that is super weird.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 25 October 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
whatever, good for him
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Sunday, 25 October 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
@BillShaikinEx-#RedSox GM Ben Cherington hired as ... executive in residence by Columbia University's sports management program.
― mookieproof, Monday, 26 October 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
I think it most likely Amaro's rep in baseball circles is much higher than fan or media perception. It could also be that some of those extensions that hobbled the Phil's were pushed by ownership.
― earlnash, Monday, 26 October 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
@jonmorosiRuben Amaro Jr. is ambidextrous and will throw batting practice for the @RedSox both right- and left-handed. This is outstanding.
― mookieproof, Monday, 26 October 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link
https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/source-marlins-hire-don-mattingly-as-manager
(Ambidextrous BP pitcher far more valuable than a GM, obv.)
― Andy K, Thursday, 29 October 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
should we make a separate thread for postseason awards or just dump it here, gold glove finalists being announced rn (def the most meaningless of these awards)
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
might as well start a new thread, since this one will get clogged up with hot stove stuff eventually
― 1999 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 29 October 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
mattingly --> marlins
budblack --> nats
andy green --> padres
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 October 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
Marlins offseason checklist:
1. Hire manager2. Fire general manager3. ?
― polyphonic, Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
trade marcel ozuna 'cause loria doesn't like him
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 October 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link
@Ken_Rosenthal Sources: #BlueJays’ five-year offer to Anthopoulos gave him right to opt out after one year if relationship with Shapiro was not working.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 October 2015 16:53 (eight years ago) link
If that's true I'm not sure it changes anything. Ownership either endorses the GM 100 percent or they don't.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 30 October 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
In a face-to-face meeting with the senior members of the Jays’ front office, Shapiro said he strongly disagreed with some of the deadline choices that sent prospects out. The initial contract offer to Anthopoulos, according to an official who was briefed on the talks, was a two-year deal, with the second year an option.It was an insult. By the time Rogers tried to give Anthopoulos a five-year contract, it was already too late.
It was an insult. By the time Rogers tried to give Anthopoulos a five-year contract, it was already too late.
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 October 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
http://www.springtrainingcountdown.com/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 November 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
dusty to the nats!
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 13:16 (eight years ago) link
Good Mets winter already!
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link
saw this on FB yesterday
Dusty: "Nice collection of arms ya got here... Shame if anything wwere to happen to 'em."
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
supposedly they offered bud black a one-year deal lol
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
i thought everyone was joking about Baker getting hired!
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
we were, the Nats were not.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
wow. i want to say "rip" to them; but just watch them fluke their way into the WS next year.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
not their Dustiny
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
@Ken_Rosenthal Sources: #Dodgers have interviewed Dave Roberts for managing job. LAD not close to decision. Roberts expected to move on from SD regardless.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
Black and the Nats talked over the next couple days, with proposals and counterproposals exchanged. However, after Black, who had originally sought a three-year deal, didn't quickly accept their next offer and instead apparently countered it -- it is believed the Nats came off the straight one-year offer, and talked about offers with options and buyouts, and may have gotten up to two guaranteed years at some point -- the Nats then turned back to Baker....
The Nats are a first-class organization as far as the players go, but it's somewhat surprising how little they dedicate to manager salaries. This is very likely an ownership stance, but it is certainly odd.
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/writer/jon-heyman/25362028/nats-get-their-man-but-man-oh-man-what-a-soap-opera-it-was
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 16:31 (eight years ago) link
yeesh
― brimstead, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
FG goes challopsy
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/dusty-baker-is-not-a-bad-hire/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 20:56 (eight years ago) link
August Fagerstrom @AugustFG_Four-year peaks:Grady Sizemore: 25.8 WARWillie Stargell 25.6Pete Rose 25.4Tony Gwynn 25.4Brooks Robinson 25.3
Four-year peaks:
Grady Sizemore: 25.8 WARWillie Stargell 25.6Pete Rose 25.4Tony Gwynn 25.4Brooks Robinson 25.3
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
Is this real lifehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CS78jTqUAAAchwY.jpg
― bnw, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 03:34 (eight years ago) link
WTF
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 03:40 (eight years ago) link
wow. wonder what Harper's thoughts are on that one
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 05:06 (eight years ago) link
Forbes, famed sports analysts
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 12:07 (eight years ago) link
from the author of 'baseball maverick: how sandy alderson revolutionized baseball and revived the mets' no less
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 14:53 (eight years ago) link
omg, had no idea what that guy's name is.
Two more years for Terry Collins (tho there are still fans calling for his head over Harveygate).
