2019 MLB Regular Season running thread

While the Giants have won 3 WS in the last 10 years (and made playoffs in 2016), I have not seen a prospect like this in the Giants system in forever, okay since Posey in 2010.

The Jays (and Braves and seemingly everyone else) has exciting young hitters and/or pitchers and the Giants have stale retreads. Price you pay for earlier successes I get it. I'm happy for the other teams and their prospects.

 

Giants haven't developed an All-Star outfielder since Chili Davis in 1984. Think about that. How many outfielders have appeared in All-Star games since then?

 

Vlad Jr. was an international free agent signee. Anyone could have taken him.

Same with Acuna and Albies.

 

Why do you have to rub it in?

The Giants were so smart in the late 90's that they INTENTIONALLY signed Michael Tucker so they had to forfeit their first round draft pick. Let that sink in.

Yeah, development of OFs especially has been horrid. (Now Posey, Belt, Panik, Crawford, Sandoval, Lincecum and Bumgarner are all home grown).

 

One of the downsides (for fans at least) of the "new math" of baseball is that fewer teams are eager to trade prospects for a veteran during a pennant chase. Always used to be fun years later to find out if those prospects panned out.

 

Mets sending Jacob deGrom back to New York for MRI on ‘barky’ elbow

Dominant pitcher struggles for a few starts, then goes for an MRI on his elbow. That cannot be good.

 

... for my fantasy teams.

 

Nobody gives a fuck about your fantasy teams! (Or mine. I've got him on one, too.)

 

Future "On This Date in Baseball History" item: Player suspended one game for dropping an n-bomb on a pitcher after being hit. The twist? The batter was black. The pitcher was white. Progress? The pitcher was suspended five games for throwing at the hitter (who apparently broke the unwritten rule on bat flips).

Sources: Anderson ban is for epithet, not bat flip

 

It wasn't so much a flip as it was a bat huck.

 

Counting all that money is tough on your elbow.

 

Almost as long as the Mets...