2016 regular-season game chatter

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/