MLB Season Thread

Re: MLB Season Thread#346500

By Cider Jim - April 19th, 2011, 11:12 pm

- April 19th, 2011, 11:12 pm #346500

O's shut out the Twins, 11-0. The 8 game losing streak is over.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#346524

By LUminary - April 20th, 2011, 10:28 am

- April 20th, 2011, 10:28 am #346524

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Re: MLB Season Thread#346826

By jbock13 - April 25th, 2011, 6:57 pm

- April 25th, 2011, 6:57 pm #346826

Sam Fuld is awesome. Just saying. And we're 10-5 with Ramirez. Again, just saying

That and this just in: Dan Johnson has struck out once again.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347625

By jbock13 - May 7th, 2011, 5:08 pm

- May 7th, 2011, 5:08 pm #347625

Take that you Oriole fans!

(I kid, I kid)

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347628

By Cider Jim - May 7th, 2011, 8:10 pm

- May 7th, 2011, 8:10 pm #347628

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347630

By ToTheLeft - May 7th, 2011, 10:30 pm

- May 7th, 2011, 10:30 pm #347630

Reports of the Rays demise were greatly exaggerated.

This is a solid team. Just need to stay healthy and consistent, those are the keys for the Rays this season.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347639

By jbock13 - May 8th, 2011, 7:14 am

- May 8th, 2011, 7:14 am #347639

I'm just impressed how well things have gone lately. Id like to see Kotchman start at 1B until Dan Johnson proves he can even hit a wiffle ball...

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347665

By ToTheLeft - May 9th, 2011, 4:25 am

- May 9th, 2011, 4:25 am #347665

jbock13 wrote:I'm just impressed how well things have gone lately. Id like to see Kotchman start at 1B until Dan Johnson proves he can even hit a wiffle ball...

Kotchman's ceiling is to be the most average first baseman ever.

DanJo's is to be like Adam Dunn with less power, which isn't that great, but it's still better than Kotchman's.

Kotchman's D is much better than DanJo's, tho.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347666

By jbock13 - May 9th, 2011, 8:17 am

- May 9th, 2011, 8:17 am #347666

I'm not saying that Kotchman is a reliable starter by any means. But he's hitting right now and DJ can't... at all.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347700

By ToTheLeft - May 9th, 2011, 5:29 pm

- May 9th, 2011, 5:29 pm #347700

jbock13 wrote:I'm not saying that Kotchman is a reliable starter by any means. But he's hitting right now and DJ can't... at all.

Maddon hardly ever bases his lineups on what's happening right now. If you pull a guy from the lineup because he's struggling, you are more likely to miss out on the day that his numbers start to balance out.

Johnson is actually striking out less than usual, he's just not walking (which is one of his strengths), and his BABIP is very, very low, lower than his already low standard BABIP. He'll turn it around.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347705

By jbock13 - May 9th, 2011, 6:46 pm

- May 9th, 2011, 6:46 pm #347705

I'm not so optimistic. He's good for walking, that's about it, and even this year he's not doing that.

I'm almost ready to grab somebody from Durham after Kotchman cools down.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347719

By flamehunter - May 10th, 2011, 7:48 am

- May 10th, 2011, 7:48 am #347719

Who cares about the Rays, the Bucs are over .500...in MAY!!

Re: MLB Season Thread#347731

By ToTheLeft - May 10th, 2011, 2:45 pm

- May 10th, 2011, 2:45 pm #347731

jbock13 wrote:I'm not so optimistic. He's good for walking, that's about it, and even this year he's not doing that.

I'm almost ready to grab somebody from Durham after Kotchman cools down.

Like who? Leslie Anderson is putting up numbers barely better than DanJo's, and he's playing against AAA competition.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347732

By jbock13 - May 10th, 2011, 3:30 pm

- May 10th, 2011, 3:30 pm #347732

Well scratch that idea.

