At least its better than when KC hosted it. All they got was the DH spot I believe.

Jays got a steal in Reimold. Always liked him save for being made of glass. At this point he probably puts together 1 solid season where he stays on the field for 125 games. Dunno when that will be though.

He was pretty close to being forced out of baseball due to injuries so I'm fairly confident he won't suddenly not be plagued by injuries.

Droford already pissed about losing him.

Not really. The O's didn't have a spot for him and even if they did, it would have probably ended with him getting hurt again. Good for him if he can keep healthy, it does suck he ended up in the division though.

They may have just taken the best deal available. That, and with all the middle infield depth they have, they may be able to move Castro for some pitching.

Jays are hurting big time, which is a shame because they were onto something.....

Manny went 5-6 with a HR as a part of a 6 run 3HR 11th vs the Nats

http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/stor...kruk-mlb-video

want to literally and figuratively stab this guy in the neck

Padres GM search continues, as Kim Ng has been getting quite the pub here recently. She does seem incredibly qualified, much the way Jed was very much qualified when he interviewed/took the job.

Of the current list of candidates, I like the Marlins' Beinfest, Logan White of the Dodgers, and Ng. My two favorite candidates, Jason McLeod and David Forst have bowed out of contention, so those are the three the Padres are left with that I consider ideal hires, for a number of reasons.

I think Ng is hungry. Regardless that she's a woman and the hire would be shattering the current glass ceiling, she has an amazing track record, is clearly hungry for the job considering she's been interviewed multiple times (including by the Padres), and could be the right mind for the job.

Ng Nog.

Former Oriole (kind of) Tsuyoshi Wada pitched well for the Cubs. Surprise.

Trade him back to you for Machado. Cubs need some infield help in their minor league system.

You can have Ryan Flaherty back (rule 5 pick from the Cubs). Might even throw in some baseball cards.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w0UsunuFJO...ee+Orioles.jpg

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And a bobblehead

http://sportsexclusives.com/wp-conte...Sosa-20071.jpg

Hmmmm.....k. But you have to bring back Lou Montanez

Can we have Rizzo back?

I want the Rockies to fire their front office and owners somehow and hire Kim Ng to run the team.

Then I want the Rockies to not be injured to death.

This.

Everything was going so well like 6 or 8 weeks ago and then it all just fell apart.:'(

That Dodgers/Tigers game last night was a lot of fun. JV got torched early for a 5-spot in the first inning, then it was all Detroit. 20 hits last night, no HRs. No VMart either. Fuckin' JD Martinez is on fire right now.

At least we all got to see Yohan Flande pitch for 2 weeks

*gunshot*

Makes me want to cry when the only pitcher that can get a win is Franklin Morales.

Red Sox DFA A.J. Pierzynski.

Sign of the times. Big time name of the past getting sent down or released these days.

Tanaka going for an MRI on his pitching arm

you fucking kidding me

fuck you, baseball

I'm done

Well. Atleast it's right before the all-star break. He's got some time. Probably miss 1 game tops.

Its gotta be the Orioles year, right? I would never have imagined the rest of the AL East imploding into a black hole of suck and injuries like they have.

Either Red Sox are about to give up on the season or are planning on a bunch of trades soon.

Starting 5 rookies for tonight's game and probably staying that way till the break.

<font color=goldenrod>Have you not been paying attention this season?

See you in 2015, Masahiro Chono Masasto Tanaka</font> :(

Don't be a downer, Vito. Think positive. This could be minor, it could be the worst.

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<font color=goldenrod>Yadier Molina out 8-12 weeks.</font>

He's out 6 weeks for rehab according to reports.

Stat line of the night/year

Colby Lewis 2 1/3 innings. 13 hits. 13 runs. 11 ER. 0BB. 1 SO. 1HR.

Sale and Rizzo deserve it. Especially Rizzo. He's having an outstanding year.

Waiting for Hawk Harrelson to start demanding that the White Sox sign his adopted son AJ.

Unless Cashman swings a trade for a big time pitcher, Yankees are pretty much done. Kuroda can't do this himself. And I don't trust McCarthy.


Gonna be a looooooooooong 6 weeks.

Raul Ibanez is SO bad. So comically hilariously deliciously bad.

<font color=goldenrod>Tanaka should really just get the surgery now and aim to be back by the 2015 All Star Break. Rehabbing this kind of shit never works.</font>

All the attention going to Tanaka but the Molina injury is probably just as big news.

https://thefundamentalsblog.files.wo...if?w=636&h=320

Fuck him anyway

Kershaw's scoreless streak is over

The Tanaka injury is another shit thing for baseball. The whole idea of pitching injuries is alarming. Seems like everyone has a ligament injury at some point. So many reasons for it. Max effort every pitch. Throwing sliders at too young an age. Too many pitches thrown in a whole life...reasons are endless.

