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Mike Sixel GOAT

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Dee Gordon suspended 80 games for steroids... What???

 

Most PEDs are not about strength, they are about trying to help your body recover from the constant beating it takes.

Vanimal46 Cooperstown

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Kung Foo Panda's season is over. He will undergo shoulder surgery and miss the rest of the 2016 campaign. He finished the year 0-6 with 4 K's. He still has 3 years left on his albatross contract. 

HitInAPinch Ft Myers Mighty Mussels

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Kung Foo Panda's season is over. He will undergo shoulder surgery and miss the rest of the 2016 campaign. He finished the year 0-6 with 4 K's. He still has 3 years left on his albatross contract. 

was really surprised the Bosox signed him.  Horrible contract for a guy that's horribly out of shape??

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biggentleben FCL Twins

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It was coming down to the wire, but Fredi Gonzalez narrowly beat out Brad Ausmus for the honor of the first manager fired, losing his job with the Braves today. Ausmus is coming soon, I'm sure.

biggentleben FCL Twins

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One potential FA catcher off the market: Francisco Cervelli signed a 3/31 extension with Pittsburgh.

 

Yeah, that was on Sunday evening into Monday morning. I guess the Odor/Bautista thing just kept us all too busy to notice :P

Vanimal46 Cooperstown

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19 year old uber-prospect Julio Urias is making his MLB debut tomorrow. He's pitched a grand total of 45 innings at AAA. I'm rooting for him to dominate.

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Vanimal46 Cooperstown

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The Phillies seem to get it. They call up 22 year old Zach Eflin, whom in his debut went 2.2 IP 9 H 8 ER 2 K's 3 BB's. After the game he was quoted saying "It still was a dream come true. I was out there in front of 50,000 people playing the game I love." He's scheduled to start on Sunday. 

If he was a member of the Minnesota Twins, he would be on a plane back to Rochester as we speak. 

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If he was a member of the Minnesota Twins, he would be on a plane back to Rochester as we speak. 

You mean before the last out of the game was recorded.   :)

biggentleben FCL Twins

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The Phillies seem to get it. They call up 22 year old Zach Eflin, whom in his debut went 2.2 IP 9 H 8 ER 2 K's 3 BB's. After the game he was quoted saying "It still was a dream come true. I was out there in front of 50,000 people playing the game I love." He's scheduled to start on Sunday. 

If he was a member of the Minnesota Twins, he would be on a plane back to Rochester as we speak. 

 

That all depends on why the guy is brought up. Eflin is replacing a rotation spot for multiple spots. Sometimes a guy is brought up just because he's on schedule in the minors, and he's sent down because they can get a different guy onto the schedule for the next time that rotation spot comes along. It's not always about performance, good or bad...

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That all depends on why the guy is brought up. Eflin is replacing a rotation spot for multiple spots. Sometimes a guy is brought up just because he's on schedule in the minors, and he's sent down because they can get a different guy onto the schedule for the next time that rotation spot comes along. It's not always about performance, good or bad...

True, these can be considerations, but they do not appear to have been considerations for recent Twins moves.  Meyer wasn't called up to start on any schedule.  Chargois obviously wasn't on any schedule.  Berrios was initially, but was dropped suddenly after 4 starts in favor of his mop-up reliever Pat Dean...

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Vanimal46 Cooperstown

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Washington Nationals prospect Lucas Giolito got the call today to make his MLB debut. The 21 year old is considered to be top prospect in baseball according to MLB.com. He'll be on the mound tomorrow.

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Washington Nationals prospect Lucas Giolito got the call today to make his MLB debut. The 21 year old is considered to be top prospect in baseball according to MLB.com. He'll be on the mound tomorrow.

A 3.80 ERA in 47 innings at AA in 2015 and then a 3.17 ERA again at AA this year, with 4.3 BB/9. I'm not sure how this debut is going to go.

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Home runs are getting out of control again which is causing me to pay less and less attention to anything MLB related this year.

 

Wow I hadn't actually noticed that much, but American League teams are hitting 1.23 HR per game, which would be an all time AL record.  Teams are also striking out 7.84 times per game which would be an AL record as well.

Mike Sixel GOAT

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Home runs are getting out of control again which is causing me to pay less and less attention to anything MLB related this year.

 

but we only get a lot of HRs because of steroids............is it almost time to put that to rest now?

biggentleben FCL Twins

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A little self-promotion - I just did a top 50 list of all prospects in baseball that came out over the weekend on Call To The Pen, the final of which is here.

 

The article I'm really mentioning has to do with baseball patriotism and the issues I had with a lot of things from this weekend that for some reason hit a tipping point last night with the whole eagle debacle at Dodger stadium. I wrote up an article here.

 

As always, I'd love the feedback.

Mike Sixel GOAT

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A little self-promotion - I just did a top 50 list of all prospects in baseball that came out over the weekend on Call To The Pen, the final of which is here.

 

The article I'm really mentioning has to do with baseball patriotism and the issues I had with a lot of things from this weekend that for some reason hit a tipping point last night with the whole eagle debacle at Dodger stadium. I wrote up an article here.

 

As always, I'd love the feedback.

 

Forced nationalism in sports has been part of how governments and sports work together to distract us for thousands of years, quite literally.

Vanimal46 Cooperstown

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Pittsburgh Pirates promote 23 year old switch-hitting 1B Josh Bell, who will make his MLB debut tonight. He was having a monster season in AAA, hitting .324/.407/.535 with 13 homers, 19 doubles and four triples in 359 plate appearances.

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Ya, wow. But, they've been pretty good/lucky with pitching lately, so I guess we'll trust them.....?

Walks Will Haunt less in the bullpen? :)

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Kind of an interesting stat: The Marlins have 6 players with over 150 ABs batting over .300. Plus, they're about to get last year's batting champion back from suspension. They're a pretty fun team to watch, and despite the ownership, I'm rooting for them to make the playoffs this year 

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