MLB 2018 regular season thread

You are helping make my point. It was a decision that looks bad in hindsight and it was made to save money. Relatively speaking, it wasn't even that much money. The Pirates have done this over and over again.

Hell, Gerrit Cole is making even less this year, though he is eligible for arbitration in 2019 and a free agent in 2020.

 

My point is that either option is possible. Your accusation lacks merit because there are other possibilities and you don't have any real evidence. All you have is that he's throwing to hard and pitching too well.

 

It was to save themselves from another year of shitty pitching.

 

He was bad in 2015, but he had been solid the two previous seasons. It made sense at the time. Not many people predicted the current turn in his career. But if you're going to use hindsight as TSP did, it is fair game for me to do so as well.

 

Yikes:

 

Trevor Bauer in the midst of a Twitter argument about whether Charlie Morton and other Astros pitchers are increasing their spin rate -- and thus their strikeouts -- by using a foreign substance on the ball.

 

And Eno Sarris is on it at The Athletic:

Does pine tar increase your spin rate? And are the Astros...

 

This punch-and-Judy sure won't break the 100-RBI barrier now.

Bryce Harper hitting leadoff for Nationals

 

This won’t help him contract negotiaons, RBI production is key in getting a monster deal.

 

Braves might win the East.

 

Scherzer hits 8th and has an RBI single

Harper has a 3run HR

 

The Braves really are impressive. Albies has been excellent and Swanson has taken big step forward. Soroka looks good tonight, but he's not even the most gifted of the pitchers they had in the minors to open the season. He is just the most polished now.