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If I'd had to watch that team every game all season long I'd probably want to fight some bitches, too...

 

So far, its the best action the Tigers org has had this season!

 

Will, speaking of the Tigers, I was researching rare sports tickets for sale and came across Denny McClain's 30th win ticket. I was surprised it was $250. I didn't think anyone cared about 30 wins or him any longer but I was wrong.

 

Perfect game in progress... Lopez for the Royals, up 4-0, 8th.

 

Headed to the 9th... Lopez with the perfecto still in tacked.

 

and he loses the perfecto and no-no in the 9th... so close.

 

Hated to give up Lopez but sure as hell like what the Brew Crew got in return.

 

i really hope this second half slump tells Phils owner Jon Middleton a few things. one-his manager is ill-equipped for the job. two-his GM is ill-equipped for the job and you can't run a team via a computer printout. and three-the team wasn't that good to begin with and the expectations were right about 75-81 wins. the team blew their load early, got hot with the worst pitching after Nola and overpaid Arrieta and showed their true colors of suckiness the second half of the season. The hitters, who are among the worst in scoring runs and getting runners over, showed how bad they are also after the AS break when the slump started.

I can only hope and pray that Jon has a big off-season planned with his checkbook and a new coach and GM search. A real coach could've managed these guys better and won the NL East as it was theirs for the taking. Instead, the team quit on Kapler weeks ago and will barely finish over .500 if not under it. They fired some hitting coaches yesterday among their minor league teams. they need to fire the big league hitting coach asap ! these hitters are really bad and don't do the right things fundamentally to win and score runs.

 

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...ract-for-the-rest-of-his-career-in-offseason/

with ohtani needing Tommy John surgery and another losing season, i don't think he resigns there. like most or all athletes he wants to win. the Angels tried to win with Pujols, Josh Hamilton and that 1 pitcher and it all backed fired pretty badly. there's a huge push from Phils fans to get him as he's a NJ native and has on the field seats for the Eagles home games and is friends with Carson Wentz and Zach Ertz. I'm sure there are 31 other teams that want him too. he seems to like Philly as it was his home away from home growing up. to trade for him would cost 4-5 top prospects. or wait till he's a FA. I think whomever lands Harper and or Machado will dictate the money Trout will want from LA. And which teams are serious about winning when Trout is a FA to entice him to come to their team.

 

Red Sox, Nationals are only two teams to pay luxury tax this year...

The Associated Press is reporting that the Boston Red Sox and the Washington Nationals will be the only teams to pay the luxury tax this offseason. For the first time since the advent of the luxury tax in 2003, the New York Yankees will not be paying the tax.

Baseball teams pay a 17.5 percent luxury tax for going over the designated threshold. If those teams stay over for a second, third, and fourth consecutive year, those penalties rise to 30, 40, and 50 percent, respectively. Those thresholds for 2018-21 are $197 million, $206 million, $208 million, and $210 million, respectively.

August 31st payroll levels are what trigger the tax. Boston’s luxury tax payroll as of that date was $238.4 million. It is projected that they will pay $11.3 million in luxury tax as a result. The Nationals’ payroll is $203.9 million, forcing them to pay a projected tax of $2.1 million. The Yankees are just under the threshold at $192.1 million. The Giants and Dodgers are even closer to that threshold than the Yankees. San Francisco’s August 31 payroll is at $195.3 million, L.A’s is at $194.5 million.

By getting under the $197 million mark, the Yankees reset their luxury tax rate going forward, so if they exceed it next year, their tax rate will be down at that 17.5% rate instead of the 50% rate they’d be paying if they remained above it in 2018. That means they’re more likely to be a player for free agents this offseason than if they hadn’t tightened their belts a bit down from 50% for being multi-year offenders of MLB’s soft salary cap.

 

im baffled how the yankees with adding stanton doesn't owe.

 

I just edited the post... it gives insight.

 

Because they have a ton of productive players on cheap contracts (Judge, Severino, Torres, Andujar, Sanchez, etc.) and they're out from under all the old bloated contracts except for Ellsbury.

 

so it resets for them ! great. so they can have harper, stanton and judge as their OF. Unreal.

 

Christian Yelich hits for cycle against Reds again...

Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich hit for the cycle for the second time this season, helping his team earn an 8-0 victory over the Reds on Monday night.

Yelich singled in the first inning, doubled in the third, hit a two-run home run in the fifth, and completed the cycle with a two-run triple in the sixth.

Yelich’s last cycle was quite recent, occurring on August 29 against… the Reds. He is the fifth player to hit for the cycle twice in the same season and the first in baseball history to do it twice in the same season against the same team. Those five players, along with Yelich, are Aaron Hill (2012 Diamondbacks), Babe Herman (1931 Brooklyn Dodgers), Tip O’Neill (1887 St. Louis Browns), and Long John Reilly (1883 Cincinnati Red Stockings), according to MLB.com’s Adam McCalvy.

Yelich’s cycle is the third this season. Along with his two, Mookie Betts also completed the cycle on August 9 against the Blue Jays.

On the season, Yelich is now hitting .318/.385/.570 with 31 home runs, 93 RBI, 102 runs scored, and 19 stolen bases in 597 plate appearances. His torrid second half has certainly put him into the NL MVP conversation.

With the win on Monday, the Brewers trail the Cubs by two games in the NL Central. As of this writing, the Cubs are in a scoreless tie with the D-Backs. The Brewers hold a 3.5-game lead over the Dodgers and Cardinals for the first of two Wild Card slots. (PHT)

 

^^^ i traded his ass at the AS break! ugh. his second half is killing me.

 

No shit, I just ran into Reynado Lopez Uncle.

 

I'm at a friends house and there's a black guy doing some stone work next door. He looks over to me and asks where I'm from. I'm from here, what about you?

He says he's spanish from the DR, I've been there Sosua. He says he's from San Pedro, thats where tony fernandez and george bell were from.
He says, lots of baseball players from there, my nephews a pitcher. I thought he was a double A pitcher. He takes out his cell phone with a video of his nephew pitching.
He says he earns $500k a year now and he's ready for the big bucks. He was talking about him like he was a lottery ticket.
The newfie girl from next door comes out and it looks like they're dating.

Hola, good luck with that big contract amigo.