2019 Official Baseball Season Thread

[Gil Dobie]

Trace rumors, Twins are looking at Bumgarner and Smith from the Giants for 2 top prospects. Both pitchers would be rentals.

[Chizzang]

Trace rumors, Twins are looking at Bumgarner and Smith from the Giants for 2 top prospects. Both pitchers would be rentals.

Danger!
The SF Giants are pretty damned savvy
be extra cautious when dealing with a team that has won 3 world series in the past decade

they rarely get the bad end of a trade

[GannonFan]

Trace rumors, Twins are looking at Bumgarner and Smith from the Giants for 2 top prospects. Both pitchers would be rentals.

Danger!
The SF Giants are pretty damned savvy
be extra cautious when dealing with a team that has won 3 world series in the past decade

they rarely get the bad end of a trade

Different era now - Giants haven't won a WS in 5 years and don't look to be on the precipice of winning another one anytime soon.

[CAA Flagship]

Trace rumors, Twins are looking at Bumgarner and Smith from the Giants for 2 top prospects. Both pitchers would be rentals.

Danger!
The SF Giants are pretty damned savvy
be extra cautious when dealing with a team that has won 3 world series in the past decade

they rarely get the bad end of a trade

That's a strange franchise. They made the playoffs only 4 times in the last 15 years......and won 3 World Series titles. Below .500 in 7 of those seasons. Feast or Famine.

[Chizzang]

Danger!
The SF Giants are pretty damned savvy
be extra cautious when dealing with a team that has won 3 world series in the past decade

they rarely get the bad end of a trade

That's a strange franchise. They made the playoffs only 4 times in the last 15 years......and won 3 World Series titles. Below .500 in 7 of those seasons. Feast or Famine.

They flush their player inventory regularly
they're 2 years away from being pretty damn good again - just watch
and they will absolutely molest the Twins who might be too hungry to win now

[AshevilleApp]

David Price got the win as Boston completes a sweep in Detroit. Five of the Tigers starting pitchers from 2014 (Verlander, Scherzer, Porcello, Sanchez and Price) have won for other teams at Comerica Park this season. Shit.

[Gil Dobie]

David Price got the win as Boston completes a sweep in Detroit. Five of the Tigers starting pitchers from 2014 (Verlander, Scherzer, Porcello, Sanchez and Price) have won for other teams at Comerica Park this season. ****.

Tough year, at least Cabrera's bat is better this year, as a permanent DH.

[Chizzang]

Good thing we're back to the All-Star game not meaning anything again...
because the NL would be playing as the visitor in the World Series eternally

[CAA Flagship]

RP Daniel Hudson traded to Nats. Knew he was going somewhere. Thought it would be Nats or Phils.

[89Hen]

RP Daniel Hudson traded to Nats. Knew he was going somewhere. Thought it would be Nats or Phils.

Not enough. Nats drop another to the Braves today after coming back to tie in the bottom of the 9th.

[Ivytalk]

That Reds-Pirates brawl last night provided more amusement than the whole Democratic debate.

Yasiel Puig is a punk, wherever he plays.

[CAA Flagship]

RP Daniel Hudson traded to Nats. Knew he was going somewhere. Thought it would be Nats or Phils.

Not enough. Nats drop another to the Braves today after coming back to tie in the bottom of the 9th.

Hudson comes in in the bottom of the 6th with runners on 1st and 3rd and one out. Gets out of it with a K and a 4-3 groundout. Nats tie it up at 5 in the top of the 7th...........then Wander Suero blows it. Nats lose 7-5.

[89Hen]

Not enough. Nats drop another to the Braves today after coming back to tie in the bottom of the 9th.

Hudson comes in in the bottom of the 6th with runners on 1st and 3rd and one out. Gets out of it with a K and a 4-3 groundout. Nats tie it up at 5 in the top of the 7th...........then Wander Suero blows it. Nats lose 7-5.

Good shutout win over Giants last night, but Nats are slipping again. Phils and Nats tied for 1st WC, 6 behind Braves.

[tribe_pride]

Hudson comes in in the bottom of the 6th with runners on 1st and 3rd and one out. Gets out of it with a K and a 4-3 groundout. Nats tie it up at 5 in the top of the 7th...........then Wander Suero blows it. Nats lose 7-5.

