Angles will still manage to miss the playoffs

Rays total payroll was only something like $60mil last year. Sure they were pretty competitive, but that money they don't spend on players goes to the owners. You don't think even the worst teams in...

Those teams fall on the opposite end IMO. Huge payrolls that were horribly mismanaged until they finally clicked for one or two seasons.

My beef is owners pocketing huge profits while not even...

Sure, but then they sold off their whole team and a couple years later are back to being one of the worst teams in baseball while not even sniffing the luxury tax.

Yeah, there needs to be some parity created somehow between the markets. That's why the NFL is better than MLB and NBA for small market teams. There's a hard cap, but you also have to spend most of...

Has any team lost so much of the good will towards it in such a short timeframe?

Ball don’t lie

What a terrible call

Man, then Nationals straight imploded at home after being so hot for weeks. Not sure they can turn it back on again. Would love to see them win, though.

No, the assistant GM was yelling at three women supporters who were wearing domestic violence awareness wristbands about how glad he was that the Astros got known abuser Osuna for so cheap, then the...

Apparently the Astros are a garbage organization, so it makes my choice easy. Was leaning Nats anyway, but wow. Talk about a self-inflicted wound on the day of Game 1. Should just fire the guy and...

Happy Yankees elimination day!!

Man. Didn’t think the Nate would get by the Brewers, but they looked unstoppable against the Cards. They are my adopted NL team after spending a few years there so good to see some success finally.

Pretty much this

Yeah, Oakland is def worse. I had decent seats at the Trop, so the game action was fine. Certainly isn’t as nice as some newer stadiums, but I think it would be ok if there were actually people there

Been to a game at the Trop. Not the worst stadium I’ve been to and St Petes is a rad town. Good and cheap beer in the stadium. Not sure why people don’t go.

Ah. Got it.

Not sure on the exact rules but September signings aren’t eligible for post season, right?

Yeah, fair enough, but they have like what? 20 or 25 blown saves? Half that number and they are in the playoffs too.

He totally fucked them by not getting any new arms both in the off season and the trade deadline. They knew the bullpen sucked from day one and DD didn’t do anything about it.



Or this

My wife loved the all whites. So there’s that. She watches a ton of baseball, too, not just some pink hat fan

He's only hitting 30 points better than Trout and is leading the league in RBIs. Cora should probably send him back down to work on his footwork at 3B.

I don’t think they take BP before Sunday day games IIRC.

How Dombrowski didn’t think they needed more arms before the trade deadline I’ll never know. Seems like negligence to me

Maybe they should move Sale out there for a bit to try and get him settled...

No issues with my for any of my devices, but I did do a hard refresh of my Samsung TV to solve a different problem and got a shiny new MLB app on it recently.

My one complaint with them is that if...

Trevor Bauer throws a ball over the CF fence after getting pulled.

https://www.mlb.com/news/trevor-bauer-throws-ball-over-outfield-wall

I think Angel Hernandez called it a strike.

Foreshadowing

Mookie. Fucking. Betts.

3 HRs and we are only in the 4th.

Nobody is calling him Pudge, but a GG means he could flash the leather a bit. Pitcher management is also a big thing that doesn’t show up in the stats line. There’s a reason Tek and David Ross had...

FIFY

Also, .256 is a pretty good career number for a catcher that could actually play defense. But Yanks fans haven’t ever seen one, so I guess we can give you a pass.

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Happy Jason Varitek day!!

“We don’t throw at .260 hitters,” is still one of the best sports quotes of all time.

Carlos Pena

Boone's been spending way too much time in Long Island.

Fucking meathead.

If Devers stays healthy he’ll win an MVP I think. Too much talent at the plate, and his D is going to be fine.

Joe Kelly has been both unhittable and totally fucking terrible this year, so he’d fit right in

Good series and a fun game. Story of the Sox’s season though. Miss a clutch hit then watch the pitching staff give it away

I like this dodgers team. Now that Machado is gone it’s easy to root for them. Bellinger ‘s a hell of a player

Today in the Mets being the Mets: Their minor league team set fire to their stadium doing a fireworks show. Again.

https://twitter.com/BrodyLogan/status/1146966390991028225

They won the Joe Buck/A-Rod/Smoltzy hearts and minds

I stand by it. What do they have, 17 or 18 blown saves now? If they had half of that they’d be in first place.

Take this for what it’s worth, but I think Joe Buck said yesterday the new turf was...

Red Sox bullpen is an embarrassment

The Yankees suck chant was probably joined in by many an Englishman who are still angry about the revolutionary war.

Would rather be in the stands there than listening to Joe Buck right now.

The results for “bone marrow dentures” are all just that story. Maybe some of the dentists here can elaborate

This is too good to fact check:
https://www.nj.com/union/2019/06/ex-mlb-star-lenny-dykstra-spent-9-hours-dumpster-diving-outside-a-jersey-mikes-heres-why.html

“Ex-MLB star Lenny Dykstra spent 9...

Don’t back off now. You were just getting on a roll!

Devers is def a work in progress defensively, but at least to my eye he looks way more solid than earlier in the year.

And he hit the furthest opposite field home run ever measured by statcast

I don’t get that. Why don’t they go after Scherzer

Meanwhile in Minnesota

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The Sox have only hit six HRs tonight. But it is only the fifth inning so they have time to hit some more.