General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[javy knows my name]

I was surprised to see Harper making 65% contact

 

You seem to have some kind of problem with me. Every time you reply it's some sarcastic trying to be a cool guy bs. Put me on ignore.

 

What you said was nonsense, so I made fun of you. It's not personal, I have no opinion about you one way or the other

What is nonsense about it? You're not surprised by Harper making significantly less contact than Javy Baez, and having the 9th worst rate in the Majors, when carrying a career rate 10 points higher?

 

Read your post again. It said none of those things. It barely passed for English

[Sammy Sofa]

Now that he explains it it reads OK, but when I first read it I thought he was saying Harper had better contact than everyone except 8 other players. No idea why.

[javy knows my name]

Now that he explains it it reads OK, but when I first read it I thought he was saying Harper had better contact than everyone except 8 other players. No idea why.

 

Same

[We Got The Whole 9]

 

What you said was nonsense, so I made fun of you. It's not personal, I have no opinion about you one way or the other

What is nonsense about it? You're not surprised by Harper making significantly less contact than Javy Baez, and having the 9th worst rate in the Majors, when carrying a career rate 10 points higher?

 

Read your post again. It said none of those things. It barely passed for English

The only thing it didn't say was anything about Baez. Perhaps you should give it another read.

[PackLandVA]

Seemed to make sense to me the first time I read it.

[Regular Show]

https://deadspin.com/high-school-baseball-coach-swears-he-was-powerless-to-p-1825423962

 

Not sure where to put this story honestly, but some HS baseball team just won a game 82-0. I'm not horsefeathering kidding. That really seems like you're rubbing it in and showing off.

 

The winning coach had the audacity to say this too:

 

"I’m sick to my stomach over this,” Old Rochester head coach Steve Carvalho said. “We really tried everything possible. We told the kids don’t take extra bases, no sprinting - we even had kids bunting and they couldn’t make the routine plays. We had kids hitting balls 300 feet and jogging to first.

 

[UMFan83]

 

Crazy...Farquhar actually pitched in the game last night before this happened. Hoping for a full recovery

[Jaxbro]

Matt Harvey bitch slapped out of the Mets rotation and into the pen

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[Cubswin11]

Good for him. That being said I don’t think he’s going to be all that good.

[NonProfitCow]

Let's check in on Justin Grimm. The findings are.....grim.

 

6.2 IP

7 BB

5 K

18.90 ERA

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[Sammy Sofa]

 

Crazy...Farquhar actually pitched in the game last night before this happened. Hoping for a full recovery

 

Holy horsefeathers. What a nightmare.

[OleMissCub]

My sweet Lord this is good

 

[Post Count Padder]

Let's check in on Justin Grimm. The findings are.....grim.

 

6.2 IP

7 BB

5 K

18.90 ERA

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That now makes it:

 

7 IP

9 BB

6 K

21.86 ERA

 

Grimm went the way of Travis Wood.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

My sweet Lord this is good

 

Yeah, pretty great. It makes the rounds every year or so.

[OleMissCub]

My sweet Lord this is good

 

Yeah, pretty great. It makes the rounds every year or so.

 

His Jeff Francoeur one is my favorite.

[Sammy Sofa]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg9C-RMF0Lz/?taken-by=pftompkins

[soccer10k]

In 2016, Didi Gregorious had 19 walks in 597 PAs.

In 2017 he had 25 walks in 570 PAs.

This year he has 15 walks in 91 PAs.

 

Career 5.5% walk rate (3.8% the last two years) and he’s at 16.5% this year.

[OleMissCub]

Ummmmm

 

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[Sammy Sofa]

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Crazy...Farquhar actually pitched in the game last night before this happened. Hoping for a full recovery

 

Ugh, this nightmare still sounds like he's in a real bad way:

 

https://deadspin.com/white-sox-reliever-danny-farquhar-is-in-the-fight-of-h-1825468317

 

Friday’s Astros-White Sox game took a suddenly tragic turn in the sixth inning when Chicago reliever Danny Farquhar vomited and collapsed in the dugout. He was rushed to a local hospital, where tests confirmed that he’d suffered a brain hemorrhage and was in stable but critical condition. A few days later, Farquhar’s condition has not changed. White Sox VP Ken Williams told USA Today that the pitcher required another surgery Saturday to relieve swelling around the brain:

 

“He’s a fighter, and he’s in the fight of his life right now,” Chicago White Sox vice president Ken Williams said. “They had to do another surgery, cracking his skull open, and putting a clamp on it. My God.”

 

“This certainly shows the fragility of life and how we take every day for granted. And it can change in a heartbeat. Literally.”

[bcl412]

Reading about ruptured aneurysms isn’t the most settling thing I can do with my time. Horrifying

[Sammys Boombox]

About PR getting a baseball team. I could only see that if Puerto Rico has quite the rally as an island in the next 10-20 years. It’s a long story, but I actually think there are some scenarios where Puerto Rico could do just that. The wife and I were doing a ton of research into moving down there. My company even gave me the go ahead to move down there and keep my current job (I work entirely remotely from home). I think it was going to happen later this year or early next year if I hadn’t been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s.

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mike trout is approaching 60 war at age 26

[weis21]

About PR getting a baseball team. I could only see that if Puerto Rico has quite the rally as an island in the next 10-20 years. It’s a long story, but I actually think there are some scenarios where Puerto Rico could do just that. The wife and I were doing a ton of research into moving down there. My company even gave me the go ahead to move down there and keep my current job (I work entirely remotely from home). I think it was going to happen later this year or early next year if I hadn’t been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s.

well after you kick Hodgkin's ass imagine how much fun you'll have when you are drinking a beer watching the cubs play your hometown PR club from the stands

[Sammys Boombox]

About PR getting a baseball team. I could only see that if Puerto Rico has quite the rally as an island in the next 10-20 years. It’s a long story, but I actually think there are some scenarios where Puerto Rico could do just that. The wife and I were doing a ton of research into moving down there. My company even gave me the go ahead to move down there and keep my current job (I work entirely remotely from home). I think it was going to happen later this year or early next year if I hadn’t been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s.

well after you kick Hodgkin's ass imagine how much fun you'll have when you are drinking a beer watching the cubs play your hometown PR club from the stands

 

I know, right? Except my wife is (understandably so) very reluctant to move away from world class medicine.