At the end of the day with all these possibly pre existing conditions that put stress on the arm/elbow, what's an mlb team to do? Tanaka threw an average of 105 pitches this year. Should the yanks have been more cautious? Should the Rays not have David Price throw 110 pitches every game? I dunno.

Tanaka was throwing 150+ (upwards of 220) innings a year since the age of 18 in japan. The thing that saved his arm there was 6 days between starts. Kind of funny hearing everyone come out of the woodwork saying they saw this coming because of that load on his arm but no one was saying much 2 months ago, or even back when they signed him.

As for the injuries, I'm pretty sure it all comes down to the fact the human arm was never intended to repeat the throwing motion of a ball 200+ times (don't forget warmups) every 5 days for 7 months. It probably comes down to who has the best pitching mechanics and can consistently repeat a good pitching motion.

You're pretty sure, probably

I agree. Drotherfordium has the inside scoop

Yankees acquire Jeff Francis and a sack of monopoly money from the A's for a PTBNL.

Yeah. Not the "big move" I was talking about.

Reimold left the jays game with a calf injury. Took him longer to get injured than I figured.

Agreed Droford. Seems like the bottom line is just that with max effort of the throwing motion, ligaments get worn out over time like a tire and need to be replaced.

Two more points concerning the topic:

With this being an issue, why don't we see more of the maddox, glavine, or even buehrle type guys? Are they forgotten about because they don't blow up a radar gun and never get enough coaching to refine their skills? Does a pitcher have to be able to throw 95 mph gas to be effective these days?

It's interesting to see how this is shaping the way rosters are constructed. The cubs are clearly banking on hitting being a market deficiency because they consider it easier to find a guy who throws gas.

So the Braves got a player on the anti-allstar team. Guess who it is?

Hint: It's Dan Uggla.

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dat* doe*

ugh

love you fraze but plz kill yourself

<font color=goldenrod>Some All Star Game roster shuffling:

AL out: Edwin Encarnacion (TOR), Masahiro Tanaka (NYY), Alex Gordon (KC), Victor Martinez (DET)
AL in: Kyle Seager (SEA), Koji Uehara (BOS), Eric Aybar (LAA), Ian Kinsler (DET)

NL out: Yadier Molina (STL), Jordan Zimmermann (WAS)
NL in: Miguel Montero (ARI), Henderson Alvarez (MIA)

There could very well be some more shuffling tomorrow. Guys pitching on the Sunday before the game are no longer required to sit out but if they decide to pitch in the game they can only go 1 inning and are on a pitch count. Very possible a few more guys will pull out. If things stay as they are now, the first place Nationals will not have anybody playing as Zimmermann was their lone rep.</font>

Being grammatically correct is a choice. It's one I make on purpose. Perhaps, I'm being facetious towards the idiots who aren't.

<font color=goldenrod>Brad Miller struck out looking. He disagreed with the call, but started to walk back to the dugout. Bob Davidson actually followed him, continuing to jaw at him, and the second Miller turned back around Davidson ejected him. What an asshole.</font>

Yankees release Fonsie.

It's been cool. :'(

<font color=goldenrod>aaaaand Todd Frazier makes it to the finals of the Home Run Derby with 1 home run. :|

I'd rather they cancel the Derby than use this format again.</font>

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I think I heard Adam Jones was the one that brought the belt, he's a big WWE fan.

The Minnesota camera angle is the worst. No concept of the strike zone.

<font color=goldenrod>Pretty boring All Star Game but still better than last year's.

The Padres tweeted this picture out after the game:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BspBFUdCUAAhB3-.jpg

Cannot fucking believe MLB/FOX didn't do anything for Gwynn during the ASG, his name was not even mentioned once during the broadcast. But hey who cares when you can see Jeter standing in the dugout at least once per half inning.</font>

Didn't catch the ASG (had other commitments) but damn that sucks if they actually didn't do anything for Gwynn. Pretty huge oversight.

I hate long west coast road trips

I hate the All Star break.. so happy baseball is back on tonight

Braves cut Dan Uggla loose.

CC Sabathia opts for season ending knee surgery.

What was the story with Uggla? He just mad over losing the starting job?

No, he just sucked, so the Braves made the choice on one else would make; the right choice.

Jays are gonna pick up Uggla. Just watch.

After the Mariners sold the farm for a pitcher once before you think they'd, ya know, not try to do it again.

<font color=goldenrod>The Astros fail to sign #1 overall pick Brady Aiken, first time in 31 years the top pick went unsigned.

