
Corey Seager is having on hell of a fucking game against the Mets
Wow. He sure is. 3 HRs and a double and they've only played 6 innings.
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Originally Posted by Drew Butera, on Miguel Cabrera
http://www.kansascity.com/sports/mlb...157449839.html
Took my wife to see two Nashville Sounds games. They're the AAA affiliate of the Oakland A's. Went to see them play against the Round Rock Express and the OKC Dodgers. We had excellent seats in both games and both very affordable. Post pictures later but we're planning on getting season tickets for the Sounds next year!
That's cool. I used to live 2 blocks from where the Mariners A team played and I'd walk down to watch the games all the time. It was always a great time.
That's awesome. I wish I lived closer to an affiliate team. I've seen a couple buffalo bisons (jays aaa) games since they moved from Nevada but it's still a couple hour drive and they're the closest by far.
Went to the Durham Bulls game last night. They beat Charlotte 1-0 on the strength of a solo homer. Game ended on a fantastic 5-4-3 double play. And then there were fireworks. Nothing like baseball to celebrate the 4th.
Gary Sanchez is honestly pissing me off as is Betances, send em both down to reality check these divas
Yeah, send Sanchez down with a .900 OPS. That makes sense.
Lol I love it gryph.
Has nothing to do with offensive stats, it's his shitty attitude towards all the pitchers. When he first came up, he was 5th in MLB in framing pitches, this offseason, I don't know what he worked on, but he's now bottom 3, he's also letting balls get passed him at an abnormal rate, and it's not dirt diggers either, I'm talking Pineda and Chapman fastballs he legit just won't catch or make an effort to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh
Then there's the whole Tanaka and Pineda shit where he goes out to talk to them, and instead of looking at them from the front, he makes a conscious effort to walk past them and stand on the top of the pitching mound, he did that to both of them and they gave him this "Who the fuck do you think you are? Call the god damn game" look. He has a gifted arm, and is awesome offensively, but whatever he did this offseason, his defense has all but fallen completely off, and his ability to call games (Evident by now Romine catching both Tanaka and Pineda exclusively now it seems over the last 2 times through the order) has fallen off drastically. Tanaka isn't gonna shake him off, but homeboy throws 92mph FBs, and his FB usage is in the upper 50% when Sanchez is there, and it's low 30's when Romine is back there. Same with Pineda, FB/Slider with Gary, FB/Slider/Change with Romine. Then there's his rising strikeout rate cause he's trying to pull everything down the RF line.
In all honesty, I wouldn't be surprised if Gary starts at 1B more and Romine is back behind the dish. He doesn't "own" the team, but he's sure as fuck acting like it, and you could see the player interactions with him are all in a "I'm just gonna listen and dismiss" kinda way towards him.
And as for Betances, who...for some odd reason has zero intent to listen to Larry, has been a mechanical mess the past 3 weeks and has been one of the main culprits of this 6-21 stretch they've been on. Has the gaul to go and tell German and Shreve to and I quote "Just focus on getting your arm loose and don't worry about throwing strikes, it's what I do." Maybe, y'know since your a bullpen pitcher, yor job is to get outs and throw strikes, maybe that's why you've walked 15 batters over your last 5 games and were the sole reason we lost yesterday and the last 4 games because you can't find the fucking strike zone. Not only that, but every Yankee game they broadcast and the bullpen starts getting up, look where Betances is sitting, next to Chapman, and every other pitcher is sitting on the opposite side of the bench from him.
Send em down, reality check the diva attitude and bring em back up. They are literally being 2 baby back bitches and costing us games, check the ego at the door and play baseball.
I'll take em
Lol. Right? Me too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
Can you even imagine if Girardi sent Gary Sanchez down because of his attitude? This is the fucking majors and the Yankees are trying to keep pace with Boston and Sanchez can rake. Nothing else means jack shit.
It's a different beast in Yankee land. Reminds me of leaf fans. I love it tho gryph. Js
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Originally Posted by Hugh
I'm not saying run him out of NY, I'm saying ego check both their asses. There is a difference.
There's been plenty of shitty attitudes that have ruined not only careers (Early BJ Upton, Nyjer Morgon, Milton Bradley, I can go on) but also players whose shitty attitude and divas ended up becoming a cancer in the clubhouse and ruining not only team chemistry but distracting them as well (Grienke vs Yasiel Puig fistfight on the bus causing Grienke to want out of LA and turn down Dodgers contract and sign with DBacks, Papelbon fight with Harper, Most recently Montero and Arrietta, The old Adrian Beltre with the Red Sox, the laziness of Alfonso Soriano early career, I can go on)
Point being, nip it in the bud now, before it spills over into the media.
Literally the best example is early 90's Yankees, where 3 players were making fun of Bernie Williams' glasses. (This is a true story) guess what? 2 got sent down, one got traded for Paul o'Neill. Bernie now starts in CF, and becomes one of the most beloved Yankees of all time. Fix it now, before it becomes a problem come August
Sending those two players down right now would definitely go to the media lol. I think if girrardi has a problem with either player he will try to figure it out at the big league level before resorting to that kind of petty drama.
Girardi won't do anything, like, I like the guy, but he babies too many players and doesn't get on their asses about dumb shit they do 90% of the time. It's why I always like the Showalter type managers, that don't put up with that crap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
Gross man :p. I hate those types. Girardi might be the most bland manager in baseball though so ill give you that lol. That being said, i think the romine move is case and point. Thats obviously the manager trying to send a message to sanchez. Might not be the message youre looking for, but its definitely a bit of a wake up call if sanchez wants to be more then a DH. As for the betances situation, i think that ship has sailed, you lost him when you signed Chapman this off-season, betances is gonna do whatever he wants until he gets paid.
Showalter is a dinosaur. That shit doesn't work anymore. It's not about the managers in baseball. Maybe once upon a time, but not now. I'm not saying let the inmates run the asylum but that hard line, my way or the highway bullshit is tired and there's a reason you're seeing it less and less.
Congrats to Aaron Judge. Most HRs ever by a Yankee rookie...and we aren't at the All-Star break yet. What a monsterz
Is he gonna hit 50???
Think more 60 to 70
at least 100
Judge is gonna beat Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa single season home run record.
He could.
Maybe at some point in his career but not this year. He'll regress to the mean in the second half of the year.
It sure looks like it. Right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
I'm not an avid baseball follower anymore, but Judge intrigues me.
why don't they just pitch around him like they used to do to Bonds/McGwire/etc?
is it just because he's a rookie?
is the rest of the Yankee line-up that stacked?