2018 All-Star goings-on (Washington DC)

I would go to the Futures Game, and this:

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/jay-jaffe-and-keith-law-in-washington-dc-july-14/

btw as usual there are many discounted tix available on the secondary market for the Futures Game (Sunday 7/15 at 4pm). Is anyone in the region up for going?

Rosters for the 2018 @SIRIUSXM All-Star Futures Game include 15 first round Draft picks. The World roster represents 8 different countries & territories outside the U.S. The 20th Futures Game will be played on Sunday, 7/15 at Nationals Park at 4:00 pm ET on @MLBNetwork. pic.twitter.com/mzdAN3Gbca

— MLB Communications (@MLB_PR) July 6, 2018

Peter Alonso!

vote Muncy

Brad Hand has made as many all-star teams as Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven.

— Kazuto Yamazaki (@Kazuto_Yamazaki) July 9, 2018

I’ve always had a soft spot for every team having an #AllStarGame rep, but Salvador Perez making it with a .213 BA and .255 OBP might have put me over the edge. Then again, the players voted him onto the team. The fans routinely do a better job than players now with their picks.

— Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) July 9, 2018

The official scorer for the 2018 All-Star Game will be MLB’s Washington, DC-based scorer Ben Trittipoe. MLB DC-based official scorer Dennis Hetrick will have scoring duties for the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game.

no Ichiro

https://www.mlb.com/news/2018-home-run-derby-field/c-285370616

hi we're the replacements

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2018/7/12/17566320/mlb-all-star-game-rosters-2018-replacement-players

francisco cervelli got jobbed

Can honestly say #Mets prospect Peter Alonso just hit a HR that #statcast may not have seen.

Exit velo: 113.6 mph
Launch angle: *46 degrees
Distance: 415 feet

No @MLB player has hit a HR with that kind of height AND exit velocity since the tracking technology launched in 2015.

— Matt Kelly (@mattkellyMLB) July 15, 2018

Does this count as #CRUSHED?! @PeterAlonso20 with an absolute moonshot in the All-Star #FuturesGame! pic.twitter.com/uuxiolaJ1p

— New York Mets (@Mets) July 15, 2018

Sale v Scherzer btw

Rain?

Rain stopped hours ago. Latest I heard was that more rain may be expected, but no one had decided to delay the game.

who gets the ceremonial pitch? Rod Rosenstein?

someone from the military presumably

https://ethicsalarms.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/william-howard-taft.jpg

bradley cooper is narrating a short-film before the all-star game which honors the military, including introductions to 29 different medal of honor recipients by name

i didn't think it was possible, but the partnership between MLB and the military is somehow getting even stronger and all-encompassing

probly a prereq of the Fox contract

will try to stay with this through deGrom's stint

oh godddd, don't do the television interviews on the way to the batter's box thing this year again, nooooo

hey, Smoltz has given the Cy to Scherzer already

dickhead

shoulda started Jake

Well...

hey, no shame giving one up to the greatest player of all time.

Buck really can ruin anything. Good night.

i didn't think it was possible, but the partnership between MLB and the military is somehow getting even stronger and all-encompassing

About that...

https://nypost.com/2018/07/16/ex-mets-assistant-lashes-out-at-team-over-cowardly-firing/

“I don’t feel like I am the morality police and tell people how to observe Memorial Day properly,” Francona said Monday in a phone interview with The Post. “Major League Baseball has proactively waded into these waters and I think [criticism] is fair when you are going to sell apparel. They are explicitly marketing this as Memorial Day and tying it to the memory of dead soldiers.”

blame joey votto

Segura kicking the cooler was awesome