2016 regular-season game chatter

sale doesn't have it so far

insane: https://vine.co/v/iVgK2wmjKJu

Get your signals straight, guys.

wau

Unhittable and uncatchable

holy shit, that's beautiful

Lasergate!

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/los-angeles-dodgers-rangefinders-no-discipline-for-helping-outfielders-new-york-mets-060216

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/los-angeles-dodgers-outfielder-new-york-mets-complaint-defense-laser-markers-ken-rosenthal-052816

@MLBRosterMoves
.@whitesox acquire RHP James Shields, cash from @Padres for INF Fernando Tatis Jr., RHP Erik Johnson. #MLBOnTheMove

Fernando Tatis Jr.

Jason Coats, playing in his first MLB game, just had a terrible outfield collision with JB Shuck.

omg @ tatis junior

frenchie with one of the worst swings i've seen this year, lol

Houston @ texas 4 game series starting

each is 8-2 over their last 10 games

thus far this season texas is 6-0 vs houston

paging clemenza

fernandez struck out 12 lefty batters last night. i wonder if there's a list (there must be) of most strikeouts in a game of lefty hitters by a righty pitcher

Jason Grilli with an emphatic air jab as he keeps his new team within nine runs.

(xpost) Probably easy to figure out using Play Index, but I don't know how to use that. I'd start by checking Clemens' 20-K games, though.

both of his 20 K games had 9 lefty Ks

Gotta be a record. In other baseball-related news, did you know that "trouting" is a usable word in Scrabble?

looks like it's a fishing term

makes sense, i hear trout was a type of fish before mike trout happened

then he ate them all

Why would anybody be against Madison Bumgarner hitting in the Home Run Derby? Because he might not uphold the "prestige" of a contest that nobody cares about? I don't see the downside here. People might remember something about the Home Run Derby for a change.

damn carlos gomez is gonna injure himself swinging vs dyson

rangers 8-0 vs astros now

maybe this is old news but i just learned that MLB has hired Tom Tango to handle the deployment of Statcast data.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/a-qa-with-tom-tango-the-new-czar-of-statcast/

Max Scherzer pitching for Washington
Fowler struck out swinging.
Heyward struck out looking.
Bryant struck out looking.

Rizzo struck out swinging.
Zobrist grounded out to second.
Coghlan struck out swinging.

Montero struck out swinging.
Russell struck out looking.
Hendricks struck out looking.

Fowler struck out swinging.
Heyward grounded out to first.
Bryant popped out to shortstop.

@washingnats
That's it. The #Nats defeated the Cubs, 4-1. Have a great night, everybody!!!!!!!!!!!

WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wish harper were an expo

could MLB find a bigger crook to partner with for prostate-cancer awareness than Michael Millken?

Ah, him -- he's been doing that with MLB for a while. He spent an inning in the Braves booth promoting it last year or year before.

w/out his enabler Lasorda, i hope

heh i had no idea Mets had no hits through 6

goddamn Tillman, my disaster Hacking Mass pick of the year

wait... Chris Tillman?!

yep! he was worth 60 HM points last year, with his 4.99 ERA. And obviously you want a pitcher who'll stay in the rotation all year, bcz it's hard to tell in advance what dumbfuck team like the Reds will let Simon pitch horribly for half a year.

ya, he's a reasonable pick for hacking... i had no idea he was doing so well this season. that's what surprised me!

i thought you fantasy guys were on top of everything! Another illusion shattered. :)

i have a kid now, fantasy game has dropped off considerably since.

worth it!

gettin' close to Weird Baseball time in Tampa Bay (13th inning)

and also in Atlanta! (bottom 11th)

imagine having nothing better to do than watch a Braves-Reds deathmatch after midnight.

34 strikeouts so far for TB-SEA

Lincecum vs A's today!

http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/watching-the-old-timers-day-game-with-jim-bouton-who-wasnt-invited

a maddux for...jered weaver?

Nice Bouton piece. I thought he had been invited to a couple of old-timers' games after he and Mantle patched things up (initiated by a call from Bouton to Mantle after Mantle's son died), but I guess not.

He was, and went, in 1998 and perhaps a few after.

http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/75723b1f

7 solo homers in col/mia game, so far accounting for all the games scoring

game ended 5-3, 8 solo homers; new record high amt for a game w no other scoring

and Mark Reynolds needs a 10-game suspension for calling runs "points"

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/185264468/rockies-marlins-set-solo-home-run-record

Kipnis with an inside the park "homerun" on a single with a three base error

ah, the trusty little league home run.

apparently there's an epidemic of those, as puig got a 2-run walkoff one last night