2016 regular-season game chatter

jose aut-on-the-basepaths

not my best nickname but man does this guy love making outs

i . . . can't tell who you're talking about

Jose Autusta?

time to find another easily replaceable backup catcher. what an asshole.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/steve-clevenger-mariners-suspended-keith-scott-tweets

lol i was talking about altuve

the gray road dback unis are an atrocity

have they ever had a decent jersey

jon gray with 6 Ks in 2 innings and a walk to ROSS STRIPLING

60 pitches wth dude

yo, kiermaier just threw a bullet strike to home from 355 feet away at the wall in left center. he didn't get mookie betts at the plate but holy shit

that was amazing

Now this makes me nostalgic: today's the first time the Yankees have been shut out three games in a row since 1975, which included Bill Lee beating Catfish Hunter 1-0 (both threw complete games).

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA197507271.shtml

(Bernie Carbo leading off?)

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v1185416583/bostb-betts-scores-from-first-on-holts-double

Omg rip Jose Fernandez what a tragedy

cubs 100-56
twins 56-100

i hereby rename the cubs "evil twins"

players with at least 20 HR this year: 107

last year: 64

that's insane. i hate juiced balls.

lol, i guess you can take that a bunch of different ways.

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/