General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[Sammy Sofa]

That supervillain-looking Ronaldo face will never not make me crack up.

[OleMissCub]

Was just messing around on Fangraphs and you know who leads all of baseball in Defensive Runs Saved over the past 10 years?

 

Adrian Beltre.

 

Beltre may have had the most low-key HOF career in history. Dude is going to get 3000 hits and 500 HR and was an elite defensive player. Only three 3B in history with a higher career WAR than him and he'll certainly end up as no.1 or no.2 for third basemen.

 

Imagine if he had played his career in New York or Boston. What kind of baseball deity would he be if that were the case?

[jersey cubs fan]

Was just messing around on Fangraphs and you know who leads all of baseball in Defensive Runs Saved over the past 10 years?

 

Adrian Beltre.

 

Beltre may have had the most low-key HOF career in history. Dude is going to get 3000 hits and 500 HR and was an elite defensive player. Only three 3B in history with a higher career WAR than him and he'll certainly end up as no.1 or no.2 for third basemen.

 

Imagine if he had played his career in New York or Boston. What kind of baseball deity would he be if that were the case?

He deserves a pat on the head.

[Clem Fandango]

Was just messing around on Fangraphs and you know who leads all of baseball in Defensive Runs Saved over the past 10 years?

 

Adrian Beltre.

 

Beltre may have had the most low-key HOF career in history. Dude is going to get 3000 hits and 500 HR and was an elite defensive player. Only three 3B in history with a higher career WAR than him and he'll certainly end up as no.1 or no.2 for third basemen.

 

Imagine if he had played his career in New York or Boston. What kind of baseball deity would he be if that were the case?

 

Playing in Texas was the best thing for his career. Those Seattle years really killed what could've been an otherworldly career offensive profile for a 3B. He struggled to reach an .800 OPS during his years there, but he's averaged and .880 OPS in the 7 years since.

[TruffleShuffle]

austin bibens-dirkx is making his major league debut for the rangers tonight. he was drafted in 2006, bounced around 6 organizations (including the cubs), had two stints in indy ball (2009 and 2016), pitched in the venezuela winter league 5 times and the dominican winter league once.

 

that is a long road but hey, he made it.

[biittner77]

austin bibens-dirkx is making his major league debut for the rangers tonight. he was drafted in 2006, bounced around 6 organizations (including the cubs), had two stints in indy ball (2009 and 2016), pitched in the venezuela winter league 5 times and the dominican winter league once.

 

that is a long road but hey, he made it.

 

Now that is a name that I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.

[Derwood]

austin bibens-dirkx is making his major league debut for the rangers tonight. he was drafted in 2006, bounced around 6 organizations (including the cubs), had two stints in indy ball (2009 and 2016), pitched in the venezuela winter league 5 times and the dominican winter league once.

 

that is a long road but hey, he made it.

 

I refuse to believe that's a real person and not a cut character from the East-West College Allstar Game

[OleMissCub]

Proud "father" moment. I used to be an Asst Coach for a Legion ball team and one of my kids, Anthony Alford, just got called up to the Blue Jays due to Pillar being suspended and the injury to Ceciliani.

 

Ya I know, nobody cares, but I'm excited about it.

[OleMissCub]

"As God is my witness, he is broken in half!!!"

 

https://twitter.com/KentMurphy/status/853107125261873153

[17 Seconds]

it's funny how the yellow team starts dropping to their knees like when you see someone get drilled in the head

[OleMissCub]

[Derwood]

it's funny how the yellow team starts dropping to their knees like when you see someone get drilled in the head

 

My daughter got drilled in the thigh in fast pitch softball and barely flinched. She has an apple sized bruise to show for it. That batter looks better suited for soccer

[weis21]

it's funny how the yellow team starts dropping to their knees like when you see someone get drilled in the head

 

My daughter got drilled in the thigh in fast pitch softball and barely flinched. She has an apple sized bruise to show for it. That batter looks better suited for soccer

I once got hit in the ribs by a pitcher named Michael Jackson in little league and he threw hard. Really hard. I only teared up a bit, I think.

 

Who else has HBP stories?