I wish Dan would have at least kept the Safety Dance as his walkup music. It was pretty funny.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347835

By LUminary - May 12th, 2011, 10:06 pm

- May 12th, 2011, 10:06 pm #347835

Another nice extra-inning, come-from-behind victory for the O's.

I wish the Birds played Seattle every night, or were in the AL West.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347877

By jbock13 - May 13th, 2011, 2:48 pm

- May 13th, 2011, 2:48 pm #347877

LUminary wrote:Another nice extra-inning, come-from-behind victory for the O's. I wish the Birds played Seattle every night, or were in the AL West.

Angels, rangers, and Athletics are pretty good. You forgot that.

That's the thing about the Mariners. First one to 2 runs wins!

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347898

By LUminary - May 13th, 2011, 11:25 pm

- May 13th, 2011, 11:25 pm #347898

Everything is relative. I'd rather play those three regularly rather than the Yankees, Red Sox and your Rays. Speaking of the Rays, enough revenge already for that season-opening sweep. Nice win by Hellickson tonight.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347899

By jbock13 - May 14th, 2011, 7:48 am

- May 14th, 2011, 7:48 am #347899

Haha sad part is I'm not even in town to watch it! I'm stuck here in WV watching the Pirates...

The Rays are 22-7 since their 1-8 start. That's just incredible. Not to mention that we're now 2 games ahead of the Yankees.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#347902

By thepostman - May 14th, 2011, 9:34 am

- May 14th, 2011, 9:34 am #347902

I don't know how the rays do it...its too bad people can't/don't support them out there in st pete

they have quickly becoming the model franchise for player development that is for sure

Re: MLB Season Thread#347903

By jbock13 - May 14th, 2011, 9:46 am

- May 14th, 2011, 9:46 am #347903

A farm system is so key to having a small market team stay sucessful.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#348123

By LUminary - May 19th, 2011, 10:35 am

- May 19th, 2011, 10:35 am #348123

Cider, did you endure last night's excruciatingly painful loss to the Yanks? Fourteen futile innings of trying to get a run across, tying it 1-1 in the 9th before finally succumbing. Our Birds are so close...Gregg blows the save Monday against the Red Sox, now another near miss against the Yankees. This team has to figure out how to win more of these games. So close it's frustrating.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#348210

By jbock13 - May 20th, 2011, 2:04 pm

- May 20th, 2011, 2:04 pm #348210

Dan Johnson finally got sent down

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Re: MLB Season Thread#349577

By jbock13 - June 27th, 2011, 6:00 pm

- June 27th, 2011, 6:00 pm #349577

Well I'm at the Trop here for the first time since 07... there's really not a bad seat in the house.

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Re: MLB Season Thread#349582

By Cider Jim - June 27th, 2011, 7:03 pm

- June 27th, 2011, 7:03 pm #349582

Just got back from Camden Yards, where we watched the O's split two games with the Reds.

I even got back to Lynchburg on Sunday to watch the O's take the third game on MASN, and brought home my very own Buck Showalter bobble head doll. I was there for Saturday's game where both teams combined for 9 dingers.

What a great weekend of baseball--and crab cakes!

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Re: MLB Season Thread#349583

By LUminary - June 27th, 2011, 7:41 pm

- June 27th, 2011, 7:41 pm #349583

Cider Jim wrote:Just got back from Camden Yards, where we watched the O's split two games with the Reds.

I even got back to Lynchburg on Sunday to watch the O's take the third game on MASN, and brought home my very own Buck Showalter bobble head doll. I was there for Saturday's game where both teams combined for 9 dingers.

What a great weekend of baseball--and crab cakes!

Those were great games and thumbs up to the crab cakes. It appeared as if there were big crowds for all of 'em. My nephew is a Reds fan and tried to talk me into going, but I didn't plan far enough in advance. Would now love to see the Birds take 2 of 3 against the Cards.

By the way, what's wrong with Matusz?

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