Our National Pastime: 2015 Baseball Thread

[Joe.t]

1 down 39 to go(40 man roster), Red Sox traded the corpse of Mike Napoli to Texas for nothing(cash and a player to be named later, that's how bad Napoli is).

Good thing for the Red Sox that MLB is not like the Italian Soccer League Seria A, people who follow soccer knows what happens to the worst teams in the league at the end of the season.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Jays sweep the Yankees by a score of 2-0!

Jays now only 1 1/2 games behind them for the top spot in the East! Go Jays! :thumb:

 

[Joe.t]

Yes go Jays which is great for Canada and my second favorite team, people who don't even follow baseball are starting to talk about them in Canada.:thumb:

 

[Joe.t]

Red Sux place two of the off season's prized acquisition's the overrated Rusney Castillo and the corpse of Hanley Ramirez on waivers, me thinks that Benny boy is regretting these moves big time, also nobody is claiming them because they suck so bad.

http://www.overthemonster.com/2015/8/6/9107975/rusney-castillo-hanley-ramirez-waivers-red-sox-rumors

 

[Doc Holliday]

Red Sux place two of the off season's prized acquisition's the overrated Rusney Castillo and the corpse of Hanley Ramirez on waivers, me thinks that Benny boy is regretting these moves big time, also nobody is claiming them because they suck so bad.

I'm not surprised about Ramirez, but Castillo does somewhat surprise me. What surprises me is that they gave up on him so early. What in a way doesn't surprise me when i think about it more is that they paid way too much for this bum and now they're trying to somewhat correct their mistake.

 

[SloCumHeat]

Jays just 0.5 games back of first in East !

Jays win 4-2 over A's
Yankees lose 4-5 to Indians

Nice thing about Yankees loss, they used up their entire bullpen in this 16 inning marathon, and Miller suffers his FIRST blown save (this season).

 

[Doc Holliday]

The part that hurts for Yankees fans is the fact the Yankees took a two-run lead in extra innings, only to see the Tribe come back and tie it, and win it later...much later...once the bullpen had no one left.

The Jays today announced that R.A. Dickey will pitch tonight's game instead of tomorrow's game which will be pitched by Mark Buehrle. This will allow Dickey to possibly pitch on 4-days rest Sunday against the Yankees, who haven't been able to hit Dickey all season long. Yesterday's winning pitcher, Drew Hutchison, will likely skip Sunday's start and pitch the following game.

By the way, the Yankees are no longer favored to win the East among most experts i've been listening to on radio and tv. Many also believe the Orioles will pass them for the final wildcard spot. The Yankees were cocky and overconfident going into the trade deadline and didn't make a move other than getting that injured guy from Seattle. They insisted on holding on to their top prospects, which the Jays and other teams didn't do. Well, it just may have cost them the postseason. Will Cashman survive if the Yankees wind up missing the postseason? Or will he use Joe Girardi as scapegoat and fire him? I must admit that Girardi's decisions in regards to the bullpen has been questioned by people following the team recently and it's quite possible that they'll be burnt out come September.

Anyways, i was planning to head to Toronto for their three-game series starting friday, but every single game is sold-out and not a single ticket is available. And no, i will not give teh f$*#@ scalpers (a.k.a. "ticket brokers") a f$#@# penny!!!!

 

[Joe.t]

And the Red Sux are still the absolute worst team in the AL, just a little reminder for our Red Sux blow hard fans.:nod::yield:

 

[daydreamer41]

The part that hurts for Yankees fans is the fact the Yankees took a two-run lead in extra innings, only to see the Tribe come back and tie it, and win it later...much later...once the bullpen had no one left.

The Jays today announced that R.A. Dickey will pitch tonight's game instead of tomorrow's game which will be pitched by Mark Buehrle. This will allow Dickey to possibly pitch on 4-days rest Sunday against the Yankees, who haven't been able to hit Dickey all season long. Yesterday's winning pitcher, Drew Hutchison, will likely skip Sunday's start and pitch the following game.

