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hahhahahaha- tried to trade for him and the owner laughed at me! fuck him. im laughing now ! hahhahahaha

 

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...r-to-broken-forearm-after-102-mph-comebacker/

Corey Kluber breaks his arm as a 102 mph ball off the bat breaks his arm ! Wow. Tough break. No pun intended. He didn't even look like he was in pain. He wasn't even jumping around in pain? One tough SOB !

 

Well it was a non-displaced fracture which means the bone doesn't move. Hurts a lot less. And more often that not in that situation the area is gonna go numb really fast. It's a weird feeling. Not saying it doesn't hurt but it's a lot different than when your bone breaks and becomes unaligned.

 

He's good for a keeper league.

 

it's a seasonal league. no keepers and he took him in the 5th rd. insane to take a prospect that early.

 

He needs a couple of years, even Trout struggled early.

 

wasn't he an august or sept call up ? i think he won ROY, his first full season didn't he? he has contended for the AL MVP almost every year he's been in the league.

 

I read that he was sent down in his first year, then called up again later on.

 

ok.

 

David Price wants MLB to “come clean” on the juiced baseballs...

We’ve talked a lot about juiced baseballs over the past couple of years. The evidence that the seams are shorter and that the ball has less drag on it is pretty clear and the numbers are undeniable.

March/April 2019 witnessed more homers — 1144 — than any month in baseball history. On a per game average, that comes out to 2.62 per game, which is one of the highest rates for a month in Major League history. Keep in mind, of course, that the first month of the season usually sees the lowest home run rates of the year due to the cold weather. It’s only going to get worse. Or better, depending on what you think of homers.

You know who doesn’t like home runs? Pitchers. And one pitcher really wants Major League Baseball to own up to the juiced baseballs. From Bob Nightengale at USA Today:

In interviews this past month with everyone from pitchers to scouts to umpires to team officials, they informed USA TODAY Sports that today’s baseball may be juiced more than anyone’s body during the height of baseball’s ugly steroids era.

“Come on, just tell us,’’ Boston Red Sox veteran starter David Price says. “We all see it. Just come clean and say it.’’

He’s not the only one. Players in the homerrific 2017 World Series noted it publicly, and pitchers who have experienced an increased occurrence of blisters have railed agains the smoother, shorter-seamed balls as well. Yesterday Rob Manfred acknowledged that the ball is the issue but says it’s just a case of uncontrollable variation in the manufacturing of baseballs, which is done by hand and features natural products which make ensuring uniformity a bit trickier.

It’s hard to buy that, though, given that the home run rate spiked, across the board, in the middle of the 2015 season and has not abated since. If it was random variation there would be some, you know, variation, yes? What has actually happened with the baseball is unknown, but the data presents as if the ball was changed, either intentionally or by accident, at a single point and that it has not reverted to normal for pushing four years now.

And thus we have dingers. Not from juiced players but from juiced balls. Most people considered the offense of the PED era to be unnatural and illegitimate, but it took a while for that view to form. It was mostly a hindsight thing once the PED stories started breaking in the early 2000s. I wonder if we’ll have a similar reassessment of this era if and when more people become aware that they’re playing with a different ball now than they were just a few short years ago. (NBC's HBT)

 

Cubs are in 1st place!!!!

 

congrats. hope they can stay there. what's wrong with kris bryant ? another down year ? i know Darvish hasn't been doing that well of late. im sure Theo will cook up something big by the trade deadline for them. NL Central is a very tough division. Phils gotta play St. Louis starting tonight for 3 games on the road. Will be tough to win out there.

 

Nothing wrong with Bryant at all....last year he had shoulder problems but he's healthy. His bat is starting to heat up the last week and a half. Had a grand salami last night.

Darvish's stuff actually looks good....his slider is on point. Has had command issues but also has innings where he looks unhittable. I think he also is past his injury issues and I think he will get better as the season goes on.

Hope the Phils take care of the birds....Cubs will be playing Miami the next 3 nights so it's an opportunity to pull ahead on them.

 

Today/Tonight's Action...

 

Current run differential leaders...

Cubs +51
Astros +46
Rays +46
Yankees +36
Dodgers +35

Cubs have played at least 2 games less than each of the 4 teams under them.