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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/23/2018 11:36:45 AM

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Saw a gif of this

Found the actual play from the World Series, Reds/A's

This is like Eddie Shore, old-time Hockey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qfa1mAmKMo

Looking at it now, that's not really baseball. Makes sense they took that part out of it. A legit slide take-out? That's more reasonable.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/23/2018 12:08:16 PM

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Vida Blue was one of a kind.
Had some incredible years.

I was a huge Joe Rudi fan

Him and Reggie.

Crushed me when Rudi bailed to the Angels.

Rudi just carried them some playoff years
Could not get the guy out

Career .260s hitter

2 WS hit .333 and drove in 4 runs in each.

Now that kind of guy belongs in these stupid HOF rows/ statues/ uni retirements, etc ...
No amount of regular season numbers trump anything he did.
Big Shot Rob, before Big Shot Rob

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/23/2018 12:14:41 PM

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Is Big Shot Rob kinda like Big Spot Scott?

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/23/2018 12:16:20 PM

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Is Big Shot Rob kinda like Big Spot Scott?

kinda .... but not nearly as cool.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/23/2018 6:42:25 PM

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Vida Blue was one of a kind.
Had some incredible years.

I was a huge Joe Rudi fan

Him and Reggie.

Crushed me when Rudi bailed to the Angels.

Was on a cruise years ago that Rudi was also on. Tremendously nice guy. My wife went up and asked him for an autograph (for me) and he said "you want my autograph"? Very humble and very nice. One of my favorites.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/23/2018 7:40:40 PM

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Vida Blue was one of a kind.
Had some incredible years.

I was a huge Joe Rudi fan

Him and Reggie.

Crushed me when Rudi bailed to the Angels.

Was on a cruise years ago that Rudi was also on. Tremendously nice guy. My wife went up and asked him for an autograph (for me) and he said "you want my autograph"? Very humble and very nice. One of my favorites.

Awesom. Thanks for sharing.

of course, the money those guys made is peanuts these days.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/25/2018 8:11:39 PM

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Kluber getting clobbered by KC. This division is very strange. The best team struggles against some of the worst.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/25/2018 8:20:41 PM

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Heard a strange stat/record today during the first Yankee game. I had to confirm it.

Adam Jones is on the verge of setting a record for consistency on the high end of mediocrity.

He's batting .283 this season. If he stays below .290, he will be the only player in the history of MLB to have 11 consecutive seasons hitting above .260 and below .290.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/26/2018 11:31:07 AM

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Heard a strange stat/record today during the first Yankee game. I had to confirm it.

Adam Jones is on the verge of setting a record for consistency on the high end of mediocrity.

He's batting .283 this season. If he stays below .290, he will be the only player in the history of MLB to have 11 consecutive seasons hitting above .260 and below .290.

That is amazing and exactly the type of player that ML baseball seems to lack these days. It used to be common to have two .300+ batters in a lineup with three or four players in the .260-.295 range. Now, that .270's player just might be the top batter in a lineup. You look at the Twins lineup and that is pretty much the situation. Rosario is batting .289 and Mauer is batting .276. Polanco is at .269 and Cave at .265. So the Twins true problem offensively is a lack of a .300+ plus batter. Add that player to the lineup, and they become competitive again. Add two such players, and they become a playoff caliber lineup. Alternatively, get Sano, Buxton and Keipler added to the .260's+ group, and the Twins have a solid competitive offense. Oh, and Garver is right at .260. So the Twins short-term fortunes really revolve around Sano, Buxton and Kepler. It appears that Forsythe can be a .260s+ plus player also.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/27/2018 7:32:36 AM

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Heard a strange stat/record today during the first Yankee game. I had to confirm it.

Adam Jones is on the verge of setting a record for consistency on the high end of mediocrity.

He's batting .283 this season. If he stays below .290, he will be the only player in the history of MLB to have 11 consecutive seasons hitting above .260 and below .290.

Interesting.
Guys the ultimate grinder.
Gotta have those in your franchise.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/27/2018 2:44:30 PM

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Morales with a chance to tie the MLB consecutive games (8) with a HR record tonight at Baltimore/Hess.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/27/2018 3:23:43 PM

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ORIGINAL: JT2

Heard a strange stat/record today during the first Yankee game. I had to confirm it.

Adam Jones is on the verge of setting a record for consistency on the high end of mediocrity.

He's batting .283 this season. If he stays below .290, he will be the only player in the history of MLB to have 11 consecutive seasons hitting above .260 and below .290.

Interesting.
Guys the ultimate grinder.
Gotta have those in your franchise.

What's evem more interesting is that they actually keep a stat like most consecutive seasons above .260 and below .290.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/27/2018 3:27:15 PM

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Heard a strange stat/record today during the first Yankee game. I had to confirm it.

Adam Jones is on the verge of setting a record for consistency on the high end of mediocrity.

He's batting .283 this season. If he stays below .290, he will be the only player in the history of MLB to have 11 consecutive seasons hitting above .260 and below .290.

Interesting.
Guys the ultimate grinder.
Gotta have those in your franchise.

What's evem more interesting is that they actually keep a stat like most consecutive seasons above .260 and below .290.

