2016 Baseball Thread

[Bison]

Well the New York staff has not exactly been dominate in the first few games.  They ought to be happy that they've gotten a ton of run support.  And I've already acknowledged the weakness of the KC starting rotation, but they still have a better team era than the Yankees so far.  This is going to be a long season amigo.

[Bison]

I could really use another catcher and 3rd baseman.  Just saying.

Don't panic is the first key to not only interstellar travel with a bath towel, but fantasy baseball managing too.

[Bison]

This is pretty cool.

LOS ANGELES -- Modern baseball may have found its birth certificate, and with it a new birth date -- and new founding father.

Coinciding with the start of the major league season, a set of game-changing documents went up for sale this week. Their authenticity and significance are verified by experts that include John Thorn, Major League Baseball's official historian.

The 1857 documents titled "Laws of Base Ball" establish the essentials of the modern game: The distance of the base paths is 90 feet, the length of the game is nine innings and nine players are in the field.

And they do it three years earlier than the 1860 birth date now recognized.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/15155678/laws-base-ball-papers-sale-establish-new-father-modern-baseball

[Arctic Blast]

My fear with the slide rules now is that it's all going to come down to umpires trying to determine intent, and this becomes the baseball version of figuring out what constitutes a catch in the NFL. Just a random mess.

[Bison]

And the Cubs are looking scary freaking good in their opening series against the Angels and Diamondbacks. 

[KyzBP]

And the Cubs are looking scary freaking good in their opening series against the Angels and Diamondbacks.

Just to meet the hype they have to be scary, freaky good.  Anything less and they be deemed "over rated".  I love what the organization has done over the last couple years.  Oh, and I'm a Tigers fan.

[Arctic Blast]

And the Cubs are looking scary freaking good in their opening series against the Angels and Diamondbacks.

That batting order is scary even with Schwarber now out for the year.

[Bison]

Yeah that's too bad about Schwarber.  He's a great young talent.

[Arctic Blast]

Yeah that's too bad about Schwarber.  He's a great young talent.

Huge power. He really has no business in left field, but they have nowhere else to put him.

[MetalDog]

The Cubs were top five in runs per game last year with Schwarber in the lineup and bottom two without.  Jorge Soler needs to step up or go away.

[bayonetbrant]

thoughts on the Utley Rule

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/baseball-s-slide-rule-isn-t-changing-anytime-soon--and-players-need-to-accept-it-030946988.html

[Bison]

Passan should play the game he says is so easy.

[Arctic Blast]

Attention Jose Bautista :

If you come in to second hot to try to take out the second baseman, and you then turn and strut towards said second baseman, and he shoves you away, so you come back again with your fist cocked...you are going to get lit up.

Also, don't ever mess with Rougned Odor, because he is not having it. Wow.

[MetalDog]

Holy sh*t!!!  Bautista got his clock cleaned!!  Maybe Latin players don't like that, "Show me up," bullsh*t either 

[bayonetbrant]