Hot Stove League 2014-15

too bad maybin couldnt turn it around.. still crazy he was basically traded for miggy cabrera with now famous failed starter turned set up man andrew miller

that dumb injury he got in spring training last year didnt help..

Shit

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2015/02/10/kirk-gibson-jack-morris-tigers-analysts/23165965/

lol

broadcast in GRITsound

i can't imagine that being listenable in the least.

I bet Morris has a lot of great things to say about the HoF

And the Detroit News just removed Tom Gage from the Tigers beat. He covered the team for over 30 years and JUST won the Spink Award.

ugh fuck this. I hope the stands are empty but I know mlb has like half the tickets to the asg to give away to players, execs, etc to make up for it

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Marlins Park to be awarded 2017 MLB All-Star Game, according to Miami Herald. http://hrld.us/1zu1Hnd

haha, j0rdan and i will get to do home-and-home Futures Games

needs to be the D-backs' gritty clubhouse signee

http://www.foxsports.com/buzzer/story/88-year-old-man-charges-mound-at-fantasy-camp-021115

so the orioles really didn't do anything this winter, huh

Cameron on the Shields deal: long live FIP

So why are now on Year Three of a quality veteran starter -- each coming off a season with 200 or more innings and one of the best ERAs in his league -- sitting around unemployed for most of the winter? Because major-league teams have stopped primarily evaluating pitchers by ERA, even if players, agents and many members of the media still use it as the primary way to measure a pitcher's performance.

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/james-shields-san-diego-padres-era-fip-value-021115

so the orioles really didn't do anything this winter, huh

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:33 (43 minutes ago) Permalink

travis snyder is all fuck u mookieproof if that is in fact your real name

needs to be the D-backs' gritty clubhouse signee

http://www.foxsports.com/buzzer/story/88-year-old-man-charges-mound-at-fantasy-camp-021115

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius)

Might not even be a bad signing if the guy can catch

my bad -- travis snyder did strike out joey votto last season

(actually he was very solid for the pirates last year and is no doubt a better option giving mick narkakis what the braves did, but zips hates him and he doesn't really seem like a starting corner outfielder for a division champion)

he def should be a platoon guy.

#TruckDay, guys.

nationals sign dan uggla, heath bell to minor league deals

fauxto carmona goin to houston on a ml deal too

zito to a's! (milb deal)

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/02/17/rod-makes-vague-apology-turns-down-news-conference/8xnkSI9byEM5FDp6LoXKLJ/story.html

I believe all non-vague media apologies still need to be made directly to Oprah

AL seems like it is wide open heading into spring training. With the rampant turnover or lack of changes on some winning clubs from 2014, I don't see any real lock favorites. Angels and Detroit should hit, but they both got some serious questions with their pitching. KC might be decent, but they were kinda fluky last year. Baltimore pretty much didn't change much and it seemed they played over their heads last year too. Seattle and Cleveland seem to be more on the upswing than downswing.

With the NL, the Cards, Nationals, Dodgers (on paper) and Giants (by previous results) seem to be favorites to me. Pittsburgh could be good, I think anything else would be at least a mild surprise.

if the dodgers or nats don't win the NL they have to be pretty disappointed this year. cards will be good but their depth is lacking this year - a single bad injury could spell doom. giants, nah. pittsburgh will be good i think. i have nothing to back this up, but i think that if the cubs get off to a good start they'll keep rolling. if they don't, they won't. that's my unsubstantiated opinion and i'm sticking to it.

interesting that pecota has the royals fourth-worst in the majors

they lost Sheilds and Butler, and gained... Volquez, Morales and Rios. makes sense.

i like everything the White Sox did this offseason. no idea why everyone feels they're still a sub-500 team.

projection systems didn't like KC last year either

did have a predictatron thread this year?

How accurate are those season win projections that we read every year? Is there a lot of science and data behind them or are they mostly just writers guessing?

I don't quite see Boston at 87 wins at least as setup now, they seem to be pretty shy on the starting pitching.

giants, nah.

>=( |=\ =|

oh shush leee, warriors bout to give the Bay Area another title, don't be greedy

Boston has so much talent in their lineup and such a crazy deep bench - I think they can get by with 5 #3 starters!
They could pretty much get a Hamels or Zimmerman whenever they want without taking away much from the field.

Warriors won't win; NBA is fixed

Most improved positions of the year: Cards RF, return of Prince, no Jeter

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/most-improved-positions-dodgers-cardinals-yankees-mariners-padres-reds-rangers-021715

giants are gonna start lincecum again...

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

He worked with his father again, apparently he is quite confident.

sounds like a plan until it's not

if they're stubborn about it, a step close to wild-card Mets

Barves apparently have 'strong interest' in Jackie Bradley Jr.

rating farewell-ad sincerity

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/mlb-farewell-ad-sincerity-ranking-joe-maddon-max-scherzer-nick-markakis/

shoulder surgery for jurickson profar, might miss his second straight season

from BP chat:

AC (TX): Is there a deal that is going very under-discussed, that you feel deserves more attention? Maybe a change of scenery that you feel will do wonders?

R.J. Anderson: Someone whose opinion I trust and who works in a well-regarded FO is convinced Brett Lawrie could outplay Josh Donaldson this season. I'm not there yet (and I probably won't get there until after it happens), but that's the deal that popped to mind reading the second part of this question.

As for the first part, I'd say the Yankees' acquisition of Justin Wilson. He's a very talented pitcher who could be a monster near the back of their bullpen. Add him to Betances, Miller, Carpenter, etc. and you have the makings of a nasty group.

bochy's in the hospital getting stents put in his ticker. hope it goes well

What THE FUCK

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/gregg-zaun-says-physical-abuse-from-cal-ripken-jr--kept-him-in-line-071143606.html

not surprising, but ugh anyway

meanwhile, RIP B.J. Upton

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- B.J. Upton has opted to appease those Braves fans who have said they "don't want to see B.J." in the lineup again this year. Now, the veteran outfielder can only hope that he is capable of altering his production as easily as he has the name he will use this season.

Upton's representatives confirmed that he will go by his birth name, Melvin Upton Jr., this upcoming season. The 30-year-old outfielder has long gone by the name B.J., which is short for Bossman (his father Manny's nickname) Jr.

You figure Billy was down for whatever whenever -- even now, probably -- but Cal?

i've never been a stannish defender of cal but i'm p sure every team was doing the violent hazing thing back then

cal probably got the same treatment from zaun's uncle back in the day

also lol cal put out an anti-bullying book jfc

guys this is not hot stove unless there was fire in the hazing