gehringer_2

LOLMAGA. They used to say the one advantage of being truthful is that it's a lot easier to remember your story. Trump told the tale, now he has to come up with a retcon.

No doubt - I think the strategy plays for multiple reasons: There are more bases available at more points in the game to take on 1st to 3rds than by stolen base. You don't always have a base stealer on base when you need the base. More players have good enough speed 1st to third than have the sprint talent for the straight steal or the quickness to get a big enough lead without getting picked off. Base stealing requires rarer skills than taking extra bases. Pitchers and catchers can do a lot to take away the steal when they are looking for it. Outfielders are not suddenly going to get more skilled when they are challenged. If anything you take them out of their comfort zone in a way that you aren't for a catcher - who probably wouldn't be there if he didn't at have at least a reasonable game throwing to 2nd.

Mengele maybe...

IRod and Mike Maroth? Those were days, eh?

Merrick Garland will go down as the Neville Chamberlain of the Biden Admin.

Nothing worse for a bad relationship than having more time to spend together!

McGonigle has been promoted twice in 600PA, three times if you count only staying at the FCL for two weeks, so it's not like he won't move a player that is showing enough. Probably more a matter of not moving players who shouldn't be just because you have a hole they can fill.

the question is whether with the sell out approach he has opened holes in his plate coverage that pitchers are starting to exploit more effectively, meaning that he won't be able to maintain overall production until he makes another adjustment. the other possibility is he is nursing an injury. This started pretty suddenly. He was cruising until the 2nd game of the Oakland series and is 9 for 58 with 23 K's since.

If Maybin hadn't suffered so many injuries, that trade might look a little less lopsided. Be that as it may, if you look at a trade today - it's the pitcher who is much less likely to be able to stay on the field, so even though the Marlins had bad luck with Maybin's health, today the odds are the team getting the pitcher is more at risk.

but Riley's swing and miss is up ~20% from his career avg, so maybe he doesn't need to be so streaky.

All pitchers today are ticking time bombs, DeGrom takes it to another level. He may help a team win a WS, he may blow out his arm for the 4th and final time tomorrow.

It was very amusing that ESPN did something like 5,000 words recently on the Mets now being a 1st class org and how both NY teams were now dominant in their leagues, just in time for both to fall out of 1st place....🤣

The NFL cap is hard, and getting under the cap is the reason for a lot of trades in the first place - there are no exemptions to keep your own players, so for those teams, taking salary back is the last thing they want to do as it defeats the objective of the trade. Also, since there are 6 rounds in an NFL draft and a decent GM will get good players out of 3,4 or even 5, you get more trades for just picks with no player (or salary) on the other side at all.

I think it actually started at MLive.

If vis is really bad (fog level) and I've slowed and I think the guy coming up behind me could clobber me, OK. Otherwise if you are moving with traffic I say keep them off. In A^2 the bus drivers have taken to driving their buses with their flashers on - just stupidity. You know I just might like to know which the hell way you are taking your 55ft barge at the next corner or when you are across from me at an intersection.....Do you think I can't see your BUS!

Reese at least has already done pretty will under playoff pressure. Two starts last fall - 9 IP, 2ER 8K. ERA 2.00. No decisions. They lost both games after Reese had left the mound.

Time for Riley to get his **** back together. He's on a 2/27 with 16K downward spiral.

and such a jerk. Even if he had no idea that English was the language of Liberia, It's tasteless and condescending to make that kind of comment regardless. He will always be trailer trash under the silk suit.

I actually first got it from Romad, but it's been a favorite of mine ever since.

During Harris' booth visit yesterday he was pretty emphatic that they believe in young players accumulating PAs. They believe depth of MiLB experience equates to less unproductive time when guys are eventually called up. So their basic approach is that they aren't even trying to move guys at the max rate they can or could.

The thing with Zep is that they were so much more than the sum of their parts that there isn't really any rational explanation for how they were what they were.

Riley is not in a good place recently. He's hit a couple of HRs but otherwise is hitting about a buck fifty for July

Mandy-Rice-Davies; who once famously said "Well, he would (say that), wouldn't he?"

We all love McK, but I still wouldn't play him at SS too often.

all started with the Ump squeezing Reese on two good high fastballs.