2016 Official Major League Baseball Thread
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Fast forward that to 162 and i would settle for .280 25hr and 85 rbi for the next 10 years and oh yea, handling the pitching staff as well as he has and with that gun of an arm he is the ultimate Jorge Posada replacement we have been looking for. Ahhhhhhh it is fun to dream but hey, sometimes dreams do come true, Doc went to a gangbang 
Like Kevin Maas? Shane Spencer? Joe Pepitone? Yes i was listening to Ma and Pa calling the game last night lol...(Sterling and Waldman)
Sanchez has been a highly prized prospect since the Yankees signed him at age 16 out of Dominican Republic. The Yankees showed great patience in nurturing his talent. He is not going to flame out due to a lack of talent. He may get hurt, but if healthy, he is around to stay in the majors for a long time.
BTW he led the Arizona Fall League in HRs last year and was the MVP of the Fall Stars Game. It's not like he came out of nowhere, he has been touted for the last 5 years as the best hitting prospect the Yankees have had in quite some time.
BTW he led the Arizona Fall League in HRs last year and was the MVP of the Fall Stars Game. It's not like he came out of nowhere, he has been touted for the last 5 years as the best hitting prospect the Yankees have had in quite some time.
Jays in NY to face the Yankees today. I'm anxious to see what the young Yankee hitters will do against R.A. Dickey's knuckleball. Anxious to see what Gary Sanchez is all about. Go Jays!
Some excellent baseball being played in the Boogie Down Bronx these days. Great pitching by the Yanks tonight.
Yanks are just 2.5 out of the final wild card spot with 24 games to go. If the Yanks do make the playoffs, Girardi will be up for AL Manager of the Year and well deserved, he is a great manager.
Doc, the Jays are a good team but in their last three games, all i can say is how SWEEEEEEEEEEP it is :clap2:
Yanks are just 2.5 out of the final wild card spot with 24 games to go. If the Yanks do make the playoffs, Girardi will be up for AL Manager of the Year and well deserved, he is a great manager.
Doc, the Jays are a good team but in their last three games, all i can say is how SWEEEEEEEEEEP it is :clap2:
I agree. If only they had a great closer, i'd give them a chance to stay in contention for the wild card. The Chapman trade to the Cubs was a no-brainer, but they should have held on to the best closer in baseball, Andrew Miller. He's still under contract for a few years. What a closer!
Mets sign Tim Tebow
The New York Mets signed Tim Tebow to a minor league contract and said he will begin his professional baseball career in their instructional league in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
The Mets decided to sign Tebow on Wednesday, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter. General manager Sandy Alderson met with team co-owner Jeff Wilpon, who signed off on Alderson's suggestion that they get a deal done.
The instructional league runs from Sept. 18 to Oct. 8.
Tim Tebow joining the Mets might seem like a punch line to some, but it is actually a risk worth taking for baseball reasons and beyond.
The New York Mets signing of Tim Tebow has some baseball legitimacy, plus a lot of upside benefit based on the novelty.
Alderson insisted during a conference call on Thursday that the Tebow signing is not a publicity stunt.
"While I and the organization, I think, are mindful of the novel nature of this situation, this decision was strictly driven by baseball," he said. "This was not something that was driven by marketing considerations or anything of the sort. We are extremely intrigued with the potential that Tim has. He has demonstrated over his athletic career that he is a tremendous athlete, has got character, a competitive spirit. Aside from the age, this is a classic player-development opportunity for us. As an organization, we're going to provide that development opportunity for time."
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Mets sign Tebow
Doc says: "Is this another Michael Jordan situation or does Tebow actually have a real chance of making it to the majors like Bo Jackson?"
The New York Mets signed Tim Tebow to a minor league contract and said he will begin his professional baseball career in their instructional league in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
The Mets decided to sign Tebow on Wednesday, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter. General manager Sandy Alderson met with team co-owner Jeff Wilpon, who signed off on Alderson's suggestion that they get a deal done.
The instructional league runs from Sept. 18 to Oct. 8.
Tim Tebow joining the Mets might seem like a punch line to some, but it is actually a risk worth taking for baseball reasons and beyond.
The New York Mets signing of Tim Tebow has some baseball legitimacy, plus a lot of upside benefit based on the novelty.
Alderson insisted during a conference call on Thursday that the Tebow signing is not a publicity stunt.
"While I and the organization, I think, are mindful of the novel nature of this situation, this decision was strictly driven by baseball," he said. "This was not something that was driven by marketing considerations or anything of the sort. We are extremely intrigued with the potential that Tim has. He has demonstrated over his athletic career that he is a tremendous athlete, has got character, a competitive spirit. Aside from the age, this is a classic player-development opportunity for us. As an organization, we're going to provide that development opportunity for time."
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Mets sign Tebow
Doc says: "Is this another Michael Jordan situation or does Tebow actually have a real chance of making it to the majors like Bo Jackson?"
http://nesn.com/2016/08/swinging-for-the-fences-what-tim-tebows-baseball-past-says-about-mlb-hopes/
The high school coach said Tebow hit .300 but he "certainly wasn't the star of the team". It sounds like he wants to prop up Tebow but balks at saying he could be good enough for the majors. The move sounds exactly like a marketing ploy when you take someone who is 29 years old and hadn't played in an organized game since his junior year in high school. Even if he had been major league potential back then how long would it take to regain even that less than MLB skill back and then get to the majors against competitors who are already showing they have skill to move up. Give him 2 or 3 years more to get those skills up to MLB par if it's possible and he's 31 or 32 where a lot of so-so MLB players start to really fall off.
