Around The MLB 2015 Edition

torontoaces04 · Post #81 » by **torontoaces04** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:38 am

vaff87 wrote:I just noticed that Brett Lawrie has a solid 2 walks to 23 strike outs.

I don't miss that guy...

Pillar-esque

Post #82 » by **Geddy** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 8:11 pm

Nice to see Hechavarria is having a solid start to the season

vaff87 · Post #83 » by **vaff87** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 5:18 pm

Adam Wainwright is out for the season with an Achilles injury.

Hoopstarr · Post #84 » by **Hoopstarr** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 3:39 pm

vaff87 wrote:Adam Wainwright is out for the season with an Achilles injury.

Baseball is **** cruel

Post #85 » by **Schad** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 3:46 pm

If the NL doesn't want the DH rule, a compromise: robot versions of the pitchers to hit for them. They don't even need to make robots capable of actually hitting, because god knows the pitchers can't, either.

Skin Blues · Post #86 » by **Skin Blues** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:36 pm

People who want to watch pitchers hit are masochists. Or sadists, maybe...

s e n s i · Post #87 » by **s e n s i** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 1:41 am

[tweet]https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/593212902221357056[/tweet]

over-compensating for that elbow that's calling for tommy john

Hoopstarr · Post #88 » by **Hoopstarr** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 2:29 pm

Baseball is **** cruel

satyr9 · Post #89 » by **satyr9** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:01 pm

Schadenfreude wrote:If the NL doesn't want the DH rule, a compromise: robot versions of the pitchers to hit for them. They don't even need to make robots capable of actually hitting, because god knows the pitchers can't, either.

Just one robot should do it, no need to customize per pitcher. I nominate CarlosZambranoBot. I look forward to the day CZB gets to take a couple hacks every night in NL parks.

Lateral Quicks · Post #90 » by **Lateral Quicks** » Fri May 1, 2015 11:18 am

Looks like Kendall Graveman lost his starters job to Jesse Chavez after just four starts. An 8.27 ERA will do that. We could probably get him back for cheap right now if we were so inclined.

Skin Blues · Post #91 » by **Skin Blues** » Sat May 2, 2015 8:55 pm

I've never understood what anybody found appealing in Graveman. He was terrible last year. 16.2 K% in 16 starts in high-A and 15.2 K% in 6 starts in AAA. If you can't miss bats in the minors, what chance do you have in the majors? Are we still judging pitchers based on their ERA rather than their skills?

Tyrone Slothrop · Post #92 » by **Tyrone Slothrop** » Sat May 2, 2015 11:10 pm

Was checking out Colby's stats. In 73 PA he has 4 home runs, 30 strikeouts, and 7 walks. That's 56% Three True Outcome %. With Dunn and Jack Cust no longer around, I think Colby is the new TTO king.

Post #93 » by **Schad** » Sat May 2, 2015 11:40 pm

http://deadspin.com/yankees-gm-confirms ... 1701778467

That's going to be fun.

Was checking out Colby's stats. In 73 PA he has 4 home runs, 30 strikeouts, and 7 walks. That's 56% Three True Outcome %. With Dunn and Jack Cust no longer around, I think Colby is the new TTO king.

Just checked former Jays farmhand and minor league TTO god Art Charles. Something has gone horribly wrong...his rate has been steadily declining over the past couple years, but nothing prepared me for seeing that he has a high batting average, 2 triples (reminder: Art Charles is 6'6", 220+) few walks and not a single home run.

Fairview4Life · Post #94 » by **Fairview4Life** » Sun May 3, 2015 1:50 am

Schadenfreude wrote:http://deadspin.com/yankees-gm-confirms ... 1701778467

That's going to be fun.

Was checking out Colby's stats. In 73 PA he has 4 home runs, 30 strikeouts, and 7 walks. That's 56% Three True Outcome %. With Dunn and Jack Cust no longer around, I think Colby is the new TTO king.

Just checked former Jays farmhand and minor league TTO god Art Charles. Something has gone horribly wrong...his rate has been steadily declining over the past couple years, but nothing prepared me for seeing that he has a high batting average, 2 triples (reminder: Art Charles is 6'6", 220+) few walks and not a single home run.

We desperately need to call up Art Charles before the next Orioles series.

Post #95 » by **Schad** » Sun May 3, 2015 1:54 am

Fairview4Life wrote:We desperately need to call up Art Charles before the next Orioles series.

