The Official 2017 Major League Baseball Thread

[m0nkey]

Damn.  Tomorrow should be a pitching matchup of Kershaw and Strasburg 

[nando714]

Rangers 20 games over .500

its safe to say the division is out of reach

[Ender]

3 hours ago, nando714 said:

Rangers 20 games over .500

its safe to say the division is out of reach

Yep. We're all fighting for a Wild Card lottery shot.

[Docwaukee]

On 6/17/2016 at 6:44 PM, Dochalo said:

the rich stay rich.  

cubs Almora jr. is 9-21 to start his big league career.  

the amount of talent pouring out of the cubs is insane.  

Wilson Contreras hits the first pitch of his major league career out to CF.  

Just turned 24.  Was hitting .350/1.030 at AAA.  Signed in 2009 for 850k out of venezeula.  

 

The craziest thing about the cubs is that half of their starting offense is actually struggling.  Miguel Montero, Addison Russell, Jorge Soler, and Jason Heyward all have ops below .700.  

BTW, Jake Arrieta has an ops+ of 104.  

[arch stanton]

What catches my eye about the Cubs is how well the chicken and beer brothers are doing since their reunion. The Cubs pitching is doing this season what the Cards did last season. Nobody will come near them in the regular season. Damn shame that most fans won't appreciate that if they don't win it all.

[Homebrewer]

More on the Cubs .."the rich get richer"

 

[Homebrewer]

Still weird to see a jumbotron at Wrigley.

[m0nkey]

Kershaw gave Bryce the hat trick last night.  Harper finished 1-4 with a swinging bunt single

[John Stellman]

On 4/3/2016 at 3:09 PM, Chuckster70 said:

Keep this thread going throughout the year for all non-Angels games. 

Don't forget the fabled Hot Stove League and all its winter excitement!

[Chuck]

11 minutes ago, John Stellman said:

Don't forget the fabled Hot Stove League and all its winter excitement!

Oh no, we create new Hot Stove threads for each year. 

[fan_since79]

Rangers 4-0 in the second inning over David Price and the Red Sox.

Texas has two men on, one out. Price has allowed 8 hits so far.

 

 

[fan_since79]

Down 12-0 in the second inning, Salvador Perez tries to stretch a single into a double and is thrown out.

Royals are 25-8 at home this year. Imagine being a little late to that game and your team is down by 12 runs.

 

[fan_since79]

from ESPN:

Edinson Volquez's Game Score tonight was minus-18, the lowest in 18 years (Mike Oquist). He's only the 13th pitcher to score that poorly or worse in the past 100 years.

[arch stanton]

Most managers would have yanked the starter before it got that bad. Yost is special.

[fan_since79]

White Sox hit seven home runs tonight and lost the game.

All the HR's were solo shots.

 

[fan_since79]

David Freese with a 3-run double off Kershaw in the second inning. 

Kershaw is having one of the greatest pitching seasons ever, by the way.

 

[fan_since79]

Freese's line for the year so far:

.293/.372/.452

 

[m0nkey]

Kris bryant is 5-5 with 3 home runs

[fan_since79]

13 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

Kris bryant is 5-5 with 3 home runs

...and two doubles. A franchise record 16 total bases.

 

[NrM]

2 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

...and two doubles. A franchise record 16 total bases.

 

Jesus. .6 fWAR from one game.

 

[m0nkey]

Noah Syndergaard also got hit hard in his first start since the elbow flared up.  That could be trouble

[fan_since79]

Kris Bryant became the first player ever with three home runs and two doubles in a game.

Kinda strange that that particular combination never happened before.

 

[Homebrewer]

Quick quiz..

What ML pitcher has this slash line??

avg    obp   slg  ops

.294/.368/.500/.868

[Homebrewer]

Taking a 99mph fastball deep to the opposite field last night in Cincinnati..

[Homebrewer]

Kris Bryant made both Chicago Cubs and major league history in an 11-8 Cubs victory over the Cincinnati Reds last night.

Chicago Cubs star Kris Bryant had quite a night in Cincinnati. He became the first major leaguer to hit three home runs and two doubles in a game. Yes, we’ll repeat that for you: Kris Bryant became the first major leaguer to ever hit three home runs and two doubles in one game. Not only that, Bryant’s three home runs also unseated Hall of Famer Ernie Banks from the Cubs record books. In Monday night’s victory, Bryant became the youngest Cub to hit three home runs in a game. Banks hit three home runs in a game in 1955, but just happened to be 10 days older than Bryant is