jerichoholicninja

Just put him in and put this whole thing to rest. Steroid users too.

I just can't understand all the hate for Tabata. This is 100% on the ump. Ok, 99% on the ump 1% on Scherzer for missing his spot so badly. I can't believe the posters basically saying that Tabata should have just made an out because they weren't going to win and Scherzer had a perfect game. If I'm on the Pirates, I have no problem for what he did. If I'm a National, I'm disappointed that it happened but feel no ill will toward Tabata. If I'm Scherzer I'm pissed at myself for throwing such a terrible pitch and at the ump for not making the right call but I would have nothing against Tabata.

Pretty sure he's at AAA, Colorado Springs. Ya, he passed through unclaimed.

This right here. You play to win the game. Anyone who has a problem with what he did should go back and make sure the second base was touched every time the Nats turned a double play. Once again, this all falls on the umpire. He's the one that didn't enforce the rule.

Just stupid by the Dbacks. Serves absolutely no purpose and does nothing even remotely close to making the organization better. Arroyo was gone after this season, it's not like he had multiple years left.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/131904804/red-sox-david-ortiz-ejected-against-royals David Ortiz gets thrown out for...some reason. He gets a hit gets to first and is tossed by the home plate umpire. It looked like there was a little jawwing going on and I emphasize little. Is it just me or have there been a lot of ejections this season that appear to be because the umpire was looking for a reason to throw someone out?

Here, here. That is the same non-sense as bunting to break up a no hitter being bush. At point during a no hitter/perfect game are hitters just supposed to give up so the pitcher can get his achievement? No, it most certainly is not the same thing. Bunting for a hit, is getting a base hit if you can do it, leaning into a pitch, intentionally, is against the rules. I agree it is against the rules but if a rule is never enforced is it still a rule?

Here, here. That is the same non-sense as bunting to break up a no hitter being bush. At point during a no hitter/perfect game are hitters just supposed to give up so the pitcher can get his achievement?

Being that it's a judgement call I doubt you can challenge if a player attempted to get hit. That ump had a pretty clear view of it too since the catcher set up outside and left a huge hole for the ump too look through.

He pretty clearly leaned into it. Call it bush league or whatever you want but the blame falls on the umpire for not calling him back.

There are tens of thousands of people (and multiple cameras) watching where the balls go... You catch the A-Rod ball, a stadium employee comes over and asks for it back. Nothing complicated about that whatsoever. I think the scenario where the fan gives back a fake ball he/she smuggled in is fairly far-fetched. Except in Wrigley where it's cool the throw a non-game used ball back onto the field after a homerun. If teams start regularly tracking down fans that catch baseballs to get them back you can be sure there are going to be people that start bring baseballs in with them.

I don't know about them being paid more but the big league club should be providing more stuff for them than they already do, especially for the low level guys.

This would accomplish pretty much nothing. What is the saved money going to be used for? More aging free agents? This franchise doesn't need money it needs talent. To give up someone who might actually be able to bring talent back just to not have to pay Garza seems like a backwards move to me.

I'm pretty sure he wasn't yet throwing a knuckleball in the Brewers system.

Legally that's not exactly true. Logistically, it would be even more of a challenge and a ridiculous waste of time. I understand that, currently, fans are legally entitled to keep the balls, but I don't see why that should be the case. You buy a ticket and are invited onto private property to watch the game. If you're shopping in a store and a box falls off the shelf and into your bag that doesn't mean you get to keep it. If you're at a concert and a musician drops his instrument into the first row, that doesn't mean it's yours. Even if it's not an automatic right, teams should write their right to reclaim foul balls into the ticket agreements. It wouldn't be a logistical challenge at all, because 99.999% of the time the stadium/team would not exercise its legal rights and would let fans keep balls. When you have a historically significant ball that could be worth thousands of dollars, the stadium should have the right to confiscate it from whoever it lands on. How are you going to keep track of what is actually a game ball? The only way would be to have serial numbers on every ball and the home plate umpire would need to track every serial number put in play and what happened to it. Otherwise fans could bring their own baseballs to the game and give up that one if they are asked for the real game ball back. That makes sense for ones that are historically significant like they did during the McGwire/Sosa and Bonds chase but otherwise it's just a waste of time and effort.

