2016 regular-season game chatter

@MikePodhorzer
Fun with small sample sizes: Trevor Story has 4 hits, 4 home runs, and a .000 BABIP. [insert clever Story pun here].

red sox rainout in clevo has robbed us of an all-knuckleball confrontation between r.a. dickey and steven wright on saturday

@Ken_Rosenthal
Source confirms Loney to #Padres on minor-league deal, as reported by @JonHeyman. Likely to spend couple of weeks in minors.

dude is a couple months away from an mlb pension. god speed.

should also note the guy who drafted him (logan whitew) is high up in the padres org.

just heard the first HE GONE of the year

can't wait to have him gone, they already chose his replacement, one season left.

http://dealbreaker.com/uploads/2012/11/drudge-siren.gif THE SAN DIEGO PADRES HAVE SCORED http://dealbreaker.com/uploads/2012/11/drudge-siren.gif

six times, even

chris archer getting pummeled

Story, again.

It doesn't matter what he does for the rest of the season - he is hands down the greatest last-round fantasy flier I have ever taken.

trade him!!

Felix pitches 7 shutout innings with 10 Ks, no-decision. Currently at 0-1 w/0.69 ERA, M's appear to be returning to form.

What's up with the way base runners are symbolized on ESPN's home page these days, it's weird

http://i.imgur.com/XQbTaoU.png

if they get enough upvotes they advance

could not find a A's thread, hope this works:
http://twitter.com/RealJoshReddick/status/719321634197217280/photo/1

damn
"Yes, the A’s flew from Seattle to Oakland on a plane the Giants are chartering this season.
No, the A’s players weren’t upset, embarrassed or complaining, according to right fielder Josh Reddick.
Reddick tweeted a picture of the plane, with a Giants logo, and heard back from not-too-thrilled A’s fans. It’s believed a few folks in the front office weren’t pleased, either."

This whole "Papa Slam" thing is pretty gross.

I wouldn't care except MLB is using the phrase very actively across its site and social media.

somehow i've missed it. what is a papa slam?

oh, papa john's

better ingredients. better pizza. papa slam!

you guys see the rockies hit 4 little caesars triples yesterday

That's real driving excitement

ian kennedy is good now?

ryan howard has tied joe dimaggio with 361 career homers

madbum/kershaw is the mlbtv free game tonight btw

giants defense falling apart in the 4th

madbum getting shelled too

Did Scully just say that Panik was trying to not break down and cry?!

dave roberts just referred to a first pitch lead off homerum as a "ricky rally" - never heard that before lol

congrats to the Barves and Twins

wasn't sure who to root for in this cubs-cards game, but the answer is never john lackey

ugh, glad i didn't catch any of it

keith law - cj nitkowski twitter fite

klaw is a pretty unchill tweeter, as much as i like the guy

what CJN did was sexist and law was right to call him out imo

i didn't read the twitter fight, fwiw, i'm sure cj nitwitkowski said something dumb

if you think klaw is unchill you don't want to follow neyer

weirdness in san diego as a run-scoring balk is called, then un-called, then re-called

ross ohlendorf has five decisions (and a 8.22 ERA)

@gregorMLB
For those still worried about R.A. Dickey's start to the season, he currently has a lower ERA than David Price. #BlueJays

SSS

what's his DRA?

With Coco Crisp going to left field, #Athletics have given up the DH for the fifth time in 16 games.

smoove

https://twitter.com/_DaveMelton/status/723697640085565440/video/1

Cubs' run differential : + 67
Every AL team with a positive run differential, combined : + 67

There are eight teams that make up the second number btw

cubs' run differential for all of last season was +81

insane catch by Mazara in the bottom of the 9th to rob a walk off hr from frazier. will post video as soon as mlb publishes it.

http://m.mlb.com/video/v617154083/

albert pujols has -0.6 fWAR on the year so far. he's under contract through 2021.

King Kenta the best nickname in baseball.

TOR (+1): 5 (2 vs. BAL, 3 at BOS)
BAL (-): 5 (2 at TOR, 3 at NYY)

DET (1.0): 5 (2 vs. CLE, 3 at ATL)
SEA (2.0): 5 (1 at HOU, 4 at OAK)
HOU (3.5): 4 (1 vs. SEA, 3 at LAA)
NYY (4.0): 5 (2 vs. BOS, 3 vs. BAL)

Looks like Britton could have his perfect season.

@Ken_Rosenthal
On #MNTwins' pending hiring of Falvey - and what it says about baseball's front-office hiring practices. Column:

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/minnesota-twins-derek-falvey-baseball-hiring-practices-092816

@keithlaw
Spot on. If owners are simply hiring this archetype, minorities have no shot, and a lot of good baseball people are screwed.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtjZLpmWgAANvXw.jpg

30+ homers, < 0.5 WAR

i'm still amazed by that bichette season. i don't know if it's the worst on there, but he hit .298 w/34 HR and 133 RBI, scored 107 runs, slugged .541, and his WAR was still -2.3

pirates/cubs officially ends in a tie

Weird ending(?) in St. Louis.

"Oops, forgot to protest the ground rule double"

that was crazy

goddamn Brandon McCarthy

who are these refugees from Albuquerque in Dodger blue?

(oklahoma city)

i figured it was somewhere else by now

quoth the Ravin, nevermore

ok, LET'S GO UTLEY

they're all buying their minor league teams now, so expect less movement

that doesn't mean they can afford to pay the players, of course

xp gross

i don't understand rooting against SF when the alternative is STL, the only team that is worse

Mets fan wd rather face Carlos Martinez than Bumgarner

but if SF, at least in Queens

for Bee and others

http://www.espn.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/74274/how-to-spend-the-perfect-saturday-of-wild-card-baseball

really can't hear broadcasters use "great" to describe Ryan Howard enough

i have Detroit and Toronto games on in my two panels

edrod trade continuing to haunt the o's

http://www.espn.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/74336/how-to-spend-the-perfect-sunday-watching-playoff-baseball

i'm not sure there's been a team as good by record and as thoroughly boring to watch - barring wild bumgarner performances - as this decade's giants

i understand doing all the 162s at once but man it's difficult to keep up with

@dschoenfield
LeMahieu does follow in a long list of batters who didn't have the guts of Ted Williams. Bill Madlock was the king of sitting on a title.

#dogavi

Enberg overshadowed, eh

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/204598956/dick-enberg-says-farewell-after-last-broadcast/

i don't really do podcasts, but jonah keri hosting len kasper and jason benetti is pretty damn good: http://nerdist.com/the-jonah-keri-podcast-61-live-from-chicago-len-kasper-and-jason-benetti/