Rest Of Baseball - 2014

[PhillyPhreak54]

Agreed that they'd not going to toy with the protected and valued prospects or veterans.

I'm curious as to why they offered Grossman an early deal as I don't see him as anything special.

I know that the natives around here are as frustrated as ever. Between the stupid comcast tv situation and them not winning people are tuning out.

I thought they would show more improvement this year and that they were on track to take the next jump in their development.

Singleton should be in the bigs though

[Dillen]

I still think they won't lose 100 this year. Singleton might be ready but at this point might as well wait for the Super Two deadline - he's still hitting under .250 for his career in AAA, even though you could probably count 2013 as a useless year for evaluation. He has red flags all over the place so waiting a few extra months to see if he can sustain performance doesn't bother me, especially since he's only 22. They'll have Folty and Nitro up over the summer to make the bullpen a lot better if they don't get slotted into the rotation.

The appeal with Grossman was that he had a really high BB% rate and decent tools otherwise - someone you would project a consistent .260/.340/.400 slash. Definitely not groundbreaking but that's a solid major leaguer to move forward with. The deal was only something like 2M a year which would've been fine, but he was brutal this year. He was walking at a decent clip but I don't think I've ever seen anyone ground out to the pitcher more in MLB history than him. He was a worse LF than Carlos Lee too. I'd expect him to get called back up and perform similar to how he did last year, but if not  then farg it, because he's still Robbie Grossman.

[PhillyPhreak54]

My buddy here went to HS with him and said he's a massive prick and roots openly for his failure.

I think I mentioned it before but the furniture guy in town known for his wacky promos (made national news with his Super Bowl promo) did a thing where people would get their furniture free if the Astros lost less than 100. My buddy bought $7k worth of shtein and hangs on every game now

[MDS]

the astros are gonna be really good its just gonna take a while to get there

their shelf life could be small if they continue to treat their players like pieces of meat. eventually once those guys have success they arent going to like the joe banner lowball contract extension shtein. but for a little while it wont matter.

[Munson]

Speaking of George Springer...left him on my bench tonight because he's been out injured the last two nights, and had a late start today...and of course he mashes two homers. Unreal.

[BigEd76]

The unwritten rule police strikes again!  In the Red Sox/Rays game, McCann's former backup David Ross and Jonny Gomes got into it with Yunel Escobar and the benches cleared because he stole 3rd when his team was up 5 in the 7th

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[Rome]

They should concentrate more on not losing 10 straight and less on getting run on while they're getting their asses beaten to a pulp.

Oh, and farg Boston.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Mets game was over about ten minutes ago.

They've fired their hitting coach and released Jose Valverde

[PhillyPhreak54]

@BNightengale: Awful break for good guy A.J. Ellis, who severely sprained his ankle in the #Dodgers no-hitter celebration, and goes back on DL

Awwww

[PhillyPhreak54]

Ryu is perfect through six for Los Doyers

Are you kidding me? This would be amazing

[PhillyPhreak54]

Through seven!

[PhillyPhreak54]

And it's over in the top of the 8th

[BigEd76]

The bottom of the 7th screwed it.  3 runs, over a half hour, and Ryu was running the bases

[MDS]

or maybe he just gave up a hit...those things tend to happen

[PhillyPhreak54]

I saw a stat, and Todd being the numbers lover you are, should respect this!

Since 2004 when a pitcher runs the bases and scores a run...83% of the time he gives one up the following inning.

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