Baseball Thread

  • 🐕 I am attempting to get the site runnning as fast as possible. If you are experiencing slow page load times, please report it.
The Royals are calling up 45 year old Rich Hill from the minors making him the oldest player in the majors once again. Here's his minors stats this year look at that age difference! 1753124906444.webp
Also in geezer news the Phillies signed David Robertson.
 
  • Informative
  • Lunacy
Reactions: Cpl. Long Dong Silver, Meat Target and Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown
Fleetwood said:
The Royals are calling up 45 year old Rich Hill from the minors making him the oldest player in the majors once again. Here's his minors stats this year look at that age difference! View attachment 7673783
Also in geezer news the Phillies signed David Robertson.
Click to expand...

Those K numbers are pretty impressive, particularly at AAA Omaha against actual competition.

The 2 dingers per 9 though suggest Father Time is going to remind him that he's way past due.
 
Fleetwood said:
The Royals are calling up 45 year old Rich Hill from the minors making him the oldest player in the majors once again. Here's his minors stats this year look at that age difference! View attachment 7673783
Also in geezer news the Phillies signed David Robertson.
Click to expand...
Mordecai 3 Finger Brown said:
Those K numbers are pretty impressive, particularly at AAA Omaha against actual competition.

The 2 dingers per 9 though suggest Father Time is going to remind him that he's way past due.
Click to expand...
Hey, if you can swing it...

Jamie Moyer lasted till he was like 50, and facing what, 10% of organized baseball players in history? And he threw only 70-80 mph.
Fleetwood said:
I wouldn't expect him to last long on a contender but KC is under .500 and could be sellers so they just need somebody to pitch innings. If he has a few good starts they may even sell Rich.
Click to expand...
Yeah, they're probably folding this season. Detroit has run away with the AL Central.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Cpl. Long Dong Silver, Local Fed and Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown
Pine Tar said:
42 years ago yesterday
Click to expand...

Thumbnail your embeds, nigga.

Tangentially related in terms of ticky tack calls, I hope at some point down the road they officially do away with the whole Replay "keep the tag on a baserunner in case he comes off the bag for a millisecond during a slide and a close play" BS.

It's minute BS that is against the spirit of the rules.

If you manage to attain the bag safely, you shouldn't be called out on replay for losing contact for a fraction of a second on slo-mo video.

Change the rules so that it requires obvious intent to proceed to the next base or some sort of minimum threshold of distance or time required to be disengaged with the base that would make it official that you've abandoned it.

George Springer got called out after advancing to third standing up on a live XBH about a month ago because he was standing on the 3rd base bag and did a little hop directly up & down as a hyperactive celebration. And was called out on replay, recording the 3rd out of the inning.
 
Last edited:
  • Feels
  • Like
  • Agree
Reactions: Local Fed, OJ Simpson and Pine Tar
Mordecai 3 Finger Brown said:
Thumbnail your embeds, nigga.
Click to expand...

Thank you, it has been edited.

Mordecai 3 Finger Brown said:
Tangentially related in terms of ticky tack calls, I hope at some point down the road they officially do away with the whole Replay "keep the tag on a baserunner in case he comes off the bad for a millisecond during a slide and a close play" BS.

It's minute BS that is against the spirit of the rules.

If you manage to attain the bag safely, you shouldn't be called out on replay for losing contact for a fraction of a second on slo-mo video.

Change the rules so that it requires obvious intent to proceed to the next base or some sort of minimum threshold of distance or time required to be disengaged with the base that would make it official that you've become disengaged.

George Springer got called out after advancing to third standing up on a live XBH about a month ago because he was standing on the 3rd base bag and did a little hop directly up & down as a hyperactive celebration. And was called out on replay, recording the 3rd out of the inning.
Click to expand...

Instant replay and it’s consequences have been a disaster for Western sports
 
  • Agree
  • Feels
Reactions: Local Fed, Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown, Cpl. Long Dong Silver and 1 other person
Cpl. Long Dong Silver said:
I hate Kevin Cash
Click to expand...

Jays fans have a weird reverence for Cash even all this time later.

Cash was of course a 3rd rate catcher in their system in the aughts that no one remembers or cares about. I was going to make a quip to your post that at least he took out Derek Jeter covering third base in full gear one time, before remembering that I was confusing him with Ken Huckaby, another shitty Toronto catcher.

Cash joined the Jays org as a bullpen coach or some sort of pro scouting role for a year before he got the Rays manager job. When Cash first got hired in TB, the equivalent of Jays fan Redditors at the time went absolutely apoplectic that they didn't fire whomever was the manager at the time (John Gibbons?) to free up a coaching spot to retain Cash in the organization.

All these years later, he still gets way too much reverence (but at least he's now a seasoned MLB manager with accomplishments). I just recently saw him be named a "Pick Me" outlier in discussions that every MLB fanbase thinks that their manager is a mouthbreathing moron who makes the wrong bullpen moves nightly.

I suspect at least some of the placement of Cash on a pedestal north of the border is because the Rays have absolutely owned the Jays at Tropicana for almost 2 decades.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back