jerichoholicninja

It's like the ice bowl, everyone was at that game I was not at that game. I was sitting at my desk at work watching it on ESPN Gamecast. Was that also the Prince inside the park homer?

Well then, I was assuming it was the same as if the ball hits an umpire after it gets touched by a fielder. In which case, play on. Look no further than the previous sentence in the rules Rule 6.01(f) Coach and Umpire Interference If a thrown ball accidentally touches a base coach, or a pitched or thrown ball touches an umpire, the ball is alive and in play. Why I was assuming it would be the same on a steal/pick off throw.

Well then, I was assuming it was the same as if the ball hits an umpire after it gets touched by a fielder. In which case, play on.

Hit the ump. Ya I don't know the rule but I don't think that's the right call.

Seems weird to limit a position player's PT because of his arm. Legs or back makes sense because you're constantly using those things on every play. But it is nearly impossible to predict how many throws your 2B will make in a game. It's really not that many when you think about it. I'd venture a guess that if you take out warm ups and around the horn type stuff, in an actual game situation, a 2b probably throws the ball less than 10 times fairly easily. Kind of my point. Taking him out early because of his arm seems pointless. Mudcats 2B are averaging 2.3 assists per game this year. I would guess 5 throws is a lot for a game.

Villar is still better against LHP's for his career. I don't think anybody really wanted Franklin or Sogard or Blanco over Orf this week. It's the negativity about the front office's decision-making and the complaining that rubbed several of us the wrong way. The idea that Orf is likely to be a little better than any of those guys is just not really supported by any objective evidence. The evidence actually supports the other 3 as being slightly more talented players, although Sogard and Blanco might be too far past their primes. It's already kind of annoying when fans complain about moves the team made, but when the front office is actually doing a great job and making the rational choice and people complain so adamantly, it's 10x more annoying. People could be right or wrong about Orf, but on the whole the front office is so much better than any of us that's it not even funny. People should enjoy it while they can because that's not always the case. See the Bucks for the last 25 years, for example, if you want to understand how frustrating it can be to be a fan of a team where you would literally probably do a better job than the front office. I bet my salary that the Brewers' front office crushes every single one of us in decision-making over the last few years, even if a few of us have, by pure luck, occasionally out-guessed them on what they should have done in a situation. And yet, outside of the first two months of last year, they've put together a totally craptastic offense. And to remedy the problem they replace a proven failed hitter (Sogard) with an equally proven failed hitter (Franklin) and replace him with an even worse proven failed hitter (Saladino). Don't get me wrong, I think Stearns has done a great job. But a lot of the moves made since the end of last year have been confusing to baffling.

Seems weird to limit a position player's PT because of his arm. Legs or back makes sense because you're constantly using those things on every play. But it is nearly impossible to predict how many throws your 2B will make in a game.

In his career, Arcia has a .269 AVG and a .325 OBP in the 8 spot, which are both the highest of any spot he's hit in. Unlike many others here, I just think he's a terrible hitter. You can throw out the "he was young for every level" excuse all you want but he's really only been a competent hitter for all of one season in AA. And even that wasn't anything special.

How many times have you watched season 4? Everyone that I've spoken to who's seen it (myself included) didn't really like it the first time they watched it. After second and more viewings it gets much better. It's tough to put everything together the first time through. Once you've seen the whole thing through and watch it again the jokes and story make more sense. Yes, the season has been recut into a serial format and I think is already on Netflix.

Sigh breathed. He's going on the DL.

End of March: Stearns - Nick, go to AA and learn how to play catcher. Beginning of May: Stearns - We could use help at second base. Call up Franklin!

When my wife texts me a question, if I don't respond in like three minutes she will start sending strings of question marks. I assume that she thinks it will get me to answer quicker. The reason I'm not responding is because I don't have my phone on me. So the question marks do nothing.

He's just there to carry Corey's bags and then he's headed back to Colorado.

Both are terrible hitters. No doubt about that. Bethancourt has a cannon behind the plate and brings a little defensive versatility including on the mound if a game gets out of hand. In his only MLB season where he's been given even somewhat regular AB's he put up a 70 OPS+, which is about as good as Bandy has done for his career. Neither are great options, but given the choice between the two I'll take Bethancourt as he brings more to the table.

