2019 Rolling "Hey Chatter Chatter" chatterthread

future All-Star no doubt

all nine runs in that yankees-rays game were driven in by former blue jays

hmm... D'Arnaud, Edwin, Urshela... ah, I'm assuming Tulo is injured... anyone else?

you got it

edwin jackson has been dfa'd. can we make it 15 teams? (considering how he pitched in toronto, i don't think we can)

Chris Paddack's 2018 minor-league season: 90 IP, 2.10 ERA, 0.82 WHIP, .204 AVG, .237 OBP, .303 SLG

Paddack in 2019: 90 IP, 2.70 ERA, 0.87 WHIP, .183 AVG, .236 OBP, .337 SLG

— Dennis Lin (@dennistlin) July 18, 2019

otm

These are not accidents. This is two dirty plays by the Dodgers pic.twitter.com/EPM56hin9E

— 𝐃𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐞 (@RochesRWinners) July 18, 2019

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/sportswriter-jonah-keri-granted-bail-following-assault-charges-1.4515192

Our statement regarding Jonah Keri. pic.twitter.com/7JXDnbwefX

— The Athletic HQ (@TheAthletic) July 19, 2019

whoa

Court documents state the alleged attacks against Keri's wife took place in July 2018, May 2019, and July 2019.

fuck you jonah

yikes

tough year for the angels front office

#Angels DFA Matt Harvey.

Their three big winter FA pitcher signings; Harvey ($11 million) DFA, Cody Allen ($8.5 million) DFA, Trevor Cahill ($9 million) moved to bullpen. That's $28.5 million for basically no return.

— Bill Shaikin (@BillShaikin) July 19, 2019

Tough last 10 years for the angels front office

Pujols *might* have a positive WAR for the first time in 3 seasons...?

and for $500k less than those three guys. that's a win

you know, i bet if MLB scheduled another series against the cardinals in STL, he'd retire before it happened. because that would be super awkward to do again so soon

it's a wild one in cincinnati tonight

7-0
T. Mahle Pitching:
H. Bader: singled to center
T. Edman: Strike looking, Ball, Ball, Edman singled to right, Bader to second
J. Martinez: Strike looking, Strike looking, Foul, Foul, Foul, Foul, Foul, Martinez reached on an infield single to second, Bader to third, Edman to second
P. Goldschmidt: Strike swinging, Strike swinging, Goldschmidt hit sacrifice fly to left, Bader scored, Edman to third
7-1
T. O'Neill: Foul, Strike swinging, Ball, Ball, Ball, O'Neill singled to left, Edman scored, Martinez to second
7-2
Matt Bowman relieved Tyler Mahle
Yairo Munoz hit for Michael Wacha
Y. Munoz: reached on an infield single to shortstop, Martinez to third, O'Neill to second
K. Wong: Strike looking, Ball, Ball, Foul, Wong hit sacrifice fly to right, Martinez scored, O'Neill to third, Munoz to second
7-3
P. DeJong: doubled to deep left, O'Neill and Munoz scored
7-5
Jared Hughes relieved Matt Bowman
A. Knizner: Strike looking, Knizner doubled to deep right center, DeJong scored
7-6
H. Bader: Ball, Strike looking, Ball, Ball, Ball, Bader walked
T. Edman: Ball, Ball, Edman safe at first on 1st baseman Votto fielding error, Knizner scored, Bader to third
7-7
J. Martinez: Pickoff attempt to first, Ball, Ball, Edman to second, Edman stole second, Strike swinging, Ball, Strike looking, Martinez homered to left center, Bader and Edman scored
10-7
P. Goldschmidt: Ball, Foul, Ball, Foul, Foul, Foul, Strike swinging, Goldschmidt struck out swinging
Middle of the 6th (10 Runs, 8 Hits, 1 Error)

er, i meant 7-10 for that last one. 10 runs in one inning.

*checks the history books*
yes, that is the most runs ever scored in an inning, as it turns out

By the Cardinals you mean? Many teams have scored 11+.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_runs2.shtml

Oh, I was joking. My jokes are not even jokes these days, it’s awful. Gotta shake up my style!

