John_Havok

Hey, just logged in for the first time today. Anything interesting happen?

J une 9 Bichette - 1 Point Varsho - 2 Points - Spanky Belt - 2 Points Vladdy - 3 Points - jaysblue, JaysAllMighty, TheHurl Chapman - 3 Points - Omar Biggio - 5 Points - WryNGinger, JohnHavok Merrifield - 6 Points Espinal - 7 Points Heineman - 8 Points Off the bench: 10 Points

Rangers @ Rays starting tonight for 3 game set. Hope the Rangers bring their A game.

jays odds to win WS…+1600 Orioles +4000 Red Sox +6600

And along with the .406 BA, Williams OBP was .553 and SLG was .786.w BA+ might be higher, but I’d gladly get hit by a limp noodle at a .400 rate even in todays lower BA environment comparatively. Williams walked 147 times that season too. He only had 185 hits in 606 PA, 456 AB. Last season Arraez had 603 PA, 547 AB. 173 hits. Basically 100 more AB, 12 fewer hits. Seems to me if he really wants to hit .400 he needs to start walking more.

Yeah, bugger got two rehab starts May 7 and 13 then shut down again. s*****

There’s no reason to keep rehashing this “should have traded Kirk” thing. You don’t even know that he was wanted in the trade so thinking the Jays simply preferred to trade Moreno instead of Kirk for the package they got is just mental gymnastics

Ryu says he is targeting a return right after the All Star break. That’s not confirmed of course by the Jays, but…let’s say it’s true. The jays wouldn’t even need their 5th starter right away anyways since they have an off day right after the 3 game series with Arizona. They could roll 1-4 twice before needing their #5 on the 23rd of July in Seattle.

Ideally you’d have Ryu getting through the lineup twice so probably through 4+ innings. If Kikuchi could then go even 2+, you’re only needing to use your best setup guy and then Romano for 8 and 9, maybe an extra arm to get the last out of the 7th. Would depend on matchups at that point I guess.

Game 4 of a playoff would probably be a Kikuchi/Ryu tandem of some sort assuming Ryu comes back solid. Ryu starts with Kikuchi for the 3rd time through? Or vice versa?

That’s kinda the rub. Seeing someone hit .400 will have that “omg this hasn’t been done since ….blah blah blah” factor. Even though simple math tells us that while hitting .400 is damn impressive and definitely worthy of admiration, praise and should be honoured as a remarkable achievement, the player shouldn’t just be elevated to MVP status if the rest of the package isn’t there. The thing is, there still enough dinosaurs around and with a .400 average being like some holy grail achievement, they’ll be sufficiently blinded by the rest of the players flaws that the MVP quite likely could go his way.

Yeah, but on the plus side, the twins suck.

Yeah some sort of discomfort felt after his first PA, he was pinch hit for in what would have been his second time up

That certainly explains things, didn’t realize he was the twat behind the plate tonight

Threw a bad pitch to Bregman, but the rest of these are just getting unlucky. He's throwing fine.

Bichette is the 2nd best SS in the AL. Prove me wrong.

I get what you're saying but he's absolutely still in season when it comes to his throwing programs, pen days, etc. It's not like he's being 100% shut down, he could only be shut down if he is placed on the IL. Suffice to say that anything body shape related is handled in the offseason, there's too many variables to deal with in season for that stuff. Diet can be changed sure to change the types of foods he eats, but they wouldn't be concerned with calories surplusses or deficits as it relates to specific body changes Workout programs and exercise with any specific goals would all be off season work as well.

baby steps... first get him a shirt that says "men don't sit to pee" or something like that.

wait... wasn't bones on a winning streak with the GDTs?

We'll see how the season finishes, but yeah, so far this is pretty top shelf.

Yeah the Brewer's blew a 3-0 lead... *******s.

Bass should come out with a Pride rainbow in his beard.

Sure, but using that as an example doesnt really equate to baseball, the sport is far different from a physical perspective than hockey, the NBA or football. A ball player would have nearly 0 need to do the kind of thing hockey guys do between innings or after the game (maybe the catcher's would benefit a bit as they're always in a squat?). look at Thor as an example. Dude went off the rails a few years ago and bulked up in his upper torso, and is now as ripped as can be as a pitcher, but him building all that muscle in the upper half of his body in the arms makes no sense from a pitching standpoint. Pitchers want strong cores and legs ( i know you know...) but for their arms they want long and lean muscles. He bulked his muscles up, and is now a shadow of his former self, laregly due to injury after injury that he suffered after he changed his body in a way that is counterproductive to the motions he uses as a pitcher. MLB guys during the season (imo) should be far more concerned with maintenance than doing anything to change their bodies in any meaningful way. If Manoah or Kirk want to lose weight, they absolutely should, but they need to do that s*** in the offseason and then switch up their regimens to a maintenance thing during the season. The season is way too long and way too much of a grind to be worried about calorie surplusses and/or deficits on a daily or even weekly basis.

I'm sorry, have you met people?

Its smart. It basically puts the entire problem of Bass being a homophobe to bed completely as far as the public is concerned.