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I told you he was always hurt and just an average pitcher last year Fish...... *NO*

 

well he got hurt on a bad tumble at first base running out a hit. just a bad luck event sadly. it wasn't like he got hurt pitching. but yes you did tell me he was injury prone.

 

Oh? And the Bucs lead MLB in BA and OBP. They always have have a couple players on base, they just have to learn how to get the big hit, which they've been doing for the last 2 weeks, finally......

EDIT: The starting pitching hasn't been great and the BP has sucked!

 

Marlins 2B Dee Gordon suspended 80 games for PEDs

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Reigning NL batting champion Dee Gordon of the Miami Marlins was suspended 80 games for testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug, Major League Baseball said soon after he got a key hit Thursday night in a win at Dodger Stadium.

Gordon was not available for comment after the startling late-night announcement.

The 28-year-old Gordon led the majors in hits and stolen bases last year. He batted .333, became an All-Star for the second time and won a Gold Glove at second base.

The big season helped him earn a $50 million, five-year contract he signed in January.

MLB said he tested positive for exogenous Testosterone and Clostebol.

Marlins manager Don Mattingly managed Gordon during his first three big league seasons in Los Angeles before he was traded to Miami in a seven-player deal in December 2014. Mattingly took over as Marlins manager prior to this season.

"These guys love Dee, and we're going to support him," Mattingly said. "I feel like Dee's one of my kids, to be honest with you, because I've known him so long. So we're going to love him, and then we're going to support him. He's been a big part of the success that we've had."

The fleet-footed Gordon is the son of former All-Star pitcher Tom Gordon. Shortly before the penalty was announced, Gordon hit an RBI single in the seventh inning and scored after forcing a balk as the Marlins rallied for a 5-3 win and a four-game sweep over Los Angeles.

Gordon became the seventh player to be suspended this year under the MLB drug plan. Last week, Toronto slugger Chris Colabello was penalized 80 games after testing positive for a PED.
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Isnt Bonds in Miami?

 

wow dee gordon now caught? wow! that's crazy. again, they know they test. what is he thinking? i don't get these guys at all! how dumb can you be?

 

phils sweep the nats. fans still don't show up. harper takes bad path towards fly ball and papelbon isn't happy. no fight yet.


some things never change! bwahahahahhahahaha

 

Cubs dump the Braves, 6-1.

 

Suspended Marlin Dee Gordon says he unknowingly took PEDs

MIAMI (AP) ? Reigning NL batting champion Dee Gordon of the Miami Marlins says he unknowingly took the performance-enhancing drugs that led to his 80-game suspension, but he'll accept the penalty.

The announcement of the suspension by Major League Baseball came shortly after the Marlins' victory at Los Angeles on Thursday night. MLB said Gordon tested positive for exogenous testosterone and clostebol.

"Though I did not do so knowingly, I have been informed that test results showed I ingested something that contained prohibited substances," Gordon said in a statement released Friday by the players union. "The hardest part about this is feeling that I have let down my teammates, the organization, and the fans. I have been careful to avoid products that could contain something banned by MLB and the 20-plus tests that I have taken and passed throughout my career prove this.

"I made a mistake and I accept the consequences."

The 28-year-old Gordon led the majors in hits and stolen bases last year. He batted .333, became an All-Star for the second time and won a Gold Glove at second base.

The big season helped him earn a $50 million, five-year contract he signed in January.

 

Sting of Queens: 12-run inning for Mets

NEW YORK -- From his vantage point at the top step of the Mets' dugout, Terry Collins understood he was witnessing history. He may not have known the details -- no Mets team had ever scored 12 runs in an inning, no Met had ever clubbed an extra-base hit in nine consecutive games, nor amassed six RBIs in an inning, and so on and so forth -- but he recognized the implications.

The Mets' record-setting third inning Friday did not merely send them rocketing to a 13-1 win over the Giants, one of the National League's best teams. It also provided explicit evidence that this Mets offense is unrecognizable from the one Collins, on the same top step, watched night after night last April through July.

"This is a different team, for sure," Collins said. "You just go through those streaks sometimes where it doesn't matter what you do, you can't score. Tonight, we swung the bat and it seemed like everything we hit, it went into a gap somewhere."

Six of the Mets' eight hits in their record-setting third inning indeed settled onto patches of Citi Field grass. One glanced off right fielder Hunter Pence's glove. Another -- Yoenis Cespedes' third career grand slam, a liner to left field that evoked his game-tying pinch-hit shot three days earlier -- cleared the fence.

By the time the Mets were done, they had sent 15 men to the plate against Giants pitchers Jake Peavy and Mike Broadway, who combined to retire three of them. The other dozen crossed home in one of the most extravagant hit parades the National League has ever seen.

"Everybody hit a double," shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera said, grinning in the postgame clubhouse. "Double, double, double, double, double."

 

Cubs suck in May.

 

So does their suits...

 

Dodgers' pitcher Ravin given 80-game drug suspension

NEW YORK (AP) ? Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Josh Ravin was suspended Monday for 80 games following a positive test under Major League Baseball's drug program.

Ravin is the eighth player suspended this year under the big league program and the fourth in three weeks. He tested positive for Growth Hormone Releasing Peptide 2 (GHRP-2), the commissioner's office said.

Ravin blamed the positive test on a supplement he took during spring training after a bout with intestinal flu and strep throat caused him to lose 20 pounds in about a week.

"To try and speed up my recovery, I took some supplements that I thought would help," he said in a statement. "Unfortunately, I was not as careful as I should have been and one of the supplements contained a banned substance.

"I later learned that the substance showed up in a regular drug test done of me during 2016 spring training. This has been a very painful lesson for me. I have always tried to avoid doing anything in violation of the system and I take full responsibility for the consequences of my actions and my bad judgment."

A 28-year-old right-hander, Ravin has been on the disabled list since the start of the season because of a broken left forearm. He was 2-1 with a 6.75 ERA last year in nine relief appearances with the Dodgers in his first major league action. He spent most of the season at Triple-A Oklahoma City.

Ravin will lose $225,137 from his $515,000 salary. The Dodgers said in a statement the team was disappointed.

 

Tonight was the 1st time in Cardinal history the starters in the 6, 7, 8, and 9 holes in the lineup hit a home run.

 

I am really coming around to Javy Baez. He first came up in August 2014 and proceeded to strike out 40% of the time. He started 2015 in the minors and came up in August last year. Madden told him to "Try not to suck". He played well last September, but clearly had some nerves when pressed into full time duty during the NLCS. He started this year on the DL and has been simply awesome. He has played almost recklessly aggressive, but it is so fun to watch. He hasn't played like that his first 2 stints in the bigs. The weirdest thing that you actually notice with him is how quick he can apply a tag. Seems like a strange thing, but there is a noticeable difference between him and say Bryant or LaStella. I'm not Madden, but long term, I want him playing 3rd and Bryant in left. That works out as a defensive upgrade in 2 positions. I'm pretty much done with Soler, his defense blows. The guy has a cannon for an arm, but that doesn't do you a bit of good if you can't read the ball off the bat.

2 years ago on the now dead Cubs board we were discussing prospects. I argued that Bryant had the lowest floor. I was told no, Soler did and Baez had the higher ceiling. I don't know if Baez has the higher ceiling, but he is looking a lot more like the first round draft pick than he did a year and a half ago.

 

Check em for PEDs!

 

I agree with your assessment. Defense is very important and sometimes you have to sacrifice a bat to play better in the field.

 

You don't think they look hot?

 

Some rock, some need a bunch of help, lol.

 

Is it Haloween already? Trick r Treatin in the Burgh......