2014 regular season chatter

Just watched the opener archive, 4 hours late... Arizona needs the NL to pass an emergency DH rule to save them from Trumbo's glove.

are the red-sox supposed to be major contenders again? haven't paid attention to MLB is years now, but now it seems charming again.

i didn't even realize the opener was today! or last night. or whatever.

SYDNEY -- Manager Don Mattingly struggled Friday trying to explain to an Australian reporter, in baseball terms, just what makes Clayton Kershaw so special, when all he really had to say was, 'Just watch.'

Don Mattingly the great ambassador for baseball

"If you stay with us over the course of a season, you'd understand the importance of Clayton," Mattingly said, when given another shot in the postgame news conference.

are the red-sox supposed to be major contenders again?

yep, expected to win the division. if all else fails, you can always check out fangraph's projected standings and amaze your friends with your ability to tell the future

https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/448620720315068416/photo/1

FRANCOEUR TO THE PADRES on a minor league deal

It's good to be the king

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/3/25/5548060/mlb-payroll-2014-dodgers-yankees

braves payroll + marlins payroll + $21.5m = phillies payroll

god can this season finally start already

australia doesn't count

Friend offered me a free ticket to Mets on Monday, but I can't make it back from DC in time! Anyway it might be 50 F, too cold.

mook, the Bucs come to Citi at the end of May, u better go w/ me if I am able.

ok!

if i'm reading this correctly, wilin rosario did not walk after july last season:

http://www.fangraphs.com/statsplits.aspx?playerid=8002&position=C&season=2013

yeah, hoping monday is at least sunny and calm. friend hooked me up w/ tix to the mets opener also. though, i think the seats are swank and come w/ access to all the internal club$ & shit so im not really worried

u bastard :)

working during opening day is going to kill me

Wtf is this "rojos" vs Houston on the 31st on MLB atbat calendar? Assume its the reds..

i dont see that, but it's probably los diablos rojos del mexico (city). they're playing veracruz over the weekend

Is Quentin on the DL @QuentinOnDL
Yes

Brian Wilson is imploding in the 8th and so the Padres took the lead. Fun atmosphere at PETCO.

pads are my fav nl team this year

just wish they'd kill the camo jerseys ugh

I'm used to them at this point

come on baseball, START

http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/assets/4200811/this-is-baseball.gif

poly what are your thoughts on the rizzo/cashner trade? kinda interesting to look at in hindsight

hahahaha that dog

smdh pirates and cubs both wearing alternates on opening day

"Written in the Stars" on repeat all day. So hyped.

poly what are your thoughts on the rizzo/cashner trade? kinda interesting to look at in hindsight

Cashner seems like he could become a workhorse. His velocity is great, but as a pitcher he's still figuring some stuff out.

Rizzo was atrocious in his one season with the Padres, so I'm glad the result of the trade was a legit major league player and not a bag of balls and two PTBNL's.

Braun's first AB is gonna be a home run, calling it now

nope

so f disappointed

retconning every one of braun's 211 home runs as weak popups to LF (strds)

tanner scheppers got j-roll'd

j-roll's hr trot: 25 seconds

Ryan Braun gets a standing ovation from the Milwaukee fans after returning from 65-game suspension

burn milwaukee to the ground imo

jp arencibia just drew a walk off cliff lee

yeah how dare Milwaukee cheer for its star baseball player, for shame

yeah for real; he's all we got cut us a break

this rangers-phillies game might go on for a while

@SarahSpain
I had a feeling #Brewers fans were idiots, but a standing ovation for Lyin' Ryan Braun is a whole new level of stupidity.

Sweet Christ it's going to be a long season

difference between "cheering for a guy" and "standing ovation" come on

Interleague on Opening Day still made me do a double take

Thank you for telling us the exact right amount we should be cheering for him. I was afraid we were supposed to root against him, but now I know we can cheer, if only in polite moderation.

way to get it dude

standing ovation in this case is loaded, most people probably standing up to say "we support you in your recovery from this awful strd infliction you've inflicted on yourself we got yr back" but it's not hard to read it as "hey you got boned we always had your back selig did 9/11"

lol not a single Brewer fan I know things Braun is innocent. we're just glad to have him back. keep in mind this team hadn't made the playoffs for TWENTY SIX YEARS at one point.

