MLB 2018 regular season thread

That was Bengie Molina, dude was a guaranteed DP if he hit it on the ground, and he was hitting in the 4 hole too (before Posey came up); ah good times.

 

After 19 plate appearances in five games, he had an OPS of 1.251 and two multiple hit games.

 

Now do the tiny sample size used by the scouts Passan spoke to for his piece on Ohtani during spring training.

 

If I understand the rules correctly, you cannot have him listed as DH/1 in the lineup, so he can continue to bat if he's knocked out. I see it quite a bit in amateur ball

EDIT: lcjjdnh beat me to it. Topic lag.

 

Yes Dickie that is a great start. When I was thinking of start I was looking at April. For that month he was good to very good, not great.

 

That's interesting. Villanueva has touched the Baseball American Top 100 prospects just once - checking at No. 100 six years ago.

Nineteen at-bats, some may have been comfortable declaring that the ratings were "spectacularly wrong" about him.

 

No, didn't care about the ratings, just wanted him to be better than Seager had been.

 

Huh. I always believed the rule allowed you to use it in place of any player/fielder, and always wondered if it would be used in place of a pitcher.

Oh well.

 

Thought you guys knew baseball. Calhoun and Villanueva are saving themselves for the playoff push.

 

Still ducking me, huh? Once again, you are fine with using small sample sizes unless they support a point with which you disagree. You've been fighting this losing battle on Ohtani for a long time and you still can't even acknowledge that the scouts Passan quoted based their opinions on one that was too small.

Also, in the case of Ohtani, there was the matter of years of numbers from Japan to consider. There was evidence beyond those 19 regular-season plate appearances to consider when declaring Passan's report to be wrong, even spectacularly wrong.

The comparison of Villanueva and Ohtani does not hold up, but neither does most of what you keep posting in this argument.

 

I can't engage in this discussion until BaseballReference.com adds "First 19 at-bats" into their "Splits" section for each player.

 

You're really dumber than dirt, and no one wants to read your delusional rants.

You think you've got "Dickie" in some kind of "gotcha", but you don't. He made a simple point, which you can't comprehend, and which nothing he, nor you, has said since, has proven his point wrong.