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Major League Baseball 2017

Another bad call from the umpire.

Greg Bird was safe. A phantom tag from Brian McCann. What are these guys watching the replay?

Frustrating game.
 
Bucky said:
Also, Trump is quite knowledgeable about baseball. He was probably good enough to be a pro baseball player. Probably knows more about baseball than foreign policy.
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Seeing as he knows little to nothing about foreign policy, that wouldn't be hard.

But no, he was not good enough to be pro.
 
Crovax said:
I bet it's the TV, it's been pretty dead the few times I have been there
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See you in the NFL soon for your post. Been 'working' on answer.

Top 4 markets in baseball ???
 
Tigerace117 said:
Seeing as he knows little to nothing about foreign policy, that wouldn't be hard.

But no, he was not good enough to be pro.
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“He was good-hit and good-field,” former instructor Col. Ted Dobias said. “We had scouts from the Phillies to watch him, but he wanted to go to college and make real money.”

Interestingly, this isn’t the first pro baseball Trump scouting report to come about since Trump began his bid for president. The Boston Red Sox also reportedly looked at Trump as an option in 1964, his graduating year.
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Report: The Phillies once scouted Donald Trump as a high school baseball player
 
Tigerace117 said:
Seeing as he knows little to nothing about foreign policy, that wouldn't be hard.

But no, he was not good enough to be pro.
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But Trump said he was good "I played football and baseball, sorry, but said to be the best bball player in N.Y. State"
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Yeah, that's what I was thinking while I was watching that inning. Add an error and I think that is all the ways a batter can reach 1st base? Yes? Am I right?

There was a Walk---HBP---Catchers interference--Strikeout passed ball-- And the Cubs had hits that inning. Only thing missing was a Nats error allowing a batter to get on base. The Nats had an error that inning, (Weiter's throw) but the batter got 1st base because of the passed ball, not an error. It was a WEIRD 1/2 inning. Historic indeed.
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You’re missing fielders choice.

But it’s amazing you could have a couple million innings of baseball at that’s just never happened before.
 
Crovax said:
But Trump said he was good "I played football and baseball, sorry, but said to be the best bball player in N.Y. State"
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Trump has said lots of things. Many of them are untrue.
 
TobyOne said:
That would be the 92-70 cubs.
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And this would be the Dodgers who freaked out when they lost eleven games in a row after winning a **** ton.

Your point?

The same old Cubs were plenty good to send your Dodgers home last year.
 
Tigerace117 said:
Yeah, that entire story rings false. Even if teams did "look at him" that's utterly meaningless. They look at a lot of people.
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Oh? When scouts from MLB teams, that is meaningless?

Have you played baseball in high school? Do scouts just come watch games on their free time?
 
Bucky said:
Oh? When scouts from MLB teams, that is meaningless?

Have you played baseball in high school? Do scouts just come watch games on their free time?
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Yep, pretty much. Even the people good enough to be actually picked up by these organizations have very long odds of actually making Triple A, much less the majors.

And yes, the good ones do. Especially since there's more than few stories of very good players being discovered in just that way.
 
Stay just off the zone with this ump ...
 
I smell your fear.


Tigerace117 said:
And this would be the Dodgers who freaked out when they lost eleven games in a row after winning a **** ton.

Your point?

The same old Cubs were plenty good to send your Dodgers home last year.
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Bucky said:
You guys really think you can beat one of the greatest pitchers twice in Kershaw?
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We've done it before.

You guys think you can figure out the Astros pitching at all?
 
NIMBY said:
Not starting a fresh Roark last night, after he beat the Cubs at Wrigley this year and out dueled Arrieta last year at Wrigley was a colossal mistake.

