John_Havok

anyone else's audio just cut out?

Tuiasosopo looks like a 3 outcomes guy. He takes his walks, 25+ % K rate (30% last year) and had some pop. Really small sample size to determine his true power though, he never hit more than 14 in a season throughout his minor league career

Frederick Alfred Porcello... FAP

It's a story about the scout and his daughter and their relationship, with baseball traditionalism spanking saber as the backdrop. They basically wrote it for saber guys to sound like complete idiots and old scouts as the messiah's of baseball

They're clearly trying to drum up interest in baseball in Los Angeles, one of the biggest markets in all of sports

hopefully just a guy AA will try to sneak through waivers to Buffalo - no redeeming MLB qualities aside from having a pulse.

Damn, there it is, Dayton(11) beats Ohio State(6) 60-59 Lots of brackets just busted.

Now up by 1 with 7 seconds left... might be the first upset in the first completed game of the tourney

NOt sure if anyone is into NCAA basketball but Dayton is up 1 on Ohio State with 21 seconds left in the game.

Yet every other game in NL park this ST they've used a DH, so Rogers getting ABs is somehow supposed to be prep? Just weird. It's practically a given that NL teams allow AL teams to use a DH in their parks in ST

Wilner: "Trying to stretch a double into a double" Was that him trying to be clever or just completely misspeaking?

Any explanation given why the Phillies are being gay and not letting the Jays use a DH ?

Simple, horrible player valuations and not willing to even come close to market value on free agents.

I hit RH in baseball but am LH in hockey and golf. My coach when I was very young saw me standing to hit LH and just turned me around to hit RH for whatever reason so that's how I learned to hit.

This thread is an abomination, much like our 2b position.

No reason to play you regulars for more than 3 AB in a blowout

Well then we won't have to wait too long for Tanaka's first no-hitter in majors then, amirite?

Ban worthy accusation!

Look at the bright side folks, none of our pitchers were as bad as Quintana for the White Sox today. He gave up 9 runs in the 1st inning on 7 hits and 2 walks without even recording an out... and he's actually going to be in the Sox rotation this year!

Oy.... If it were up to Martinez, they'd have to take vodka shots after rounding first.

Well, not exactly what I was getting at, but they should be focused a ton more on building their arm strength with exercises and not overthrowing just to get scouts attention on the radar gun, knowing that if something blows up they have the miracle TJ surgery to patch them back up.

Some parent try to get it done, no reputable surgeon would ever perform that operation on a healthy arm. It's a huge misconception that you are stronger after the surgery anways

I was reading an article the other day and the studies were showing that the stress on a normal persons UCL at only 80 MPH should be enough to snap it in half. The reason most pitchers don't drop like flies now is because they train and develop that ligament to take more stress. But, as you can see, there's still more and more pitchers going down to this same injury every year. Why? Honestly, just my own crazy opinion with no real numbers to back it up, I think that pitchers, because they know there is a TJ surgery out there that will fix them if they break and very likely get them back healthy again, are not as considerate of how they should be training their arms really early in their life and instead of being cautious and slow in their development aren't holding anything back when they're learning to pitch in little league and high school baseball. Look at how many high school arms are out there throwing 95 MPH at 17 and 18 years old and putting insane amounts of stress on their arms while they are still physically maturing, and many times having TJ surgery before they even go to college. Why do all the crazy arm exercises every day when you can sign a massive multi-million dollar bonus and just have surgery in a few years?

Apparently fighting the flu before being kneed in the head twice. He's already passed the tests for concussions so ... meh.

OP was asking for pitchers, but I bet if it was a position player, Rios and Wells would likely be in the top 5 on the majority of lists, deservedly or not. For pitcher's, I really hated Chris Carpenter. He stunk every year he pitched for the Jays, then after surgery and was released, became a perennial Cy Young candidate out of nowhere.