Interesting
Guys like that are the ultimate stat-keepers
Gotta have those in your nerd herd

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/28/2018 12:05:40 PM

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Joey Bats completing his trip off the scrap heap. Phils trading for him, to join the pennant race.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/28/2018 12:07:09 PM

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The Major League Baseball Players Association announced yesterday that it has hired veteran attorney Bruce Meyer to serve as its senior director of collective bargaining & legal. He is expected to play a leading role in the MLBPA’s negotiation efforts with MLB.
According to the announcement, Meyer “will report to [MLBPA executive director] Tony Clark while focusing on all facets of the negotiation and the enforcement of baseball’s collective bargaining agreement.”
Meyer comes to the game of baseball after decades of experience with unions of other sports. Most recently, he worked for the National Hockey League Player’s Association. There, he functioned alongside NHLPA executive director Don Fehr, the former longtime MLBPA director.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/28/2018 12:44:26 PM

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Joey Bats coming back at all ... is amazing. Pharm-spurred, or not.
I was sure he was toast.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/29/2018 10:06:23 AM

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Happy birthday kurt!

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/29/2018 11:50:21 PM

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Man, it's difficult to not be impressed with Houston.

Yeah, they're confident. Maybe even cocky. How dare them. That's not allowed here.

They grind when they have to. Doesn't hurt that they have bench guys that could start for some teams.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/30/2018 12:22:41 AM

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Yankees struggled with White Sox pitching, and they haven't even faced the phenom, Kopech.
(I do think Kopech is the real deal)

NY is in real danger of losing the #1 WC spot to Oakland.

Severino hit a big wall. Tyler Austin's dad couldn't be more right about Bird. I don't think he should have gone all LaVar on it though.

Boone stubbornly sticks with Bird, despite the promising bat of Voit. (Bird is flirting with a double digit BA in August)

Judge is certainly missed. Torres is out of place right now at SS. Andujar is going to be a monster. Sanchez got fat. He's the Yankee version of Sano.

Pitching not good enough to advance in the postseasn, IMO.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/30/2018 8:10:54 AM

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Game of the Year in Cincinnati last night - Yelich goes 6-for-6 and hits for the cycle, possibly locking up the NL MVP award -

CINCINNATI -- As Brewers manager Craig Counsell engaged the umpires in a second heated argument in two nights, you wondered whether he was on his way to an ejection.

He must have bit his tongue, because Counsell remained in the dugout for arguably the most maddening moment of his team's season -- and maybe Milwaukee's most exhilarating win. It was a crazy, 13-12 triumph over the Reds that spanned 10 innings, featured four ties and five lead changes, defensive gems and disputed calls aplenty, and was led by a National League Most Valuable Player Award candidate, Christian Yelich, who did everything but pitch.

"I was thinking throughout the game, 'This game's crazy,'" said Yelich, who finished 6-for-6 with three RBIs and two runs scored. "We were talking about it on the bench. All the plays that happened during it, it was one of those games where you just never knew what was going to happen. It felt like no lead was safe."

Yelich became the fourth player in Brewers history to collect six hits and the eighth to hit for the cycle, and he threw the would-be go-ahead runner out at home plate in the seventh inning. Mike Moustakas hit one tie-breaking home run for Milwaukee in the eighth inning, and Jesus Aguilar smashed another in a two-run 10th before Jeremy Jeffress finally finished a rain-delayed game that spanned four hours and 16 minutes.

Erik Kratz's RBI single in the 10th was the last of the Brewers' season-high 22 hits, which proved a necessary bit of insurance when Cincinnati's Brandon Dixon went deep against Jeffress leading off the bottom of the inning. Jeffress recovered with help from third baseman Moustakas, who made a terrific defensive play to end the game and increase Milwaukee's lead over the idle Rockies to a game in the chase for the second NL Wild Card spot.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/30/2018 8:12:27 AM

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Yankees struggled with White Sox pitching, and they haven't even faced the phenom, Kopech.
(I do think Kopech is the real deal)

NY is in real danger of losing the #1 WC spot to Oakland.

Severino hit a big wall. Tyler Austin's dad couldn't be more right about Bird. I don't think he should have gone all LaVar on it though.

Boone stubbornly sticks with Bird, despite the promising bat of Voit. (Bird is flirting with a double digit BA in August)

Judge is certainly missed. Torres is out of place right now at SS. Andujar is going to be a monster. Sanchez got fat. He's the Yankee version of Sano.

Pitching not good enough to advance in the postseasn, IMO.

The Yankees still lead the A's by 4.5 games. I don't think it's panic time yet.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/30/2018 8:16:17 AM

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That's a hell of a year by Seattle (74-59), and they have next to no chance of making it to the play-in game. The Rays also have a very nice record (71-62), and have practically been eliminated from playoff contention. The AL is stacked. I'm actually impressed with our mediocre record considering the competition in the AL.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/30/2018 10:14:34 AM

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Jeremy Frank
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Ted Williams would turn 100 today, so here’s my favorite stat of his.

During Joe DiMaggio's hit streak:

DiMaggio: .408/.463/.717 (1.181 OPS), 21 BB, 5 SO

Ted Williams: .412/.540/.684 (1.224 OPS), 50 BB, 9 SO

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/30/2018 10:21:23 AM

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Jeremy Frank
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Ted Williams would turn 100 today, so here’s my favorite stat of his.

During Joe DiMaggio's hit streak:

DiMaggio: .408/.463/.717 (1.181 OPS), 21 BB, 5 SO

Ted Williams: .412/.540/.684 (1.224 OPS), 50 BB, 9 SO

Has anyone researched the possibility that the ball was juiced that season?

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 8/30/2018 10:21:40 AM

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Saw a gif of this

Found the actual play from the World Series, Reds/A's

This is like Eddie Shore, old-time Hockey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qfa1mAmKMo

Looking at it now, that's not really baseball. Makes sense they took that part out of it. A legit slide take-out? That's more reasonable.

Still one of the great movies of all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_BY67xkLuE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdi_kASSsJs

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