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Local Fed said:
The Rockies have hit a new low, and they're a team that only has 6 wins with approximately a quarter of the season now behind them.

San Diego beat them 21-0. It's the biggest shutout win since Cleveland beat the Yankees 22-0 back in 2004.

Edit, update: the Rockies won today to move to a 7-33 record. They then fired their manager, Bud Black.
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Major Filth said:
If Bud wants another job in baseball, he'll get it. That guy's a good one. Don't blame your shit roster on him.
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This is the Perfect time for the Rangers hitters to get right. If they can sweep the Rockies then the Astros series is Yuge.

The record is 20-21... But the Starting Pitching tells a different story:
  1. 3rd in era with 3.04
  2. 1st in whip with 1.10
  3. 3rd in baa with 2.23
2 pitchers in top 5 of era:
  1. Tyler Mahle 1.48 = 2nd (0.98 whip, .179 baa)
  2. Nathan Evovaldi 1.78 = 5th (0.75 whip, .186 baa)
BTW DeGrom is having a good year also:
2.72 era, 1.02 whip, .215 baa
 
Mister Ferro said:
This is the Perfect time for the Rangers hitters to get right. If they can sweep the Rockies then the Astros series is Yuge.

The record is 20-21... But the Starting Pitching tells a different story:
  1. 3rd in era with 3.04
  2. 1st in whip with 1.10
  3. 3rd in baa with 2.23
2 pitchers in top 5 of era:
  1. Tyler Mahle 1.48 = 2nd (0.98 whip, .179 baa)
  2. Nathan Evovaldi 1.78 = 5th (0.75 whip, .186 baa)
BTW DeGrom is having a good year also:
2.72 era, 1.02 whip, .215 baa
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It's actually cartoonish how every time I sit down, grab a meal, and watch Pitching Ninja's daily round-up, there's always Eovaldi, DeGrom or Corbin throwing 6+ innings of 1 or 2-run ball and somehow the Rangers still fucking lose. I can't even call this a case of the Mariners anymore because those guys have Cal Raleigh and Jorge Polanco going ballistic as they currently stand atop the AL West standings.
 
Tommy John Surgery said:
or Corbin throwing 6+ innings of 1 or 2-run ball
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It's interesting to see him putting up a pretty good season so far since he joined the big club. He was absolutely terrible for the last four seasons, and hadn't put up a good season since the end of the previous decade. Not sure how long this will last, especially as his underlying stats definitely suggest for some regression to happen, but it's nice nonetheless. Apart from his first year with Washington, he basically the worst thing that $130,000,000 could buy.
 
Mister Ferro said:
This is the Perfect time for the Rangers hitters to get right. If they can sweep the Rockies then the Astros series is Yuge.

The record is 20-21... But the Starting Pitching tells a different story:
  1. 3rd in era with 3.04
  2. 1st in whip with 1.10
  3. 3rd in baa with 2.23
2 pitchers in top 5 of era:
  1. Tyler Mahle 1.48 = 2nd (0.98 whip, .179 baa)
  2. Nathan Evovaldi 1.78 = 5th (0.75 whip, .186 baa)
BTW DeGrom is having a good year also:
2.72 era, 1.02 whip, .215 baa
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That sounds a lot like the Jays current lot, although their starters haven't been quite that good.

Max Scherzer pitched all of 3 innings this season for his 15 mil, subsequently declaring that his thumb hadn't been right for 2 years and he wouldn't be taking a big league mound again until it was completely resolved.

So essentially Toronto paid him 15 mil to clown around in the dugout every game as some sort of pitcher emeritus mascot while the broadcast licks his balls.

The team is currently tandem starting Jose Urena & Eric Lauer in his place as the 5th starter while they wait for Spencer Turnball to build up.

The Jays miraculously are back at ,500 at 20-20 after rolling into Seattle with a sweep for the first time since 1991. The Mariners were something like 18-6 coming in and had won 9 consecutive series.