Reds ended up almost winning with 2 outs in the 9th, runners on, down 12-11, and Joey Votto batting against Carlos Martinez. Quite a game!

In his five week career as a starting pitcher for the Florida Marlins, Jordan Yamamoto is facing his first loss against the Dodgers. Quite a run!

Barring any late inning heroics from the fish, he should be 4-1 with ~2.00 ERA/1.00 WHIP + 9K/9.

I had to get an order with one of my distributors over a minimum to make free shipping so I got myself a box of "Topps Archives Buyback Signature" - which turns out to be one signed card from past years, slabbed. Not even some packs of regular to open with it.

My card was a 2015 Ian Kinsler. For $30 wholesale.

How big was the box?

Could've gotten a blaster of Allen and Ginter!

(For ten bucks less...)

Wastefully large, 9x6ish and a couple of inches tall.

Tyler Saladino, who was hitting .100 on the season, has now hit grand slams in 2 straight games

That’s a computer generated name if I’ve ever seen one.

Here's a thing: Through 64 games at age 20, Fernando Tatis Jr. has already accrued more fWAR than all Padres shortstops in the last 12 years combined.

— AJ Cassavell (@AJCassavell) July 23, 2019

Miami is the only NL team with a winning pct under .460.

Atlanta and the Dodgers are the only two over .535.

Have the giants won enough that we will see Be Ok posting here again?

They’re certainly in an interesting situation regarding bumgarner and the fresh prince, trade-wise

tampa is doing the old put-the-reliever-in-the-field-for-one-batter-then-bring-him-back thing

and now boston has lodged a protest, saying that the replacements were not properly placed in the lineup when tampa lost the DH

i must admit i don't really understand the rules of what happens when you lose the DH

i think that only happens when the DH comes in to play the field. like if your usual catcher is DH'ing and the backup guy catching that day gets injured – your DH can come in to catch, but then the pitcher has to hit for himself (or use a pinch hitter). moving a P to 1B, then back should affect the Dh unless there are more rules I'm unaware of.

Have the giants won enough that we will see Be Ok posting here again?

lol

i still want them to sell as they are not that good and this can't last. this streak has been fun however.

i figured ILB was pretty sick of me so i stop posting here this year...

You do your thing, Bee! I miss seeing the giants bumped regularly

you and i will forever be linked because of The B-52's. you did such a good job.

i will probably come back full time when Zaidi gets this thing turned around. i probably won't be able to help myself when the Giants are good again.

That's how I understand the rule, Thermo. I think Boston is claiming that the Rays never properly declared who the pitcher was replacing (and where he'd be in the batting order), therefore they assume he subbed for the DH. Since the DH can't play the field, then they lost the DH. I find it hard to believe that Rays management doesn't know the rule here. I guess that Boston was caught by surprise and decided they had to complain.

I just saw the news about Jonah Keri becoming a psycho -- wtf?

yesterday Counsell put Hader (by far his best reliever) in for the 7th, up 5-4, to face the meat of the Reds' batting order. I've also seen him bring him in with narrow leads w/ men on a few times. is this a common thing now? you had to figure managers would eventually start using their closers in smarter ways but I don't know if this is a league-wide trend.

definitely becoming more common. baseball is changing, to the chagrin of dozens of really out of touch, cranky broadcasters who are unsure of which side to choose in the "analytics" "debate"

back in the old days, when the manager was expected to keep in the obviously out of gas SP for another 3 outs so that he could secure the opportunity to obtain another pitcher Win, things were better

don't tell dave martinez about this

but yeah. counsell is one of the smarter managers and i think hader is somewhat used to being used that way after last year's playoffs

is this a common thing now?

We've been talking about "high leverage" use of pitchers for 15 years on this board, based on my search of the term.

curtis granderson is now 99th all-time in homers with 341

one more would tie him with ron santo for 98th

Nelson Cruz just hit his 3 HR on the day so far (still has one more AB possible), giving him 7 in his last 6 games.