General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

you'd be crazy to move him out of the rotation, the guy is a machinist

 

I need to clarify my like is a hate like

[Brian]

Trevor got his feelings hurt.

 

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why is his twitter @BauerOutage? wouldn't that mean he sucks?

[Brian]

Trevor Bauer profile

 

https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/02/19/trevor-bauer-cleveland-indians-training-tools-twitter-controversy-cy-young

 

When Bauer meets a potential romantic partner, he outlines for her the parameters of any possible relationship on their very first date. “I have three rules,” he says. “One: no feelings. As soon as I sense you’re developing feelings, I’m going to cut it off, because I’m not interested in a relationship and I’m emotionally unavailable. Two: no social media posts about me while we’re together, because private life stays private. Three: I sleep with other people. I’m going to continue to sleep with other people. If you’re not O.K. with that, we won’t sleep together, and that’s perfectly fine. We can just be perfectly polite platonic friends.”

 

“My new five-year goal is to be the most internationally recognizable baseball brand,” Bauer says. That is one reason why he continues to engage on social media, despite its pitfalls, and why he gets into so many online tiffs and references the numbers 69 and 420 so much, because his research has suggested that’s what audiences like. While he currently has about 180,000 followers on Twitter and Instagram, he plans for that figure to rise to 10 million in three to five years. He will then leverage that following to expand his fledgling media company—it’s called Momentum; it currently produces short videos of Bauer interviewing friends like Clevinger, Leonys Martin and José Berríos—into a full-service marketing and management conglomerate that, he says, will help solve baseball’s image problem with young people and popularize his antidogmatic approach to pitching. Perhaps it will be improbably lucrative, too.

 

“I want to be a billionaire,” he says. “Not for any other reason than just to say I did it.”

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Trevor Bauer profile

 

https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/02/19/trevor-bauer-cleveland-indians-training-tools-twitter-controversy-cy-young

 

When Bauer meets a potential romantic partner, he outlines for her the parameters of any possible relationship on their very first date. “I have three rules,” he says. “One: no feelings. As soon as I sense you’re developing feelings, I’m going to cut it off, because I’m not interested in a relationship and I’m emotionally unavailable. Two: no social media posts about me while we’re together, because private life stays private. Three: I sleep with other people. I’m going to continue to sleep with other people. If you’re not O.K. with that, we won’t sleep together, and that’s perfectly fine. We can just be perfectly polite platonic friends.”

 

“My new five-year goal is to be the most internationally recognizable baseball brand,” Bauer says. That is one reason why he continues to engage on social media, despite its pitfalls, and why he gets into so many online tiffs and references the numbers 69 and 420 so much, because his research has suggested that’s what audiences like. While he currently has about 180,000 followers on Twitter and Instagram, he plans for that figure to rise to 10 million in three to five years. He will then leverage that following to expand his fledgling media company—it’s called Momentum; it currently produces short videos of Bauer interviewing friends like Clevinger, Leonys Martin and José Berríos—into a full-service marketing and management conglomerate that, he says, will help solve baseball’s image problem with young people and popularize his antidogmatic approach to pitching. Perhaps it will be improbably lucrative, too.

 

“I want to be a billionaire,” he says. “Not for any other reason than just to say I did it.”

He is really giving Colby Covington a run for his money as most easily hated personality in sports.

[Sammy Sofa]

Love that that dude had the balls to gripe about his team calling him out for being a human nightmare.

[imb]

Trevor Bauer profile

 

https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/02/19/trevor-bauer-cleveland-indians-training-tools-twitter-controversy-cy-young

 

When Bauer meets a potential romantic partner, he outlines for her the parameters of any possible relationship on their very first date. “I have three rules,” he says. “One: no feelings. As soon as I sense you’re developing feelings, I’m going to cut it off, because I’m not interested in a relationship and I’m emotionally unavailable. Two: no social media posts about me while we’re together, because private life stays private. Three: I sleep with other people. I’m going to continue to sleep with other people. If you’re not O.K. with that, we won’t sleep together, and that’s perfectly fine. We can just be perfectly polite platonic friends.”

 

“My new five-year goal is to be the most internationally recognizable baseball brand,” Bauer says. That is one reason why he continues to engage on social media, despite its pitfalls, and why he gets into so many online tiffs and references the numbers 69 and 420 so much, because his research has suggested that’s what audiences like. While he currently has about 180,000 followers on Twitter and Instagram, he plans for that figure to rise to 10 million in three to five years. He will then leverage that following to expand his fledgling media company—it’s called Momentum; it currently produces short videos of Bauer interviewing friends like Clevinger, Leonys Martin and José Berríos—into a full-service marketing and management conglomerate that, he says, will help solve baseball’s image problem with young people and popularize his antidogmatic approach to pitching. Perhaps it will be improbably lucrative, too.

