Non-Pirates Baseball Thread

[TheGhostofGoulet]

Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes is pleased with Dioner Navarro's big day yesterday.

[columbia]

"Restoring Integrity to America’s Pastime: Moving Towards a More Normative Approach to Cheating in Baseball" - Texas Review of Entertainment and Sports Law, 2012
Garrett Broshuis - Saint Louis University - School of Law

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm? ... id=2194553

#Kraftster

[MWB]

What the heck is going on in Seattle? They sent Montero and Ackley to AAA....man, that organization is in some trouble if those two don't pan out.

Montero just hasn't been able to hit this year and he can't catch. Will most likely be learning 1b in the minors now. Ackley's minor league numbers were decent, but never great, especially considering where he played. He didn't show a lot of power or speed. I think Montero will still be a good major league hitter, but don't think Ackley will be.

[beerman]

It's the sabermetrics..

[MWB]

@TJQuinnESPN: BREAKING: MLB will seek to suspend A-Rod, Ryan Braun and about 20 players connected to Miami clinic. Founder Tony Bosch agreed to cooperate.

[MWB]

Article link:
http://m.espn.go.com/general/story?stor ... rc=desktop

Apparently Bosch will say he supplied with PEDs and MLB will seek 100 game suspensions.

[Ad@m]

Brawl between the Dodgers/D-Backs. 4 players HBP

Kennedy, Gibson, Ward, McGwire and Puig were ejected. A few punches were thrown, suspensions likely.

Coaches and former players including Turner Ward, Charles Nagy, Mark McGwire, Matt Williams, Kirk Gibson, Don Mattingly, Alan Trammel and Don Baylor.

[Beveridge]

I would love for Puig to be absent from the lineup for the weekend series.

[Idoit40fans]

Hah. Turner Ward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob7U0fpl0io

[beerman]

I think my favorite part is the throw afterwards.

[Idoit40fans]

Yeah I never remembered that throw until I just watched that. Its pretty great.

[Rocco]

Ken Tremendous ‏@KenTremendous 4m
Vernon Wells OPS by month:
April .910
May .615
June .211

[Idoit40fans]

Miami and Houston each have a 0.1% chance of making the playoffs according to espn.

[Kraftster]

Kershaw deal reportedly $300M+. That's a lot of money.

[MWB]

300? Where are you seeing that? Thought it was around 200.

[Rocco]

[Kraftster]

300? Where are you seeing that? Thought it was around 200.

Dumb, misleading Yahoo! headline regarding the Rosenthal breaks. All KR said is that the sides discussed a 12 year $300M and somehow Yahoo! decided they'd refer to Kershaw's impending $300M deal.

[Idoit40fans]

Yeah, I heard $175 mil.

[shafnutz05]

Josh Hamilton became the second player in major league history (and first since World War I) to strike out twice and hit three GIDP in the same game against the Mariners the other night.

[Idoit40fans]

The Marlins are 2 runs from being -100 in run differential this year.

[Kraftster]

Which player would you build your team around, regardless of age or experience?

Interestingly, Yadier Molina was the clear winner among 30 baseball people (a combination of owners, general managers, scouts, players, and coaches).
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2013/ ... story.html

[Troy Loney]

Molina is a fantastic player who seems to keep getting better and better.

[Idoit40fans]

Building your team around a catcher is pretty shortsighted. There is a reason that great players that come up as catchers and project to be perennial All-Stars get moved to the corner infield or outfield.

[columbia]

Molina is a fantastic player who seems to keep getting better and better.

I thought I had clicked on the Malone thread and was very confused.

[MWB]

Building your team around a catcher is pretty shortsighted. There is a reason that great players that come up as catchers and project to be perennial All-Stars get moved to the corner infield or outfield.

But if you have a great catcher who doesn't need to be moved and can last there, doesn't that make him more valuable?

Seems like an odd choice to me, but I guess they must view catcher as the most important position.