General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[UMFan83]

26 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

I wasn't sure where to put this, but apparently, Wander Franco was dating a 14 year old

I think I read somewhere that another minor (or family of a minor) is now suing him which if true ruins the 'she told me she was 18' BS (which doesn't fly anyways).

Pretty disgusting.

 

Edit: also cl smooth mentioned this a couple days ago but no one responded about it.  

Edited August 15, 2023 by UMFan83

[We Got The Whole 9]

So it doesn't appear that anyone will catch William Contreras in catcher framing, unless he just completely falls apart. He leads by 5 runs over 2nd place, 12-7.

 

How the hell is Milwaukee so good at catcher instruction? This dude, Narvaez, Caratini... Lucroy possibly qualifies, IDK. 

[Andy]

14 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

So it doesn't appear that anyone will catch William Contreras in catcher framing, unless he just completely falls apart. He leads by 5 runs over 2nd place, 12-7.

 

How the hell is Milwaukee so good at catcher instruction? This dude, Narvaez, Caratini... Lucroy possibly qualifies, IDK. 

How the heck did that happen? I thought the whole reason Atlanta was cool trading him is because he supposedly sucked at that.

[cl smooth]

57 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

I wasn't sure where to put this, but apparently, Wander Franco was dating a 14 year old

Two posts above

[UMFan83]

Never quite seen a play like this before

 

 

 

[soccer10k]

If that had hit the wall where it did but ricocheted over the wall and out of play rather than bouncing along the wall and down to the ground, is it a ground rule double or a HR?

Edited August 16, 2023 by soccer10k

[javy knows my name]

The first thing it hit was in fair play so gotta be a double?

Love that look where dude is almost home before the CF corrals that ball

[soccer10k]

13 minutes ago, javy knows my name said:

The first thing it hit was in fair play so gotta be a double?

Love that look where dude is almost home before the CF corrals that ball

That was my instinct but I didn’t know for sure. My one hold up was if a ball hits directly on top of a wall and bounces over, it’s a home run but if it counted back into play it’s a live ball. Of course that’s diirecty on the barrier between HR and in play whereas this play was clearly on the “in play” side of the home run line.

And yeah, usually the inside the park homers are at least close at the plate unless a guy gets hurt and can’t chase the ball.

[javy knows my name]

4 minutes ago, soccer10k said:

That was my instinct but I didn’t know for sure. My one hold up was if a ball hits directly on top of a wall and bounces over, it’s a home run but if it counted back into play it’s a live ball. Of course that’s diirecty on the barrier between HR and in play whereas this play was clearly on the “in play” side of the home run line.

And yeah, usually the inside the park homers are at least close at the plate unless a guy gets hurt and can’t chase the ball.

Dude made it an easy call but hustling his butt. Can't imagine sending him back to 2nd on the replay

[Ding Dong Johnson]

 

[PackLandVA]

Don’t know if anyone saw this or not, but on Aug. 15 Seattle’s young star Julio Rodriguez finished the night batting .256. Four days/games later he ended the night batting .278. So he raised his BA 22 points. Not a big deal if this were April or May. Or even June. But it’s the middle of August, and he’s played in almost every game.  So how did he do it?

He set a record of collecting 17 hits in 4 games, only the second person ever to collect as many as 16 hits in a four game stretch.

 

He went 17 for 21 with two doubles, two HRs and 8 RBI. Crazy ABs!!!

[jb10194]

14 hours ago, PackLandVA said:

Don’t know if anyone saw this or not, but on Aug. 15 Seattle’s young star Julio Rodriguez finished the night batting .256. Four days/games later he ended the night batting .278. So he raised his BA 22 points. Not a big deal if this were April or May. Or even June. But it’s the middle of August, and he’s played in almost every game.  So how did he do it?

He set a record of collecting 17 hits in 4 games, only the second person ever to collect as many as 16 hits in a four game stretch.

 

He went 17 for 21 with two doubles, two HRs and 8 RBI. Crazy ABs!!!

His OPS was .724 on August 3, and it hit .800 14 games later on August 19 after going 32 for 66 in that span.

[Derwood]

And then he sat last night as the M’s steamrolled the White Sox

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

This almost seems impossible.

 

 

[Ding Dong Johnson]

[Transmogrified Tiger]

lol Total Zone had him as a -34 LF

[We Got The Whole 9]

Steroid era in Coors is quite the knock on the ol offensive output

[Rob]

14 minutes ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

lol Total Zone had him as a -34 LF

Notorious defensively-challenged catcher Mike Piazza had a -37 TZ for his career.

Manny Ramirez was at -42 for his career. Just think about that... Bichette was so bad on defense that in just one year he racked up nearly as much negative defensive value as Manny Ramirez did in his entire career. (by TZ, anyways)

[soccer10k]

The Mariners are 21-5 over the last month and are only 1 game back of Texas in the division.

At least one of Sea, Hou and Tex, and maybe two of them, won’t be guaranteed a home playoff game.

[Banedon]

Guardians DFA'd Syndergaard.

[soccer10k]

When the Mariners tied for first place the other day it was the first time they'd been in first place post ASB since 2003.

[cl smooth]

 

[UMFan83]

1 minute ago, cl smooth said:

 

Umm....I probably wouldn't hate taking a shot at several of those players, particularly the pitchers.

Unfortunately to grab any of them we'd have to take on their salary which would push us over the tax line I think.

Edited August 29, 2023 by UMFan83

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Giolito sure has been dog horsefeathers since moving to Anaheim.

[champaignchris]

18 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Umm....I probably wouldn't hate taking a shot at several of those players, particularly the pitchers.

Unfortunately to grab any of them we'd have to take on their salary which would push us over the tax line I think.

Matt Moore would be exactly what the Cubs roster needs. 
 

No way he makes it all the way through the AL, though.