 

“I want to be a billionaire,” he says. “Not for any other reason than just to say I did it.”

 

i hate him more than any other player living or dead, even racist murderer ty cobb

[Sammy Sofa]

Trevor Bauer profile

 

https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/02/19/trevor-bauer-cleveland-indians-training-tools-twitter-controversy-cy-young

 

When Bauer meets a potential romantic partner, he outlines for her the parameters of any possible relationship on their very first date. “I have three rules,” he says. “One: no feelings. As soon as I sense you’re developing feelings, I’m going to cut it off, because I’m not interested in a relationship and I’m emotionally unavailable. Two: no social media posts about me while we’re together, because private life stays private. Three: I sleep with other people. I’m going to continue to sleep with other people. If you’re not O.K. with that, we won’t sleep together, and that’s perfectly fine. We can just be perfectly polite platonic friends.”

 

“My new five-year goal is to be the most internationally recognizable baseball brand,” Bauer says. That is one reason why he continues to engage on social media, despite its pitfalls, and why he gets into so many online tiffs and references the numbers 69 and 420 so much, because his research has suggested that’s what audiences like. While he currently has about 180,000 followers on Twitter and Instagram, he plans for that figure to rise to 10 million in three to five years. He will then leverage that following to expand his fledgling media company—it’s called Momentum; it currently produces short videos of Bauer interviewing friends like Clevinger, Leonys Martin and José Berríos—into a full-service marketing and management conglomerate that, he says, will help solve baseball’s image problem with young people and popularize his antidogmatic approach to pitching. Perhaps it will be improbably lucrative, too.

 

“I want to be a billionaire,” he says. “Not for any other reason than just to say I did it.”

 

i hate him more than any other player living or dead, even racist murderer ty cobb

 

Every story like this makes me both loathe him more and become more convinced he will end up being a Cub.

[Sammy Sofa]

Boy, who knew that Careless would have this sort of career ahead of him.

[Cubswin11]

Bauer needs to be on some sort of pre-crime/watch list

[ConstableRabbit]

He's pretty clearly on the spectrum, imo.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

 

i hate him more than any other player living or dead, even racist murderer ty cobb

 

DAE remember the old Usenet rec.sport.baseball and that one dude who was super prolific about defending Ty Cobb

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

He's pretty clearly on the spectrum, imo.

Yeah, that whole description of relationships sounds EXACTLY like this autistic friend I have whom I cam across from online poker. He sees and treats all relationships and friendships as cost-benefit transactions.

[Bluescale]

He's pretty clearly on the spectrum, imo.

Yeah, that whole description of relationships sounds EXACTLY like this autistic friend I have whom I cam across from online poker. He sees and treats all relationships and friendships as cost-benefit transactions.

 

Conversely, my son is on the spectrum, and is the most affectionate, cuddly person you'll meet. In Elementary school we had to talk to him about appropriate affectionate displays, because he didn't get that his bus driver or classmates might not be cool with very big hugs. He's 14 now, and has learned to reign in that impulse.

 

The idea that being on the Autism spectrum makes someone an emotionless automaton, or somehow explains Trevor Bauer's fuckery gets a big thumbs down from me. He could just be a huge douchebag. Or he could be on the spectrum, but I'm not going to make that diagnosis from a couple articles.

[ConstableRabbit]

He's pretty clearly on the spectrum, imo.

Yeah, that whole description of relationships sounds EXACTLY like this autistic friend I have whom I cam across from online poker. He sees and treats all relationships and friendships as cost-benefit transactions.

 

Conversely, my son is on the spectrum, and is the most affectionate, cuddly person you'll meet. In Elementary school we had to talk to him about appropriate affectionate displays, because he didn't get that his bus driver or classmates might not be cool with very big hugs. He's 14 now, and has learned to reign in that impulse.

 

The idea that being on the Autism spectrum makes someone an emotionless automaton, or somehow explains Trevor Bauer's horsefeathers gets a big thumbs down from me. He could just be a huge douchebag. Or he could be on the spectrum, but I'm not going to make that diagnosis from a couple articles.

No one is making a diagnosis based on a couple of articles. No one is making a diagnosis, period. No one is saying that being on the spectrum dooms anyone into being a bad person. In my non-medical opinion, the way Bauer speaks, carries himself, etc. is reminiscent of someone on the autism spectrum.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

It’s absolutely true that a lot of popular perception of autism is ableist stereotyping. But in this case, I don’t see it as the “emotionless automoton” stereotype but more literal-mindedness. Bauer isn’t saying anything there that most professional athletes trolling for slumpbusters aren’t thinking. You’re just not supposed to say it out loud.

[Tim]

There are a lot more than one spectrum.

 

Bauer is on a bunch of them.

