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When do yo think the MLB regular season will start?

On time
- 1 (33.3%)
Late, but on or before April 15th
- 0 (0%)
April 16th through April 30th
- 0 (0%)
May 1st through May 15th
- 2 (66.7%)
May 16th through May 31st
- 0 (0%)
Jun1st through June 15th
- 0 (0%)
June 16th through June 30th
- 0 (0%)
After June 30th
- 0 (0%)
No Season
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 3

Voting closed: February 13, 2022, 10:41:25 PM


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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #4590 on: June 16, 2021, 12:32:14 PM »
Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 16, 2021, 08:58:53 AM
Sawamura a real find

Can Sox - as mediocre as they are - hold on to a playoff spot?

Baseball karma would say no, we'll see
Well, the Sox are 4 up on us, and we are one Aaron Civale blister away from a pitching staff comprising nothing but relie ears, so I'd say it is a safe bet.

Or did you mean a different shade of Sox?

According to some rumors there may soon be a third color of sox in MLB.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #4591 on: June 16, 2021, 01:40:58 PM »
Quote from: josh on June 15, 2021, 11:00:20 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 15, 2021, 10:05:36 PM
Yankees playing a home game in Buffalo. Don't think that MLB didn't know that was going to happen.

I'm sure they did, but what was the alternative?

Test market in Nashville would've worked.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #4592 on: June 16, 2021, 01:49:12 PM »
Don't you think there would far more people in Nashville rooting for the Yankees than were rooting for Toronto as well? 
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« Reply #4593 on: June 16, 2021, 03:57:54 PM »
Quote from: Yankguy1 on June 16, 2021, 01:49:12 PM
Don't you think there would far more people in Nashville rooting for the Yankees than were rooting for Toronto as well?

Not necessarily, no.
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« Reply #4594 on: June 16, 2021, 04:15:26 PM »
Okay. 
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #4595 on: June 16, 2021, 04:26:38 PM »
For those who like to play around at baseball ref, and check stats, they made some recent changes

https://www.baseball-reference.com/negro-leagues-are-major-leagues.shtml

The Negro Leagues are Major Leagues. We have dramatically expanded our coverage of the Negro Leagues and historical Black major league players. Read our Announcement
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #4596 on: June 16, 2021, 05:07:12 PM »
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 16, 2021, 01:40:58 PM
Quote from: josh on June 15, 2021, 11:00:20 PM
Quote from: Hamilton Samuels on June 15, 2021, 10:05:36 PM
Yankees playing a home game in Buffalo. Don't think that MLB didn't know that was going to happen.

I'm sure they did, but what was the alternative?

Test market in Nashville would've worked.

Not really. 10,000 capacity vs. 16,600 capacity. Need to negotiate for permission with a different franchise. Proximity to Toronto. More than sufficient to make the Buffalo option superior, even without the dance over the AAA season being played at First Horizon Park.

Nor did Milwaukee have as ready an alternative as Trenton for their AAA franchise to shift to, as had the Bisons stayed in Buffalo, there would not have been room for another team in their AAA sub-league.

Nashville was among many options considered and rejected.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #4597 on: June 16, 2021, 08:49:15 PM »
Tough day for de Grom - K'ed 8 of the first 9, then out of the game w/a shoulder injury.
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« Reply #4598 on: June 16, 2021, 09:50:20 PM »
It was Bungle in the Jungle for today's Braves starter, Ian Anderson.

But we'll see whether it is the Sox staff that is thick as a brick.
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« Reply #4599 on: June 16, 2021, 10:51:36 PM »
sports fans in Atlanta are having themeslves a night

I hope one comeback is sufficient
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #4600 on: June 16, 2021, 11:54:37 PM »
Quote from: bankshot1 on June 16, 2021, 10:51:36 PM
sports fans in Atlanta are having themeslves a night

I hope one comeback is sufficient

Seems to have been!
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #4601 on: June 17, 2021, 09:11:56 AM »
Quote from: josh on June 16, 2021, 08:49:15 PM
Tough day for de Grom - K'ed 8 of the first 9, then out of the game w/a shoulder injury.

heh


(note - 2 other pitchers in history have struck out 8 in 3 innings and left the game - but both were on losing end)

Bruce Chen
Rich Harden


Historic season for JDG.  I hope he is clean.


Degrom also drove in another run - is 11 for 26 and has 6 RBI vs 4 earned runs allowed


Mets in good shape.


Re:  NL MVP vote

Vegas had DeGrom at 40-1 odds entering the season.  He is now at 2-1.
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« Reply #4602 on: June 17, 2021, 10:29:46 AM »
Keeping in mind one of the key baseball maxims put forth in the movie "Bull Durham" that "strikeouts are fascist", Zack Wheeler is the leading fascist in the NL in Ks with 118. If he was still with the Mets, he and DeGrom (111Ks) would have a combined 229 Ks at this juncture.

Wheeler is also leading the NL in innings pitched, adding value to his team in a way that no Mets pitcher is currently doing, and he is tied for the NL lead in quality starts with 11.

Last night, Wheeler outdueled Clayton Kershaw, though it was without his best stuff, yielding 4 walks, 5 hits, and only 6Ks in 6 IP. Wheeler has 14 scoreless innings pitched in the last two outings, holding Atlanta without a run in eight innings last week.

Thanks for letting him go, NYMets. 

 He has always had good stuff, but it looks like now he has learned how to pitch.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #4603 on: June 17, 2021, 10:38:59 AM »
Wheeler was a Mets mistake - as I said at the time.  Made less so by the work of M Stroman and emergence this year of T Walker.

Phils on outside looking in

Wild card hopefuls

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Mil
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Cincy
LAD
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« Reply #4604 on: June 17, 2021, 10:58:37 AM »
Quote from: kidcarter8 on June 17, 2021, 10:38:59 AM
Wheeler was a Mets mistake - as I said at the time.  Made less so by the work of M Stroman and emergence this year of T Walker.

Phils on outside looking in

Wild card hopefuls

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Mil
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Cincy
LAD
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Boston
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June 17.

If the Phils ever get the entire starting team on the field at the same time for an extended period of time, things will change rapidly. They are still very much in the NLE "race".

Heard some discussion about Scherzer to SF. If that happens, that will certainly shake up the NLW in a way that could leave SD or LA on the outside.
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