The MLB Thread

vansmack wrote:
Mike Trout,  at age 23,  the youngest player ever with 100 101 HR's and 100 Stolen Bases. 

I think he's going to be pretty good.

agreed!
unlike that harper fella…

vansmack wrote:

Carlos wrote:
enjoy yoenis.  you'll get 3 strikeouts per game, which makes him the worst baseball player ever, on par with kris bryant and bryce harper, but every now and then he'll pretty much win a game for you by himself. 

I've seen him win an entire series.  In person.  I'm glad he's no longer in the AL West.

well the detroit game is already over.

i think at the same moment cespedes hit his grand slam, porcello gave up a two-run shot to adam jones.

how does everyone stream mlb.tv? this may have been covered but i'm struggling with the mlb.tv interface and tabcasting with chrome. i'm trying to watch two games at once, but to do it, i take away all the functionality that mlb.tv offers (scoreboard, toggle between viewing modes, etc).

Carlos wrote:
i think at the same moment cespedes hit his grand slam, porcello gave up a two-run shot to adam jones.

Yeah, we are good with that trade officially. We'll keep him. No disrespect to Porcello who I still think is massive underrated (albeit apparently overpaid) but Cespedes really fit the Tigers needs. Too many years with beer league softball defense and no speed.

Shane Greene might actually be legit. If Dombrowski saw something that no one else did, well, give that guy a raise.

Spicyweiner, I only use the phone app and TiVo program never the real site. I'm not ignoring your query selfishly and would love to answer your question but smackie is probably more familiar with the way you're using it.

Julian, wrote:

Carlos wrote:
i think at the same moment cespedes hit his grand slam, porcello gave up a two-run shot to adam jones.

Yeah, we are good with that trade officially. We'll keep him. No disrespect to Porcello who I still think is massive underrated (albeit apparently overpaid) but Cespedes really fit the Tigers needs. Too many years with beer league softball defense and no speed.

as much as i wanted to keep cespedes, the trade made fine sense for the sox.  the logjam in the outfield is ridiculous… rusney castillo, mookie betts, and hanley ramirez should be the outfield for the next few years, and what do we do with victorino, allen craig, and jackie bradley jr?  and david ortiz is turding it up in the DH spot daily, so we can't even rotate these guys in at all.

Julian, wrote:
Spicyweiner, I only use the phone app and TiVo program never the real site. I'm not ignoring your query selfishly and would love to answer your question but smackie is probably more familiar with the way you're using it.

the app is great but as far as i can tell, there's no option to choose to watch 2 games at once. does that sound right?

Nathan out for year (UCL)

Hutch wrote:
Nathan out for year (UCL)

He was uniformly terrible in his Tigers tenure. Good riddance.

Out for the year?  He probably just unwillingly retired….

vansmack wrote:
Out for the year?  He probably just unwillingly retired….

He did leave his rehab start with an apparent injury. I don't believe they're making up a UCL injury.

Julian, wrote:He did leave his rehab start with an apparent injury. I don't believe they're making up a UCL injury.

I was referring to the idea that that he likely never pitches in the bigs again.

vansmack wrote:

Julian, wrote:He did leave his rehab start with an apparent injury. I don't believe they're making up a UCL injury.

I was referring to the idea that that he likely never pitches in the bigs again.

Oh, yes. I misunderstood and thought you were being snarky.

Yordano Ventura is batshit.  I love it!

Also. my kind of box score:

      R H E
OAK 0 8 1
ANA 2 1 0

vansmack wrote:
Yordano Ventura is batshit.  I love it!

KC is can't-miss television right about now. scary good and fucking insane.

dyson's 1st-to-home last night was the best.

http://m.mlb.com/video/v86783383/kccws-hosmer-smokes-rbi-double-for-lead-in-the-13th/?affiliateId=clubMEGAMENU

Supposedly the Angels and Hamilton have agreed a buyout to end his participation with the team.  He would become a free agent.

Who takes a flier on him at this point?

Julian, wrote:
Who takes a flier on him at this point?

All depends on the cost.  He'd probably take a huge reduction on a one year deal given that Anaheim is going to pay him something and to market himself for a long term deal (a la Nelson Cruz last season).

The more worrying question for me is what affect this has on Anaheim's ability to sign free agents in the future.  Players are loyal to other players…

Julian, wrote:
Who takes a flier on him at this point?

I'll take the Rangers for $1000, Alex.