Series Thread: World Series preview? Rangers at Wrigley to play the Cubs 7/15-7/17

[Duane1952]

Desmond 0-8 this series. Now he's not hitting.

 

[romeo212000]

This is just purely a guess on my part, but I think Profar is as good as gone by the trade deadline. I don't think management views him as a long-term piece anymore, whether it's due to injury concerns, throwing concerns, or whatever. I think they played him just enough to re-establish his trade value as a centerpiece to a deal, and now they're going to ship him off for some pitching.

Complete conjecture on my part, but it's just what Banny's moves and the trade rumors both tell me.

I think that makes sense all things considered, and I find it hard to argue with that strategy as well depending on the return.

 

[Bmurph]

Odor just isn't the leadoff guy IMO and Desmond has gotten quite chilly lately

 

[Bmurph]

Desmond 0-8 this series. Now he's not hitting.

he helped carry them this far and now he needs help, but Ive got no idea where its gonna come from

 

[DT LUNA]

Odor just isn't the leadoff guy IMO and Desmond has gotten quite chilly lately

Odor can't settle in and take a pitch.

 

[romeo212000]

Odor can't settle in and take a pitch.

His OBP is not good at all.

 

[saddles]

This is just purely a guess on my part, but I think Profar is as good as gone by the trade deadline. I don't think management views him as a long-term piece anymore, whether it's due to injury concerns, throwing concerns, or whatever. I think they played him just enough to re-establish his trade value as a centerpiece to a deal, and now they're going to ship him off for some pitching.



Complete conjecture on my part, but it's just what Banny's moves and the trade rumors both tell me.

If that is the plan then it is a bad one in that it will cost us more games than the pitching he is traded for will win for us.

 

[Nightcrawler]

MLB reportedly tells managers, GMs to stop arguing balls and strikes
MLB exec Joe Torre reportedly sent a memo on Friday to managers and some front office members

• by Dayn Perry
• @daynperry
• 16h ago • 1 min read

MLB would apparently like managers and certain members of certain front offices to pump their brakes just a bit when it comes to arguing balls and strikes this season. Here's this, via the AP ...

MLB executive Joe Torre sent a memo Friday to managers, general managers and assistant general managers that said: ''This highly inappropriate conduct is detrimental to the game and must stop immediately.''

...

Torre said in his note that ''the prevalence of manager ejections simply cannot continue.''

The AP goes on to report that Torre in the memo called out managers who rely on replays or zone tracking tools available in, say, the clubhouse video room to inform their arguments. Torre is MLB's chief baseball officer.

Per Close Call Sports, in 2015 plate umpires ejected the manager on 76 occasions. In 2016, that's happened 37 times, so if anything the pace has slowed just a bit. Rather than the frequency of ejections, though, it may be, as Torre indicated, the manner in which managers and other vested parties are arriving at their grievances -- i.e., availing themselves of technology that the plate ump cannot use in making his ball-strike calls.

As for front office types, Nationals GM Mike Rizzo reportedly engaged in a tunnel shouting match with veteran ump Jim Joyce not long ago. That was over application of sliding rules and not balls and strikes, but the incident may have been somewhere in Torre's consciousness as he penned the memo in question. What most assuredly was about balls and strikes was when Tigers skipper Brad Ausmus earlier this season covered home plate with his sweatshirt.

Probably because of blue Jays manager gibbons.

 

[DT LUNA]

Nice inning Cole. Stay on que

 

[Bmurph]

Don't chase that Maz

 

[Duane1952]

When's the last time we had a home run.

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

Mazara knows he can walk, right?

 

[Bmurph]

thats a terrible AB Nomar

 

[Duane1952]

What you looking for Maz.

 

[Nightcrawler]

Mazara knows he can walk, right?

This team probably hasn't drawn a walk all series. Seems like they'd rather swing at something out of the zone then take ball 4

 

[Bmurph]

Good job Elvis!

 

[Duane1952]

Good job Elvis.

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

just doubled their output from the last 2 games.

 

[Bmurph]

let that ball go Kela

 

[Bmurph]

atta boy Cole