2016 MLB Season

[Light Cleric]

I mean, Bautista slid late, hard and I'm pretty sure illegally in a way that can really injure the second basemen before getting up, jawing and looking like he was getting ready to throw a punch of his own before he got clocked.

Kinda hard to feel bad for the guy.

I should add that hitting him with a pitch for the bat flip from like a year ago was really dumb, though.

 

[daft]

I mean, Bautista slid late, hard and I'm pretty sure illegally in a way that can really injure the second basemen before getting up, jawing and looking like he was getting ready to throw a punch of his own before he got clocked.

Kinda hard to feel bad for the guy.

I should add that hitting him with a pitch for the bat flip from like a year ago was really dumb, though.

You're right, except, Jose never threw a punch.
And they hold grudge for a bat-flip?
I'd suspend Texas manager for ordering Bush to throw at Bautista and then inciting the crowd (and getting mixed up in the melee as well). He calls himself a manager? what a joke!

 

[choxorn]

Current photo of the Mariners' starting rotation:

 

[shadowplay]

We should all chip in and send Manny Machado a gift basket.

 

[caketastydelish]

Mariners desperately needed the win tonight and hey- they got it. They're going to need 4 more to catch up with the division rivals. They can win the next 3 games and almost get there. Right? Right?

 

[sophie]

Mariners desperately needed the win tonight and hey- they got it. They're going to need 4 more to catch up with the division rivals. They can win the next 3 games and almost get there. Right? Right?

Haha, classic new baseball fan. Relax, we aren't even at the all-star break yet. We still have a ton of baseball left to play. The fact that we're midway through June and your team is still in the race is a very good sign.

 

[choxorn]

It would be great, though, if the Rangers would quit winning all the time.

 

[choxorn]

Cleveland's Winning Streak Just Hit 14. Indians-Cubs World Series Confirmed.

 

[Jessrond]

I am happy to see my favorite player Conor Gillaspie is getting a second chance with the Giants. His numbers are not amazing but I am glad he's playing even if it's more of a bench role. When he was drafted in 2008 I was hoping to see him have a career like Bill Mueller did but comparing them through their age 27 seasons and it's no contests... Mueller was a career .300 hitter coming off his 1998 season where he provided 3.1 WAR. Conor Gillaspie managed a -1.0 WAR between the White Sox and Angels last year.

Anyway, the Giants are doing great so I am happy.

 

[sophie]

I am happy to see my favorite player Conor Gillaspie is getting a second chance with the Giants. His numbers are not amazing but I am glad he's playing even if it's more of a bench role. When he was drafted in 2008 I was hoping to see him have a career like Bill Mueller did but comparing them through their age 27 seasons and it's no contests... Mueller was a career .300 hitter coming off his 1998 season where he provided 3.1 WAR. Conor Gillaspie managed a -1.0 WAR between the White Sox and Angels last year.

Anyway, the Giants are doing great so I am happy.

3rd chance* He came up with the Giants and regularly subbed in for Panda when he went through that stretch of annual hammate bone injuries. I'm glad he's doing well too. The Giants are going through their annual tradition of flukey injuries clustered unluckily all at the same time. The farm system is thankfully stepping up right now.

 

[choxorn]

>giants fan complains about fluky injuries and bad luck
>team has best record in mlb
>has won three of past six world series
>mfw

 

[sophie]

Hey man, I'm ecstatic we're doing this well. We're missing our starting: right fielder, 2nd baseman, 3rd baseman, and #4 starter and have been for more than a month. Our bullpen is an utter dumpster fire. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop. There's no way we should be this good.

 

[dacubz145]

Hey man, I'm ecstatic we're doing this well. We're missing our starting: right fielder, 2nd baseman, 3rd baseman, and #4 starter and have been for more than a month. Our bullpen is an utter dumpster fire. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop. There's no way we should be this good.

The other shoe has definitely dropped for my team

Going to be interesting to see who ends up with the top seed. If all stays the same, being able to play the Mets or Dodgers (who just pitched Kershaw or DeGrom in Wild card game) sounds a lot easier than a rested Nationals rotation

 

[sophie]

The other shoe has definitely dropped for my team

That's baseball. The Cubs are too good for their recent performance to persist for long. They'll come around, I'm sure.

Moreover the Giants are way too thin of a team for their successes to persist for long. They'll bounce, I'm sure.

 

[dacubz145]

I still think they win the division. Even if Kershaw is healthy, they find it fairly tough to stay above .500 when someone else pitches. Cueto and samardzji are really showing how much easier it is to pitch in the NL vs the AL

 

[sophie]

Well yeah, I think so too. They're 50/88-90 of the way there already and that can't be taken away. However this is still a team composed of: Buster Posey, Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford, Madison Bumgarner, Johnny Cueto, and a hastily assembled gumbo of assorted no-name minor leaguer parts with some even-year Giants juju sprinkled on top.

Samardzija had a good start, but he's looked increasingly shaky of late, you honestly never know what you're going to get with Peavy and Suarez, and we still are missing Panik, Duffy, Cain, and Pence. Not to mention our bullpen is still a dumpster fire. At least we got Sergio Romo blowing on it a little now.

 

[choxorn]

I still think they win the division. Even if Kershaw is healthy, they find it fairly tough to stay above .500 when someone else pitches. Cueto and samardzji are really showing how much easier it is to pitch in the NL vs the AL

The Dodgers: The Best Team in the NL on Paper, since 2013.

Cueto and Mr. Big Scrabble Score improved partly because of switching leagues, but also ball-parks. Samardzizjzjzjzija went from one of the easiest parks to homer in to one of the hardest.

and we still are missing Panik, Duffy, Cain, and Pence.

I don't think Cain is really in the same category as those other guys, not in a way that you can describe as "missing" him.

 

[choxorn]

I'm fairly certain the Mariners must have set some sort of record this year for "most times a team loaded the bases with 1 out or less and didn't score any runs"

 

[onejayhawk]

Fantasy question.

How does the following core look for 2017?
16 team H2H, 464 players rostered, not counting DL.
C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, CI, MI, OF, OF, OF, OF, Util, SP, SP, SP, SP, RP, RP, RP, P, P, P, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN.

1B: Paul Goldschmidt
2B: Robinson Cano
SS: Aledmys Diaz
OF: Christian Yelich
OF: Max Kepler
OF: Yasmany Tomas

SP: Jose Fernandez
SP: Carlos Carrasco
SP: Zack Wheeler
SP: Carlos Rodon
RP: Kelvin Herrera

There are several other possible keepers, but these are the no-brainers.

J

 

[EgonSpengler]

I'm one of those rare Red Sox fans who doesn't hate the Yankees. In fact, I actually prefer it when both teams are riding high and can really scrap.

Still, I couldn't help but laugh out loud when Big Papi smacked #537 last night to pass Mickey Mantle... in a game against the Yankees. Occasionally the universe has a sense of humor.

Ortiz would need 12 more to pass Mike Schmidt, which seems unlikely, so I expect he'll rest at 17th all-time until someone passes him (Miguel Cabrera needs 97, which doesn't look impossible, and Mike Trout in 10 or 12 years).