Around Baseball 2014

[NorthOf49]

It's early and the Braves are about to go 8-4... but when do they start thinking about sitting BJ Upton? Now has 17K/1BB with absolutely zero power. It's like he's completely flamed out. WTF happened to this guy? He was never going to live up to his early-career projections but christ he's almost useless at this point.

His swing is broken.

 

Mechanical fixes/problems are what break projections.

[GD]

They may simply call up Gausman, unless they really want to keep him in the minors another 2.5 months or whatever for service time. Seems questionable if they really plan to compete, since he probably dwarfs anyone else they can bring up.

 

He means Tampa, lol.

[NorthOf49]

I don't understand why the Royals don't just use Kelvin Herrera as their set-up man. They keep fooling around with Crow and Davis and it's biting them.

[NorthOf49]

Yup. Just blew the lead against the Twins.

They seem to be fooled by Herrera's fluky-mediocre ERA last year. He's an Ace Reliever.

 

Perkins in for the save.

[Laika]

Who will get the next callup? Dumb and Dumber were talking about Erik Bedard earlier on the broadcast but Mike Montgomery probably makes the most sense just by looking at Durham's current roster.

 

That's a little uninspiring.

 

Bedard was already called up to be a longman (for Moore going on the DL), he'll slide into the rotation now.

 

Price

Archer

Odorizzi

Bedard

Cesar Ramos

Enny Romero

Nate Karns

 

Montgomery is more of a relief prospect.

 

Hellickson ETA = early June

Alex Colome still has 40 some odd PED suspension games to serve

Cobb could be out 3 starts, or 15. Who knows.

[Atothe]

Kazmir carving up the Mariners, 6 ks through 3 innings

[Laika]

[Flamingweazel]

 

About time someone else especially the Rays got some injury issues.

[G-Snarls]

They may simply call up Gausman, unless they really want to keep him in the minors another 2.5 months or whatever for service time. Seems questionable if they really plan to compete, since he probably dwarfs anyone else they can bring up.

 

Gas!!!

[G-Snarls]

 

A la Morrow 2013

[fatcowxlive]

Kazmir's resurgence is incredible.

 

I mean it's the Mariners, but through 6 innings he's allowed 2 singles, 0 BB, 9 K (82 pitches.)

 

You guys jinxed him

 

[GD]

Lmao. Spittin just dealt Austin Jackson+ for him and Meyer.

[G-Snarls]

Pedroia hurt too?

 

[Sammy225]

Pedroia going down is huge. The injury plague is still going around

[jaysfan2014]

Geez, what's going on with the AL East this year? Rays are losing starters almost as much as the Jays did last year (Hellickson, Moore, Cobb), Yankees have two good young starters in Pineda and Tanaka who should be the #1 and #2 on the team, as Kuroda isn't as good, and Sabathia/Nova are garbage. But they need someone other than Solarte to step up, as he's going to cool off sooner or later.

 

And the Orioles don't have decent pitching outside of Tillman. And the Red Sox.. they seem to be having quite a post World Series hangover with all the injuries. Losing Pedroia could be devastating for a team already struggling offensively and seeing significant regression from Doubront and Buchholz.

[G-Snarls]

[Smedley Butler]

Sport needs a name change from baseball to injuryball.

[eastcoastjaysfan]

AL East looks super winnable all of a sudden.

 

Love this.

[eastcoastjaysfan]

Playoffs will be easy to make!

[G-Snarls]

AL East looks super winnable all of a sudden.

 

Love this.

 

So you're saying... The playoffs will be easy to make?

[G-Snarls]

Playoffs will be easy to make!

 

Oh no you dih-int!

[Abomination]

Over/under on the number of days before we add an "I f***ed up the season" title to ECJF?

[eastcoastjaysfan]

What channel is Sunday Night Baseball on?

[Flamingweazel]

AL East looks super winnable all of a sudden.

 

Love this.

 

WTF dude.

[John_Havok]

What channel is Sunday Night Baseball on?

 

No idea. Can't find it anywhere

[ElNik2013]

We'll have to wait on those tests on Pedroia, but if he is out for an extended period, Boras may have a fit for Drew.

[NorthOf49]

Beltran is a lazy POS lol

 

Tagging up from third on an easy sac fly, but throw goes to third for outfield assist. Beltran wasn't running at 100%, cost New York a run.

[G-Snarls]

Beltran is a lazy POS lol

 

Tagging up from third on an easy sac fly, but throw goes to third for outfield assist. Beltran wasn't running at 100%, cost New York a run.

 

I hope Girardi benches him a game.

 

Damn I hate that s*** from players

[43211234]

lmao Yankees.

 

Beltran should have been running harder there but with the difference in speed between him and Ellsbury it might still have happened if he was running hard.

[eastcoastjaysfan]

Where are you guys watching this game?