2016 regular-season game chatter

Bumgarner, 1-hitter, 14 K, 1 BB, game score 104

Dave Righetti deserves a statue outside of AT&T.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/players-view-the-best-non-knuckleballer-knuckleballs/

I'm delighted by the idea of every player trying to throw knuckleballs during practice

goddamn all star break

pure misery

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/page/mlbrank100_greatestplayersalltime/all-mlbrank-greatest-players-ever

this is kind of fun

@MattEddyBA
#Giants signed Kyle Drabek to a minor league deal and are looking at him as a shortstop—though they haven't ruled out a return to mound.

weird

move ricky romero to 2B imo why not

‏@JeffPassan
Former Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa sentenced to 46 months in jail for hacking Houston Astros' computer system, per @dfbarron.

damn

Jeff Sullivan @based_ball
Chris Correa sentenced to 46 months of scouting the Angels farm system

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/17100858/roger-clemens-headline-superteam-former-mlb-players

huh

tx is now only 3.5 games up on Houston (3 weeks ago it was ~10 games)

hadn't really looked @ gurriels stats, sss (49 games) but it seems crazy he hit .500 w/ 38 walks (11 intentional) and only 3 strikeouts last yr in cuba. that's some bondsian shit no?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cn5NAsdWcAA7uzW.jpg:small

lackey then spit out a giant wad of tobacco-laden salt onto the reporter's shoe

semi-prime pitching matchup: urias-strasburg

wow justin turner just put a 3-0 shoulder-high heater from strasburg 404 ft over the fence in left center

couple of sick ABs at the plate from strasburg -- single up the middle and a walk, sees 14 pitches

watching Marcus Stroman bat last night was fantastic. put down one perfect bunt and once okay one – and turned out to be a pretty impressive baserunner!

been a while since i actively rooted for the yankees

approaching Weird Baseball in St Louis

tyler lyons came in during the 11th inning and has hit twice now

Altuve's OPS is over 1.000 this morning. Last 2B I can find with 1.000+ is Kent in 2000; Morgan in '76 before that.

Altuve might have a shot at leading AL

...in SLG if not for Ortiz

hes become a much more pronounced fly-ball hitter than in past yrs

Astros have him on a killer contract rn wow

2016 26 Houston Astros $3,500,000
2017 27 Houston Astros $4,500,000
2018 28 Houston Astros *$6,000,000 $6M Team Option
2019 29 Houston Astros *$6,500,000 $6.5M Team Option

Altuve's jump in walks is all sorts of amazing, because he is still very aggressive.

in top 5 current players for sure, i think?

position players, yeah, he's got the track record at this point

mvp frontrunner? assuming trout continues to be taken for granted

WAR rankings: trout, donaldson, altuve

boring, boring, FRESH AND SHORT

assuming each maintains their current rate of production my prediction for top five is:

altuve
trout
ortiz
donaldson
cano

rooting for Philthies feels weird

francisco liriano just hit a no-doubter to straightaway center off king felix

raul mondesi's kid (i think) is in the bigs for the royals now, and just as expected is an all-glove infielder??

nah he can also hit

and do drugs

nah he can also hit

― mookieproof, Wednesday, July 27, 2016 9:10 PM (Yesterday

i realize you have to take the age difference into account but other than for about 45 games this year he's been pretty miserable at the plate. most projections put him as a 45 at the plate

mlb.com gives him a 50, but yeah maybe you're right

he's certainly not a correa/seager/bregman, but he's also been basically four years younger than his competition all along, so it's tough to tell. (and a fair portion of his games have been in wilmington, which is an extreme pitchers' park.)

i'm a little curious why the royals have brought him up now when they don't seem to be going anywhere this year

he pinch-ran in the world series last year i think. first ever player to make his big league debut in the WS

albert pujols has nearly as many infield fly balls this season (14) as joey votto has in his career (15)

That's a productive two weeks for Andrelton Simmons.

Welcome to Cleveland, Andrew Miller. Please hold this seven-run deficit.

Woops.

Matt Kemp: "I've never really played in a baseball town before. So, I am excited about that."

you know you play for the braves, rite?

soon he'll play in a baseball county, i suppose

If the Yanks do cut A-Rod, how long till the Marlins sign him at league minimum?

the twins are abusing cleveland

max kepler, superstar