General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[TruffleShuffle]

seattle is currently 18-5 against teams with below .500 record, and 0-12 against teams at or above .500.

[jersey cubs fan]

today in "the worst person you know made a good point"

 

[NonProfitCow]

I think he’s saying that because he’s facing him tonight

[jersey cubs fan]

I think he’s saying that because he’s facing him tonight

yes, that's kind of the point. it was funny

[Brian]

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[Sammy Sofa]

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[Regular Show]

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More than 75 employees in baseball operations have left the Marlins since Major League Baseball approved the $1.2 billion sale of the club to Jeter and Bruce Sherman in September 2017. A high rate of turnover is not unusual after a team changes owners, and the Marlins, who have not had a winning season since 2009, had particular reason to seek a new direction. But while more than half of the departed employees were fired or not renewed, nearly 35 left of their own accord, many joining more successful organizations — and many citing Denbo’s personality and decision-making as primary factors.

 

A consistent portrait of Denbo as an unyielding authoritarian emerged in interviews The Athletic conducted with more than 20 former Marlins employees and a dozen others in baseball over the past 11 months. Those former employees say Denbo engaged in verbal abuse, fat shaming and blatant favoritism toward certain Marlins personnel.

 

Great hire by the Marlins lol. This douchebag seems perfectly suited to work with Jeter. I hope the Marlins suck for a long time.

[Regular Show]

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I agree with all that, but I'd place automated ball/strike calls (and more oversight and accountability on umps) higher on the list. Allow for the full trading of draft picks like other sports and get rid of service time manipulation of young players/prospects. Maybe institute penalties for teams that are clearly tanking and suck consecutive years in a row.

 

Also, I'd probably shorten the season to 154 games to allow more off days and make the NLDS a best-of-seven game series.

[We Got The Whole 9]

The blackouts piss me the horsefeathers off. I like all of his suggestions.

[OleMissCub]

Random as hell, but I enjoy messing around on baseballcube and I was looking at Jeff Kent’s college stats. His final year at Cal he played in 52 games and batted just .193/.320/.325 with just 4 HR.

 

Bonds’ final year at AZ State he hit .368/.447/.713 with 23 HR in 62 games.

[OleMissCub]

This guy’s YouTube channel is outstanding. Apparently Pujols is currently the slowest player in baseball from home to first, averaging 5.30 seconds.

 

“Albert Pujols Might Be Too Slow For Baseball”

 

[Ding Dong Johnson]

This guy’s YouTube channel is outstanding. Apparently Pujols is currently the slowest player in baseball from home to first, averaging 5.30 seconds.

 

“Albert Pujols Might Be Too Slow For Baseball”

 

I'd like to see numbers from Yadi and Brian McCann.

[jersey cubs fan]

I'd like to see numbers from Yadi and Brian McCann.

McCann shows up in the video as the only guy slower than him, but he gets to first earlier since he's a lefty.

[OleMissCub]

This guy’s YouTube channel is outstanding. Apparently Pujols is currently the slowest player in baseball from home to first, averaging 5.30 seconds.

 

“Albert Pujols Might Be Too Slow For Baseball”

 

I'd like to see numbers from Yadi and Brian McCann.

 

Their 90 second sprint speeds:

 

McCann - 4.63

Pujols - 4.56

Molina - 4.54

 

fwiw, our boy Willson is at 4.00

 

[badger]

What's our boy Almora at?

[Sammy Sofa]

What's our boy Almora at?

 

[Ding Dong Johnson]

What's our boy Almora at?

Holy horsefeathers, Albert is fast?

 

[Cubswin11]

What's our boy Almora at?

Holy horsefeathers, Albert is fast?

 

Lies. I think we’ve talked about this on here before. I’ve proposed he’s fast in the sense once he takes some strides and gets to top speed he’s “fast.” But he has awful acceleration and it takes him forever to reach that top speed, he effectively doesn’t have useful baseball speed.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Lies. I think we’ve talked about this on here before. I’ve proposed he’s fast in the sense once he takes some strides and gets to top speed he’s “fast.” But he has awful acceleration and it takes him forever to reach that top speed, he effectively doesn’t have useful baseball speed.

[jersey cubs fan]

What's our boy Almora at?

Holy horsefeathers, Albert is fast?

 

He's the same speed as the catcher.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Upcoming travel will allow me to go to games in Oakland and Philadelphia in the next few weeks. Any of you rascals been to either park? I'm not terribly familiar with either city so any advice will at a minimum be considered before being entirely ignored.

[Cubswin11]

Upcoming travel will allow me to go to games in Oakland and Philadelphia in the next few weeks. Any of you rascals been to either park? I'm not terribly familiar with either city so any advice will at a minimum be considered before being entirely ignored.

Part of me wants to get to a game in Oakland before they move just to see how big of a horsefeathers hole that stadium is

[jersey cubs fan]

Upcoming travel will allow me to go to games in Oakland and Philadelphia in the next few weeks. Any of you rascals been to either park? I'm not terribly familiar with either city so any advice will at a minimum be considered before being entirely ignored.

I've been to Philly many times. I assume this means you aren't going to a Cubs game since they aren't there until mid-August. Phillies fans are generally much more tame than Eagles or Flyers fans towards opponents, but maybe not with division rivals. Tickets are not hard to come by. The stadium is located in one large complex with the football/hockey/basketball buildings. It's several parking lots linked together in an industrial part of town right between the airport and city center, which is an easy train ride away.

 

There's one big douchey sports bar in the middle of the complex, and there was another connected to the baseball park. It was a McFadden's but they changed it. Chickie's & Pete's is like a Philly Chotchkie's, if you are into that sort of thing.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Upcoming travel will allow me to go to games in Oakland and Philadelphia in the next few weeks. Any of you rascals been to either park? I'm not terribly familiar with either city so any advice will at a minimum be considered before being entirely ignored.

I've been to Philly many times. I assume this means you aren't going to a Cubs game since they aren't there until mid-August. Phillies fans are generally much more tame than Eagles or Flyers fans towards opponents, but maybe not with division rivals. Tickets are not hard to come by. The stadium is located in one large complex with the football/hockey/basketball buildings. It's several parking lots linked together in an industrial part of town right between the airport and city center, which is an easy train ride away.

 

There's one big douchey sports bar in the middle of the complex, and there was another connected to the baseball park. It was a McFadden's but they changed it. Chickie's & Pete's is like a Philly Chotchkie's, if you are into that sort of thing.

Sweet, thanks. The stupid Reds are there when I'll be going so I assumed it'd be a relatively laid back atmosphere.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Upcoming travel will allow me to go to games in Oakland and Philadelphia in the next few weeks. Any of you rascals been to either park? I'm not terribly familiar with either city so any advice will at a minimum be considered before being entirely ignored.

Part of me wants to get to a game in Oakland before they move just to see how big of a horsefeathers hole that stadium is

After going to The Trop a few weeks ago, I'm sure this dump will be quite palatial in comparison.