The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

I’m thinking Charlie Morton is hiding a injury from around the second inning today.

 

Robo Umps in AAA:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08...ved-minor-leagues-heres-how-its-been-working/

Don't get so excited about some of your favorite AAA prospects' numbers this year.

May be paywalled.

 

I think Florial was released earlier this year and came back when no one else wanted him. I wish I remembered who the Yankees didn't get at the deadline because they wouldn't trade him. The legacy of Cashman's back 9 will be:
-His extraordinary ability to find excellent relievers off of other teams' scrap heaps
-His inability to develop starting pitchers in a way that doesn't seem strategic the way it was for Theo who viewed them as less predictable and chose to draft and develop hitters, and when they're ready, buy established pitchers for cash or prospects. Curse of Joba? It's interesting to see King go from high leverage reliever to opener to full-fledged SP. I wonder if he's in the rotation next year.
-Most damning of all will be his infatuation with his own prospects which each year kept him from getting the SP they needed at the deadline (Verlander, Castillo etc.) and always trying to get the bargain further down the market (Gray, Montas) with predictable results.

 

With all the caveats about how these kids are going to look overmatched at some point soon, it's undeniably hilarious the Yankees finally called up Dominguez & Wells and then promptly swept the fucking ASTROS and the Mets won a series from the Mariners after calling up Mauricio. I'm not sure I'd trust Cashman and Eppler to team up to draft a fantasy team.

 

Lives up to the caption:

 

More insightful than anybody actually getting paid to do the games. I'd listen to him over the guys doing the Tigers on TV right now.

 

Loves Houston, supports the Astros, is wearing a Royals cap.

 

No, he said he supports the Asteroids.

 

Oh, good, I'm not the only one who caught that. Actually, I think Asteroids would be cool name for a team somewhere; Arena Football, maybe?

 

Do you know how much I wish I was sitting next to that guy than 95 percent of the people I end up sitting next to at baseball games? Including people I invite to games?

I mean no one will ever match the group of six jovial Canadians who kept buying me beers during a twinight doubleheader in Cleveland once, but who could?

 

I'm just glad the Post went a different direction at least for one headline

 

It’s so foreign to me as a midwesterner to have a terrible baseball team’s exploits in September be trumpeted in fonts reserved for winning the World Series.

Imagine: AT WITT’S END! ROYALS SMASH TIGERS!