2016 regular-season game chatter

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

Buddy Boshers

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpNIlYSWIAIXVMw.jpg:small

TROUT

manny machado has 3 HRs today.

it's the 4th inning.

Machado is just the second player in Major League history to hit a home run in the first, second and third inning of the game. The other was Carl Reynolds of the White Sox on July 2, 1930, at the Yankees, according to Stats. Machado is the ninth player in MLB history to hit a homer in three consecutive innings at any point during the game.

Tuffy Gosewisch still mysteriously swinging a bat in the majors

approaching Weird Baseball in Seattle

a dozen pitchers thru 13 frames

my buddy's fantasy baseball team requires Tuffy to continue being in the league or "Gosewisch Engage" will lose its meaning

reposting here because u need to see it

https://twitter.com/DragonsBaseball/status/763898972557631488

anyone watching the Yankees in Prime Time? can't believe Fox bumped their programming for A-Rod.

sorry if there is another thread on this. sort of not watching baseball right now.

that double play is like seeing an animal up close in a national park

Most recent seasonal Rangers thread is 2013?

Cole Hamels' line for tonight is bizarre: 7 innings, 14 hits and 3 walks, only two runs...Tigers indeed left 13 men on base.

I'm gonna be bummed if the hr surge really is a result of juiced balls

Texas Rangers 69 50 .580

Rangers have a run differential of -1

o_o

Single A batter Francisco Mejia has a hit streak of 50 games currently going on.

just ended ;_;

nooo

goddamn it brownie

Dave Cameron was slamming Texas at the seminar today

"they might be an above avg team now"

really nothing can make me hate ballplayers more than coverage of their NFL fantasy drafts

thanks Olney

bartolo colon has drawn his first career walk at age 43

The rare home-run hitter who doesn't walk a lot.

toothy matchup in SF today:

Nova-Cain

nice