John_Havok

Attaboy Lukes, pick em up!

lol, that was both fortunate and unfortunate

Springer drilled as the first batter of the game... promptyl steals 2B. Attaboy Georgie. 2 wAlks and the bases are juiced with none out for Kirk - this could get interesting right away!

Vladimir Guerrero Jr's hamstring MRI revealed "just inflammation". That's best case scenario for manager John Schneider and his Toronto Blue Jays. This according to Blue Jays beat writer Mitch Bannon of The Athletic. Likely unavailable tonight but considered day-to-day

Having been an avid collector for close to 30 years, I can tell ya there's really nothing like ripping packs - even if you don't hit on anything big. It's nostalgia for sure from when I was a kid and wanting to get as many of my favorite players as I could, back when cards were dirt cheap and every card set from Score to ProSet, O-Pee-Chee, Topps, Panini (though they were more into sticker books back then), and Upper Deck could be filled easily with minimal money spent. I remember the first year UD made cards for McDonalds and the first holographic cards with Wayne Gretzky. The first real insert subset from Upper Deck (Brett Hull - including on card signed autograph super rare cards) and the Eric Lindros subset you could only get from Score by buying a set straight from the factory. Good times.

The Pirates released veteran reliever Ryan Borucki, according to the MLB.com transaction log. That was the expected outcome after Pittsburgh designated the southpaw for assignment on Friday. Borucki has more than five years of service time and had the right to refuse a minor league assignment, making the release a formality.

Major league baseball announced that Mariners outfielder Víctor Robles has received a 10-game suspension and an undisclosed fine from the league. The suspension will begin as soon as Robles is reinstated from the injured list, though Robles has filed an appeal and the suspension is being held in abeyance until the appeals process is complete. Ryan Divish of The Seattle Times reported these details prior to the official announcement. Divish notes that the M’s would have to play a man short during the suspension.

As entertaining as it would be to drill the idiot in the ribs... just win the game and forget about it. Wins are far more important to the jays right now that worrying about mental midgets and their batflips. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see him wear one for being a clown, but this isn't the time.

I know Scherzer would want to do it, but him getting suspended would suck.

He has the 5th lowest consistency score over the same period. But, consistency in ump scores doesnt vary a whole lot From the worst to the best the range is only 92.16 to 93.7 in the 2015-2019 years of all umps with more than 100 games behind the plate. Accuracy though, varied from 90.2 to 93.8

Apparently Pham accused Barger of being known steroids in some post on X last night. He was responding to a post of someone with Barger as their picture, and said something along the lines of "the guy in your picture is on steroids loser" Is he a bit unhinged?

Yeah, its nice they have such quick access to MRIs to rule out anything major

Yeah, some very uncharacteristic errors on throws today. Just one of those days that happen over the course of 162.

I looked at the replay after that big stretch and he jumped up and left the field just fine. So...if he tweaked it prior to the play or on that play... it appears very precautionary

It definitely says something positive overall about the umpires that the worst umpire today from a pure accuracy standpoint is better than nearly all of them from 10 years ago.

he's never been very good... but . 2nd worst accuracy in all of MLB from umps with more than 20 games behind the plate this season. Expand that to the last 5+ seasons (2020 to today) and ... 2nd worst accuracy of all umps over 100 games behind the plate at 92.43%. The only worse ump from 2020 to today is Rob Drake at 92.33%. One thing that must be said though.... the worst umpires of the last 5 years are still better than the worst umpires of 2015-2019. 2015-2019 of all umpires with more than 100 games behind the plate.... 54 umpires had accuracy lower than 92.33%. In fact... the worst was still Rob Drake at 90.2%. Even looking at Angel Hernandez alone... 2015 his accuracy was 89.9%. 2024? 93.2%.

Time zones will play into it as well. You wouldn't want a division where half of the teams are in different time zone than the others.

Just hope he has a resurgent 2026 and opts out.

There are 4 major bumps in a cards value: 1. Rookie hype 2. Performance jumps out of seemingly nowhere by "nobodies" like Tage Thompson. But these bumps dont usually end up with incredibly high valuations since their cards started out so low. 3. Cup wins 4. Hall of Fame. Mvp awards usually see minor bumps for a ahort time, but nothing spectacular #1 sets the tone for 3 and 4. If a guy is looking for home run card selling... have to get them when they're rookies and see ideally both 3 and 4 down the line, along with a high grade... 9 or better. Also depends on which company dies the grading since PSA just gives blanket numbers as like 8, 9 or 10, but Beckett gives 4 separate grades for corners, face, centering and edges. To get a true black label 10 grade from Beckett is exceptionally rare, very much by design of course. Missing #3 doesnt mean a HOF talented players card value will suddenly get cut in half. Market variances exist of course where people will sell for cheap for any number of reasons, but no HOF players cards value craters because they dont win a cup, they just wont go up as much. If they miss 3 and 4, a d all they had was the rookie hype and a decent but not great career, yeah they could go down a bit. There's very few cards though that have the kind of rookie hype around guys like Matthews, Crosby, McDavid, Ovechkin, Bedard etc. Won't be again for a while it looks like. .

Another great pitch with a s***** result.. that ball was halfway into the RH batters box. xBA of .070 gets through lol

Hes a hall of fame player, his card value will be stable, just won't get the Cup bump up.

That was a great pitch too... pinpoint on the low and away corner

Mats Sundin rookie card was made when everything was overproduced. I have like 30 of them. This is not a subject youre going to have more knowledge than me in, I assure you.

I never liked Lukes leading off, even when it was working. I don't recall anyone roasting you either. But it could have been the mouth breathers I have on ignore, which...if they disagree with you pretty much means youre right.

Can probably count on regression from Heineman for sure... straw is what he is so...his d and baserunning will still be there... if anything he should only get better with the bat, because he cant really get worse... but you wouldn't really project that to happen. Maybe Lukes and Schneider's numbers regression slightly, but you wouldn't expect it to be a massive regression. A bench of those 4 plus a guy like Clement is pretty solid.