Hey, the story got clicks. Who cares if it's ridiculously terrible writing.

I'm not sure what being developed by the Marlins has to do with anything. They've had some pretty darn good players come up through their system: Stanton, Fernandez, Miggy to name a few. And the Astros were Siberia? They knew they had nothing in terms of major league talent so they gutted the team for prospects and knew they were going to lose. I highly doubt anyone ever told Matt he was going to "be the one to sell tickets" and he needed to hit 30 bombs.

If in the end the Brewers don't give ARam away (if they have to by paying whatever of his salary) then someone needs to be slapped around. I don't care if they think ARam will OPS .900 the rest of the season, actually that is the opposite of what I would want (need to keep draft position). Get the guy they just picked up and get him in the roster for July, August, September. If he swims, maybe he gets 2016, if he sinks you know you need to go another direction. That is the great thing about being out of the playoff race, find out what you have from the young guys that are of an age you don't care about starting their arby clock. If he's not traded, I wonder how much of it will be because he doesn't want to play anywhere else. He cited a reason for signing with Milwaukee originally was that it is close to home. Sure, he might want to win a World Series but does he want to go live on another end of the country for a few months? I know he doesn't have a no trade clause and therefore has no real say in what happens but maybe he has told Doug or his agent he really doesn't want to go anywhere else.

ARod is about to get his 3000 hit and I haven't heard any talk about it. The only reason I know is because he's on my fantasy team and rotoworld mentioned it.

Even if he turns it around the second half I think they are safe from him being picked in the Rule 5 this winter. So I'd say they are safe now until at least next winter. Has anyone ever been a 2-time Rule 5 draftee?

Fair point. it was his ability to take a walk that made him different. But that is something that can be learned to some extent. Power can't. One ironic thing about stat gurus is they say K's don't matter for hitters but do for pitchers. I know they are measuring different things but if you don't care about one the other is going to be effected. For a pitcher, they largely have little effect on BABIP. Some guys who have pinpoint control and can work the corners like magic, maybe, but largely, pitchers have little to do with the effect of a ball in play (other than flyball/groundball). If the pitcher can keep the ball from being put in play, that's always a plus. For a batter, if you have a .900 OPS guy who strikes out 150 times, and a .900 OPS guy who strikes out 70 times, the difference is negligible at best. I've read that 100 strikeouts cost a team one run. (statistical research will absolutely bear this out) If you go up there with the mindset to "put the ball in play", you are changing your approach, and aren't as aggressive a hitter. You have a guy who hits 30 homeruns and hits .270 and strikes out 150 times, suddenly decide to be a 'contact' hitter, it's going to completely change his game and and most likely have a negative overall effect on his offensive numbers. Weakly grounding out to 2nd base 9 times out of 10 has zero value for the offense. I don't want to derail the thread but the Royals have put together a pretty decent offense of "put the ball in play" guys. I agree, when you're talking about an individual player strikeouts really don't matter. But when you put a whole team of them together, well, you get the Brewers of the last few years and an offense that struggles to score runs in situations where you are almost guaranteed to score.

Well, when you don't have your Proven CloserTM you have to go Closer By CommitteeTM, which generally means playing matchups. After Rodney pitches 2 or 3 innings he'll be back in the 9th.

It sounds like there's a charge for every transaction. It makes more sense to me for them to charge a monthly or yearly subscription fee instead. But what do I know.

I remember just a few years ago that the push was for everyone to pay with a credit or debit card. Now there are minimum card purchases and discounts for paying cash. I understand the credit card companies are to supposedly to blame for charging businesses obscene amounts to use their cards but that tide seemed to turn pretty darn quickly.

amen. up to 5 years per access. I forget the dollar amount, but its also per access. So it all depends how many times they entered the database Yes, a few people are going to get jail time but unless someone really high up in the franchise can be proven to have been involved I don't see MLB really doing anything other than a fine and the narrative will always be that it was just a few rouge employees with a personal vendetta.