[Sammy Sofa]

What about hit by a baseball, thought not HBP? As a freshman I was playing 1B and watched the starting pitcher get a line drive slammed right back into his teeth. Somehow didn't knock any out, but basically pushed the front few, top and bottom, back. SO much blood; dude instantly looked like clown when they have those huge red lips painted on.

[OleMissCub]

What about hit by a baseball, thought not HBP?

 

Thought left handed and tall, and despite being begged to try it by every coach since I was 8, I never pitched specifically out of fear of comebackers. So being a tall lefty that wasn't particularly fast, the only position I ever played was 1st base.

 

Unfortunately, my worst fear came true when I was 15. It was a Legion Ball tournament and I went in to cover a bunt and this turd kid from Memphis decided to slap it and since I was only like 45 feet away I had zero reaction time and it caught me square in the face. It broke my nose and pushed my lip against one of my teeth so hard that it split my lip on the right side of my mouth in two. Had to have stitches and left behind a pretty nice scar. Surprisingly, as in Mojo's story, it didn't knock any teeth out.

 

One of Ole Miss' softball pitchers took a comebacker right in her face last year. Ended up looking like this:

 

 

 

She recovered nicely through

 

 

[weis21]

I would totally wear one of those Mario hats if I were a pitcher in anything higher than Babe Ruth League

[Little Slide Rooter]

How did Aaron Judge happen and is he for real?

[We Got The Whole 9]

What about hit by a baseball, thought not HBP? As a freshman I was playing 1B and watched the starting pitcher get a line drive slammed right back into his teeth. Somehow didn't knock any out, but basically pushed the front few, top and bottom, back. SO much blood; dude instantly looked like clown when they have those huge red lips painted on.

Lost a relay throw in the sun one game playing 3B and the ball skipped off the top of my glove right into my face.

 

Wore a shiner for a good week and change

[CaliforniaRaisin]

In high school, my friend got hit in the nuts by the throw while sliding into home.

[Hunter]

Pitching in high school, I took a come-backer right on my shoulder. The ball hit me so hard it spun me. I had a whelp from the stitches on the ball.

[Cubswin11]

I've never had anything crazy happen to me other than a beaning here and there. In practice in HS a guy somehow managed to foul off a juggs ball while taking a full swing and hit himself in the face and splits his whole lip open and lost some teeth. I was standing right there and still don't understand the physics of that happening.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

I never played much organized ball growing up, but when I was in high school I filled in on my Dad's rec league softball team a few times when they were short. Bottom of the last inning, tied 32-32 or whatever, two down, bases loaded, and I'm on second base. Batter loops the ball into left which falls in easily, and that's the game. I trot into 3rd and I'm watching the winning run score...and then something hits me in the back of the head. Figured it out pretty quickly. I turn around at look at the left fielder, who is making a sheepish face, and the third baseman grabs me...not sure if it was to steady me, or to keep me from charging into left field, but I just shake my head and walk off the field. There, a little kid walks up to me and says, "If that was me, my head would have been squished!" Rec league softball is stupid.

[jersey cubs fan]

In high school I misplayed a ball at third that hit my ankle, which blew up to the size of 16-inch softball.

 

I got hit a few times at the plate but never really hurt. A handful of comebackers to the mound got me with a glancing blow but nothing serious.

 

The one thing I witnessed that was disgusting was in little league I was at short and threw a guy out at first, but he runner somehow ran his face into the first baseman's head. The runner lost teeth and 1B got a huge gash on the head, there was blood everywhere.

[sneakypower]

In high school, my friend got hit in the nuts by the throw while sliding into home.

were you friends with Stephen Piscotty

[Rob]

Time for a periodic update for players Mike Trout has passed this season in career fWAR -- now at 50.9.

 

David Ortiz

Robinson Cano

Jim Rice

Minnie Minoso

Matt Holliday

Luis Aparicio

 

And here's a short list of people he's likely to pass later this season with a typical Mike Trout year:

 

Larry Doby

Enos Slaughter

George Sisler

Will Clark

David Wright

Gabby Hartnett

Vlad Guerrero

Todd Helton

 

Yup, at the age of 25, Mike Trout's career value is in that "low-end Hall of Fame" or "high-end Hall of Very Good" range.