Is Fulmer really that good though? I see low ERA's and low WHIP's but also a pretty low k rate. His k-rate in the minors was rather unspectacular and it's been about 3 less per 9 in the majors so far. Without digging too far into his numbers he seems like a pitch to contact guy. Do we really want that with our craptactular infield defense? He's certainly a middle of the rotation at worst guy but Detroit will be looking for a haul and really what you'll be paying for is control and low salary, not actual performance.

Harvey's problems are 90% physiological and won't ever be fixed. His arm is toast and it seems like his brain isn't far behind. Pass 100 times.

Is that last comment specific to the Brewers, or to the product MLB is putting on the field these days? http://www.espn.com/blog/buster-olney/insider/post/_/id/18486/olney-have-big-swings-big-flies-and-big-whiffs-broken-baseball Perhaps both, but I was specifically (and emotionally) talking about the Brewers with my research and criticism. If someone told you that you were obligated to spend 3 hours watching a game, that your team would score 2 runs without the aid of a homer, and they would fail to score at all in more than 75 percent of the innings, would you do it? And, would you do it at the stadium, with all the expense and (perhaps) inconvenience of getting there and back? I'm a 20-game seat holder, and I'm leaning heavily toward giving them up after this year. This is supposed to be a contending team, and even with their winning record, it is a dreadful watch. Lots of people watch soccer, so...

Went from a foot of snow on the ground to 70 degrees in a week. Nicest May I can remember in awhile. You just never know with spring in Wisconsin.

MLB needs to get ahead of this right now. This could easily explode like the steroids scandal. Astros already won one World Series. If it drags on for three years and the stats guys put three years of data together and conclude that nearly every pitcher the Astros acquired during this timeframe had an immediate and significant increase in spin rate, then it's obvious that they are doctoring the baseball and then all the writers are completely justified in saying that MLB should have been on this early in 2018. First ex-Astro that would come out and say "yeah we were cheating, everyone knew and nobody cared" would completely blow the lid off. If I was the commissioner the order would have already gone out. When a pitcher gets on the mound an umpire checks his hat, glove, belt, forearms and face/neck for any foreign substance. Rosin on bill of cap OK. Anything else comes with automatic ejection and fine. This is not an opinion on if pitchers should be allowed to use pine tar or not. I have no problem if they change the rule this coming off season and make it legal for 2019. But right now it's not legal and if MLB decides to just look the other way, then they should take the same beating from sportswriters as they took after all the steroids stuff went down. It's also kind of an unwritten rule that no team does anything about another team doing it because their pitchers are doing it too. You can't just single out the Astros for the umps to check. You would need to check every pitcher and every catcher too because they could just as easily put something on the ball.

Run scores because it's not a force out. Only know that from seeing it happen.

I really hope Dubon wasn't their plan B if Villar/Perez/Sogard failed at 2B.

Interesting. I did watch the 1st season, not sure how much of season 2 but then I gave up. Sounds like it's worth circling back. I can totally understand how people gave up on it. I'll just say it looks like they're leading to some sort of actual completion to the overall story, instead of just spinning their wheels in random places like most of the series.

Or the other way to look at it is that pitchers need to figure out how to stop hurting themselves doing mundane baseball things like swinging a bat or running.

Well, ya, obviously the offense hasn't been great for a couple years but that has absolutely nothing to do with how good Darnell Coles was as a player. And it's totally irrelevant to bring up in any discussion of how effective he is as a coach. I give his batting career consideration to the same results this team is producing. Low avg, low OB. He's the one talking to these guys to improve, or as said prepare for upcoming starters and how to approach ABs, DSituations, etc. Santana, Villar, Arcia continue having poor ABs over and over. The bottom 4 batting are albatrosses. He's not getting improvement from the hitters who arent above average talents. Serious long slumps. Wildcat- AAA/AA just promote within. Interim. And find a coach over the next year to fill. And has been stated many times, Derek Johnson has thrown zero professional pitches in his life. Just took a quick look at the two top teams by OPS and the kind of career their hitting coaches had: Yankees: Marcus Thames - .246/.309/.485 over 10 seasons PJ Pilittere - 0 MLB PA's Red Sox: Tim Hyers - .217/.298/.287 over 260 PA's Andy Barkett - .304/.373/.413 over 51PA's

Maybe there were some rumblings but I don't remember anything mentioned other than here. Another bullet dodged is Sonny Gray. He was ok for the Yankees last year but has been terrible so far this year.