General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[UMFan83]

TT will love this

 

[jersey cubs fan]

TT will love this

 

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[Transmogrified Tiger]

Imagine how pissed Price is going to be when he realizes Chapman was traded away

[BrockLanders]

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actual lol

[imb]

[Careless]

+13, they shouldn't be contending

[mul21]

+13, they shouldn't be contending

 

Yeah, he's not wrong. They've Cardinal'ed their way to the playoffs.

[Banedon]

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actual lol

 

I'm glad to see that Heyman got a LOT of blowback on TLR being a class act. Did he actually block NSBB?

[Sammy Sofa]

http://deadspin.com/idiot-on-the-field-gets-bodyslammed-by-angel-pagan-1787303250

 

[Derwood]

Someone put Jim Ross on that shiz

[imb]

+13, they shouldn't be contending

 

they shouldn't have the record they do, but that run differential would still make them "a contender," much less "close to contending."

[Omar]

+13, they shouldn't be contending

 

Yeah, he's not wrong. They've Cardinal'ed their way to the playoffs.

 

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-mlb-predictions/?ex_cid=rrpromo

 

a lower team rating than 5 MLB teams that have yet to clinch the playoffs

[David]

+13, they shouldn't be contending

 

they shouldn't have the record they do, but that run differential would still make them "a contender," much less "close to contending."

 

ehhh close to contending, sure.

[davell]

http://deadspin.com/idiot-on-the-field-gets-bodyslammed-by-angel-pagan-1787303250

 

 

 

Where was the horsefeathering ref?

[jersey cubs fan]

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actual lol

 

I'm glad to see that Heyman got a LOT of blowback on TLR being a class act. Did he actually block NSBB?

No

[davell]

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actual lol

 

I'm glad to see that Heyman got a LOT of blowback on TLR being a class act. Did he actually block NSBB?

No

 

#HugeTits

[David]

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[imb]

+13, they shouldn't be contending

 

they shouldn't have the record they do, but that run differential would still make them "a contender," much less "close to contending."

 

ehhh close to contending, sure.

 

right. they're not the cubs, but his response made it sound like they were the twins.

[Sammy Sofa]

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[David]

Good for him tho.

 

Really has to suck to be him to lose that job right at that time. And how much of a longshot it was that it played out that way. Could've had a long successful career with Cubs world series rings and all kinds of awards and crap.

[soccer10k]

Olney going on about how Britton should win the AL Cy Young got me going down a mini reliever rabbit hole.

 

Britton has a 4.2 bWAR this year which would be tied for 14th (I sorted by G > 40 and IP < 100 to make it so he was compared to relievers who were used like him). His ERA 0.55 was second, behind only Kevin Siegrist's 0.45 in 2013.

 

The leader in bWAR? Jonathan Papelbon, who put up a 5.0 bWAR in 2006. Papelbon had a 0.92 ERA, a 0.776 WHIP and 35 saves. He also received no votes at all in the Cy Young. And it's not like the voters didn't like relievers because KRod and Joe Nathan finished 4th and 5th.

 

Other recents: Fernando Rodney had a 0.60 ERA/0.777 WHIP/48 saves/3.8 bWAR in 2012 and finished 5th in the Cy Young. Wade Davis the last two years was 1.00/0.847/3/3.7 and 0.94/0.787/17/3.4 and was 8th and 6th in the Cy Young those years.

[Derwood]

Was Eric Gagne the last reliever to win it?

[Clem Fandango]

Britton is perfect in save ops this year though and theres no one else in the rest of the field that's really running away with it. Britton is putting up an elite closer season when there isnt a clear cut cy young sp. Its a perfect storm for him to take it.

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[Banedon]

I think the biggest problem with Sammy is the corked bat. Between that and his obvious size increase, it makes it SO much easier to believe that he was taking PED's.