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***Official MLB 2013 Season Thread (3 Viewers)

Lackey drills Matt Joyce square in the back with a fastball. Joyce says "That's f##kin bulls##t !!!" to Lackey and heads towards the mound.

Benches empty, no punches thrown. Baseball fight.

 
Joyce kinda showed him up with that long foul ball after homering off him the bat before. Speaking of great contracts or Lackey there of...

 
Doctor Detroit said:
AL team home run totals 14th Twins with 5415th Royals with 31 Didn't see that coming, I thought the Royals would be scoring runs in bunches with homers and every other way. How bout that Eric Hosmer?
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The best thing is they put that ####bag on the WBC thing. :lmao: Guy is awful.
 
Dickie Dunn said:
I played in fog like that once in high school.

Center fielder turned to me (in RF) and yelled, "Can you see home plate?"

Me: "I can't even see you."

We somehow played seven innings.
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Saturday summers, when I was a kidWe’d run to the schoolyard and here’s what we didWe’d pick out the captains and we’d choose up the teamsIt was always a measure of my self esteemCuz the fastest, the strongest, played shortstop and firstThe last ones they picked were the worstI never needed to ask, it was sealed,I just took up my place in right field.

Playing...Right field, it’s easy, you know.You can be awkward and you can be slowThat’s why I’m here in right fieldJust watching the dandelions growPlaying right field can be lonely and dullLittle leagues never have lefties that pullI’d dream of the day they’d hit one my wayThey never did, but still I would prayThat I’d make a fantastic catch on the runAnd not lose the ball in the sunAnd then I’d awake from this long reverieAnd pray that the ball never came out to me

Here in...

Right field, it’s easy, you know.You can be awkward and you can be slowThat’s why I’m here in right fieldJust watching the dandelions growOff in the distance, the game’s dragging on,There’s strikes on the batter, some runners are on.I don’t know the inning, I’ve forgotten the score.The whole team is yelling and I don’t know what for.Then suddenly everyone’s looking at meMy mind has been wandering; what could it be?They point at the sky and I look up aboveAnd a baseball falls into my glove!Here in right field, it’s important you know.You gotta know how to catch, you gotta know how to throw,That’s why I’m here in right field, just watching the dandelions grow!

 
Seems like you don't see as many bunt base hits as you did in the 70s and 80s.

Without looking up the stats, I'm comfortable that's an accurate assessment. Guys haven't gotten any slower, so what gives?

 
Theo Epstein on Ian Stewart:

"Once he figures out Triple A pitching, we'll see where we are with everything." :lmao:

Once a promising prospect, Ian Stewart is now a fringe player mired in the minors, and he’s taken to Twitter to vent his frustrations. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, he took a few shots at the Cubs, who nontendered and then re-signed him this past winter, casting doubts about his future in the organization. Below is just one part of what Stewart had to say:

@justinjabs I meant they might asWell release since I have no shot of a call up….let meSign elsewhere—BeefStew2 (@IAN_STEWART_2sc) June 11, 2013

A 2003 first round pick who made the Baseball America Top 100 Prospects list a whopping five times — tied for a record — Stewart yielded diminishing returns in parts of five seasons with the Rockies before being traded to Chicago for Tyler Colvin in December 2011. Hampered by a left wrist injury that required midseason surgery – a bone fragment was causing inflammation of a nerve — he hit just .201/.292/.335 with five homers in 202 plate appearances for the Cubs, who re-signed him to a $2 million contract after nontendering him. A quad strain knocked him out of action in spring training and for all of April, and his numbers at Triple-A Iowa (.164/.279/.345 in 129 PA) have been terrible, though he has recently heated up, homering three times in a game on June 8.

 
can someone tell me why Dusty Baker wears what looks like gardening gloves in the dugout? Is he handling petunias between innings?

 
Raider Nation said:
Seems like you don't see as many bunt base hits as you did in the 70s and 80s.

Without looking up the stats, I'm comfortable that's an accurate assessment. Guys haven't gotten any slower, so what gives?
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Sabermetrics have pretty much proven that a sac bunt is not a good play.

 
rodg12 said:
Raider Nation said:
Seems like you don't see as many bunt base hits as you did in the 70s and 80s.

Without looking up the stats, I'm comfortable that's an accurate assessment. Guys haven't gotten any slower, so what gives?
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Sabermetrics have pretty much proven that a sac bunt is not a good play.
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He's talking about bunting for base hits. I think it depends on the team you watch, I would have agreed with you, but watching a team with Munenori Kawasaki, Maicer Izturis, Rajai Davis, Emilio Bonifacio, Jose Reyes, etc... I've seen more this season than the past few combined.

 
Northern Voice said:
rodg12 said:
Raider Nation said:
Seems like you don't see as many bunt base hits as you did in the 70s and 80s.

Without looking up the stats, I'm comfortable that's an accurate assessment. Guys haven't gotten any slower, so what gives?
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Sabermetrics have pretty much proven that a sac bunt is not a good play.
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He's talking about bunting for base hits. I think it depends on the team you watch, I would have agreed with you, but watching a team with Munenori Kawasaki, Maicer Izturis, Rajai Davis, Emilio Bonifacio, Jose Reyes, etc... I've seen more this season than the past few combined.
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Yes, bunt base hits.

