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ESPN signed new deal with MLB.

With no Monday/Wednesday blackouts.

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Josh Sale and Marcus Stroman busted for violating drug policy. Sale was busted for Meth like his other teammates.

 

Blue Jays prospect right-hander Marcus Stroman was suspended 50 games for testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug.

He tested positive for Methylhexaneamine. It's tough news for the Blue Jays, who selected Stroman No. 22 overall in June's First-Year Player Draft. The hard-throwing right-hander has a 3.26 ERA and 23/9 K/BB ratio over his first 19 1/3 innings between Low-A Vancouver and Double-A New Hampshire. His 2013 campaign will now get off to a late start.

 

Rays prospect outfielder Josh Sale was suspended 50 games for testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug.

Sale is the fourth player from Class A Bowling Green to test positive for methamphetamine and an amphetamine. The 21-year-old outfielder was selected No. 17 overall in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft and owns a .238/.345/.408 batting line over his first two seasons in pro ball.

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Can somebody who knows more about bWAR than I do explain to me how Johnny Cueto's bWAR is 5.7 while Clayton Kershaw's is 4.1 and R.A. Dickey's is 4.0? The only thing Cueto has on those guys is the ERA (the HR/9 is also slightly better, but not much), their walk rates are identical and Dickey and Kershaw are significantly better in H/9, K/9, K/BB and WHIP. Is it all about the ballpark each player plays in?
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Can somebody who knows more about bWAR than I do explain to me how Johnny Cueto's bWAR is 5.7 while Clayton Kershaw's is 4.1 and R.A. Dickey's is 4.0? The only thing Cueto has on those guys is the ERA (the HR/9 is also slightly better, but not much), their walk rates are identical and Dickey and Kershaw are significantly better in H/9, K/9, K/BB and WHIP. Is it all about the ballpark each player plays in?

I am not well versed on the subject either. Park effects could be in play also maybe Cueto is having a crazy good year fielding and Kershaw/Dickey are exceptionally awful?

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Filthy

 

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1208411/kershaw.gif

This is so nasty. Who's the last LHP to throw a breaking ball like that?

 

One-pitch Rich?

 

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