By the way, the Yankees are no longer favored to win the East among most experts i've been listening to on radio and tv. Many also believe the Orioles will pass them for the final wildcard spot. The Yankees were cocky and overconfident going into the trade deadline and didn't make a move other than getting that injured guy from Seattle. They insisted on holding on to their top prospects, which the Jays and other teams didn't do. Well, it just may have cost them the postseason. Will Cashman survive if the Yankees wind up missing the postseason? Or will he use Joe Girardi as scapegoat and fire him? I must admit that Girardi's decisions in regards to the bullpen has been questioned by people following the team recently and it's quite possible that they'll be burnt out come September.

Anyways, i was planning to head to Toronto for their three-game series starting friday, but every single game is sold-out and not a single ticket is available. And no, i will not give teh f$*#@ scalpers (a.k.a. "ticket brokers") a f$#@# penny!!!!

You make me laugh. The Blue Jays have hit a hot streak, 9 wins in a row and the Yankees are on a slide losing 4 in a row. So all of these experts are writing the Yanks off. So funny. There's about 7 weeks left in the season and at least the Yanks and Blues Jays are going to be fighting it out.

The Orioles and Rays are 5 games back both and they could be in the thick of it also. All we know is the Red Sox will not be in the race. :lol:

 

[lgna69xxx]

As i stated before, i am absolutely overjoyed that the Yanks did not trade their youngsters/future away for a rental that might get them deep into the playoffs. Instead they kept the possible cornerstones of the very near future in Aaron Judge, Greg Bird, Luis Severino, Gary Sanchez, Rob Refsnyder, Jacob Lindgren, Rookie Davis, James Kaprielian and Jorge Mateo to name a few in their deep prospect pool they now have that will contribute to many playoff and world series runs in the future. Besides, the Yanks have a good team already and are just going through a cold streak like every team does, better to get it out of the way in August and not have it in september or October.

The Jays are on fire and i LOVE it! Good for the City of Toronto and for :canada: it also makes the Skydome/Rogers Centre look so much nicer with a full house night after night. Doc, you should have went to the A's series, you could have got A seat but the Yanks are still the Yanks and draw extremely well on the road such as the sellouts this weekend prove. There will likely be 10,000 plus Yankees fans at each game, possibly many more.

Go Jays and Go Yanks tonight! This weekend, GO YANKEES! :thumb:

 

[SloCumHeat]

Look now

The Jays are in FIRST place in the EAST.

Last time they were in FiRST place this late in the season. Umm . . .

WON the World Series in 1993.

 

[SloCumHeat]

. . .
The Jays today announced that R.A. Dickey will pitch tonight's game instead of tomorrow's game which will be pitched by Mark Buehrle. This will allow Dickey to possibly pitch on 4-days rest Sunday against the Yankees, who haven't been able to hit Dickey all season long. Yesterday's winning pitcher, Drew Hutchison, will likely skip Sunday's start and pitch the following game.
. . .

Dickey pitched tonight for two reasons: FIRST, so that Buerhle doesn't face the Yankees, then only secondly, for possibly Dickey facing the Yanks on Sunday, instead of Hutchison.

I was gonna post Buerhle stats VS the Yanks. Its too pathetic. Lets just say Buerhle won his first game against the Yankees this year, in over 10 years.

 

[daydreamer41]

Look now

The Jays are in FIRST place in the EAST.

Last time they were in FiRST place this late in the season. Umm . . .

WON the World Series in 1993.

That was such a great World Series. Joe Carter for the Jays and Lenny Dykstra for the Phillies. Curt Schilling and Matt Williams played for the Phillies also. Game 4 was a slug fest with the lead changing many times, with Toronto winning 15 to 14. Joe Carter had the walk off 3 run HR in game 6 to win the series and game 8 to 6. It was one of the most suspenseful World Series of all time. Carter's walk off was the second walk off world series winner since Bill Mazeroski's 1960 walk off in game 7 when Pitts. beat NYY.

 

[smuler]

How about them Mets

Best Regards

Smuler

 

[hungry101]

Mets - Wow!

