2020 MLB Running Thread

Yeah, I get this considering the general attitude toward the Astros and Osuna's own history. I'm just passing along some relevant news and a theory about some of the injuries we are seeing this season. It is just another reason I think MLB should shut it down. You've got players coming back from this thing who aren't right physically. That may have been an issue for Osuna. It was definitely the case with Eduardo Rodriguez, who ended up being shut down before he returned to the team due to a heart issue that seems to be linked to his COVID infection.

 

All of the pitcher injuries are going to be "Covid related" The stop and start nature of this season has to account for the rash of injuries the past 10 days. Would some guys have gotten hurt regardless? Definitely. But they were on the verge of following whatever plan they were on up until a week before it was go time, and then they shut things down for thee-plus months before some half-assed camp.

And it will carryover into 2021 because everyone's inning count will be so low that by the time they get to August, they'll be at huge risk because of the increased workload from 2020

 

Agreed. I'm just saying that guys like Osuna, who have missed time with an infection, might be even more vulnerable.

 

Osuna is a terrible person.

 

Molina, DeJong and other players are Cardinals positive cases. Followed protocols my ass.

Cardinals All-Stars Molina, DeJong and four other players reveal positive tests for COVID-19

 

My wife, a former first grade teacher, is smarter than the Commissioner. She was a stickler for appropriate classroom behavior.

Her response to all this: "If the Marlins and Cardinals were in my class and did something like that, they'd get suspended. Why doesn't baseball say, 'If your team causes games to be postponed because of positive tests, your season is over.' That would stop all this nonsense."

She also thinks Manfred needs a timeout and a trip to the principal's office.

 

Out of curiosity, how is the runner at second scored? First of all, do they follow the batting order? Second of all, is it scored as a simple leadoff two-base IBB? If this was in place in 1987, do the Cardinals place Vince Coleman there or the Expos place Tim Raines there? I admit I haven't followed the follies since the Rangers haven't a prayer.

 

The runner is the final man out from the previous inning. You don't really
have any choice about who the runner is, although I could see managers ordering a low-power high-speed guy who comes up with two out and bases empty in a final-inning situation to strike out on purpose, making him the base runner the next inning.


Personally I wish they had given teams the options:

1) Man on 1st, 0 out
2) Man on 2nd, 1 out
3) Men on 1st/3rd, 2 outs

 

You can't score any of that logically. It's an abomination of baseball.

 

It's a solution to a nonexistent problem.

Extra-inning games going long enough to seriously mess up pitching staffs or teevee broadcast schedules (12+ innings, over 4:00) were a once-twice a season aberration. There were about five different things they could have done which would have fixed it.

 

I would rather have a 3:00 time limit or seven innings, whichever was reached last, across the board over that extra-inning ITB stuff.

I've seen plenty of marathon HS softball games. But that's entirely different from MLB.

The only thing I love more than West Coast baseball is West Coast baseball that goes 17+ innings.