General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[PackLandVA]

I had a few of those types of round trippers back in the day.

[Derwood]

On June 4, the Oakland A's are 27.5 games out of first place

[PackLandVA]

Just saw former Giants manager Roger Craig passed away at age 93.

[Derwood]

Can we talk about Luis Arraez for a minute

[cl smooth]

Tony Gwynn and Ted Williams are both smiling in Luis Arraez’ direction. 

[Derwood]

85 hits, 19 BB's, 11K's

Is that good?

Edited June 7, 2023 by Derwood

[Ding Dong Johnson]

 

[Derwood]

 

[soccer10k]

The longest current MLB win streak is 7 games by none other than the Oakland A’s. Did it against Pit, Mil and TB too so it’s not like it was against awful teams.

[Nolansomebody]

 

Rob Manfred is such an idiot

[soccer10k]

The A’s could win every game the rest of the year and they’d still have one less win than the Dodgers last year.

Edited June 16, 2023 by soccer10k

[Irrelevant Dude]

I still love Dave Martinez, and this was a classic rant.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37855335/baseline-call-astros-wild-win-draws-nationals-ire

And by the way, he is right.

[soccer10k]

1 hour ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

I still love Dave Martinez, and this was a classic rant.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37855335/baseline-call-astros-wild-win-draws-nationals-ire

And by the way, he is right.

If you told me the umps flipped a coin to decide which way to call that each time it happened I wouldn't be surprised. There's no consistency with it.

[cl smooth]

https://www.immaculategrid.com
 

If you like(d) Wordle and like baseball, give this a shot. 

[Derwood]

There are only 6 teams in the NL with a positive run differential.

 

4 of them are in the NL West

[PackLandVA]

KInda of a dumb thought that just popped in my head, but I thought I'd share.  I've actually have thought about this in the past several times.

 

I know it's "tradition" and MLB is the oldest of all the major sports leagues, but is there any reason managers and coaches still wear the baseball uniform during games?  None of the other sports leagues do this, nor do I think they ever have.  I know coaching staffs have altered this a bit over the years by sometimes wearing the pullover/workout jersey, etc.  Just seems like this would've maybe faded out over the years.  

[Andy]

A lot of managers don't bother anymore. I know Ross often does not unless it's the City Connect uniforms, which he's on record as liking.

Your post reminded me of Oliver Marmol wearing his full uniform after STL writer Rick Hummel died - Hummel often grumbled to Marmol about managers not wearing uniforms anymore.

[Derwood]

Trout broke his hand

 

Out 6-8 weeks

[CubinNY]

The Braves can go .500 the rest of the season and still win 96 games. 

[cl smooth]

 

[Derwood]

Tampa has lost 6 straight (but still has a 3.5 game lead in the division)

They held Atlanta to two hits tonight and lost 2-0 (whoopsy)

[PackLandVA]

How is it that the MLB schedule makers decided to give the Dodgers and Angels a day off tomorrow (Sunday), thus giving them each an extra day off for the All-Star break???

[Derwood]

The four biggest off-season spenders are all out of playoff position at the break

[Irrelevant Dude]

When is the announcement expected for the 2025 All-Star Game location?  Any chance that happens during All-Star week?

[Derwood]

Why does ESPN think that we don't want to actually see any of the home runs during the home run derby?