Toronto - in the first half they had outscored their opponants by an astounding number of runs (i forgot the exact number). Now they have momentum.

Yankees - failed to make a move.

Iggy and Joe and DD I do not know where the Ynakees needed to upgrade (SS or 2b?) but it seems that this is the fromula for the MLB now. If you are in a race and you intend to make a run you give up a prospect for a rental or near rental. Hell, they're all rentals these days anyway.

The Tigers have done a lot of that (trading prospects to win now) and they were running low on coveted prospects so we became sellers. This was a move I supported. The talking heads are saying that the Mets paid too stiff a price for Cespedes but they needed a bat and their fans want to see them win now. In Cespedes they got a bat that can hit for power and average and a arm that is about the best I've ever seen at throwing out runners and a guy that can score from first base. Toronto gave up quite a lot fo Price but in Price they got a Cy Young caliber pitcher haveing a banner year. I think both deals made these two teams stronger this year. And anyone who wants to pay the price can have them next year.

I would like to understand what deadline deals the Tigers made during the DD years and understand what the befnefit was and what happened to those prospects. Andrew Miller was once a prime prospect and so was Camerin Maybin. Leland called Maybin the best prospect he has ever seen. The two were packaged for Miggy and Dontrell Willis - the pitcher tha forgot how to pitch. Miller panned out and Maybin has bounced aroung the league.

 

[lgna69xxx]

SS? Do you know that Didi Gregorius has been on a roll since June bringing his average up something like 60 points, yes SIXTY POINTS since then and is now flirting with a .270 average and playing stellar defense as well. On the broadcast last night, one announcer said Didi has the top average in the majors since the allstar break or in august, i did not catch the time frame he alluded to but i know Sir Didi has been on fire. His offensvive game has improved drastically lately meanwhile steady on D. 2b and Stephen Drew is another story lol.

The Yanks will be fine, just in a slump like all good teams go thru during a long season.

Iggy and Joe and DD I do not know where the Ynakees needed to upgrade (SS or 2b?) .

 

[smuler]

Congrats to Clayton Kershaw on 6 straight 200 strikeout seasons in a row

Here is the alltime list :

Consecutive 200-K seasons

PITCHER SEASONS YEARS

Tom Seaver 9 1968-76

Walter Johnson 7 1910-16

Roger Clemens 7 1986-92

Sandy Koufax 6 1961-66

Sam McDowell 6 1965-70

Mickey Lolich 6 1969-74

Bert Blyleven 6 1971-76

Randy Johnson 6 1997-2002

Felix Hernandez 6 2009-14

Clayton Kershaw 6 2010-15


Headed by the #1 unanimous Hall of Fame pick : Tom Terrific


Best egards

Smuler

 

[Doc Holliday]

You make me laugh. The Blue Jays have hit a hot streak, 9 wins in a row and the Yankees are on a slide losing 4 in a row. So all of these experts are writing the Yanks off. So funny. There's about 7 weeks left in the season and at least the Yanks and Blues Jays are going to be fighting it out.

11 games in a row! Now 1 game ahead of the hated Yankees!

 

[Doc Holliday]

Doc, you should have went to the A's series, you could have got A seat but the Yanks are still the Yanks and draw extremely well on the road such as the sellouts this weekend prove. There will likely be 10,000 plus Yankees fans at each game, possibly many more.

Only crappy tickets in the nosebleeds were available. Over 130 000 people attended the 3-game series against the A's.

 

[Joe.t]

Long time Boston sports writer and current Boston Globe writer Dan Shaughnessy blasts the Red Sox saying that they were lucky to win in 2013 and actually have been bad for the past 10 years!!!, criticizes the organisation for heavy usage of Sabremetrics(I used to remember a blow hard here on MERB who used to always refer to this overrated useless tool), Also according to the Providence Journal, the 2015 Red Sox are Boston's worst baseball team since 1960 in the area of run differential – minus 48 after 51 games.

http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2015/06/boston_globe_columnist_the_red_sox_stink.html.