[Bluescale]

There are a lot more than one spectrum.

 

Fair enough. Usually when people talk about someone being on the spectrum, they are talking about the autistic spectrum. The two people (prior to you) who referred to him being on the spectrum have specifically mentioned autism.

 

Bauer is on a bunch of them.

 

Elaborate, please...

[Tim]

There are a lot more than one spectrum.

 

Fair enough. Usually when people talk about someone being on the spectrum, they are talking about the autistic spectrum. The two people (prior to you) who referred to him being on the spectrum have specifically mentioned autism.

 

Bauer is on a bunch of them.

 

Elaborate, please...

Mainly just being flippant with that last one. Didn't really put a lot of thought into it.

 

Pretty much any attribute you care to name is a spectrum as opposed to a yes/no, though. So if I have to name a few, I'll say he's pretty far towards the horsefeathers, sociopath and misogynist ends of those particular completely arbitrary and unofficial spectrums (spectra?).

[Transmogrified Tiger]

ZiPS hates the Brewers again: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2019-zips-projections-milwaukee-brewers/

 

Really illustrates how much Cain and Yelich carried them last year, since those are pretty healthy projections for both and that's still more than 4 wins worse than what they did last year.

 

That depth chart is 2 wins worse than what's forecasted for the Cardinals even though the graphic includes an extra SP for Milwaukee. 41 WAR for STL, 39 for Milwaukee, 35 each for Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.

 

11 teams still yet to be released, including the Cubs.

 

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42 WAR for the Cubs graphic. I’m more bullish on the OF and bearish on the rotation, but overall that feels about right.

[PackLandVA]

 

i hate him more than any other player living or dead, even racist murderer ty cobb

 

{surely hyperbolic}

 

Mel Hall and Chad Curtis say "hello".

[Sammy Sofa]

Jesus horsefeathering Christ; that SI article on Bauer is just packed with him continually stepping up how awful he is:

 

https://deadspin.com/trevor-bauer-says-he-harassed-a-woman-online-to-show-it-1832729834

 

“For the longest time, I just couldn’t figure out why everyone hated me,” he says. “I used to feel really bad for myself. Like, Why don’t I have any friends? Why don’t girls like me? Why does everyone s—- talk me? Am I really that bad of a person?”

 

One morning, during his junior year at Hart, Bauer returned home from an early pool workout, took a shower and looked at himself in the mirror, feeling sorry for himself as usual. Then something flipped. “I don’t see anything that I dislike,” he told himself. “I’m going to go off to college and play baseball. I’m successful. I’m smart. I like myself.” From that day forward, he says, “I just stopped giving a f—- what people thought of me. And now I just don’t care.”

 

About the woman he kept bullying on Twitter:

 

At first, Bauer dismisses the exchange as competitive trolling. “It’s a mental chess match, to me,” he says. Eventually, he admits that it runs deeper. “I ignore the vast majority of things people say to me online. Sometimes, I respond. But all you see is the response. You don’t see people wishing that I have my throat sliced open and bleed to death in front of millions of fans on TV, or saying not to come to Detroit because they’re going to kill me and my family for hitting a couple Detroit batters.”

 

Giles, though, didn’t say anything nearly so nasty. Besides, shouldn’t Bauer, a wealthy celebrity, be above trolling?

 

“People pull the role model card,” he says. “The way I see it, I am a role model because I show people it’s O.K. to stand up for yourself. That you can stand up to a bully. And I get that a lot of people won’t see it that way. But that’s what it is. When someone goes out of their way to tweet me that I’m a piece of s—- or whatever, that’s a bully.”

 

Is that really what a bully looks like—an anonymous college student who told USA Today that she spent the next three days crying as Bauer and his followers hounded her?

 

“It probably isn’t smart,” he finally says. “It probably isn’t ideal. I don’t go out of my way to harass anybody. But, I mean, if you’re going to come at me, that’s just what I do.”

[OleMissCub]

That’s one hell of a coincidence

 

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c6db034e4b0e37a1ed44c2e

 

 

Two minor league players are causing some major league confusion because of their names, their looks and, well, everything else.

 

Brady Feigl is a 6-foot, 4-inch pitcher for a Single-A affiliate of the Oakland A’s. Meanwhile, Brady Feigl is a 6-foot, 4-inch pitcher for the Texas Rangers’ Triple-A club

[SouthSideRyan]

White Sox accidentally trade for wrong player from wrong team

[Bluescale]

“I trust my ability and the talent that I have,” says Syndergaard. “So I feel like I’m going to bet (on) myself in free agency and not do what [Aaron Nola and Luis Severino] did.”

 

Gj Noah Syndergaard, sucks he will never be a Cub because of this uppity attitude

 

I have a feeling the Cubs trade for him...in 10 years.