MLB 2018 regular season thread

I'm pro-Scioscia but the lack of defined roles for the relievers is a problem. The fact they are all inconsistent adds to it.

 

I am tired of the MOTHERFUCKING snakes, on this MOTHERFUCKING field!

 

I don't know if it's just this board that gives the impression of their being a lack of consensus about him, but it seems like Ohtani is a lot like Puig in the "eye of the beholder" sense.

 

Charlie Morton has become super good.

And Houston has 3 of the top 5 ERA leaders. Verlander (1), Cole (2), and Morton (5).

 

Astros-Rangers game is getting weird.

 

Astros pbp and color guy are pretty good.

 

The lack of consensus is old news, I think. Everyone has come around to "he's a pretty damn good hitter." Puig was (and still is) so raw. With Ohtani it was just a bias against Japanese baseball. The things written were the exact same things written about Ichiro.

 

We all always thought he was good. I wasn’t as ready to commit to it as others after 19 PAs. It was a pretty nerdy seamhead debate.

 

I've talked about the Japanese baseball thing before, but it really is idiotic how it's viewed by some people as, like, Double-A. I know a team didn't have to give him big money, but I would have given Ohtani nine figures to sign him. He's a once-in-a-century talent, and he was playing all the time, out in the open, for years. I'd always be suspicious of Japanese arms, because of the unusual levels of wear and tear they often suffer, but even there, he's younger than any Japanese player to make the move to MLB. He was the surest kind of lock there is in sports. It is mind boggling to me that there was any debate about him at all.

 

Many teams went after him. The debate was in the papers, not in real life.

 

Keep in mind that he was terrible in sprin training. There was a bit of reverse engineering going on with those opinions.

 

It’s always been stupid when people based their opinions on a player during Spring Training.