Padres exercised their $8 million club option on Joaquin Benoit.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
greinke formally opted out, for what that's worth (guessing dodgers offer him the farm to stay)
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
sandy alderson fainted while answering questions at the collins-extension press conference
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
probably thinking about Murphy accepting their qualifying offer.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link
mike maddux to be dusty's pitching coach
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
I want the dodgers to re-sign Greinke but Stan Kasten has repeated a couple times they don't want to give out deals to pitchers that include any years of 35+
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 22:37 (eight years ago) link
lol imagine signing Greinke to a 35 year deal where he pitches until hes 60+
@GregJohnsMLBMariners-Rays with 6-player trade: Sea sends Brad Miller, LoMo & Farquhar to TB for RH Nathan Karns, LH CJ Riefenhauser and OF Boog Powell.
"OF Boog Powell"!
― Andy K, Friday, 6 November 2015 02:00 (eight years ago) link
heard o' that boog b4
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 November 2015 02:08 (eight years ago) link
lomo is a good ray
― J0rdan S., Friday, 6 November 2015 04:49 (eight years ago) link
will anyone accept a qualifying offer y/n
looking at u, ian kennedy
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 November 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
i hadn't realized that dylan bundy is now out of options
he pitched zero innings in '13, 41 in '14 and 22 in '15 but the o's will have to keep him on big-league roster or pass him through waivers
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 November 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
BP writer (and a random number generator) predict the Free Agent 50
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=27844
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 November 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
new member of the zobrist family - BLAISE ROYAL ZOBRIST
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 7 November 2015 00:09 (eight years ago) link
put a qualifying offer on *that*
― mookieproof, Saturday, 7 November 2015 00:22 (eight years ago) link
@AdamRubinESPN Nov 6Denard Span doesn't get a qualifying offer from Nats, per @JamesWagnerWP, in case you're looking for a lefty-hitting center fielder.
let's go Mets
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 November 2015 13:03 (eight years ago) link
byung ho park to the twins, supposedly
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 November 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link
fister to astros, 1yr
also
@ToddZoleckiPhillies hire Andy Galdi to oversee baseball analytics department. Spent last 3 years at Google, where he was quantitative analyst 4 YouTube
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 January 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
the new market inefficiency is charlie bit my finger
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Thursday, 28 January 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CaBTvfOUMAEcqd_.jpg
― mookieproof, Sunday, 31 January 2016 04:09 (eight years ago) link
Yankees announce that slugging 1B of the Future Greg Bird will miss the entire 2016 season due to shoulder surgery.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
@DodgersThe Dodgers have hired Greg Maddux and Raul Ibanez as special assistants to the president of baseball operations & baseball ops department.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
just saw the first 'truck day' story : /
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 22:27 (eight years ago) link
Mets deal Ceciliani to Jays for cash
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 22:52 (eight years ago) link
mostly fives i think
https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/XSuLybyC6vkXiZzHgj0qZHLgQ8A=/800x0/filters:no_upscale%28%29/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/5990689/win-now-compass-2016.0.jpg
hmmm
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 01:06 (eight years ago) link
that lower left quadrant should be all in the deepest corner tbh
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 05:22 (eight years ago) link
there needs to be a better way to approach that
― qualx, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 06:56 (eight years ago) link
the Indians can't hit a lick. unless they win the division at 81-81 there will be no contending.
― mod (brownie), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 12:50 (eight years ago) link
wow the word "nope" points directly to the Milwaukee Brewers nice
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 13:26 (eight years ago) link
jonny gomes to japan
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
if u listen to the BP podcast, that raises the question of who MLB's new Gonny Jomes is.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
@MarlinsWe have re-signed Don Kelly to a Minor League contract with an Invitation to Major League Spring Training. Now 63 players in camp.
― Andy K, Thursday, 4 February 2016 02:15 (eight years ago) link
@keithlaw Jan 30The Dbacks have already traded their 1st pick from 2015, 1st and 4th picks from 2014, and 2nd, 3rd, and 4th picks from 2013.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
@Ken_Rosenthal Source: #Orioles getting Despaigne from #Padres. Cosme heading to SD, per @masnRoch.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/RrKv2E0oprFfB5GhUF67roA4GPs=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/5996679/IMG_3172.0.JPG
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 February 2016 20:13 (eight years ago) link
big day for baseball birthdays
rusty kuntz is 61doug fister is 32
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 February 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
I always have to look up Rusty's name to confirm that it's real and then get slightly worried that my work will detect inappropriate use of their computers
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 February 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
Ausmus and Matheny prob in all-time top 10
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2016 21:42 (eight years ago) link
You don't like necks, Morbs?
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Friday, 5 February 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
I guess I'm a Farrell man.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 6 February 2016 05:19 (eight years ago) link
the brisbane bandits have claimed the claxton shield, if you know what i mean
― mookieproof, Saturday, 6 February 2016 20:19 (eight years ago) link
i do not.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 6 February 2016 21:18 (eight years ago) link
@MannyActa14Hail to The Chief!! Freddy García just threw his last pitch in pro-baseball. Nice guys don't finish last. 👍🏼 #NiceCareer #CaribbeanSeries
― Andy K, Monday, 8 February 2016 02:03 (eight years ago) link
latos to white sox
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link
Clippard to AZ two years, $12.25M
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link