Not using a 2nd catcher until game 5; not keeping the 3rd catcher Severino; where was Goodwin? the order of the lineup was terrible; keeping all 3 weak bullpen lefties; a perfect storm of mistakes and poor choices ;
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I happen to agree with you about Roark, but Gio's numbers were better so the decision wasn't obvious.
Goodwin was injured, and did not have enough rehab time to make the playoff roster.
The second catcher, Lobaton, is a large step down from Weiters. Third catcher Severino is a weak bat and was less of a need than some other bench players.
That was my favorite line-up, not least because Werth has long at-bats, giving Turner base-stealing opportunities.
Nats' lefty relievers were not the problem. (I assume you do not include Sean Doolittle in the "weak" category.)
 
Dodgers and Cubs got the prime time game tonight, and twice next week when there's both ALCS and NLCS games.

Being the Cubs and Dodgers are 2 of the favorite 'national' teams that makes sense. Sucks for NL fans like me though, 8 pm start means more 12am-1am finishes that I won't be awake to see.
 
Tigerace117 said:
We've done it before.

You guys think you can figure out the Astros pitching at all?
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The greatest enemy for Kershaw is his demand for perfectionism. I have seen it with other great pitchers that struggle in the postseason - Pedro Martinez and Randy Johnson in particular.

He will figure it out and it may not even go 5 games.

As for the Astros, Justin Verlander is just the perfect medicine for the ailing Yankees bat.
 
Bucky said:
The greatest enemy for Kershaw is his demand for perfectionism. I have seen it with other great pitchers that struggle in the postseason - Pedro Martinez and Randy Johnson in particular.

He will figure it out and it may not even go 5 games.

As for the Astros, Justin Verlander is just the perfect medicine for the ailing Yankees bat.
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Only in your wildest dreams buddy. Kershaw hasn't "figured it out" yet---him magically doing so all of a sudden is unlikely at best.

I suppose we'll see as to whether your prediction about Verlander is as wildly incorrect as your predictions usually are.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Dodgers and Cubs got the prime time game tonight, and twice next week when there's both ALCS and NLCS games.

Being the Cubs and Dodgers are 2 of the favorite 'national' teams that makes sense. Sucks for NL fans like me though, 8 pm start means more 12am-1am finishes that I won't be awake to see.
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An under umpire and bad vision/lighting for a 6:00 Pacific game could yield a quick first 5 today. 3/4 pitchers during the week could be a different story. Quintana and Kershaw should breeze in the first two trips through the order; should. Wendelstedt for today's Astros games ...
 
Tigerace117 said:
Only in your wildest dreams buddy. Kershaw hasn't "figured it out" yet---him magically doing so all of a sudden is unlikely at best.

I suppose we'll see as to whether your prediction about Verlander is as wildly incorrect as your predictions usually are.
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Matchups and Lineups are on MLB.com | The Official Site of Major League Baseball ; For the Yanks, Ellsbury and Holiday off the bench are above average for sure. Frazier and Headley, batting 8th and 9th, have very good career stats v. Verlander. Didi is 2 for 6 with a HR. Castro, Gardner and Hicks are 4 for 33. Judge, Bird and Sanchez have not faced VER ...
 
Jack Hays said:
I happen to agree with you about Roark, but Gio's numbers were better so the decision wasn't obvious.
Goodwin was injured, and did not have enough rehab time to make the playoff roster.
The second catcher, Lobaton, is a large step down from Weiters. Third catcher Severino is a weak bat and was less of a need than some other bench players.
That was my favorite line-up, not least because Werth has long at-bats, giving Turner base-stealing opportunities.
Nats' lefty relievers were not the problem. (I assume you do not include Sean Doolittle in the "weak" category.)
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Your assumption was correct. Then, one of the other lefties, at best two, was/were needed. It was stupid to catch an average at best defensive catcher into the 5th game solo, without using your bench and giving rest with all the quick travel arrangements.

Gio gave up 3 ER in 5 innings when I saw him in Milwaukee; diminutive. TR gave up one run in 7 innings to a good lineup and got beat 1-0 by Nelson. I put this on Rizzo for TR being on the WBC, and the message now sent to MLB pitchers about the WBC; all MY opinion of course.

And Jimmy Nelson, whose next outing against the Cubs was his last of the year due to Tommy John, a crushing blow to the Brewers ...
 
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