OFFICIAL 2018 MLB THREAD

[Supermoon]

Tons of Mets fans in Fenway making a ton of noise. All of a sudden there is a chant of “Yankees suck!” that everyone in the stands, no matter who they came to root for, can participate in.

Gotta love those inclusive sport moments. Lol.

[I've seen black diamonds!]

Tons of Mets fans in Fenway making a ton of noise. All of a sudden there is a chant of “Yankees suck!” that everyone in the stands, no matter who they came to root for, can participate in.

Gotta love those inclusive sport moments. Lol.

That's funny.

Edit: should have said, "It's funny 'cause it's true."

[Danno]

Tons of Mets fans in Fenway making a ton of noise. All of a sudden there is a chant of “Yankees suck!” that everyone in the stands, no matter who they came to root for, can participate in.

Gotta love those inclusive sport moments. Lol.

That's awesome. I woulda joined in that one.

[irul&ublo]

Why not. The moron convention can always accommodate another mouth breather

[Self Jupiter]

Beltre better make it in the real Hall. Should still be on the Red Sox.

[Danno]

The only way Beltre isn't first ballot is if concerns over PEDs pop up between now and the vote five years after his retirement.

[SkiCougar]

freakin cardinals. all they had to do was beat back the dodgers and they would wrap up the second WC and likely put the rockies in the nl west seat, but no; they lie there like a dead possum for three games. go ahead cardinals, continue to play dead one more game and you and the rockies can sit at home together, hopefully the rockies players beat the crap out of you for fouling it all up.

[From_the_NEK]

Speaking of Mattingly, a friend of mine had cancer as a kid and got to go for a dugout visit with his favorite player (Don) when he was nine. 30 years later (this past weekend) this happened...


They don't mention it in the video but Jay named his first born (daughter) Mattingly.

This was put together by his wife for his 40th birthday while the Marlins happened to be in town. He was completely surprised by the whole thing.

[ex-powderbroker]

that was awesome

[Supermoon]

Man. Sportscenter did TEN minutes on Judge to open up their broadcast. Showed his 0-4 a few times, his interview, etc. their big thing was how hard he hit one of his outs. Fucking brutal.

There are so many more interesting stories in baseball right now. Hell, there are like three better stories about the Yankees.

Good game tonight though

[ex-powderbroker]

i think with those home runs by voit the yanks set a record for most players with double digit home runs. you wouldn’t know it looking at them since they all came in the first half of the season, but maybe they’ll start running into pitches again.

[From_the_NEK]

i think with those home runs by voit the yanks set a record for most players with double digit home runs. you wouldn’t know it looking at them since they all came in the first half of the season, but maybe they’ll start running into pitches again.

The Red Sox have been struggling lately too in the home run department. They really have a hard time putting up more than 1 run if no one is hitting dingers. Hopefully they can fix that for the post season.

[Timberridge]

Maybe they're spent? It's been a long season.

[SkiCougar]

dammit rockies. probably just put themselves out of the playoffs with that lay down @ the dodgers; about their only chance now is that the padres and giants pull all stops trying to beat the dodgers because they don't like the dodgers.

[Woodsy]

rockies didnt lay down they got beat down

Dodgers are firing on all cylinders at the right time
Pen issues worried me but the starters we moved there make me happy.

[Woodsy]

i think with those home runs by voit the yanks set a record for most players with double digit home runs. you wouldn’t know it looking at them since they all came in the first half of the season, but maybe they’ll start running into pitches again.

umm....
voit has 9
Yanks have ten with 2 players squeaking in with 10.
plus they play in the AL so they have an extra hitter.
another team with 10 guys in dbl digits

Max Muncy 33
Cody Bellinger 23
Yasmani Grandal 23
Joc Pederson 23
Yasiel Puig 22
Matt Kemp 20
Enrique Hernandez 20
Chris Taylor 17
Justin Turner 13
Manny Machado† 11

[Timberridge]

Dodgers players have experienced more home burglaries than any other team in 2018. So far.

[Timberridge]

If you’re a Blue Jays fan, you are not watching Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the top prospect in baseball, right now, even though Toronto is 35-and-a-half games out of first place and a taste of the major leagues might benefit both the team at the box office and a player who had a 1.073 OPS in the minors this year. The Blue Jays insist it is not a business decision.

If you’re a White Sox fan, you are not watching Eloy Jimenez, the top prospect in an extensive rebuild, right now, even though Chicago is 25 games out of first place and a taste of the major leagues might benefit both the team at the box office and a player who slugged .577 in the minors this year. The White Sox insist it is all about player development.

