General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[Aaron_Kennelly]

He is 100% talking about the seams.

 

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Wait, is McCarthy saying the seams on the new ball are higher? Because that is the opposite of what the research suggests, and the lowered seams are supposedly one of the main reasons the ball is flying out of the park.

he's talking about the stitches keeping his skull intact

 

hahaha... oh horsefeathers

[We Got The Whole 9]

Looking at pitch values by team offense

 

The Astros are absolutely insane. We all know that. But they hit fastballs twice as well as the Nats, who are in 2nd, they have no pitches on which they're producing negatively, and they also crush sliders and curves, sitting around the top of the league.

 

That horsefeathering offense is unreal.

[Derwood]

Dodgers are 43-7 over their last 50 games.

[TruffleShuffle]

darren daulton died. he had a particularly bad form of brain cancer.

 

i will remember a few things about him. one, the mullet. two, how he weirdly went from a relatively inept and light-hitting catcher to an all-star practically overnight. and three, his 1987 topps baseball card, which i got so many of that i just started throwing them away. i must have had at least 20 before i got sick of them and tore them up.

 

[Ding Dong Johnson]

darren daulton died. he had a particularly bad form of brain cancer.

damn. I know a cousin of his, and he had a really bad stroke a couple of weeks ago

[Guest]

darren daulton died. he had a particularly bad form of brain cancer.

damn. I know a cousin of his, and he had a really bad stroke a couple of weeks ago

 

I'm pretty sure that Daulton was mentally ill.

 

That whole team.....the most normal dude on that team was Kruk, it seems.

[jersey cubs fan]

darren daulton died. he had a particularly bad form of brain cancer.

damn. I know a cousin of his, and he had a really bad stroke a couple of weeks ago

 

I'm pretty sure that Daulton was mentally ill.

 

That whole team.....the most normal dude on that team was Kruk, it seems.

he was a time traveler, right?

[CubinNY]

Trout turned 26 today. Man among boys.

[NonProfitCow]

Trout turned 26 today. Man among boys.

And he's 12th among active players in career WAR.

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/WAR_active.shtml

[soccer10k]

Trout turned 26 today. Man among boys.

And he's 12th among active players in career WAR.

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/WAR_active.shtml

 

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[Cubswin11]

Vaunted Brewers tried stealing a horsefeathers load of tax payer money for a Spring Training facility, their hands were promptly slapped away after some simple math showed how hilariously awful the deal was.

 

http://deadspin.com/study-finds-buying-brewers-a-new-spring-training-park-w-1797630664

[We Got The Whole 9]

Johan Camargo was so excited he got some pub in a FG article today that he tripped over his own foot and seriously injured his knee running out onto the field before the first pitch

[philosophizer75]

Are the dodgers gonna win 117 games this year? They have to go what, 38-13 the rest of the way to do it.

[Cubswin11]

Are the dodgers gonna win 117 games this year? They have to go what, 38-13 the rest of the way to do it.

As a betting man I'd say no

[philosophizer75]

I'd be inclined to agree and say chances are they don't.

 

But they also just went 43-7 for a stretch so who knows.

[NonProfitCow]

Pirates GM Says Jung Ho Kang Probably Won't Be Coming Back To The States

 

http://deadspin.com/pirates-gm-says-jung-ho-kang-probably-wont-be-coming-ba-1797605137

 

“That’s been an unfortunate reality from the outset that he may never get a visa again,” Huntington said Sunday. “We worked the process, worked the process again and have not gotten a different result. We’ll attack it in different ways again the next time through and hope there is a different outcome. We do need to begin to prepare as if he’s not coming back.”

[Clem Fandango]

The Rangers sold Ernesto Frieri to the Mariners for $1

 

[We Got The Whole 9]

Did they actually, like, send em a buck?

[Clem Fandango]

I think they PayPal'd them

[Proven Veteran]

I think they PayPal'd them

They did it friends and family, so at least they got the full buck.

[woodchip2153]

Player's Weekend

 

https://www.sbnation.com/2017/8/9/16119548/mlb-players-weekend-uniforms-caps-hats

 

Grant with his take on the the hats.

[Tim]

I'm not spending good money on any of that flat-brimmed nonsense.

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how does chris sale have 7.0 fwar?

[Cubswin11]

how does chris sale have 7.0 fwar?

Because he's doing the things a pitcher controls incredibly well this year and fWAR for pitchers is FIP based would be my simple answer. Also saw this tweet earlier, semi related.

 

[Derwood]

When did Brett Gardner turn into Matt Holliday?

http://image.nj.com/home/njo-media/width620/img/yankees_main/photo/18787193-mmmain.jpg

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3115713.1493440568!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/orioles-yankees-baseball.jpg