2013 MLB Regular Season running thread

UPChip · Jul 29, 2013

LongTimeListener said:

Brewers giving a $10 credit for food and drink at every home game in August. Total outlay is expected to be $3.6 million, or slightly more than they're saving on Ryan Braun's suspension.

Not a bad PR move.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/217384601.html
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Throw in a free jar of Secret Stadium Sauce and we have a deal.

(Seriously, going to Mad-town in a couple weeks. Normally we go to Miller Park even though my buddy and I are both Tiger fans, but they're out of town, so we're going to a Northwoods League game in town and/or the Chicago Fire)

Batman · Jul 29, 2013

Steak Snabler said:

Batman said:

UPChip said:

Various outlets reporting Astros sending Jose Veras (19 saves) to Detroit for outfield prospect Danry Vasquez and a PTBNL.
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I'm going to see Astros-Orioles later this week at Camden Yards. I wonder if the Astros will have anybody I've heard of on the roster by then.
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Erik Bedard is still there (for now).
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Bedard is scheduled to pitch the night I'm going, too. I scanned the Astros' roster and he's one of the five players I actually know. Jason Castro, Brett Wallace, Bud Norris and Jose Altuve being the others. Not exactly a murderer's row.
At least I'll get to check Camden Yards off my ballpark bucket list.

Songbird · Jul 29, 2013

Geovany Soto, who hit into a 6-4-3 single out earlier, belts walk-off HR.

Rangers 4, Angels 3.

Songbird · Jul 29, 2013

@bubbaprog: David Price is the first LHP to beat the Red Sox at Fenway twice in five days since Lefty Grove did it in 1929.

Songbird · Jul 29, 2013

@kayhanley (singer from Letters to Cleo, Boston girl, Sox fan): Pretty pussycat-y. Even for you. => RT @RaysBaseball: Dear @RedSox scoreboard operator - your standings are wrong. Yours truly, @RaysBaseball.

Letters to Cleo, 1-hit wonder:

Songbird · Jul 29, 2013

At 42 years and 202 days, Giambi becomes oldest player to hit walk-off HR.

Football_Bat · Jul 29, 2013

Thank you for your suck, Ernesto Frieri.

Chef2 · Jul 29, 2013

Now Meals admits after seeing the replay that Nava was safe.

Oh, the kids on WEEI will be having fun with this in the morning.

YankeeFan · Jul 30, 2013

Hawk Harrelson:

Harrelson maintains that he does, in fact, like numbers and that sabermetrics does have a valued place in baseball, but that he would prefer it be a role much more limited that it is now and that too much deference is being paid in general to numbers crunching. He called its rise over the last decade “the biggest joke I’ve ever seen.”

“Look down there at a guy like Gordon Beckham,” he said, peering down at the White Sox’ second baseman. “If you got someone who gets a chance to take him out on a double play — like me — I’m not going to take him out, I’m going to take him out into left field.

“So if the shortstop bobbles the ball, and I have a chance to get him, he knows that. Gordon will get busted and he’ll take the hit. There’s no number to define that in a player.”

The role that advanced metrics has in an announcer’s booth is, of course, different from the one it has in the office of a general manager, who needs to be conversant with every measurement there is these days, even if he doesn’t believe in every one of them.

For instance, few if any broadcasters go into detail about a pitcher’s F.I.P. (an earned run average calculation independent of defense). But Harrelson stands out for his on-air disdain for the whole numerical movement. To him, “Moneyball,” the best-selling book (and movie) about how Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, used outside-the-box statistical analysis to hunt down player bargains is as much fiction as fact.

It should be noted that Joe Morgan, a far more prominent announcer than Harrelson when he did commentary for ESPN’s Sunday night baseball broadcasts, was also a critic of the sabermetrics movement and received flak for his stance.

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LongTimeListener · Jul 30, 2013

This is crazy -- the Pirates tonight hit their first sacrifice fly to an outfielder since May 27.

Steak Snabler · Dec 15, 2014

YankeeFan said:

Hawk Harrelson:

Harrelson maintains that he does, in fact, like numbers and that sabermetrics does have a valued place in baseball, but that he would prefer it be a role much more limited that it is now and that too much deference is being paid in general to numbers crunching. He called its rise over the last decade “the biggest joke I’ve ever seen.”

“Look down there at a guy like Gordon Beckham,” he said, peering down at the White Sox’ second baseman. “If you got someone who gets a chance to take him out on a double play — like me — I’m not going to take him out, I’m going to take him out into left field.

“So if the shortstop bobbles the ball, and I have a chance to get him, he knows that. Gordon will get busted and he’ll take the hit. There’s no number to define that in a player.”

The role that advanced metrics has in an announcer’s booth is, of course, different from the one it has in the office of a general manager, who needs to be conversant with every measurement there is these days, even if he doesn’t believe in every one of them.

For instance, few if any broadcasters go into detail about a pitcher’s F.I.P. (an earned run average calculation independent of defense). But Harrelson stands out for his on-air disdain for the whole numerical movement. To him, “Moneyball,” the best-selling book (and movie) about how Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, used outside-the-box statistical analysis to hunt down player bargains is as much fiction as fact.

It should be noted that Joe Morgan, a far more prominent announcer than Harrelson when he did commentary for ESPN’s Sunday night baseball broadcasts, was also a critic of the sabermetrics movement and received flak for his stance.

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Biggest joke everyone other than Hawk has ever seen:

YankeeFan · Jul 30, 2013

In his first comments, Martinez came across as embarrassed, and apologetic.

But, now, he's also pissed:

Three different Marlins refused to pick up balls in separate incidents, violating a standard practice during drills in which a coach “soft tosses” balls for players to hit, Martinez said.

Martinez, 45, confronted the players about it. The confrontations grew heated. Martinez admits to using vulgarity with each player and grabbing one of them, second baseman Derek Dietrich, by the jersey, but not — as some reports suggested — by the neck.

On Sunday, Martinez resigned after his actions became public, apologizing to the Marlins organization for his behavior and acknowledging mistakes to reporters.

On Monday night, he spoke exclusively by phone with FOXSports.com about the incidents that led to his demise, saying they were one-time disputes that did not linger.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/tino-martinez-resign-hitting-coach-miami-marlins-picking-up-balls-batting-cage-072913
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