2019 Rolling "Hey Chatter Chatter" chatterthread

tbf dietrich really did watch his homer for quite a while

tb even more f, hard to blame him because it was a fucking bomb

Apparently Puig grabbed Prince in a headlock. But it’s either hard to see in that video clip or it’s not in the video?

If that’s true...man, Puig is out of control.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3mXhaLWsAIcEKK.jpg:large

My goodness.

really wacky bottom of the 2nd in pirates-cubs

kevin newman charged with 3 errors on two plays, jameson taillon takes a rizzo shot off the top of his head, jon lester hits an rbi double, javier baez gets a single by throwing the bat at the ball

(taillon seemed to be ok or i wouldn't call it wacky)

and lester may have hurt himself hitting/running/sliding?

"left hamstring tightness"

javier baez gets a single by throwing the bat at the ball

haha, really? was it a hit and run pitch that he was desperate to hit or something?

https://www.mlb.com/video/baez-s-unique-rbi-single?t=most-popular

i think it was just javy being javy

Haha. Baez's reaction is hilarious. Gotta get them where they can, I guess. Cubbies are doing so bad.

It’s really just been their pitching failing so far, right?

Which admittedly is an important part of the game of baseball

yeah the offense has been great so far, just lots of shitty pitching, both from the starters and the bullpen

Congrats Chris Davis

Karl/na, yeah, definitely agree with that

I would just like to say that Dansby Swanson has been OTM in this season.

Davis 0-5 tonight as the O's score 12

they are sending his existential torpor to Cooperstown

deGrom has the opposite of an infinite ERA--he's got a negative FIP of -0.24. Which means...he not only hasn't given up any runs, he stole back part of a run from the opposition.

pirates and cubs have an off day today between game 1 and game 2 of their series. today it's sunny and 60 degrees, tomorrow will be rainy and in the high 30s. i don't get why they have these off days built into the early spring schedule if mlb doesn't provide the flexibility to move games around based on weather forecasts.

Agreed, but the club's #1 objective is still to sell stadium seats and 40,000 people can't reschedule their social & professional lives based on the whimsy of a forecast.

(my solution: pad the off-days toward the end of the series?)

Shorten the season by 10 games, schedule a couple doubleheaders and start the season next week.

people like being at 'opening day', so pretty much every non-dome/california home opener has an an off day behind it. if the first attempt is rained out, they will honor those tickets on the next day

it does lead to weird things like a lot of teams being idle these last two fridays, which should be good attendance nights

tomorrow's game will be rained out so people will have to reschedule their lives anyways

archer: five-game suspension
puig: two-game suspension

(david bell: one game)

alex cora and charlie montoyo: first time puerto rican-born managers have faced each other

nationals are addressing their bullpen woes by signing . . . bud norris

-1.4 bWAR over the last four seasons

Hamilton scores from 2nd on a sac fly:

Developing story: Billy Hamilton is fast.#AlwaysRoyal pic.twitter.com/ChezuiAvOB

— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) April 10, 2019

The Athletics are reportedly close to signing Edwin Jackson to a minor league deal.

Has he been on the A’s before? Because if so, that’s not allowed for Edwin Jackson

started 17 games for them last year, and was effective!

That’s great but he should really find a new team

ozzie albies extended, for what seems like not very much (7 years, $35m, two option years)

and the two option years are only at $7m each

fire your agent, ozhaino

seriously, wtf

@jjcoop36
I can also no longer rationalize a world where Randall Grichuk's contract extension is for less years and more money than Ozzie Albies.

It's typical that agents criticize competitors' deals. But I've now heard from executives, players, analytics people, development side and scouts who are saying the same thing: The Ozzie Albies extension might be the worst contract ever for a player. And this is not hyperbole.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) April 11, 2019

I went to Cot's Baseball Contracts and Ozzie doesn't have an agent listed, so I don't know who to be mad at.

wouldn't he have made more money through the arbitration process, even? holy shit that's bad

saw someone saying that if you're an agent and your client (or his family) insists on signing a deal like this, the only honorable thing to do is resign

also that, as we know from things like david wright's contract, the teams hedge on deals by taking out insurance -- and maybe that's something the union should do for its young members, on the other side, as they await arbitration and free agency

if the going rate is still ~9M/WAR, then he will "earn" the entire $35 million with one year similar to his 2018.

Jose Ramirez is this year's Paul Goldschmidt.

Khris Davis: has anyone ever had 9 HR by April 11?

can't find that: April record is 14

the wind is blowing out at wrigley

i was at the game today and the two contreras HRs out of the park and the rizzo HR to the top of the bleachers were all pretty impressive

10th for Davis, April 12th. Some comparisons:

Bonds, 2001 - 2
McGwire, 1998 - 4 (hit three the next day)
Sosa, 1998 - 2

Maris and Ruth started their seasons much later--they had 1 between them.

Khris Davis isn't good enough for me to want to root for him to break a major record. (Excuse tortured syntax.) And probably not good enough to sustain this anyway, I don't think. If he challenges .247 again, that I'd get caught up in.