John_Havok

Makes no sense to match up those names at all.

fixed that for you

Gotta pay extra for that kind of action.

Well, just from watching baseball year in and year out, home plate collisions really don't happen all that often. But the severity of injuries that can occur, most notably concussions, it's just something that can easily be avoided and lose nothing from the experience of a close play at the plate.

Why booooooo? Health and safety of players should be a primary concern of any sports league, and if you can eliminate the possibility of potentially devastating injuries on a play that doesn't add anything to the game(IMO) why not do it?

Eye on Baseball ‏@EyeOnBaseball 1h MLB set to ban home-plate collisions, needs MLBPA approval http://cbsprt.co/1jPirkJ via @cbssports It's about time. Zero need for it. The rule itself isn't finalized and the wording still being worked on and re-done, but the gist will be that if the catcher doesn't have the ball and is in the baseline, it will be obstruction, and the runner cannot run over the catcher if he does have the ball, he would have to slide or do something else to avoid the tag.

Either I missed it, or they didn't talk about it. All I heard was talk about a guitar, then Halladay's winning percentage as why he should be a first ballot hall of famer(DEEEEEEEERP), JPA probably wont "find it" in Texas and Zaun is heading through western Canada for some reason and is going to take some radio guy from Calgary for a beer.

Gregg Zaun on TIm And Sid discussing whether or not the Jays should go after Hamels or Lee

By Steve Adams [December 10 at 2:02pm CST] The heavily rumored three-team trade between the Angels, Diamondbacks and White Sox has been completed, a source tells Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic. Mark Trumbo and a pair of players to be named later will head to the Diamondbacks, Adam Eaton will join the White Sox and Hector Santiago and Tyler Skaggs are headed to the Angels (Twitter links). The Diamondbacks were set on acquiring either Trumbo or Shin-Soo Choo at this week's Winter Meetings, according to earlier reports. He will slot into the outfield for the D-Backs, which isn't a perfect fit for Arizona given his defensive shortcomings in the outfield. Trumbo has belted 66 home runs over the past two seasons, posting a .250/.305/.471 batting line. In 992 innings as an outfielder throughout his career, Trumbo has a -7.0 UZR/150. While his walk rate climbed to a career-best eight percent in 2013, that's still below the league average, and it came along with a career-worst 27.1 percent strikeout rate. Still, he should provide a great deal of power to a D-Backs outfield that finished last in the Majors in home runs in 2013. In fact, Trumbo's mark of 34 homers alone ties the collective mark posted by Arizona outfielders last season.

Sent you a sample through the website.

Jays minor leaguer Brad Glenn being a bit derpy on twitter: Brad Glenn‏@bombs_punchies "Cano 81R+107RBI= 187 total runs / Trumbo 85R+100RBI=185 total runs... Cano 24M/ year at 2b, whats Trumbo worth at 1B/OF?" Brad Glenn ‏@bombs_punchies "Trumbo hit 34HR (4th) and had 100RBI(8th) and people are honestly questioning his worth because of his OBP? #pencilpushers #neverstrappedup"

Article on Rajai's baserunning from Dave Cameron at Fangraphs: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/a-fun-tidbit-on-rajai-davis/ The bones of it, "Since he debuted, he’s 8th in baseball in baserunning value, and the seven guys ahead of him all got at least 1,000 more plate appearances than he did."

Taglines for days!

I really wish I knew the context of this. Because it will either be hilarious, or completely retarded.

Whether it's "elite" or not it's pretty much meaningless.

Yeah, it's a transcript so there's a few pretty obvious errors in the typing of names at some points.

http://gregorchisholm.mlblogs.com/ WAy too long to copy/paste, I haven't even read the whole thing yet.

Agreed. If nothing else, helping others out by talking about his work ethic, mental toughness and dedication to competing... very important for all athletes but pitcher's in particular.

Your joke fell apart when you said you got an email from Russia. They don't have the internetz.

Also interesting to note, this 1 day contract that Doc signs, he will have provided more value than JPA did all of last year.

Leave it up to AA to add to the bench and pen while ignoring the other positions that actually play the vast majority of the time. Not that a good bench and pen aren't important, but get a freaking SP and 2B already!

Give him a minute, it takes a while for her to inflate with a manual pump.

It does for the Korean team. Can you imagine that board room? THAD FREAKING WEBER!!!!

No chance. Adding Santos to the pen while trading feliz would be silly. I really hate it when guys break trade rumors from 2 weeks ago and only have 1 guy's name. Drives people crazy trying to figure out hypotheticals

Good time to go out. He wasn't going to be but a shadow of his former self and with his back issues, it's for the best. I wasn't quite old enough to remember watching Stieb in his heyday, so Doc is the best Jay pitcher I've ever seen (I don't really count Clemens since he was only here short term). I'd put him in the Hall. Counting stats for todays arms will never measure up to the older generation of guys but I don't hold that against him. One of the best pitchers in baseball for a decade. 2 CY's and 8 all star appearances, a nice peak of dominance in the middle.