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Post by Darwin's Curve on Sept 8, 2024 20:08:53 GMT -5
Prayers and best wishes for you as well. Thank you! Stay strong, brother!
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Post by Soxfansince1971 on Sept 8, 2024 23:23:48 GMT -5
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Post by keninten on Sept 9, 2024 14:38:53 GMT -5
Eddy Alvarez now a Met.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Sept 9, 2024 15:36:53 GMT -5
Called up to MLB to replace the DFA'd Pablo Reyes. My how the turntables...
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Post by kevfc89 on Sept 9, 2024 18:58:05 GMT -5
SSS, but a rough start to the evaluation of trading him (along with all the other spare pieces) for an arm who tanked for us, is injured, and a free agent to be.
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Post by ematz1423 on Sept 9, 2024 19:02:43 GMT -5
Zerfjan has shown the ability to string together awesome hot stretches in the minors. If he can be more consistent he could very well be one we look back on and think yikes should have kept him.
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Post by sittingstill on Sept 15, 2024 19:50:20 GMT -5
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Post by julyanmorley on Sept 15, 2024 20:09:38 GMT -5
Nick Robertson got the DFA again after a few weeks with the Angels' AAA team.
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Post by greenmonster on Sept 16, 2024 10:02:41 GMT -5
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Post by finaliz3d on Sept 16, 2024 23:57:31 GMT -5
Tyler Heineman claimed off waivers by the Blue Jays after DFA'ing Brian Serven. Not sure why the Blue Jays are doing this as Serven has been the primary catcher for Bowden Francis who is currently setting the world on fire, and given that neither Serven nor Heineman has some crazy kind of promise, but... hey, change for a sake of a change I suppose. Serven also has another season of options whereas Heineman does not.
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Post by finaliz3d on Sept 17, 2024 16:06:29 GMT -5
Might as well mention that Yorke made his debut last night, he went 0-3. two groundouts, one strikeout, one stolen base.
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Post by finaliz3d on Sept 17, 2024 20:27:27 GMT -5
Might as well mention that Yorke made his debut last night, he went 0-3. two groundouts, one strikeout, one stolen base. 2-3 today, got his first hit and just got another, both singles. edit: Got a third hit too, another single.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Sept 18, 2024 13:12:08 GMT -5
Orioles DFA'ed Kimbrel.
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Post by James Dunne on Sept 18, 2024 13:22:23 GMT -5
Preparing you all mentally for the fact that Kimbrel is going to get more Hall of Fame votes than Jacob DeGrom or Andrew McCutchen because saves.
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Post by incandenza on Sept 18, 2024 13:56:44 GMT -5
The Kimbrel signing made me optimistic that the Orioles would underperform this year, which mostly bore out except that I figured Gunnar to be merely great rather than MLB-caliber. Still only an okay year for that team, given expectations.
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Post by jimoh on Sept 19, 2024 11:08:54 GMT -5
Possible Nomar sightings in Chapel Hill next Spring (I saw him and the kids in a pizza place about 10-12 year ago before he was calling a AAA game in Durham):
"Dear Carolina Community,
I am pleased to announce that our 2025 Spring Commencement speaker will be Carolina alum and world-renowned soccer player Mia Hamm ’94. The ceremony will be held at 7 p.m., Saturday, May 10, in Kenan Stadium...."
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Post by Soxfansince1971 on Sept 24, 2024 15:02:10 GMT -5
The San Diego Padres are probably going to make the 2024 playoffs. Bogaerts has played, but I would not say the money SD spent on him was well spent….BA - .259, OBP - .302, OPS - .680 are not exactly what you pay $25+ million per year for…..
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Post by manfred on Sept 25, 2024 9:58:02 GMT -5
The Kimbrel signing made me optimistic that the Orioles would underperform this year, which mostly bore out except that I figured Gunnar to be merely great rather than MLB-caliber. Still only an okay year for that team, given expectations. It isn’t over yet. Maybe dumping Kimbrel means a longer playoff run.
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Post by James Dunne on Sept 25, 2024 12:31:41 GMT -5
Charlie Blackmon, drafted as a left-handed pitcher out of Young Harris Junior College by Boston in the 20th round of the 2005 draft, is retiring at the end of the season.
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Post by incandenza on Sept 25, 2024 12:37:37 GMT -5
Charlie Blackmon, drafted as a left-handed pitcher out of Young Harris Junior College by Boston in the 20th round of the 2005 draft, is retiring at the end of the season. The Rockies gave him $13 million this year just to keep him around as a franchise fixture. On the one hand, I kind of admire that loyalty. On the other hand, I bet $3 million would have gotten it done. He had a 0.1 WAR ZiPS projection...
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Post by julyanmorley on Sept 25, 2024 12:56:05 GMT -5
My impression of the Rockies is that they run mostly on the sentimental whims of the owners
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Post by James Dunne on Sept 25, 2024 13:40:40 GMT -5
Doesn't necessarily seem like the extra cash they gave him would've been spent on other players, so I'm glad he got it.
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Post by taiwansox on Sept 25, 2024 14:09:40 GMT -5
Charlie Blackmon, drafted as a left-handed pitcher out of Young Harris Junior College by Boston in the 20th round of the 2005 draft, is retiring at the end of the season. Brandon Belt too, we have a type with LHP turned hitters
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Post by bellhorndingers21 on Sept 25, 2024 14:19:11 GMT -5
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Sept 25, 2024 14:46:45 GMT -5
So the story says there was a rift with Hendriks, which, hey, it happens. It doesn't specifically ID him as one of the players who wouldn't go to the news conference. Not going to extrapolate that he was or wasn't from that. I'm going to guess that Hendriks rubs a lot of guys the wrong way for being outspokenly liberal (or perhaps not liberal but certainly pro-Pride etc.). Players tend to lean very conservative. Not stating that as a value judgment in either direction very much on purpose so as not to have this go off the rails, but that's pretty much a fact of MLB life.
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