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Post by fenwaythehardway on Apr 3, 2019 7:25:59 GMT -5
Showing up to the ballpark in a full clown costume is an amazing self-own.
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Post by jimed14 on Apr 3, 2019 8:06:14 GMT -5
Phillies fans traveled well for that game.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Apr 4, 2019 0:42:33 GMT -5
The injury-plagued Yankees saw another player go down Wednesday, as Tulowitzki exited in the bottom of the third inning with a left calf strain and was sent for further tests. www.mlb.com/news/baseball-injury-updates
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Post by bluechip on Apr 4, 2019 1:52:22 GMT -5
The Braves certainly got great value, but for Acuna he gets security. You never know if there's a career ending injury and you don't get to cash in on the big $. This way, he's 20 years old and set for life. We should all be so unfortunate. The way the system is set up it'll come out the other way in the end. If and when he does get to free agency and he's still a star, he can grab a 10 - 12 year deal and get paid huge $ by somebody for his inevitable decline. So the Braves make out and somebody on the other end of free agency probably won't - at least not over the long-term. When you have very little money, what Acuna received is life altering money. When he gets to free agency, that's monopoly money. At that point he can afford to be picky. That money in the real scheme of his life will impact him less than the money he's going to get now, which is still plenty more than I'll ever see in several lifetimes, so good for him. I agree on the security and I’m usually on the players side that they made a good decision for themselves but my understanding is there are two team options for years 9 and 10 for only 17m each which would make him a free agent on the wrong side of 30 and at only 17m each they seem really low. I feel like a guy like him should be getting a lot more on those team options if they even need to exist. I could be off on the details of the contract tho Those options would keep him there through his age 30 season. He’s currently 21 and the Braves have control of him this year (when he’s making $560,000) and then for another five years. Yes this is a good contract for the Braves, as it buys out two free agency years and gives them a solid price on the next two, but they do give him fairly substantial salaries during the term of this deal including 15 million during his age 24 season, 17 million during his age 25 and 26 seasons, which are likely to be more than or as as much as he’d earn in arbitration even if he continues on his current career trajectory. If he falls off, as 21 year olds have in the past, then the braces are still in the hook. If he becomes a top 5 player in the game, then it’s a great deal for the Braves. Would we be crying for the Braves though if he became fell apart due to injury or some other factor and he’s out the game by 24? Or even if he merely became an average player and he’s slightly overpaid?
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Post by dmaineah on Apr 4, 2019 5:01:29 GMT -5
If I'm Washington I'd be looking to sign/extend Soto. I'd give him 15 years right now. After this year is over it would not surprise me if he was a top 5 player every year & in the conversation for #1.
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Post by jimed14 on Apr 4, 2019 8:34:10 GMT -5
What the hell pitch is this?
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Post by humanbeingbean on Apr 4, 2019 9:38:10 GMT -5
What the hell pitch is this? Alvarado showed some nasty stuff against us last year, so I’m not surprised he’s using magic now to bend spacetime. Chapman’s (old) fastball with more movement.
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Post by jimed14 on Apr 4, 2019 9:44:07 GMT -5
^Yeah he's going to be a household name soon. Will be one of the best relief pitchers in the game if he's not there already.
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Post by James Dunne on Apr 4, 2019 9:45:38 GMT -5
Is... is that a 99-mph shuuto? From a lefty? Christ.
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Post by iakovos11 on Apr 4, 2019 10:26:04 GMT -5
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Post by jimed14 on Apr 4, 2019 10:39:57 GMT -5
Kulpa has lost his mind. I really wish some team would just take their players off the field over this garbage and then the league would be forced to do something. Carl Everett had a point.
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Post by kingofthetrill on Apr 4, 2019 10:45:59 GMT -5
Is... is that a 99-mph shuuto? From a lefty? Christ. Anyone else remember that 99 mph pitch Daniel Bard threw against the Yankees? Not saying it's better but that was the last time I felt this way. When I first saw this clip someone put an NSFW warning on it.
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Post by Addam603 on Apr 7, 2019 14:40:47 GMT -5
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Post by humanbeingbean on Apr 7, 2019 14:53:52 GMT -5
Dietrich has some insane pop. There’s probably untapped potential in him.
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Post by sarasoxer on Apr 7, 2019 20:09:35 GMT -5
Is... is that a 99-mph shuuto? From a lefty? Christ. Anyone else remember that 99 mph pitch Daniel Bard threw against the Yankees? Not saying it's better but that was the last time I felt this way. When I first saw this clip someone put an NSFW warning on it. Yes....I do. It was a tailing FB against a Yankee lefty...not Gardner. I thought then that we had something magical in hand. Alas and alack.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Apr 8, 2019 0:26:13 GMT -5
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Post by ericmvan on Apr 8, 2019 21:54:55 GMT -5
Chris Davis goes 0 for 5 and is now 0 for 49 going back to last year, annihilating the MLB futility record. Six guys had 0 for 44 (including Luis Aparicio for the '71 Sox), three had 0 for 45, and Eugenio Velez was the sole guy at 46. To have the streak still alive at 49 is basically doing a Bob Beamon on it.