Aiken and the union are exploring legal action against the Astros as they offered him $6.5 million only to rescind it and offer $5 million.</font>

Manny Machado should take a page from Dolph Ziggler and be on Twitter as #heelMachado

fans booing him all night, what does he do..2 run blast off Samardzija

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According to what I read, a red flag came up on his elbow. And that was the cause why the Astros knocked off some bucks from the deal. The debate if that is probable cause to do that is for MLB/Astros and the Union to fight over.

In case you missed it.

Angels acquire Huston Street and Trevor Gott from the Padres for Taylor Lindsey (Angels top prospect), R.J Alvarez, Jose Rondon, and Elliot Morris.

So they grab Grilli from the Pirates and now Street. Either DiPoto is really on the hot seat and is making moves to keep his job, or there's something bigger in play. Giving 2 of your tops guys is a steep price to get another closer.

http://i.imgur.com/7QvThlc.jpg


...twice

C.C. Sabathia expects a lot of gravy for his biscuits, to be made from his surgery, because he's fat.

I would not be surprised if Sabathia's career was over... not the same pitcher since losing the weight.

Think age is why CC's breaking down.

Yankees acquire Chase Headley and $1 mil. from the Padres for Yangervis Solarte and Rafael De Paula.

Hmph. I would have preferred pitching arms. But we needed a 3B, too.

<font color=goldenrod>Based on their production this year Solarte for Headley seems like a lateral if not a slight decrease. But Headley was really good 2 years ago and Solarte's been a career minor leaguer up until this year so it's not a bad experiment.</font>

The Headley experiment got off to a good start, we'll see if he keeps it up. Don't think the Yanks have a shot this year though unless both Baltimore and Toronto really shit the bed (entirely possible)

Nice to see the Detroit Rangers pick up Soria as well. DD has already given Nathan the dreaded "public vote of confidence" after the move, because that always works well.

Phillies "discussing" releasing Ryan Howard after this year and eating his $60 million. I know he's been pretty bad lately, but I've never been a fan of the whole "eating the contract" thing. He's got basically a year and a half left on the deal. Might as well ride him out and platoon at 1B in the meantime.

Yankees acquire Chris Capuano from the Rockies in exchange for cash.


Don't know how hard I should laugh.

Holy mother of fuck has Marcus Stroman evet been amazing.

He's had one really bad start and a handful of sub-par ones, but he's ben VERY consistent... not much more you can ask for from a kid.....

<font color=goldenrod>Trade just went down:

Red Sox get: P Heath Hembree, P Edwin Escobar
Giants get: P Jake Peavy</font>

Being a huge Jake Peavy mark, my heart has been ripped to shreds knowing I'll have to endure him pitching against the Padres in a Giants uni.

What a year Rizzo is having. Really promising future this guy has. And apparently Soler and Baez are close to being called up. Oh and Kris Bryant might be a top 10 player in baseball and he's not even in the big league yet.

I love Rizzo. When Cash leaves the Padres in 2 years, that trade well look even worse. Any of our resident Cub fans think Castro may get moved for pitching with so much middle infield depth on the brink?

Hall of Fame board knocked down the eligibility years from 15 to 10. McGwire is the big name on the list who got 2 more years to go now.

Players who are in the 11-15 range now (Don Mattingly coming up on his 15th and final year, Alan Trammel (14th), and Lee Smith (13th) are all still eligible.

Interesting move.

Lol how is Jeff Francis on a major league roster?

<font color=goldenrod>This definitely fucks shit up for McGwire and any other steroid era players. They needed the 15 years hoping all the "old school" voters would have stopped voting by then.</font>

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Awesome.

Apparently Peavy is already going to start tomorrow night's nationally televised game between the Giants and Dodgers. Should be interesting.

Not surprised at Peavy being the one getting traded. This season and last season he's been more miserable than good (although not all his fault).

Everyone else in the rotation either would have been bad deals (ex. Lester, Lackey) or too low in value because of injuries (Doubront, Buchholz).


Wouldn't be surprised if in the future the MLB sets aside a year or two for a special committee who just votes for Roid era guys. That way the Hall can get the big name players and the era itself gets official Hall status like every other era in baseball history.

Think the Sox are going to have to deal Lester at some point. They're not winning, long term contracts have not been good to them, and with the Rays winning and Price not seemingly on the market as of yet, they may be able to fetch a king's ransom for him. He's having a career year in a contract season, and considering his career numbers, I highly doubt how he is pitching this year is the guy you'd be getting beyond this season.

Blue Jays broke the streak today.

Blue Jays broke the Red Sox back today and made them humble.

before that they made the trade for Danny Valencia, clearly a division winning trade