Brownie19

The M's should have one of the most exciting young teams in baseball Kelenic J-Rod Lewis Winker Crawford France Haniger Toro Ray Brash Gilbert It's quite the core. IMO, it has a chance to be a throw back to the Griffey/Arod/Edgar/Unit days.

I was thinking this last night. JP Sears and Marinaccio seem like dynamite options at the end of their bullpen, while we have Anthony Kay, Stripling and Sauce

I f***ing hate that about Buck. He complains at nauseum about anything new or different in baseball. The f***ing dinosaur is telling us they need to sort this volume issue out.....like a pitcher and catcher have NEVER had issues communicating with traditional signals. Its too bad COVID didn't force him out of the game.

I think 2-3 weeks is super optimistic. I think he's gone for 2 months.

Is Buck trying to tell me that Torres covering his ears to hear the pitch call distracted him on that double play ball? Buck says a lot of really stupid s***. Like a f*** ton of it - but that might be Top 10 stupidest things I've heard him say.

That is f***ing fantastic reporting by Hazel...

Jays will need Chapman to step up with Teo out...

Why wouldn't he be an option? I expect him to get more playing time due to this injury.

We could run Zimmer in CF and Springer in RF for awhile. Zimmer can provide positive value while posting an 85 wRC+ at least. This lineup should have enough pop in it to allow a defense only player.

Can he play RF?

ohhhhhh f***.

I think he also said something about the lockout, shortened spring and blamed himself for having not thrown a baseball for 3 months this offseason....

I get that, but honestly, even the 'old' ones that were much smaller are difficult to wear. I have modestly sized one from my OBA Championship and I couldn't imagine wearing it regularly...or even for like 4-6 hours.

I mean they aren't meant to wear. It's a trophy case thing. This design is something else though... - 18.71 karat white gold for the inception of the team in 1871 - 150 diamonds within the A representing the 150 year of the franchise's history - 44 emerald-cut diamonds in honor of Hank Aaron - total of 755 diamonds representing the 755 HRs Hank hit - 11 rubies placed in the miniature stands to illustrate where each playoff HR was hit - 4 corners of the ring top has a princess-cut ruby, symbolizing the Braves' 4 WS titles - a pearl to represent Joc Pederson and his pearl necklace - inscription reading 7.30.21 representing the trade deadline where they added Solar, Rosario, Duval Perhaps other rings have been designed with this much meaning and history - but I don't remember reading anything like this before. Seems incredible.

My favourite put her is the TaylorMade Spider X.

https://www.mlb.com/news/atlanta-braves-2021-world-series-rings Have you guys seen the Braves WS rings? They are f***ing incredible. Read the article and all the little details they added. It is insane. You won't regret the short read.

incredibly tough call for Roberts. First start of the year for Kershaw - they need him healthy in October...

Incredible to see Kershaw roll back the clock. Legend.

Last 2 outs were hit hard and the first hit was just good hitting on a solid curveball low and away. Looks like it was washed up ex. Blue Jay night at the park - facing Sanchez and Carl Edwards Jr.

Keep in mind that Moreno got a late start to the spring. They may want him to complete 'spring training' in AAA before he comes up. Not sure how long he has to stay down to gain another year of control, but I agree, we can't be starting Collins or Tyler Heineman.

Garver made no attempt to maintain contact with the bag and it looks like he made an effort to 'pop up' and further interfere with the 2nd baseman (typically a pop up slide happens when you slide into the bag, which stops your momentum....in this case, Garver slides over the bag, so he shouldn't naturally pop up). He also doesn't slide right into 2nd as it's clear he's trying to slide into the 2nd baseman, while 'catching' the bag on the way by. I believe he went into 2nd with the intent of interfering with the 2nd baseman and support that ruling. That said - this is definitely a borderline call and rules that have interpretation in them will also have that grey area where people argue both ways. No different then that right handed batter running to first on a bunt up the 1st base line and whether he's in the base path or not. At the end of the day, this rule was the right call by MLB and I personally think it's improved the game. I can live with people bitching about a borderline call here or there (and really - how many calls have been questioned by this board over the past 2 years? Not many at all IMO). Without that rule - there's a good chance that Bo doesn't even attempt that throw yesterday - and if he does, he might now be on the 60 day DL as it looked like a carbon copy of the Utley/Tejada play.

That reminded me of the Utley/Tejada play years ago. I'm so glad that ******** is gone from baseball so we can see amazing defense like that.

Espinal was worth 2.2 WAR in only 246 PA's last year with almost no power at all...if he legit can drive the ball even 'a bit' this year, then he could really unlock something special. 4-5 WAR? It's still super unlikely to happen, but still fun to consider.

Yeah this seems really stupid unless they don't think Collins can catch at all...otherwise just start Biggio and have Collins as the backup catcher - keep Palacios

Is Kwan a legit prospect? Michael Brantley comp?