He's now with the Phillies, which explains how everything that was wonderful about Art Charles has been stripped away, leaving a player who hits XBHs that don't clear the fence and aren't punctuated by a celebratory round of walks and strikeouts.

satyr9 · Post #96 » by **satyr9** » Mon May 4, 2015 2:54 pm

Schadenfreude wrote:http://deadspin.com/yankees-gm-confirms ... 1701778467

That's going to be fun.

FTFA:

We’re going to honor our responsibilities of the contract,” Cashman said. “(But) how it’s been reported . . . and what the contract actually says are two different things. It’s not ‘you do this, you get that.’ It’s completely different. It’s not all of a sudden, we’re choosing not to do something. If we choose to pursue something we’ll choose to pursue it. If we choose not to, it’s our right not to. In both cases, we’re honoring the contract.

That's a little interesting. Obviously passing Willie Mays wasn't the grand publicity campaign they were envisioning here. Instead it was supposed to kick off the grand pursuit campaign on the chase to Babe, Hank, and Barry, and it should've started 3-4 years ago.

Maybe not, maybe Cash is just making **** up and and the PA will jump in right away—I certainly always hope for strife and bitterness in Yankeedom—but it wouldn't be shocking at all if the money is written in for the marketing rights to ARod: The GOAT Hitter campaign, payable on reaching those milestones, which the Yankees are obviously not going to engage in now.

The PA probably has to jump in either way. Even if it is written up as Cashman says, and if so using the milestones was likely the only way to write a PR contract into an MLB player contract, the PA can't leave it unchallenged regardless, because it's such a sketchy precedent to have bonuses based on accomplishments that a team could choose to pay or not.

Oh, you get 1m for playing in 150+ games and winning a Silver Slugger? Well, we don't intend to market that accomplishment anymore, so sorry, you didn't read the fine print, but you're not getting that dough. Not exactly a slope they want slipping beyond ARod's moral turpitude.

s e n s i · Post #97 » by **s e n s i** » Tue May 5, 2015 10:55 pm

drunk lenny dykstra and mitch williams tear into each other at a philly sports roast, which i am amazed is actually a thing

(NSFW)

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpdKkHodpcE#t=42[/youtube]

Skin Blues · Post #98 » by **Skin Blues** » Tue May 5, 2015 11:42 pm

Lenny Dykstra got out of jail? Good for him! He also looks nothing like how I remember him, leaving that filthy mess in CF for Devo.

satyr9 · Post #99 » by **satyr9** » Fri May 8, 2015 1:14 pm

If this is actually what they're thinking about doing, then I'm confounded that I might actually agree with a decision Dave Stewart is going to make:

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/dbacks-p ... nto-focus/

The relevant quote:

The math behind this preference means the that D’Backs could have a financial hammer with their later picks. The pool value for the top pick is about $8 million and the D’Backs full pool is $13.6 million. Rodgers would likely cost at least $6 million at 1-1 and Tate would probably be just below that, but since Whitley and Stephenson don’t have a clear home in the top 7 picks if Arizona passes, they may accept a deal of about $3.5 million. This would shave about $4.5 million off the top pick that could be spent on multiple other picks. Cameron has more interest in the top 10 and would probably ask for a price between Stephenson/Whitley and Tate.

A lot of this decision would have to come down to scouting, but if you're not enamored of the top 1-2 guys in the draft, you can really clean up on the sliders later if you have a guy you can save a huge chunk of your first overall money on (all that leverage that nobody else will have).

Now, I would not let a real A/A+ prospect go to take a couple extra 1.5-2m shots in the draft, but there are lots of years where the difference between the best prep SS, who'll go #1, and the third best prep SS, who'll go #18, isn't really that wide. Of course thinking that way can get you Russ Adams instead of Troy Tulowitzki, which is why it's all down to scouting, but it's certainly an intriguing potentiality that I think a GM should pursue fairly vigorously leading up to the draft if the top 1-3 guys aren't blowing their skirts up.

Post #100 » by **Schad** » Sat May 9, 2015 4:55 pm

That's definitely the way to go, and this is a fascinating draft because there's a weaker top end but quite a bit of talent depth. The Astros could also clean up in the later rounds by going for whichever of the top ten are willing to accept below-slot, because their draft budget is buy-a-presidential-candidate sized.