If you’re a Mets fan, you are not watching Peter Alonso, the top prospect in the organization, right now, even though New York is 14 games out of first place and a taste of the major leagues might benefit both the team at the box office and a player who belted 36 homers in the minors this year.

“Pretty much it was just like a business decision,” Alonso said at a Mets press conference where he was honored for his minor league performance.

Jimenez, for his part, wrote a piece titled “I’m Ready” for The Players’ Tribune. The MLB Players Association, often quiet when it comes to minor leaguers getting shafted in various ways, called bull on the Blue Jays.

Manipulating the service time of young players to keep them away from salary arbitration or free agency for extra years is nothing new, and makes long-term business sense for teams, but it also goes against the spirit of both competition and putting out the best entertainment product possible. It’s part and parcel with a league whose commissioner took time out this summer from his usual routine of saying his sport is too boring to chastise his sport’s best player as being too boring.

Meanwhile, the Cubs took a break from a homestand on Thursday to fly to Washington and play a game that had been rained out over the weekend – a situation that has put the North Siders in a stretch of 30 straight days having to show up for work. First baseman Anthony Rizzo made his feelings clear by calling it “a joke,” and dressing in full game uniform for the road trip.

More telling was this line from Rizzo: “We’re in a long stretch of games. There’s people in MLB that have been on the players’ side. They understand the human element of it, and they seem not to care at all.”

Indeed, former players who have gone into management are… management. And finally, it seems, after playing so nice for so long with management, baseball players are getting fed up with the game’s operators taking every possible liberty with their livelihoods. It’s one thing to have a mere sense of that, but another to see action. Last month, the MLBPA hired longtime labor attorney Bruce Meyer as its new senior director of collective bargaining and legal. Last week, the union brought on Xavier James, a lawyer, and MBA, as deputy COO. Tony Clark remains head of the MLBPA, but the union’s roll-over-and-die approach under his leadership may finally be shifting.

The current collective bargaining agreement runs through 2021, and obviously a ton can happen between now and then, but it appears, at least for now, that the players – especially after last winter’s glacial free agent market – are getting fed up with what they (stupidly) went into thinking would be an equitable partnership with 29 titans of industry and the Wilpon family.

In the Wilpons’ case, doing a quiet-part-loud bit with Alonso serves to further underscore the incompetence of the operation in Queens, but also a burgeoning problem for baseball owners as a whole. Actively and openly screwing over the stars of the future is not a good plan for ensuring the docile cooperation of a labor outfit whose members are generally comfortable. And if the labor movement ever does get down to organizing the minor leaguers who make less than minimum wage, well, they’ll wish Guerrero, Jimenez, and Alonso had gotten some at-bats for some dreadful teams at the end of 2018.

[ex-powderbroker]

umm....
voit has 9
Yanks have ten with 2 players squeaking in with 10.
plus they play in the AL so they have an extra hitter.
another team with 10 guys in dbl digits

Max Muncy 33
Cody Bellinger 23
Yasmani Grandal 23
Joc Pederson 23
Yasiel Puig 22
Matt Kemp 20
Enrique Hernandez 20
Chris Taylor 17
Justin Turner 13
Manny Machado† 11

So four teams had previously had 11 players with double digits, which is the current record.

If Voit hits one more, they will have 12, which would then be the record.

It's kind of useless but also shows a pretty balanced lineup with regards to power.



The all time record for a team is 264 set by the Mariners in 1997. There was a running storyline about whether the Yanks would beat that mark before Judge got hurt, and it looks like they'll fall about ten short unless Stanton decides to show up this season.

Your list leaves off Dozier, who is pretty awesome but was in a different uniform while he was putting up the bulk of his 20 so far.

[Self Jupiter]

This Sox Yankees game is kooked up

[Supermoon]

Mookie. Fucking. Betts.

[Bunion 2020]

Braves clinch the NL East.

I did not believe that possible.
Let the swoon begin.

[iceman]

Speaking of Mattingly, a friend of mine had cancer as a kid and got to go for a dugout visit with his favorite player (Don) when he was nine. 30 years later (this past weekend) this happened...


They don't mention it in the video but Jay named his first born (daughter) Mattingly.

This was put together by his wife for his 40th birthday while the Marlins happened to be in town. He was completely surprised by the whole thing.

that was awesome

+1. Great stuff.

[ex-powderbroker]

The Yanks need 13 home runs in 8 games for the team HR record but the crazier thing is that all 264 of them would have come against the Orioles.

[Brock Landers]

Didi may be out for the year. Sucks