MLB - June 2015

Post by **brian** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 1:48 pm

I just can't get as worked up as some people about Royals fans stuffing the ballot box for the All-Star Game. Letting fans vote for the starters in the first place is dumb. And it's obviously showing their general ignorance and stupidity. So kind of a win-win.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 2:10 pm

I love it. Nothing would be funnier than the Royals normal starting 8 all going out to their positions in the 1st inning of the ASG.

Post by **brian** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 2:14 pm

mister d wrote:I love it. Nothing would be funnier than the Royals normal starting 8 all going out to their positions in the 1st inning of the ASG.

What would be even funnier would be the NL stomping the AL because a bunch of Royals got to play 3-4 innings and then KC going to Game 7 again this year, but this time in a NL park where they get beat again, because MLB is stupid enough to let the ASG decide home-field advantage for the World Series.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 2:16 pm

C+ for effort.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 2:17 pm

"Fuck it, Jose Rosado's starting"

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 2:28 pm

[photoshops a pic of Carlos Febles waiting by a telephone]

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 2:29 pm

It's also fun to point out that of all the Royals in the top three in voting at their positions, the only ones crazy out of line, according to Fangraphs' WAR, are Infante and Perez.

Perez: 1st in voting, 6th in WAR
Hosmer: 2nd, 2nd
Infante: 10th, 2nd
Moustakas: 1st, 2nd
Escobar: 1st, 5th
Gordon: 3rd, 1st among LF
Cain: 1st, 2nd among CF (to Trout)

I've always thought fan voting was dumb. But it's no worse than a name who's out for the year or a huge chunk of the first half being selected a starter.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 2:29 pm

mister d wrote:[photoshops a pic of Carlos Febles waiting by a telephone]

Red Sox farm system coach!

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 8:27 pm

More like Joey Gall-ohhhhhhh*.

* ejaculation noise

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 7:03 am

mister d wrote:More like Joey Gall-ohhhhhhh*.

* ejaculation noise

That was a pretty ok debut...

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 7:18 am

Traded Jordan Zimmerman for him about 2 hours before the game. No offense to the great Adrian Beltre, but stay home.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 8:44 am

Ryan wrote:Traded Jordan Zimmerman for him about 2 hours before the game. No offense to the great Adrian Beltre, but stay home.

He was still on the waiver wire in my league, lucked into him thanks to alert from the mlb app. I hope he rakes enough that they simply find a spot for him in LF when Beltre comes back.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 8:52 am

Give him a first base glove or DH him or something. Players that rake don't get sent back down. He's going to hit like 200 HRs into that overhang.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 8:53 am

Been waiting for Gallo to come up since I heard this video. Yes, I meant to say heard.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 8:53 am

In a cooler world, Beltre gets traded to the Mets for some pitching and he gets some goddamn exposure for once in his should-be-Hall-of-Fame career.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:08 am

That's pretty cruel to still make David Wright an invalid in your cool world.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:11 am

In my cool world, the Red Sox have 11 sucky outfielders in March and then by June they have to trade for an even suckier outfielder from a division rival just to avoid calling up their sucky busted prospect and exposing him for the 3rd time.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:14 am

Ryan wrote:That's pretty cruel to still make David Wright an invalid in your cool world.

That motherfucker has spinal stenosis but, yeah, he's another Hall of Fame talent who got f'ed.

Seriously, check this list out. I know defensive numbers are shaky and all that, but Beltre is 9th fWAR over the last 3 decades among position players. Above one guy who is assured to go in defensive merits and another one who will either get in or get a strong look.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:20 am

I did not know Jeter's BABIP was .350

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:23 am

You ready for a great one liner? Hope so ...

Yeah, he really knew how to find the holes.

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:25 am

(Guys like Ichiro, Gwynn and Boggs were the same way and I'll bet their BABIP gains are on ground balls. Anecdotally, all four had an ability to repeatedly fire singles into gaps in the infield.)

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:28 am

mister d wrote:(Guys like Ichiro, Gwynn and Boggs were the same way and I'll bet their BABIP gains are on ground balls. Anecdotally, all four had an ability to repeatedly fire singles into gaps in the infield.)

You're saying that they...hit 'em where they ain't?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:34 am

Edgar Martinez is up there too. Pretty impressive since he probably got about 5 infield hits in his life.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:37 am

I think he's probably on the other side of "hit a lot of really fucking hard line drives into the gaps" with the guy on the Tigers who is totally going to keep it up for another decade.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:38 am

I wish we could do shadow careers of the first four where they just swung, especially given that one Boggs season and the whole "Ichiro could jack 30 if he took that approach" stuff.

Post by **brian** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:52 am

Between Gallo, Bryant and Harper, that's a lot of young talent from one city (Las Vegas) in the bigs now. At least as far as quality vs. quantity.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 10:00 am

Gallo and Harper even played on the same little league team.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 10:51 am

Ryan wrote:That's pretty cruel to still make David Wright an invalid in your cool world.

His cool world is still reality-based.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 11:48 am

I looked up Brad Ausmus's contract this morning to see if the Tigers could eat whatever salary is remaining. Finding out it was one year after the current one pleased me.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:28 pm

Jung-ho

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:57 pm

while i don't necessarily disagree, i can never understand the outrage when the previous method of WS home field advantage was *every-other-year*

brian wrote:
mister d wrote:I love it. Nothing would be funnier than the Royals normal starting 8 all going out to their positions in the 1st inning of the ASG.
What would be even funnier would be the NL stomping the AL because a bunch of Royals got to play 3-4 innings and then KC going to Game 7 again this year, but this time in a NL park where they get beat again, because MLB is stupid enough to let the ASG decide home-field advantage for the World Series.

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 04, 2015 7:08 am

MaxWebster wrote:while i don't necessarily disagree, i can never understand the outrage when the previous method of WS home field advantage was *every-other-year*

brian wrote:
mister d wrote:I love it. Nothing would be funnier than the Royals normal starting 8 all going out to their positions in the 1st inning of the ASG.
What would be even funnier would be the NL stomping the AL because a bunch of Royals got to play 3-4 innings and then KC going to Game 7 again this year, but this time in a NL park where they get beat again, because MLB is stupid enough to let the ASG decide home-field advantage for the World Series.

Of course. That was dumb too.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Jun 04, 2015 8:05 am

It should just be whichever league has a better interleague record gets home field. That seems pretty obvious, right?

(I don't mind not doing "most wins", because playing in a crappy division is too much of an advantage.)

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Jun 04, 2015 8:19 am

Joc Pederson, by the way. Thank god for these young kids that know how to hit the ball without drugs.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Jun 04, 2015 8:21 am

Its probably the twerking.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:02 pm

Yikes.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:31 pm

The only thing not completely predictable about that is that it was a bat and not a ball. Those seats scare the shit out of me.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:31 pm

If not for Alex Rios, the 1957 Cincinnati Reds would be impressed.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:33 pm

Super pumped about the Carlos Correa era.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 4:04 pm

tennbengal wrote:Super pumped about the Carlos Correa era.

Yeah, I kinda am too. Pretty awesome day for an Astros fan. Correa debut, McCullers (the 41st pick in the same draft who has been fairly impressive so far in his first stint) with another start and two of the top five picks in the draft. And for the first time in a long time, the draft taking a backseat to the major league team.