The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

Bunt!

 

That was why you make those baselines nice and high.

 

Rays are gonna sweep. The division race is over. They're the better team.

 

I’d love to believe that. Still some road ahead, though.

 

This is one of the better baseball pages on FB (and I would love to buy that watercolor and frame it) ...

Vintage Baseball | Sorry Mr. Rick Monday but I think I still hate you since you hit the homerun for the elimination of the Montreal Expos 42 years ago

Patrick Cloutier

Sorry Mr. Rick Monday but I think I still hate you since you hit the homerun for the elimination of the Montreal Expos 42 years ago. I was 10 years old and cried when this moment happened.

 

Nobody can tell me they have a better lineup, 1 through 9.

 

C'mon man.

 

Maybe not. But the bullpen is working on a 34-inning scoreless streak.

 

I’ll tell ya what. If I’m wrong about the sweep part, I will make a charitable gift to an organization we deem mutually agreeable. It will be in the amount of the winning pitcher or author of the big hit. Whichever is higher.
I will be happy to pay up. And I am serious.

 

No need for that. But the pessimism is ridiculous. They lost one game 4-3, haven't been swept in 86-some odd series and you believe that all of a sudden Tampa is leaps and bounds better and will win four in a row in Baltimore? To quote Kramer, that's kooky talk.

 

We shall see.
At any rate, this is a playoff team, and that’s far better than I anticipated. This team is ahead of schedule and has been a source of great joy.

 

Angels owner Arte Moreno nickel and diming til the end. The team recalled vets David Fletcher and Jarred Walsh, who are on the 40-man, to cut overall payroll in an effort to avoid the luxury tax. It makes good business sense, but is a cheap and bad look. Plus the two kids he is screwing out of MLB pay aren't likely to forget at arbitration/free agent time, if they make it.

From the OCR:
The two roster moves also slightly reduce the Angels’ payroll, which could be significant depending on how close they finish to the luxury tax threshold of $233 million. Walsh and Fletcher have guaranteed contracts, so their salaries were already included in the major league payroll even when they were in the minors. But now Adams and Paris are no longer receiving their major league salaries. The Angels still count their Triple-A salaries as long as they remain on the 40-man roster, but the difference is about $3,200 per player, per day.

If the Angels finish the season with Fletcher and Walsh instead of other minimum-salary players, it would knock about $116,000 off the total payroll.