Around Baseball 2019

[Slade]

Baseball as a business is going to suffer quite a bit if pitchers keep dropping like flies

 

Yea cause this year is different than any other year.

[jaysblue]

Matt Kemp released. I know we need OF help but I think I probably pass on him.

 

I'd rather his bat in the lineup instead of Brito or a player like Hanson.

[Abomination]

Senzel just cranked one

[Jimcanuck]

14-1 for the Red Sox over the White Sox, in the 4th inning

[Jimcanuck]

Yea cause this year is different than any other year.

 

It is, so far

[Omar]

[Grant77]

 

Wow, another classic Pillar catch for the highlight reel. I like how the ump needed to see the ball.

[G-Snarls]

Wow, another classic Pillar catch for the highlight reel. I like how the ump needed to see the ball.

 

He has so many highlight reel catches you'd think he was Willie Mays. But the overall package just doesn't add up to more than a league average player at his peak and he's going to get worse.

Edited May 5, 2019 by G-Snarls

[Orgfiller]

He has so many highlight reel catches you'd think he was Willie Mays. But the overall package just doesn't add up to more than a league average player at his peak and he's going to get worse.

 

He had a 3.7 WAR season in 2015 which is far from league average.

[Spanky__99]

He has so many highlight reel catches you'd think he was Willie Mays. But the overall package just doesn't add up to more than a league average player at his peak and he's going to get worse.

 

Wat??? No man, he was worth over 6 WAR in '15/'16.

[Spanky__99]

Godammit Org!

[G-Snarls]

Wat??? No man, he was worth over 6 WAR in '15/'16.

 

I had to look that up and yes. He's been 2 WAR rhe last 2 years. Before that much better. Clearly he projects poorly the next 5 years or they woukd have kept him.

 

All that said I still miss him

[Brownie19]

I had to look that up and yes. He's been 2 WAR rhe last 2 years. Before that much better. Clearly he projects poorly the next 5 years or they woukd have kept him.

 

All that said I still miss him

 

Brito and Hansen will do that to the best of us.

[Abomination]

Mets and Brewers are enjoying playing so much they've decided to play two.

[P2F]

Mets and Brewers are enjoying playing so much they've decided to play two.

 

Chris Flexen is in to close out the game for the Brewers now.

[P2F]

Chris Flexen is in to close out the game for the Brewers now.

 

Yep. Flexen just coughed up the Mets' lead in the bottom of the 18th. Brewers win.

[Abomination]

Yep. Flexen just coughed up the Mets' lead in the bottom of the 18th. Brewers win.

 

Not an unexpected turn of events.

[P2F]

Not an unexpected turn of events.

 

He's so awful.

[Spanky__99]

Chris Flexen is in to close out the game for the Brewers now.

 

Flexen was already in, why didn't they go to someone else, or was he the only one left, I didn't get that?

 

Edit: I think he was the only one left, 8th pitcher used. Hurl got knocked out because of that monstrosity.

[BTS]

Tulo has suffered a setback and will be shut down for at least a week.

[Angrioter]

Tulo has suffered a setback and will be shut down for at least a week.

 

I don't believe you!!

[G-Snarls]

Yep. Flexen just coughed up the Mets' lead in the bottom of the 18th. Brewers win.

 

On Ryan Braun's 6th hit of the night. Nice.

[G-Snarls]

Tulo has suffered a setback and will be shut down for at least a week.

 

Emphasis on "at least"

[jaysblue]

Tulo has suffered a setback and will be shut down for at least a week.

 

Likely will have another setback and those weeks will turn into months.

[Orgfiller]

It's great to see that EE is still going strong. Just hit a bomb for his 10th homer of the year.

[Terminator]

It's great to see that EE is still going strong. Just hit a bomb for his 10th homer of the year.

 

Too bad we couldn't have brought him back instead of Morales. Dude can hit and he had a good personality that was fun to watch.

[BTS]

Too bad we couldn't have brought him back instead of Morales. Dude can hit and he had a good personality that was fun to watch.

 

In hindsight, the Edwin contract was fine and giving him 3/60 was absolutely the right move. Might be the biggest botch of the Shatkins tenure so far.

[Terminator]

In hindsight, the Edwin contract was fine and giving him 3/60 was absolutely the right move. Might be the biggest botch of the Shatkins tenure so far.

 

Yeah and it was compounded by the Morales signing. I like the job Shatkins is doing but yeah, that might be the worst move.

 

Also kind of frustrating because it seems like it all shook out that way because Shatkins was simply in a rush to get Morales signed too.

[Abomination]

In hindsight, the Edwin contract was fine and giving him 3/60 was absolutely the right move. Might be the biggest botch of the Shatkins tenure so far.

 

I'm not sure I'd call it a botch. I mean, we offered it and Edwin turned it down. The debate is in trying to get ahead of the market in signing Morales.

[Dr. Dinger]

 

That ball wouldn’t have cleared the wall.