The Official 2017 Major League Baseball Thread

[Homebrewer]

19 hours ago, m0nkey said:

I thought Joe Nathan was retired, but apparently he's been with the Cubs organization this season.  He made his season debut today

He's just back from TJ, his second. Looked pretty good in AAA. Came back up and had a shaky few batters to start out, then struck out Braun, Lucroy, and Chris Carter and even got the win. 

Cubs added Chapman today also..

[totdprods]

Can you not imagine how effed we would have been if we signed Heyward? $184m for a .630ish OPS. Plenty of length left for him to turn it around still, and his defense is great, but starting off like that, most of this board (and possibly the front office) would have had blown a freaking artery by now.

[Homebrewer]

13 hours ago, totdprods said:

Can you not imagine how effed we would have been if we signed Heyward? $184m for a .630ish OPS. Plenty of length left for him to turn it around still, and his defense is great, but starting off like that, most of this board (and possibly the front office) would have had blown a freaking artery by now.

Heyward was picked up pretty early in the FA process..the Cubs wanted him and they scooped him up. What would have been more likely was Fowler, who was out there until spring. Fowler was cheaper and his numbers would look pretty good in the Angel's outfield.

But none of this really matters does it?

#artesyacht

[Angel Oracle]

When was the previous season where no one was more than 20 games over .500 this late into the season?

Even the Cubs are just 12-19 in their past 31 games.

[m0nkey]

Bryce Harper has just been shitting the bed since april

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 7/25/2016 at 8:38 PM, totdprods said:

Can you not imagine how effed we would have been if we signed Heyward? $184m for a .630ish OPS. Plenty of length left for him to turn it around still, and his defense is great, but starting off like that, most of this board (and possibly the front office) would have had blown a freaking artery by now.

if we had signed him, it would have been for more, and we would have been praying that he cluld get up to a .630 ops.

[ten ocho recon scout]

14 hours ago, m0nkey said:

Bryce Harper has just been shitting the bed since april

im not a harper basher by any stretch. i think hes a badass. but i take a bit a pleasure in seeing that, just because of all the pundits who declared him better than trout circa week 3 of the season. the few takes i saw werent of the "its close, but id take harper". they were more of the "no offense to trout, but harper is clearly the better player".

so again, nothing against harper, just funny to see so many experts jump on nuts after a hot start

[m0nkey]

He's down to .237. How low can he go 

[fan_since79]

from ESPN:

Aroldis Chapman threw 13 fastballs in his Cubs debut last night.

101 101 102 101 102 101 103 101 101 100 100 102 103

[Homebrewer]

5 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

from ESPN:

Aroldis Chapman threw 13 fastballs in his Cubs debut last night.

101 101 102 101 102 101 103 101 101 100 100 102 103

That looks just like the expected temperatures in my area forecast for the next 2 weeks 

[Inside Pitch]

Bradford DoolittleESPN Staff Writer 

The Mariners finally get a well-pitched inning -- from infielder Luis Sardinas, who moved over from first and got the Cubs in order in the eighth. Chicago leads 12-0.

That may be one of the douchiest sentences every written but I LOLed...

[Dick B Back]

Tigers finally starting to roll.

[Dick B Back]

7 hours ago, Dick B Back said:

Tigers finally starting to roll.

And Miggy is hot!

[Dick B Back]

Dogs had Howie hit leadoff today. They shoulda done their homework, he K'd 3 times.

[Oz27]

1 hour ago, Dick B Back said:

Dogs had Howie hit leadoff today. They shoulda done their homework, he K'd 3 times.

He has a .987 OPS in July. It makes sense for them trying to be get him lots of ABs.

[Inside Pitch]

Waiting patiently for someone to suggest Maddon is a genius for calling for a suicide bunt...  because our manager wouldn't ever do that....

That was VERY fun game to watch.

[Oz27]

27 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

Waiting patiently for someone to suggest Maddon is a genius for calling for a suicide bunt...  because our manager wouldn't ever do that....

That was VERY fun game to watch.

Hell yeah it was fun to watch. I love seeing Maddon using the 'rotating pitcher in LF' recently. It's a pretty good idea for a NL team.

[Dick B Back]

9 hours ago, Oz27 said:

He has a .987 OPS in July. It makes sense for them trying to be get him lots of ABs.

Not from the leadoff spot he didn't. Us Angel fans know it just doesn't ever work out.

By the way, for all his faults, I'm a Howie fan.

[Homebrewer]

Kershaw moved to the 60 day DL.

http://www.thescore.com/news/1069099

[Dick B Back]

Beltran hit a HR for Texas... that didn't take long.

[Homebrewer]

With the walk-off comeback to sweep the Marlins, the Cubs are 7 of the last 8.

 

[Dick B Back]

It would be fun to watch a Cubs-Tigers series right now.

[Homebrewer]

1 hour ago, Dick B Back said:

It would be fun to watch a Cubs-Tigers series right now.

Thinking of heading down to watch the Arietta-Gray matchup in Oakland Saturday.

Cheap seats and lots of Cubs fans...might be fun

 

[Dick B Back]

Machado with 3 HRs today in the first 3 innings!

[TooCool]

I'm happy for Ichiro and his 3000 MLB hits.

Not sure if any of you are into card collecting. I'm not a collector by any means, but I'm aware of this website and I'll likely drop $10 to buy the Ichiro card when it's available tomorrow.

https://www.topps.com/collectibles/trading-cards/topps-now.html/