Non-Mariners / Around MLB, 2016

[cezero]

Brad Miller getting moved to 1B

 

[cezero]

I laughed.

I couldn't help myself.

The Cubs fired the music guy who played "Smack My Bitch Up" when Aroldis Champan left the mound last night.

Cubs fire employee after Smack My Bitch Up played at Aroldis Chapman

 

[PolarVortex]

I laughed.

I couldn't help myself.

The Cubs fired the music guy who played "Smack My Bitch Up" when Aroldis Champan left the mound last night.

Cubs fire employee after Smack My Bitch Up played at Aroldis Chapman

Showing a Confederate flag is wrong but making a joke out of domestic violence is okay, huh. You're a hypocritical piece of work.

 

[cezero]

Well guess I'm in the minority. A hole or not, I guess I just feel bad that not only are they forcing him out but kicking him while he's down too.

He'll be fine. I don't feel bad for any multi-millionaire whose biggest problem is PR stuff.

 

[FirebreathingMonkey]

This is more just about MLB and rule changes that MIGHT happen. Nothing yet

MLB considers limiting pitching changes, shifts (full article)

MLB owners consider changes to rules of baseball


Limiting pitching changes, restricting defensive shifts, altering the strike zone and installing pitch clocks are among the ideas Major League Baseball may consider as it undertakes a multiyear review of the game that could include the sport's most radical changes in decades.

Baseball owners were given a lengthy presentation Thursday during their quarterly meeting of how the sport has changed in the past 40 to 50 years.

"Sometimes baseball fans think about what should happen with the game sort of with an artificial construct, that the choice is between preserving `The Game,' as it came down originally from the mountain, and making some changes to that game," baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said.

"The point of the conversation today was that the game has changed dramatically. It's changed organically. It kind of has flowed where the competitive juices of managerial and general managerial decisions have taken it. And the question is, you take a snapshot after 40 years of that and you say, wow, here's what it looks like, here's what it used to look like and should we be thinking about what has occurred and whether we want to allow it to continue to go on on the path it's on?"

 

[PolarVortex]

This is more just about MLB and rule changes that MIGHT happen. Nothing yet

MLB considers limiting pitching changes, shifts (full article)

MLB owners consider changes to rules of baseball


Limiting pitching changes, restricting defensive shifts, altering the strike zone and installing pitch clocks are among the ideas Major League Baseball may consider as it undertakes a multiyear review of the game that could include the sport's most radical changes in decades.

Baseball owners were given a lengthy presentation Thursday during their quarterly meeting of how the sport has changed in the past 40 to 50 years.

"Sometimes baseball fans think about what should happen with the game sort of with an artificial construct, that the choice is between preserving `The Game,' as it came down originally from the mountain, and making some changes to that game," baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said.

"The point of the conversation today was that the game has changed dramatically. It's changed organically. It kind of has flowed where the competitive juices of managerial and general managerial decisions have taken it. And the question is, you take a snapshot after 40 years of that and you say, wow, here's what it looks like, here's what it used to look like and should we be thinking about what has occurred and whether we want to allow it to continue to go on on the path it's on?"

My opinion, for what it is worth: the game is better and healthier when it evolves naturally (modern bullpen, defensive shifts, multiple pitching changes, strategical changes occurring within the rules) than when it evolves artificially (raised the pitching mound, designated hitter, forced changes driven by rule changes).

 

[PolarVortex]

Brian Dozier has hit 19 homeruns in his last 35 games. Insane. Is the baseball juiced this year? Ummm, yes. Brad Miller has 26 homeruns. How much more evidence do you need?

 

[PolarVortex]

Brian Dozier has hit 19 homeruns in his last 35 games. Insane. Is the baseball juiced this year? Ummm, yes. Brad Miller has 26 homeruns. How much more evidence do you need?