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Assume you're talking about the call in the Yankees-Jays game tonight? I mean, if that's not blocking the plate by Navarro...I have no idea what is.The application is the problem, it pretty much changes from replay official to replay official. I don't get it.That rule is going to be a one and done.They can't make up their minds on the blocking the plate call. Can't wait until it costs someone a playoff game.
Yeah, I was. Like I said, I don't get it.Assume you're talking about the call in the Yankees-Jays game tonight? I mean, if that's not blocking the plate by Navarro...I have no idea what is.The application is the problem, it pretty much changes from replay official to replay official. I don't get it.That rule is going to be a one and done.They can't make up their minds on the blocking the plate call. Can't wait until it costs someone a playoff game.
Yeah, and I wouldn't be surprised if he misses some time.
I'm gonna have some huge forearms by the time they bring up Bryant
I'd temper enthusiasm on Soler, he's a hacker. When teams start throwing him change-ups and slurves, he's in trouble.
i thought he had a low k rate in the minors.
He'll be better than that Cuban guy the Red Sox just got.*shadyridr said:
I don't think that's true. I think they're banged up and a lot of guys are simply slumping.
their offense fell apart after the lester/cespedes trade but that wouldve happened even if they didnt trade cespedes. Hes good but hes not that good. Meanwhile kazmir also fell apart after the lester trade and lester has been awesome. I think without lester theyd be even worse.
His fastball alone is sick but when he sprinkles in the slider, forget about it.
Welcome to the team.
I mostly made up for the power Cabrera and Davis lacked this season. I still wish they hadn't lacked it.I'm not sure who drafts speed over power, I think pretty much everyone drafts power first or at least dedicates a good portion of their budgets to power. It's not like it's some sort of brilliant draft strategy, Truck and I were drafting on ISO numbers several years back. Then again, you can always find Mark Reynolds on the waiver wire and Chris Carter is a guy probably not drafted in most leagues. So there was power left out there that could be had in-season, seems like you just missed the boat.
Ron Washington, Robin Ventura and Kirk Gibson will be out of jobs before the World Series
Ventura and Gibson are as bad as bad gets. Not sure about Washington, the injury bug delivered the plague in Arlington.Eephus said:
They're still very good, fundamentally. But they ran very hot during the first half of the season, and things are now starting to even out a bit.
While that may be the case, Pirates pitchers are notorious for hitting guys. Cutch has to know that he will be a target.
Holliday leads the league in HBPs this year. Hard to hang that one on the Pirates. And even if you somehow think they can, you don't deliberately throw at the reigning MVP who just came off the DL with a rib injury as retaliation. That's not exactly eye for an eye retaliation. If they'd thrown at Molina's hands, maybe.
Holliday does get hit by pitches a lot because he's a big slow guy who hangs over the plate. He's not the league leader in HBPs, unless you meant to discard hitters who use Jay-Z songs as their walk-up music. I understand who someone like you would dismiss people like that, but it might be a factor in their HBP total.
League Leaders in HBPs (when you remove the "qualified hitters" field he's the co-leader with teammate John Jay)
