Baseball offseason, let's get ready for 2014.

[Special K]

Future STUD Anthony Ranaudo dazzles the twins for 2 scoreless innings today!! This kids the real deal. Also Bryce Brentz smashes his first homer of the Spring!! Wow, this team looks unstoppable.

"FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Highly-touted Red Sox prospect Anthony Ranaudo's first performance against Major League hitters was a dazzling one, as the righty retired all six Twins batters he faced Friday afternoon.
Ranaudo, who is ranked the club's No. 6 prospect, notched four strikeouts and threw 24 pitches, 19 of them for strikes."

 

[EagerBeaver]

Tanaka Unleashed, K's 3 in Scoreless Debut

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/sto...k-yankees-strikes-three-spring-training-debut

 

[Special K]

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/sto...k-yankees-strikes-three-spring-training-debut

Great outing against the Phillies "B" team and subs, not quite as good as Ranaudo's effort against a starting lineup though. Hahaha.

 

[daydreamer41]

Great outing against the Phillies "B" team and subs, not quite as good as Ranaudo's effort against a starting lineup though. Hahaha.

Future STUD Anthony Ranaudo dazzles the twins for 2 scoreless innings today!! This kids the real deal. Also Bryce Brentz smashes his first homer of the Spring!! Wow, this team looks unstoppable.

"FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Highly-touted Red Sox prospect Anthony Ranaudo's first performance against Major League hitters was a dazzling one, as the righty retired all six Twins batters he faced Friday afternoon.
Ranaudo, who is ranked the club's No. 6 prospect, notched four strikeouts and threw 24 pitches, 19 of them for strikes."

Great outting against the Twins "C" Team and scrubs? haha. Much funnier than the Phillies B Team, don't you say K?

 

[EagerBeaver]

Great outing against the Phillies "B" team and subs, not quite as good as Ranaudo's effort against a starting lineup though. Hahaha.

Actually K victims Ben Revere (3 pitches) and Dominic Brown are not B teamers, they are A teamers.

 

[Special K]

If it were true DD but Ranaudo faced their starters at the beginning of the game not coming in in the 5th inning facing all scrubs. Try again, oh and welcome back, we missed kicking you around last season. Lol.

 

[daydreamer41]

If it were true DD but Ranaudo faced their starters at the beginning of the game not coming in in the 5th inning facing all scrubs. Try again, oh and welcome back, we missed kicking you around last season. Lol.

Are you going to be as low class as your banned buddy, what's his name? rumps, that's it. Notice how quiet and civil the thread is without him. Don't mess it up, K. We know how low you and your Bawstin buddies can get.

And BTW, the Twins were a C team last year. They were 66-96, ranked 25th in batting with a team .692 OPS. Need I say more.

 

[EagerBeaver]

3 Hitless Innings For Nova vs. Nats

Nova: 3 hitless innings, 4 Ks, win

http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=340303110

 

[Joe.t]

So far Yankee pitching has been "LIGHTS OUT" in spring training, I would not be surprised if the Yankees lead the league in pitching this year, good chance that the CY Young winner will be a Yankee, I personally think that it will be Brandon Morrow(if he can stay healthy) or Tanaka, one thing for sure it will not be a Red Sox.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Kinsler: Jon Daniels A "Sleazeball", Hopes Rangers Go 0-162

This one is from the "don't let the door hit your ass on your way out" department:

http://espn.go.com/dallas/mlb/story...as-rangers-sleazeball-gm-jon-daniels-go-0-162

 

[kirkjonas]

So far Yankee pitching has been "LIGHTS OUT" in spring training, I would not be surprised if the Yankees lead the league in pitching this year, good chance that the CY Young winner will be a Yankee, I personally think that it will be Brandon Morrow(if he can stay healthy) or Tanaka, one thing for sure it will not be a Red Sox.

Don't fall for that trap Joe T, my Jays last year we're stellar in spring training its just pipe dreams. Its just for working out kinks and getting into shape, don't let those hopes get too high up coming frrom a jays and raptors fan.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Hunter Wins Bet With Verlander, Kisses Alligator

This is kind of a weak bet to win, I would like to see Hunter try planting a kiss on the lips of that alligator without its snout taped shut:

http://deadspin.com/torii-hunter-kissing-an-alligator-1536090408
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1...tigers-kisses-alligator-dare-justin-verlander

I visited an alligator sanctuary in Florida and watched an exhibition of the jaw snapping power by a trainer who got in the pit with a much bigger alligator which crushed a broom handle that was stuck inside its mouth.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Pineda Update

Here is the latest on Pineda, it looks like he will debut Friday night vs. the Tigers according to this:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...-pineda-chance-trade-doubts-article-1.1708559

I did not like how Phelps pitched yesterday, and I think right now at this very early stage Phelps is behind Pineda and Nuno in the highly competitive battle for Yankees' 5th starter. It seems like it is Pineda's battle to win if he does not get hurt, but somehow I don't think we should count out the crafty, icy-veined Nuno, who is as cool as a cucumber.

 

[lgna69xxx]

Stay Classy Boston

Guess ya gotta have some in order to display some.

http://mlb.si.com/2014/03/06/marlin...rid7|htmlws-main-bb|dl6|sec1_lnk2&pLid=451373

 

[Joe.t]

Is it safe to say that Pineda was "LIGHTS OUT"" tonight?, especially against the mighty bats of the Tigers, man, does the Yankee pitching look scary from top to bottom, the difficult question to answer is which one of the starters will win the CY, will it be CC, will it be Nova, Tanaka, Kuroda or maybe Pineda.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Kuroda, 2.2 innings, 1 hit, 5 Ks
Pineda, 2 innings, 1 hit, 4 Ks

Beltran: homer off Sanchez
Jeter: 2-2, now batting .286

This is great fucking stuff! Against the Tigers!