He is now hitless in his last 56 PA, one shy of Tony Bernazard's record (he's one of the club of 44).
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Post by James Dunne on Apr 8, 2019 22:02:47 GMT -5
Chris Davis goes 0 for 5 and is now 0 for 49 going back to last year, annihilating the MLB futility record. Six guys had 0 for 44 (including Luis Aparicio for the '71 Sox), three had 0 for 45, and Eugenio Velez was the sole guy at 46. To have the streak still alive at 49 is basically doing a Bob Beamon on it. He is now hitless in his last 56 PA, one shy of Tony Bernazard's record (he's one of the club of 44).
I know he got paid, so some people aren't going to have sympathy, but I feel terrible for the guy at this point. The Orioles are humiliating him in order to intentionally lose so they don't actually don't miss out on bonus pool cash. The bonus pool is a disaster. I'm against hard slotting, but it's better than this hybrid foolishness.
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Post by sarasoxer on Apr 8, 2019 22:08:52 GMT -5
Chris Davis goes 0 for 5 and is now 0 for 49 going back to last year, annihilating the MLB futility record. Six guys had 0 for 44 (including Luis Aparicio for the '71 Sox), three had 0 for 45, and Eugenio Velez was the sole guy at 46. To have the streak still alive at 49 is basically doing a Bob Beamon on it. He is now hitless in his last 56 PA, one shy of Tony Bernazard's record (he's one of the club of 44).
Great, creative analogy. Sad for the guy tho. What happened?
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Post by Oregon Norm on Apr 9, 2019 0:17:15 GMT -5
Well he never had the fastest bat in the league, though it had a bit of power behind it. That doesn't do you much good if you can't make contact. He fits into a class of players who lose their mojo earlier in their careers, big slugger types. That's a large group of players, guys like Travis Hafner. It's eerie that the Orioles have hosted a few of those guys over the years, guys like Boog Powell and Jim Gentile. Those who don't know their history are condemned to repeat it, and repeat it ownership did.
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Post by jimed14 on Apr 9, 2019 8:08:56 GMT -5
Chris Davis goes 0 for 5 and is now 0 for 49 going back to last year, annihilating the MLB futility record. Six guys had 0 for 44 (including Luis Aparicio for the '71 Sox), three had 0 for 45, and Eugenio Velez was the sole guy at 46. To have the streak still alive at 49 is basically doing a Bob Beamon on it.
He is now hitless in his last 56 PA, one shy of Tony Bernazard's record (he's one of the club of 44).
But his xBA is .099, so he's been getting bitten by a little bad luck. haha
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Post by jimed14 on Apr 9, 2019 8:10:36 GMT -5
Chris Davis goes 0 for 5 and is now 0 for 49 going back to last year, annihilating the MLB futility record. Six guys had 0 for 44 (including Luis Aparicio for the '71 Sox), three had 0 for 45, and Eugenio Velez was the sole guy at 46. To have the streak still alive at 49 is basically doing a Bob Beamon on it. He is now hitless in his last 56 PA, one shy of Tony Bernazard's record (he's one of the club of 44).
I know he got paid, so some people aren't going to have sympathy, but I feel terrible for the guy at this point. The Orioles are humiliating him in order to intentionally lose so they don't actually don't miss out on bonus pool cash. The bonus pool is a disaster. I'm against hard slotting, but it's better than this hybrid foolishness. I wonder if some of that is trying to force him to quit so he gives up the rest of his contract. The Orioles are so poorly run.
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Post by James Dunne on Apr 9, 2019 8:25:56 GMT -5
I know he got paid, so some people aren't going to have sympathy, but I feel terrible for the guy at this point. The Orioles are humiliating him in order to intentionally lose so they don't actually don't miss out on bonus pool cash. The bonus pool is a disaster. I'm against hard slotting, but it's better than this hybrid foolishness. I wonder if some of that is trying to force him to quit so he gives up the rest of his contract. The Orioles are so poorly run. Yeah, I mean the Orioles have a lot of material motivation to embarrass the hell out of the poor guy, and only their conscience and morals preventing them from doing so.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 9, 2019 8:40:39 GMT -5
Chris Davis goes 0 for 5 and is now 0 for 49 going back to last year, annihilating the MLB futility record. Six guys had 0 for 44 (including Luis Aparicio for the '71 Sox), three had 0 for 45, and Eugenio Velez was the sole guy at 46. To have the streak still alive at 49 is basically doing a Bob Beamon on it. He is now hitless in his last 56 PA, one shy of Tony Bernazard's record (he's one of the club of 44).
Maybe Chris Davis can pursue the all-time hitless record now that he's clearing the hurdle for position players. I believe Bob Buhl went 0-70 in 1962 and had it extended to 0-87 in all. Has anybody else matched that? I think Jon Lester gave him a run for his money and actually for a time (I think) had a lower lifetime avg than Buhl's .089, but came up short and I think Lester actually has a HR to his credit. That's something for Chris Davis to shoot for.
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Post by radiohix on Apr 10, 2019 5:10:38 GMT -5
This is beautiful lol
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