Growing up in the 70s, guys like Willie Wilson, Rod Carew, Davey Lopes, Bump Wills, Mickey Rivers, Ron LeFlore, etc. used to bunt their way on base all the time. It just seems like a completely lost art. Maybe because it won't get you on SportsCenter... who knows.

 
Yeah, you cant throw at the opposing pitcher's head. Especially Grienke.

McGuire almost kicked Matt Williams and Gibby's ###, he's a big dude.

 
Raider Nation said:
Northern Voice said:
rodg12 said:
Raider Nation said:
Seems like you don't see as many bunt base hits as you did in the 70s and 80s.

Without looking up the stats, I'm comfortable that's an accurate assessment. Guys haven't gotten any slower, so what gives?
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Sabermetrics have pretty much proven that a sac bunt is not a good play.
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He's talking about bunting for base hits. I think it depends on the team you watch, I would have agreed with you, but watching a team with Munenori Kawasaki, Maicer Izturis, Rajai Davis, Emilio Bonifacio, Jose Reyes, etc... I've seen more this season than the past few combined.
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Yes, bunt base hits.

Growing up in the 70s, guys like Willie Wilson, Rod Carew, Davey Lopes, Bump Wills, Mickey Rivers, Ron LeFlore, etc. used to bunt their way on base all the time. It just seems like a completely lost art. Maybe because it won't get you on SportsCenter... who knows.
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My bad. Misread your post RN. Definitely a bit of a lost art. Even a guy like Bret Gardner who should have it as a part of his game hardly ever does it.

 
Raider Nation said:
Northern Voice said:
rodg12 said:
Raider Nation said:
Seems like you don't see as many bunt base hits as you did in the 70s and 80s.

Without looking up the stats, I'm comfortable that's an accurate assessment. Guys haven't gotten any slower, so what gives?
Click to expand...
Sabermetrics have pretty much proven that a sac bunt is not a good play.
Click to expand...
He's talking about bunting for base hits. I think it depends on the team you watch, I would have agreed with you, but watching a team with Munenori Kawasaki, Maicer Izturis, Rajai Davis, Emilio Bonifacio, Jose Reyes, etc... I've seen more this season than the past few combined.
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Yes, bunt base hits.

Growing up in the 70s, guys like Willie Wilson, Rod Carew, Davey Lopes, Bump Wills, Mickey Rivers, Ron LeFlore, etc. used to bunt their way on base all the time. It just seems like a completely lost art. Maybe because it won't get you on SportsCenter... who knows.
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Better athletes also makes it harder to bunt for a basehit. Just look at the play in the Rays/Sox game last night. Fuld laid down a really good drag bunt and Pedroia still threw him out easily.

 
Re: bunting... Pete Rose used to plan for 10 hits a year via the bunt IIRC. And he won the batting title over Carew in 1969 by laying down a bunt for a hit in his last AB of the season. Definitely used to see a lot more of it.

 
2 thoughts on the bunts.

1 is obvious, guys don't practice it. With sacrificing basically being proven a bad strategy, there isn't much reason for a normal hitter to know how to bunt... so they don't. You can't just lay 1 down in a game if you haven't bunted once anywhere since spring training.

2 is I think the pitchers are way more athletic. As I remember things as a kid, it was mostly about where the 3rd baseman was playing and beat his throw. Now, unless the ball is riding the chalk, the pitcher makes the play himself at least half the time.

 
cheese said:
2 thoughts on the bunts.

1 is obvious, guys don't practice it. With sacrificing basically being proven a bad strategy, there isn't much reason for a normal hitter to know how to bunt... so they don't. You can't just lay 1 down in a game if you haven't bunted once anywhere since spring training.

2 is I think the pitchers are way more athletic. As I remember things as a kid, it was mostly about where the 3rd baseman was playing and beat his throw. Now, unless the ball is riding the chalk, the pitcher makes the play himself at least half the time.
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R/G and HR/G are up 20-25% since the early 70s. Bunting isn't as good of a percentage play in an environment where runs are less scarce.

SH in the NL have decreased as well over the same time period but only by just over 10%. The DH has had a much greater impact on SH; AL SH rates are about half that of the senior circuit. If this year's 0.18 SH/G average holds, it would be the lowest rate in baseball history exceeding 0.20 in 2006 and last year.

 
Annyong said:
FDAS said:
Doctor Detroit said:
can someone tell me why Dusty Baker wears what looks like gardening gloves in the dugout? Is he handling petunias between innings?
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Because Dusty is an idiot.
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:goodposting: Whats with the 13 wristbands? He looks ridiculous out there.
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He's 162 games over .500 in over 3000 games managed, which puts him 30th in the all-time list. Dusty gets criticized a lot for his lineup and in-game decisions and now apparently for his sartorial ones as well, but he's generally been successful.

 
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