The Jays rolled into town looking like a Murderers' Row after losing a series against the Angels and having Jeff Hoffman & Yimi Garcia blow 8th & 9th inning leads 3 times in the last week.

The Jays offense is still really thin though despite their outburst in the PNW. Vlad has 4 hr with an OPS under. 800. Bo Bichette has two HRs. Anthony Santander has an OPS that starts with 5 and hurt his shoulder jumping into the stands this weekend. Alejandro Kirk might have a concussion and left last night's game. Daulton Varsho missed the 1st month and is taking every 3rd day off for postop "shoulder maintenance".

Their starting 9 on any given day has guys like Ernie Clement, Addison Barger, Nathan Lukes, Emmanuel Clase & Myles Straw starting.

The Jays are 40 games in and haven't scored 10 runs in a game yet while the Yankees have done it something like 8 times.
 
Fleetwood said:
Oswaldo Cabrera just brutally blew out his leg sliding into to home plate. Ambulance on the field taking him away. Possible career ender. I'll try to post a clip if it circulates but the TV is refusing to replay it.
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Found a clip. All during garbage time too. What a damn shame.

 
Fleetwood said:
Oswaldo Cabrera just brutally blew out his leg sliding into to home plate. Ambulance on the field taking him away. Possible career ender. I'll try to post a clip if it circulates (edit/see post below) but the TV is refusing to replay it.
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Looseleaf Paper said:
Found a clip. All during garbage time too. What a damn shame.

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More innocuous than I was anticipating,

Was expecting a full blown homeplate collision.
 
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Trombonista said:
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maybe it's just the 'tism flaring up in me and i know this guy does this for all of his videos, but I keep waiting for there to be a break between the opening 30s where he lays out the topics he's gonna discuss and the rest of the video where he actually goes into detail but there never is and it makes the entire video have this weird unresolved tension to it and feels weirdly unsatisfying.
 
Delany's Donkey said:
maybe it's just the 'tism flaring up in me and i know this guy does this for all of his videos, but I keep waiting for there to be a break between the opening 30s where he lays out the topics he's gonna discuss and the rest of the video where he actually goes into detail but there never is and it makes the entire video have this weird unresolved tension to it and feels weirdly unsatisfying.
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I noticed a lot of other people saying that too and I get that feeling as well. I feel like he had a very obvious conclusion for the Ohtani video, then just decided not to include it in the video, the pacing was just weird.


Anyway, Oswaldo Cabrera has been placed on the 10-day IL with a fractured left ankle.

In his place, the New York Yankees are activating DJ LeMahieu from the 10-day IL.
 
Fleetwood said:
It was made really dramatic on the live broadcast. Both Root (seattle channel) and Yes (yankees) didn't go to commercial they were milking the drama filming the ambulance going on and off the field. His ankle just kinda broke nobody touched him.
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I played your clip a few times on 0.5x speed to try to determine which ankle he hurt (obviously the left one which got twisted underneath him).

It reminded me a little of 6 years back when Matt Shoemaker tore his ACL on an innocent looking rundown play.

I tried to find a clip, but only found the embedded one on the MLB site. Again, no contact, but simply a giant of a pro athlete doing major internal derangement simply by stepping on his leg wrongly. The clip says it was only a knee sprain, but they announced the next morning that he was out for the year.
 
Delany's Donkey said:
Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe are officially unbanned
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As a non-baseball fan I'm curious what the takes of actual baseball fans are about this. Based on the description of the article, I don't think they should have been unbanned. Cheaters always gonna cheat. Roids I can understand. Corking I can understand. Trying to get a competitive advantage over the other party by any means necessary is simply being too competitive. It seems to me that that match fixing is probably one of the worst sins you can do in a competitive environment. Its not competitive, its anti-competitive. Betting on games is a conflict of interest too, its adjacent to match fixing.

Also don't get me wrong I enjoy going out to watch a game with friends on occasion I just don't follow the game closely at all.
 
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