The Official 2018 Major League Baseball Thread

[m0nkey]

How did Blake Snell not make the all star team?

[Dick B Back]

14 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

How did Blake Snell not make the all star team?

They haven’t announced the pitchers yet. He will.

[Lou]

19 minutes ago, Dick B Back said:

They haven’t announced the pitchers yet. He will.

Ummmm........

[Dick B Back]

34 minutes ago, Lou said:

Ummmm........

Oops, missed the pitchers being named. Snell probably missed out because every team has to have a player so guys less deserving like Happ and Berrios were selected.

I would imagine if a pitcher or two or three is/are unable to play, he would get the call to be a replacement.

[zenmaster]

10 hours ago, m0nkey said:

How did Blake Snell not make the all star team?

Because he's on a team that no one cares about. Don't the players vote for pitchers? Guess the players suck at voting just as much as the fans do.

[nando714]

16 hours ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

C.J. Cron .244/.320/.455/.775 -17 HR - 42 RBI

J. Upton .248/.339/.437/.775 -17 HR - 45 RBI
Valbuena .211/.256/.354/.610 - 9 HR - 30 RBI
Jose Marte .253/.301/.425/.726 - 3 HR - 10 RBI
Calhoun    .172/.219/.262/.481 - 5 HR - 20 RBI
Ian Kinsler .215/.277/.377/.654 - 11 - 22 RBI
A. Pujols .243/.281/.393/.675/ - 12 HR- 45 RBI        
Maldonado .242/.304/.364/.668 - 5 HR- 32 RBI
Zack Cozart .219/.296/.362/658 - 5 HR -18 RBI
C. Young .168/.252/.363/.615 - 6 HR - 13 RBI

I hated cron but I guess playing in the AL East ballparks more often does help. 

[zenmaster]

CJ Cron last 28 days

.194 / .282 / .355 / .637 - 2 homers 6 rbi (19 games)

and his numbers are only this high because of his hot start to July. He hit .130 in June in 22 games.

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

1 hour ago, zenmaster said:

CJ Cron last 28 days

.194 / .282 / .355 / .637 - 2 homers 6 rbi (19 games)

and his numbers are only this high because of his hot start to July. He hit .130 in June in 22 games.

Still better than 70% of what we have now. He will have 30 HR at end of the season and plays better defense than Luis or Marte.

Edited July 9, 2018 by Ace-Of-Diamonds

[arch stanton]

5 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Still better than 70% of what we have now. He will have 30 HR at end of the season and plays better defense than Luis or Marte.

How can you tell he plays better defense when he's never played 3B?

[Stradling]

11 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Still better than 70% of what we have now. He will have 30 HR at end of the season and plays better defense than Luis or Marte.

I am assuming he plays a really bad third base.  

[zenmaster]

14 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Still better than 70% of what we have now. He will have 30 HR at end of the season and plays better defense than Luis or Marte.

CJ playing 3rd would be fun...

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

7 minutes ago, arch stanton said:

How can you tell he plays better defense when he's never played 3B?

Obviously better 1B defense but nice try.

[arch stanton]

2 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Obviously better 1B defense but nice try.

The entire point of trading him was his lack of versatility and his lack of being anything worth noticing when he's not around

[Stradling]

There was no place on this roster for a guy who can only play one position.  Hell even Albert has logged games at 3rd base for us.  

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

2 hours ago, The Boogie Man said:

There was no place on this roster for a guy who can only play one position.  Hell even Albert has logged games at 3rd base for us.  

How many and how long ago.

Forget Cron, surely we could do better than Luis or Marte. Fortunately they will both be gone next season. Same goes for Young and some others. On defense Luis and Marte are not good and neither is their offense. You seem to care more about versatility than offense, in that case Cowart can play every position on the IF and even some OF. He has the arm to play RF. I'm sure he could match Luis' .211/.256/.354/.610, also.

[Dick B Back]

2 hours ago, zenmaster said:

CJ playing 3rd would be fun...

Kinda like Trumbo.

[Dick B Back]

On 7/7/2018 at 9:50 PM, Dick B Back said:

Mark Reynolds today with 5 hits, 2 HRs, 10 ribbies versus the miserable Jeters.

Oh yeah, Harper 3 for 3 to put him at a whopping .219 AVG.

So, one day after having 10 RBIs, Reynolds pitches a clean third of an inning. Not many players can say they’ve done that.

[Taylor]

The A'th are 10 games above .500.

When the heck did that happen?

[Dick B Back]

Wow, they Royals have 4 starters that have enough innings to qualify that have an ERA above 5.

I guess we shouldn’t bitch.

[Stradling]

5 minutes ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

How many and how long ago.

Forget Cron, surely we could do better than Luis or Marte. Fortunately they will both be gone next season. Same goes for Young and some others. On defense Luis and Marte are not good and neither is their offense. You seem to care more about versatility than offense, in that case Cowart can play every position on the IF and even some OF. He has the arm to play RF. I'm sure he could match Luis' .211/.256/.354/.610, also.

Hey, I am not sure where my opinion came into play but ok.  The team was not going to have non versatile players on a short bench.  My opinion is different.  I would have had Cowart up instead of Marte.  I would have given Valbuena 2-3 months this year to see if his second half was a fluke or not from last year.  Once I realized it was a fluke I would have brought up someone like Fletcher or Ward (assuming he was ready).  As for the outfield, we started with Young, I would have given both Hermosillo and Blash a chance, then I would probably call up EYjr and released either Blash or Young.  So those are my actual opinions.  My opinion of Cron is simple, he is a one dimensional player that has no place on a team with a short bench.

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, Dick B Back said:

Wow, they Royals have 4 starters that have enough innings to qualify that have an ERA above 5.

I guess we shouldn’t bitch.

Oh we can still bitch.  Has Yost ever pulled any of them out of a game "early"?

[fan_since79]

20 hours ago, WeatherWonk said:

Is he actually worse than what we are getting at 1st? If so, dat be bad.

.721 OPS in 36 games with the Twins' AAA team this year, .187 BA. 1 strikeout every 3 at-bats.

He's done.

[Dick B Back]

17 minutes ago, The Boogie Man said:

Oh we can still bitch.  Has Yost ever pulled any of them out of a game "early"?

I don’t know. You’d have to ask this guy...

 

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, Dick B Back said:

I don’t know. You’d have to ask this guy...

 

well you know he will never say a negative word about a manager on a team he is working for.  

[hangin n wangin]

23 minutes ago, Taylor said:

The A'th are 10 games above .500.

When the heck did that happen?

We suck dick. That's what happened.