Official 2021 Major League Baseball (News, Notes & Scores around the League)

[Angel Oracle]

AL West #1 division in MLB currently, 12 games over .500

AL currently 13 games over .500 against NL opponents 

Edited June 23, 2021 by Angel Oracle

[Angelsjunky]

Nice debut for the phenom: Wander Franco with a three-run HR and a walk. What a beast, and only 20 years old.

A bit more...as I've said, I really think Franco belongs in the same class as Tatis, Vlad, Soto, and Acuna, who I think will be the five best position players of the post-Trout era. If I had to guess who would accumulate the most WAR over this decade (2020-29), it would be these five. Anyhow, I think Wander has the best pure hit tool - he's going to hit .330+ regularly and win some batting titles. I see him as more of a 25 HR guy, but he's going to hit 40+ doubles and maybe get to 10+ triples. 

Edited June 23, 2021 by Angelsjunky

[m0nkey]

2 hours ago, Chuckster70 said:

 

 

 

[T.G.]

3 hours ago, Angelsjunky said:

Nice debut for the phenom: Wander Franco with a three-run HR and a walk. What a beast, and only 20 years old.

A bit more...as I've said, I really think Franco belongs in the same class as Tatis, Vlad, Soto, and Acuna, who I think will be the five best position players of the post-Trout era. If I had to guess who would accumulate the most WAR over this decade (2020-29), it would be these five. Anyhow, I think Wander has the best pure hit tool - he's going to hit .330+ regularly and win some batting titles. I see him as more of a 25 HR guy, but he's going to hit 40+ doubles and maybe get to 10+ triples. 

He's doomed now.

[ScottT]

Girardi is a douche. Romo is a clown.  

What's the big deal?

[ScottT]

Max Scherzer had "zero feel on the baseball tonight"

He threw five innings, gave up two hits, one run (a home run).... walked three, struck out eight

Fuck these guys

[ScottT]

Grow up, baseball 

[Stradling]

2 hours ago, ScottT said:

Grow up, baseball 

Hypocrite

[Taylor]

10 hours ago, True Grich said:

He's doomed now.

It only "works" if the player is on the Angels.

[Chuck]

Go Padres!!! Up 5-3. 

LOL at the Padres fan giving the Dodgers fan the finger! 

 

[Docwaukee]

https://sports.yahoo.com/red-sox-garrett-richards-needs-122834730.html

[arch stanton]

If we could come up with a pitcher who has Richards' arm and Weaver's tenacity we might have something

[Lou]

8 hours ago, Dochalo said:

https://sports.yahoo.com/red-sox-garrett-richards-needs-122834730.html

It really sucks when they won't let you cheat. 

[Lou]

4 Cubs pitchers no-hit the dodgers.

[Taylor]

Richards needs to STFU and just pitch.

 

[Angelsjunky]

I was secretly hoping that Trevor Bauer would implode with this new rule, but after a poor (for him) start, he's adjusted over the last two.

[rafibomb]

It's only the 4th inning and Fernando Tatis Jr. has already hit 3 home-runs

 

 

[Inside Pitch]

Poor dude.

[Angel Oracle]

Really sad, Soroka was on his way to having a really solid career.

[rafibomb]

 

 

[Taylor]

Lol Mariners

[m0nkey]

Gerrit Cole got lit up and the Yankees get swept in Boston. Don’t know if Boone lasts the season if they keep having disappointing series like this 

[m0nkey]

Sure it’s Yadier Molina running , but KeBryan Hayes with a Chapmanesque play.  

 

[Taylor]

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31721358/should-gerrit-cole-bad-month-worry-new-york-yankees

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That pitch was a 96 mph four-seam fastball with a spin rate of 2,414 revolutions per minute, and it was deposited into the first row of seats above the Green Monster in left field at Fenway Park. It was hit by Boston Red Sox infielder Enrique Hernandez. It was caught by a fan wearing a Yankees T-shirt and cap, who seemed way too happy about catching a home run ball coughed up by his team's best pitcher.

That fan perhaps did not know that Cole had never given up a first-pitch homer. He could not know that later that inning, Cole would be touched up for a three-run shot off the bat of Rafael Devers -- on an 0-2 count -- and that Cole had never before allowed two first-inning homers. He could not know that Cole would later give up a third dinger (to J.D. Martinez) and would leave after five innings having allowed six runs (five earned). He could not know that Cole's 4.65 June ERA is his worst during a month since he was with the Pittsburgh Pirates back in 2017.

[Lou]

That would be awesome if the Yankees spent all that money and Cole sucks the rest of his career.

I know, wishful thinking.