The road to October begins now! Here are my predictions... AL West Anaheim Seattle Oakland Houston Dallas AL Central Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Chicago White Sox Minnesota (#2 pick in 2016) AL East Boston Toronto (Wild Card) Baltimore Tampa Bay NY Yankees AL MVP: Mike Trout, Anaheim AL Cy Young: Felix Hernandez, Seattle AL Rookie of the Year: Devon Travis, Toronto NL West LA Dodgers San Francisco San Diego Arizona (#5 pick in 2016) Colorado (#4 pick in 2016) NL Central St. Louis Chicago Cubs (Wild Card) Pittsburgh (Wild Card) Cincinnati Milwaukee NL East Washington Miami NY Mets Atlanta (#3 pick in 2016) Philadelphia (#1 pick in the 2016 draft) NL MVP: Kris Bryant for all eternity, regardless of where the Cubs finish NL Cy Young: Clayton Kershaw, LA Dodgers NL Rookie of the Year: Kris Bryant, Chicago Cubs
Here's a random question I had never considered before. I'm watching a college game (Houston vs. Louisiana-Lafayette) and ULL appealed a UH tag up at third base that ended up being a run scored. The announcers noted that the runner wasn't even close to leaving early, and as a matter of fact, really made a production of making sure he was on the bag as the ball was caught. That got me to thinking...why don't teams appeal basically every tag up? Although I'm sure each team has a designated coach that watches the tag ups of opposing teams, I have a hard time believing that there aren't at least a few every year that go unnoticed, and therefore uncalled. What's the risk? The worst case scenario is that it goes uncalled, which is where the team is to begin with. And it's not like it takes up a whole bunch of time, as it can be done in the time it would take the next batter to walk to the plate anyway. Is the fear that it would just irritate umpires to the point that you would never get that call anymore? To me, that seems like the only possible argument against it. Is there something obvious I'm missing that would keep a team from doing this?
19th. Officially, the game lasted 6 hours and 49 minutes. If the 16-minute delay to fix the lights was included, it would have been 7:05. Mark Teixeira celebrated his birthday in the 12th inning.
All 4 MLB players suspended for PEDs this year are pitchers. For some bizarre reason they've all been busted for stanozolol, the same anabolic steroid that was prevalent in the 60's-80's NFL. "No way you'll beat a test using stanozolol", was the quote I saw.
Oops forgot it was Kris , and pitcher today was Big Game James Shields. Not a bad pitcher to have 3ks against.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>cubs now calling up addison russell to the majors. <a href="http://t.co/HJ0kD3hzIZ">http://t.co/HJ0kD3hzIZ</a></p>— Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonHeymanCBS/status/590364621296513025">April 21, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> YES SIR
http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/y...source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Yordano Ventura started jawing with Eaton on a comebacker to mound. Ventura so far has gotten into it with Mike Trout, the A's & now Eaton</p>— Scott Miller (@ScottMillerBbl) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottMillerBbl/status/591424884640624640">April 24, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <iframe src="https://vine.co/v/ea95bzlrIK6/embed/simple" width="480" height="480" frameborder="0"></iframe><script src="https://platform.vine.co/static/scripts/embed.js"></script>
Hahahahahaha. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Coming home, where he never should have left: Josh Hamilton close to returning to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rangers?src=hash">#Rangers</a> in deal with Angels <a href="http://t.co/VZjyfTFPpv">http://t.co/VZjyfTFPpv</a></p>— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a href="https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/591732803420688384">April 24, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Will be interesting to see what the Rangers have to give up... or if the Angels are simply desperate to dump him for $$$ and a bag of chips.