 

[Special K]

Guess ya gotta have some in order to display some.

http://mlb.si.com/2014/03/06/marlin...rid7|htmlws-main-bb|dl6|sec1_lnk2&pLid=451373

I know...Can you believe the Marlins are bitching about it? So Miami fucks their fans by making tickets to this SPRING F'N TRAINING game "Super Premium!!!" How fucken classless is that to upcharge your fans for a Spring training game!! On top of that, those pathetic bums who have 7 of 9 regulars playing couldn't score a run and were out hit 7-2! Man, what a bunch of greedy pricks those Marlins front office people are!!

BTW, not sure if you figured it out Iggy but the reporter wasn't angry at the Red Sox so much as he was writing about the ineptitude and overall pathetic state of the Marlins.

The Miami Marlins, who won 62 games last season and routinely trotted out a regular season lineup featuring players like Jeff Mathis, Donovan Solano and 37-year-old Placido Polanco, are apparently in a tizzy over the spring training lineup the Red Sox put together for Thursday’s Grapefruit League game in Jupiter, Fla. That’s according to the Sun-Sentinel‘s Marlins beat reporter Juan C. Rodriguez, who wrote that team executives were “outraged” over the squad of minor leaguers that Boston sent to Miami’s Roger Dean Stadium to play a team that will feature 36-year-old Rafael Furcal at second base in games that actually count.


From Rodriguez:

Seven of the club’s starting nine position players Thursday do not have so much as one major league plate appearance. The only two with any big league time were outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. (95 at-bats) and catcher Ryan Lavarnway (269 at-bats).
Even starting pitcher Allen Webster was a rookie in 2013, making eight appearances (seven starts) totaling 30 1/3 innings.
​

Rodriguez also reported that the Marlins planned on contacting MLB’s offices over what he called a “gross violation” of the league’s rules that specify all spring lineups must feature at least four regular players or players competing for regular playing time. Instead, the Red Sox sent a squad featuring the likes of prospects Deven Marrero and Heiker Meneses as starters. The Marlins, meanwhile, had a lineup that featured seven of their likely Opening Day starters, including Furcal, who has not played in the majors since 2012; third baseman Casey McGehee, who spent all of 2013 in Japan; and shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria, who was the worst player in baseball last season by WAR (-1.9).

Rodriguez also notes that Boston’s lineup was especially galling given that the Marlins had instigated “super premium” pricing for tickets to Thursday’s game against the defending World Series champion, only to watch “organizational filler in Red Sox batting practice jerseys with numbers befitting an offensive line” face a team that, in 2013, charged its fans to watch Ed Lucas compile nearly 400 plate appearances for a team that finished 34 games out of first place in the National League East.
It’s unclear if MLB will take action against the Red Sox for playing loose with the four regulars rule and instead sending minor leaguers fighting to get noticed by important team officials to a meaningless game that was 140 miles away from Boston’s spring camp as most of southwest Florida was under a tornado watch.
Thursday’s game between the Marlins and Red Sox was called after eight innings due to rain with both teams tied at zero. Boston’s lineup out-hit Miami’s, 7-2.

 

[Joe.t]

Phelps is not making Girardi's job any easier, another Yankee pitcher that was "Lights Out", 5 shutout innings against the dangerous bats of the Rays today, Girardi has a tough decision to make.

 

[Merlot]

BOYZ!

...another Yankee pitcher that was "Lights Out", 5 shutout innings against the dangerous bats of the Rays today, Girardi has a tough decision to make.

Hey Joe.t, have you ever mentioned a Yankee pitcher without using "Lights Out". :lol: Now that Lester and the Red Sox beat the Rays today 6-2, with 3 shut-out innings, the World Series Champion Boston Red Sox were LIGHTS OUT too.

BTW, not sure if you figured it out Iggy but the reporter wasn't angry at the Red Sox so much as he was writing about the ineptitude and overall pathetic state of the Marlins.

He's figured out where to suck up. PERIOD!

You have to love how one Yankee fan was complaining about the Sox making extra money during Jeter's visits, which they aren't, then another Yankee cuckoo totally ignoring the Marlins exploiting the Champion Red Sox with a huge bump in prices...for a preseason game of all things. The irony of course is the suckfest Marlins were bitching about getting 2nd string opponents despite their pathetic 62 game winning starters. Red Sox owner John Henry got it right on the money when he replied to the Marlins gripes:

@John_W_Henry

They should apologize for their regular season lineup.
4:47 PM - 8 Mar 2014

:thumb:

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on...-owner-john-henry-says-what-were-all-thinking

Well then. A shot across the bow is what that is.

Henry's right, of course. For the Marlins, who stripped the payroll down to almost nothing after a slow start to the 2012 season and after the taxpayers of Miami-Dade County ponied up for a new ballpark, to complain about the major-league quality of an opposing lineup is the depth and breadth of chutzpah. And that's putting it charitably.

It's also worth noting that there's some intertwined history here, as Henry once owned the Marlins. In 2002, though, he sold the team as part of multi-franchise deal that put the Marlins in the hands of current owner/saboteur Jeffrey Loria and allowed Henry to buy the Red Sox.

In Episode 4 of this ongoing saga, Marlins president David Samson will stomp his widdle feet.

Get it now Iggy. :crazy:

Merlot

 

[smuler]

11-1 beatdown in Metland today

It's gonna be a long year

Best Regards

Smuler