Here's oen take:
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/08/tim-tebow-baseball-mlb-contact-rate-espn-stat-lol-ok
comparing Tebow’s contact rate in a short practice session against ex-MLB relievers David Aardsma and Chad Smith to those posted by real Major League players in actual Major League games is so completely absurd that it hardly merits discussion here. And that’s not to knock Aardsma or Smith, both of whom were probably there hoping to catch the eyes of some of the scouts on hand for Tebow. But presumably you realize how astonishingly ridiculous it is to label Major Leaguers with 2016 contact rates similar to the one Tebow maintained in a workout session as “comparable players.”
Beyond the fact that Tebow saw 58 pitches — a meaninglessly small sample — and that contact rate alone is hardly a good indicator of Major League success (Giancarlo Stanton, whose 66% contact rate is among the lowest in the Majors, has a higher OPS on the season than teammate and MLB contact-rate leader Martin Prado), guys like Ramirez, Cabrera and Davis regularly face the best pitchers in the entire world. This season alone, Cabrera has faced Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg nine times apiece, Jose Fernandez eight times, and Clayton Kershaw seven times. Tebow got the equivalent of about 10 plate appearances against Aardsma and Smith.
It looks more like a publicity stunt. But i'm pulling for Tebow, whom i feel never got a fair shot in the NFL.
He played for the Jets, now the Mets..
Next..the Brooklyn Nets !! :bounce:
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I guess you never heard of a guy named Delin Betances.
Don't look now BOYZZZZZZZ but those NYY are just ONE GAME out of a wildcard spot.
Wth has happened to the Blue Jays pitching the last little while, blown up again tonight against the rouge hosers.
Don't look now BOYZZZZZZZ but those NYY are just ONE GAME out of a wildcard spot.
Wth has happened to the Blue Jays pitching the last little while, blown up again tonight against the rouge hosers.
Red Sox BEAT DOWN Blue Jays in Toronto.
Congratulations to Rick Porcello on being the first to win 20 games this year. He's had only one below average game this year and should be the favorite to win the Cy Young.
David Ortiz despite bad knees continues to slam the ball to the tune of 144 Hs, 107 RBIs, and an OPS of 1.030. Can't wait for the sour grapes retorts BOYZZZ.
To the point, the Jays seem poised to run away with the division at the beginning of September almost every year, then perform a steady fade. http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/pitching They rank 7th in batting and 7th in pitching. Pretty darn good and steady. So why can't they hold until the end of the year. Injuries?
Congratulations to Rick Porcello on being the first to win 20 games this year. He's had only one below average game this year and should be the favorite to win the Cy Young.
David Ortiz despite bad knees continues to slam the ball to the tune of 144 Hs, 107 RBIs, and an OPS of 1.030. Can't wait for the sour grapes retorts BOYZZZ.
To the point, the Jays seem poised to run away with the division at the beginning of September almost every year, then perform a steady fade. http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/pitching They rank 7th in batting and 7th in pitching. Pretty darn good and steady. So why can't they hold until the end of the year. Injuries?
The AL wild card race is shaping up as one of the better wild card races in recent memory. The 2 wild card sports are wide open and are anyone's for the taking. The AL East title is certainly up for grabs and it looks like the best division in baseball which it generally has been for the past 15 years
2004 ALCS Gm 4: David Ortiz's walk-off two run homer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxSZJ9GZ-w
Nearly 41 years old and still one of the most FEARED ever.
What's coming up for the American League East is going to be a battle of attrition, a bloodbath. I don't know about the other divisions but the Red Sox are about to reach a stretch where they play nothing but divisional rivals. I don't know if the other divisional teams have the same great burden. I think they do. If so it's going to be a merciless test for everyone who has a playoff chance, currently 4 of 5 teams. INCREDIBLE.
Sox pitching starters have been pretty solid since August. What still hurts them is relief and failure to produce run in the 8th and 9th innings when behind. They also have left a lot of runners stranded many times. With up to 2 men on base the team is hitting nearly .400. With bases loaded, even with no outs, a pathetic .200 or so. With Price back to normal, Porcello looking like a CY winner, E-Rod looking tough the Sox have a good chance to survive. If only Wright hadn't injured himself stupidly during a magnificent run. That knuckle-ball had been a killer.
cheers
Sanchez Nearly Homers On Intentional Walk
Never saw this before: one at bat after hitting his 13th homer, with men on 2nd and 3rd and nobody out, the Rays decide to intentionally walk Gary Sanchez, but he moves up on the plate, attacks the pitch and whacks it to the wall in left center, almost homering on a 52 mph intentional ball, and getting a RBI an a 4-0 lead for the Yankees:
http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2016/09/10/200617432
Never saw this before: one at bat after hitting his 13th homer, with men on 2nd and 3rd and nobody out, the Rays decide to intentionally walk Gary Sanchez, but he moves up on the plate, attacks the pitch and whacks it to the wall in left center, almost homering on a 52 mph intentional ball, and getting a RBI an a 4-0 lead for the Yankees:
http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2016/09/10/200617432
Are you kidding me? Lol this kid is a fantastic talent and has superstar written all over him, my oh my how he has grown up since he was drafted.
EB, did you see the throw he made last night from his knees to pick of a runner taking too big of a lead at second base? What a arm!!! AND Bat!!!
EB, did you see the throw he made last night from his knees to pick of a runner taking too big of a lead at second base? What a arm!!! AND Bat!!!
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