Good shutout win over Giants last night, but Nats are slipping again. Phils and Nats tied for 1st WC, 6 behind Braves.

And 5 teams within 4 games of the WC spot - STL (.5 back), Brewers (2 back), Mets (2.5 back), Diamondbacks and Giants (3.5 back).

Mets the hottest team of the group lately but against the easiest schedule so may change soon when they play for the remainder of August: 3 against Nats, 6 against Braves, 3 against Cubs, 2 against Phils, and 3 against Cleveland with only easy ones being 3 against KC and 2 more against Miami

[CAA Flagship]

Good shutout win over Giants last night, but Nats are slipping again. Phils and Nats tied for 1st WC, 6 behind Braves.

And 5 teams within 4 games of the WC spot - STL (.5 back), Brewers (2 back), Mets (2.5 back), Diamondbacks and Giants (3.5 back).

Mets the hottest team of the group lately but against the easiest schedule so may change soon when they play for the remainder of August: 3 against Nats, 6 against Braves, 3 against Cubs, 2 against Phils, and 3 against Cleveland with only easy ones being 3 against KC and 2 more against Miami

[Ivytalk]

And 5 teams within 4 games of the WC spot - STL (.5 back), Brewers (2 back), Mets (2.5 back), Diamondbacks and Giants (3.5 back).

Mets the hottest team of the group lately but against the easiest schedule so may change soon when they play for the remainder of August: 3 against Nats, 6 against Braves, 3 against Cubs, 2 against Phils, and 3 against Cleveland with only easy ones being 3 against KC and 2 more against Miami

Do you like the Mucking Futz? Worst mascot in baseball.

[CAA Flagship]

Do you like the Mucking Futz? Worst mascot in baseball.

No, but that picture cracks me up.

[Ivytalk]

Do you like the Mucking Futz? Worst mascot in baseball.

No, but that picture cracks me up.

The Mutts, unlike the Philthies, have good starting pitching. That’s been a big difference,

[89Hen]

The Mutts, unlike the Philthies, have good starting pitching.

Nats are about to find out. Mets big three are all pitching the upcoming weekend series.

[93henfan]

Yanks @ White Sox will play an official game at the Field of Dreams in Iowa in 2020 on my birthday (Aug 13). That'll be interesting, especially if it rains. I was just there last year and it's all dirt roads. They're installing temporary seating for 8,000. I assume they'll be busing them in. There's not really a lot of parking there.

[dbackjon]

Yanks @ White Sox will play an official game at the Field of Dreams in Iowa in 2020 on my birthday (Aug 13). That'll be interesting, especially if it rains. I was just there last year and it's all dirt roads. They're installing temporary seating for 8,000. I assume they'll be busing them in. There's not really a lot of parking there.

I think Ivy should take you there for your birthday

[93henfan]

Correction on my first post. They're building a whole new field for this about 150 yards beyond left field of the current field of dreams. Just saw the graphic on Around the Horn.

Kind of lame

[UNI88]

Yanks @ White Sox will play an official game at the Field of Dreams in Iowa in 2020 on my birthday (Aug 13). That'll be interesting, especially if it rains. I was just there last year and it's all dirt roads. They're installing temporary seating for 8,000. I assume they'll be busing them in. There's not really a lot of parking there.

I dropped an Andy in the portajohn there while driving back to Chicago after the UNI/EWU game. It was a neutron bomb level event.

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[93henfan]

Yanks @ White Sox will play an official game at the Field of Dreams in Iowa in 2020 on my birthday (Aug 13). That'll be interesting, especially if it rains. I was just there last year and it's all dirt roads. They're installing temporary seating for 8,000. I assume they'll be busing them in. There's not really a lot of parking there.

I dropped an Andy in the portajohn there while driving back to Chicago after the UNI/EWU game. It was a neutron bomb level event.

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Yep. It's behind that upper right-most red building. I saw it.

[Chizzang]

Good god the orioles are sinking even lower than the low they were expected to hit...



Preseason: The orioles are going to be really bad
Yesterday: The orioles are somehow worse than we anticipated