Yeah, overwhelming consensus is that Braun is a lying douchebag largely responsible for the hell the team endured last season. But you can understand why fans don't like being ridiculed as backwoods hicks because they're excited to have the star player the team's entire future hinges on back in the lineup after an ugly long absence.

I don't really think Milwaukee should be burned to the ground fwiw

hahaha phew!

but if he relieves and walks someone this weekend, he could lose it!

If Mariners win all four and both the Royals and A's win exactly one game, there will be a play-in game for the play-in game to the playoff game to get in the playoffs. Bud Selig's exoskeleton would split at the seams, and the beetle creature inside would fly away at top speed. "Screw this," he'd click. So that's probably the scenario we should all root for.

twins offered to let hughes relieve and he declined, saying he didn't want to blow his record by walking anyone risk injury

If there was a most improved player award surely Hughes will get it, that jump is spectacular. Also lol yankees.

is 28 too young to win the comeback player of the year award?

obviously jeter wins comeback player after returning from a broken ankle to post numbers that are almost singularly awful

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/09/25/twins-offered-to-give-phil-hughes-his-500000-bonus-and-he-turned-it-down/

Like...he couldn't except it and then make a donation?

Accept, Jesus.

the sign says no solicitors

AZ is turning into the 1989 WS with new GM Dave Stewart taking a job from his old boss Tony LaRussa. Considering the Kirk Gibson shot off Eck, I'm not sure he will be around for much longer. I hope someone like Carney Lansford or some other odd ex-A's guy ends up a coach there.

1988 WS w/Dodgers..89 was quake series.

kluber thus far (unless they pull him) 8 IP, no runs, 11 K

kinda fucked up that i'm rooting for arizona

totally feel you, tuned in to the ARI feed and immediately felt gross. want a Pirates/A's WS though.

(also I'm a cubs fan living in st. louis, the more the crads win the more annoying my office mornings are)

fuckin d-backs are useless

or maybe not!

haha tie game! go Dbacks!

hoping.

https://vine.co/v/OZ1gbUPiLI3

rooting like h*ck for KC and PIT to take their divisions

M's can't get the winning run across in the 9th with bags loaded and no out; on to extras.

I have to go to the NY Film Festival tomw at 3, but i assume there'll be at least one game on Monday.

M's win, so there are three possible game 163's for Monday!

I really hope the powerhouse teams rescue us and smite all this mediocrity in the tournament.

altuve sitting himself to secure the batting title. so lame

supposedly he wants to play and the team is sitting him, but i don't think anyone's buying that

he's starting

aha!

3 games tomorrow would be so fun

Aoki: designated first-inning sac bunter. Escobar: designated stranded runner.

Cole and Cueto are *dealing* in Cinci.

PIT 1 - CIN 1, bottom of the 8th, runner on 3rd, 1 out. WHY IS CUETO BEING ALLOWED TO HIT

reds announcers: "he needs to get his #20"

jesus fucking christ

he got an rbi single.

i should be a manager

And he was removed for a pinch runner!

i think the reds didn't realize that he if a pinch hitter put the reds ahead, Cueto would still be line for the sacred, holy, Win

Waiting for the inevitable Jayson Stark column about pitchers who got a win and a game winning RBI in the same game.

just thankful i don't have to care about the cardinals offense for a day ._.

god texas sucks

Astros Jose Altuve (2014) joins Ty Cobb (1911, 1912, 1917) as the only players in MLB history with 225+ H, 55+ XBH, & 55+ SB in a season.

not bad

HOFer

Waiting for the inevitable Jayson Stark column about pitchers who got a win and a game winning RBI in the same game.

gonna need at least 6000 words for this one

justin morneau is the rockies' ninth batting champion

and is anyone outside of Denver impressed?

His adjusted OPS at home and on the road are identical, and his home/road OBP's are almost the same too. His doubles on the road turned into homers at Coors, but otherwise he was the same hitter no matter where he played.

local tv ratings/audience size

the astros averaged 8,000 viewers per game; the next lowest was the marlins at 27,000

that has to do with their cable deal or smth right? i think not many people actually have the ability to watch those games

hitting coaches dropping like flies as general managers need to be seen doing ~something~

does this go here idk i guess it might be appreciated http://www.clickhole.com/article/wow-scientists-taught-baseball-manager-rudimentary-1223