2016 MLB Regular-Season Thread

Tommy John went 21-9 and 22-9 as a FA signee with the Yanks in 79 & 80, finished 2 and 4 Cy Young voting

 

Five-player deal with Billy Buckner and Ivan DeJesus going to the Cubs. Monday was also a local star from Santa Monica High. He lived 3 blocks from us but I didn't know him. He's six years older. My brother went to high school with him. I was working for the paper in Santa Monica and covered the Dodgers in 1981 when he hit the big homer against the Expos. We were a PM paper and it happened early enough for us to get the story into that day's paper -- same-day coverage in print. Yippee!!!

 

Withe respect to the late great Prince, that is what it sounds like when whales cum

 

He's lucky someone wasn't sitting in the upper deck with a 9mm. It is Detroit after all.

 

Baseball-reference.com is the greatest non-porn website.

 

According to Fangraphs' stats, his four-seamer is unchanged and his two-seamer is down two mph.

 

Story idea: the home run trot.

 

Great first question to Claudette.

 

Braves hit a homer last night ... and pushed their MLB-leading run differential to -44.

 

I'm as big a Braves fan as anyone you'll meet and I can't bring myself to watch more than a couple of innings at a time. It's sad.