Everybody had a pretty shitty game. Brett Jackson has now struck out in 20 straight games.
Logan Watkins was 2-4 with a sb, his 17th of the year.
Ronald Torreyes was 2-5 and is now batting .249. It looks like he is continuing to get back on track after a rough start. Rob Whitenack went 4.2 IP giving up 2 ER, 3 walks and striking out 3.
Its was hopefully a learning experience for Javier Baez yesterday as he went 3-4 but took himself off the bases two of those times with a caught stealing and getting picked off. He also committed his 11th error of the year. Oliver Zapata was 2-4 and Larry Suarez struck out 2 in 2 shutout innings.
Jeimer Candelario went 1-3 with a BB. Other than that everyone was pretty much meh. It was a slow day for the farm.
AZL
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dj, glad to see that Revlon sponsored this post so you could give all the make-up to your mom.
*Inserts tired argument about the Bears needing OL/WR more than paying a guy for past performance at position of highest attrition*
Posted in last thread without knowing about new thread:
I don’t think we deal Dempster because of the new CBA rules. If a player is traded in season and is a free agent following this season, the team that traded for him does not get pick compensation.
This means the Cubs will be looking for pick compensation plus the value of Dempter. But the team he is traded to will only want to give compensation for Dempster’s added value. This discourages trades for players who will be free agents.
Garza is much more likely because he has the extra year of control and comes with the possibility of draft pick compensation if he turns down arbitration and signs elsewhere.
mb, this is also why people are saying Garza is more valuable than Hamels or Grienke since they are FA after this season.
bubblesdachimp wrote:
Wells isn’t on the 40-man roster anymore. Possibly they could put him back on in Garza or Dempster’s spot, but if each guy returns a prospect that is worthy of the 40-man, then forget it. (Probably that is unlikely, but anyway…). My guess is we get Casey Coleman and Chris Volstad back, and we reclaim our dominance in the race to the top.
im just really surprised there are people who think Dempster won’t be traded. I think there is a 0.1% chance he isn’t gone.
Future version of the Super Friends for Mish. (If I embedded it correctly)
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/bud-selig-wants-dh-nl-parks-let-pitchers-182947567–mlb.html
i don’t like hating someone that i’ve never met. but i fucking hate bud selig.
Take two. Man I suck at html
Future version of the Super Friends for Mish.
(Just click the link, I can’t figure out how to embed the video, even tho MB has gone over this umpteen times.)
jtsunami wrote:
Good point.
greinke scratched from his wednesday start (for sucking)
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yanks, cubs, red sox, and indians compose upton’s no-trade list
GW wrote:
Justin or B.J.? Justin – yes please.
@ jtsunami:
I assume that means those are the teams he can’t be traded to.
dj, from twitter they said Baez was out once stretching out a double. He was safe but overslid the bag and was called out. Not that it really makes a difference, though. A TOOTBLAN is a TOOTBLAN.
@ GW:
how do you know? is this a rumor or is this info actually made public?
also, i assume that a player can alter a no-trade list whenever he wants, right? i.e. it’s not something that needs to be explicitly written into his contract or something?
@ EnricoPallazzo:
MLBTR has something on it and yes, a player could change that list at any time.
@ EnricoPallazzo:
it’s not a rumor. i have a source
GW wrote:
Is it an Anonymous source?
@ dylanj:
I think it’s because of the compensation pick, dj. The team trading for him can’t get it and the Cubs can’t get one so about $5 million in value is gone. That was factored into trades before, but now a team (Cubs) will still want that additional money in return because they could keep him for 2 months and get it. I don’t think the Cubs could get much more than $7-8 million in value in a trade and that’s if they pay all his remaining salary.
You guys know what happens this week, right?!?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-batman-begins
@ jtsunami:
i can’t reveal my sources, but it’s a prominent website that covers trade rumors.
@ Mish:
“Batman Begins” was a recent movie I enjoyed. But its sequel is soon to be a recent movie I will enjoy.
i didnt like Batman Begins all that much. The 2nd one was awesome though
@ EnricoPallazzo:
But Bud is just coming around to something that has been suggested by sports writers for major internet and magazine outlets for years. David Brown should spend about 10 minutes looking at all the other folks that suggested it before Bud to realize that there are a lot of people that think it’s a decent idea. It’s a gimmick, but in terms of gimmicks and baseball, it’s pretty minor. The ASG winner getting home field advantage is worse. Of course, interleague play is a gimmick too, right?
@ dylanj:
I loved The Dark Knight, but I still think Batman Begins was better. I think BB was the best superhero movie I’ve ever seen.
@ SVB:
I’m actually somewhat OK with the idea as I think it warms NL fans to the DH, which is coming to the NL eventually.
I liked both of the Nolan Batman movies, but I’m kind of meh about getting more of them. I like them so much I’d cut them short (dying laughing)
Berselius wrote:
I like that this is the last one of his. I think these things tend to run out of steam if they go on too long.
Hollywood will reboot it again in a few years and we can see the next take on the Joker, etc. etc. That’s half the fun, anyway.
@ Aisle424:
Isn’t Nolan moving on to Superman now?
for me its always about the villain. And it BB i thought Scarecrow was pretty cheesy. But i really really loved the Joker in the 2nd movie.
dylanj wrote:
For me, it’s always about who plays Catwoman
new shit: http://www.obstructedview.net/commentary-and-analysis/why-matt-garzas-trade-value-is-lower-than-i-think.html
@ mb21:
I don’t know. I hadn’t heard that, but I don’t generally follow the movies until they’re in the process of getting made at the earliest.
I loved Batman Begins, but TDK is my faves.