The Official 2017 Major League Baseball Thread

[Homebrewer]

1 minute ago, Inside Pitch said:

That escalated quickly.

I envisioned a long drawn out back and forth, if I dared to ask how anyone could give the Dodgers and Cubs equal status as a team to be despised....and decided to skip all that and just take the upcoming discussion to it's logical, and forgone, conclusion.

Skip all the BS and the popcorn eating GIFs.

 

[Homebrewer]

6 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

It's too bad that there weren't any crazy WC tiebreakers.    B-o-r-I-n-g

I thought there would be at least 1 play in game this season. That siad, I get the feeling there are going to be some crazy, epic, games in these playoffs.

Aside from the Cubs, there really isn't a dominating pitching staff going into October baseball, which I'm hoping will lead to some high scoring and late inning affairs with series going to 5 and 7 games.

[Inside Pitch]

40 minutes ago, Homebrewer said:

I envisioned a long drawn out back and forth, if I dared to ask how anyone could give the Dodgers and Cubs equal status as a team to be despised....and decided to skip all that and just take the upcoming discussion to it's logical, and forgone, conclusion.

Skip all the BS and the popcorn eating GIFs.

 

#triggered

[Inside Pitch]

35 minutes ago, Homebrewer said:

Aside from the Cubs, there really isn't a dominating pitching staff going into October baseball, which I'm hoping will lead to some high scoring and late inning affairs with series going to 5 and 7 games.

Cleveland has a pretty stout pitching staff.  But man are they green when it comes to playoff experience when compared to the Cubbies' arms.

[Homebrewer]

2 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

Cleveland has a pretty stout pitching staff.  But man are they green when it comes to playoff experience when compared to the Cubbies' arms.

I'm not up on The Tribe at all...I'm going to have to bone up on them real soon. For some reason I didn't watch any AL Central games this season that I can recall. (Probably because I didn't watch many Angel games after April.)

 

[Angel Oracle]

Cleveland's downside is losing Carrasco for the entire post-season, and also not being sure of Salazar's status.

With those two, they are my AL favorites.    Francona has had great post-season success though, and they have a solid pen anchored by Miller, Allen, Otero, and Shaw.   These AL playoffs are such a crap shoot, that I wouldn't be surprised if the Indians still won the AL pennant. 

[mulwin444]

If the Indians have a lead after 6 innings, its going to be tough for BOS.  BOS has the bats to matchup against CLE and have the edge in SP with Procello/Price vs Kubler/Bauer but BOS's BP is nothing special.  

If the Indians can win game 1 with Bauer over Porcello, they'll have the advantage the rest of the series.

[Angel Oracle]

Connor Gillespie?

Really? Really? Really? Really????

[Homebrewer]

42 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Connor Gillespie?

Really? Really? Really? Really????

Just another in a long line of them for SF..

Cody Ross

Marco Scutero

Travis freakin Ishakawa ??

[ScottT]

Eric Byrnes said on MLB Now today that he likely got called up to the A's because guys werent using steroids correctly and went on th DL because of it.

Jeremy Giambi went on the DL the day Byrnes was called up.  

[WeatherWonk]

I'm thinking this thread has run its course and needs to be cut free. Time for the 2017 thread?

[Troll Daddy]

[KevinJ14]

1 hour ago, Troll Daddy said:

But what if Puerto Rico wins. Where would Baez play?

[Ohtaniland]

[fan_since79]

Tanaka's in trouble already in the first inning. One run in for the Rays and runners at first and third with one out.

Baseball has begun!

 

[Dick B Back]

Will be interesting to see what kind of numbers Sanchez and Bird put up this year.

[Ohtaniland]

28 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Tanaka's in trouble already in the first inning. One run in for the Rays and runners at first and third with one out.

Baseball has begun!

 

Terrible replay call in the first. It's obvious that even with replays they can't get it right.

[Ohtaniland]

19 minutes ago, Dick B Back said:

Will be interesting to see what kind of numbers Sanchez and Bird put up this year.

Bird is going to mash in Yankee Stadium. 

[Chuck]

Tanaka dominates in ST, (0.38 ERA over 6 starts, with 28 K's across 23 2/3 innings). 

Gets pounded on opening day by the TB Rays. 

[Dick B Back]

Mathis currently MLB leader in triples.

[Chuck]

Bumgarner with 11 Ks and 2 HRs in the game.

What a stud.

[Glen]

9 minutes ago, Dick B Back said:

Mathis currently MLB leader in triples.

Opening day Mathis is a beast.

[Chuck]

Bumgarner leads the league in Home Runs, Mathis leads the league in Triples and is tied in in BA and Rodney is tied for the league in Wins! 

[Tank]

3 hours ago, Chuckster70 said:

Bumgarner with 11 Ks and 2 HRs in the game.

What a stud.

and that second homer was an absolute blast. i wish our hitters could launch them that far.

[Troll Daddy]

Maybin for Springer