Official 2016 MLB Season Thread (Nats Blow It Again)

[YoungBuck95]

I want the stove to get hot. The next two weeks will be most of the fun I'll have all season.

 

[CantStandYa]

I want the stove to get hot. The next two weeks will be most of the fun I'll have all season.

Pickins are pretty slim. You have a potential firesale from the Reds/Brewers, Julio Tehran, some quality bullpen guys, and that's it.

 

[deacphan]

Pickins are pretty slim. You have a potential firesale from the Reds/Brewers, Julio Tehran, some quality bullpen guys, and that's it.

the rays have a lot they could move and are prone to selling out of the basement. some speculation longo could be avail, but i seriously doubt he is. but you have a bunch of starters avail there as well.

 

[timdunkandthefunk]

Pickins are pretty slim. You have a potential firesale from the Reds/Brewers, Julio Tehran, some quality bullpen guys, and that's it.

Add in the entire A's/Rays rosters. Chapman/Miller probably get their own shoutout also.

 

[avalon]

Anyone interested in a slightly used Jeremy Hellickson?

 

[TownieDeac]

Anyone interested in a slightly used Jeremy Hellickson?

He's gotta be better than Mike Pelphrey and cheaper than Anibal Sanchez.

 

[DaDeacs]

Phans favorite player, Dan Vogelbach flipped to the Mariners for Mike Montgomery.

Interested to see when/if they call up Vogelbach this year.

 

[deacphan]

el oh el

and rays fans everywhere cry because they transitive property traded for vogelbach...

 

[RedSoxFaithful]

vogelbach is MY BOY

pretty excited for him. i'm really glad he wasn't traded to NYY, where he would've been competing with bird (another favorite of mine!) next year

 

[RedSoxFaithful]

just checked, I snagged vogelbach with pick #64 in my league's 2011 amateur draft. pretty happy with that.

also it got me all nostalgic and i was looking through past drafts, and i came across my BEST DRAFT EVAR, from 2009:
Round 1, Pick 6: SP Matt Purke, TEX*
Round 1, Pick 11: SP Shelby Miller, STL
Round 1, Pick 26: SP James Paxton, TOR*
Round 2, Pick 25 (#57 overall): SS Billy Hamilton, CIN
Round 2, Pick 28 (#60): SP Sam Dyson, OAK**
Round 2A, Pick 3 (#63): SP Garrett Richards, LAA
Round 4, Pick 6 (#132): SP Steven Matz, NYM

*didn't sign, compensatory pick awarded in 2010
**didn't sign, compensatory pick not awarded

...used the 2010 picks to take Nick Castellanos and Matt Lipka, you win some, you lose some

anyway yeah, i really wish paxton and dyson had signed that year

/brag

 

[Ayo]

Pomeranz, not impressed.

 

[deacphan]

Add in the entire A's/Rays rosters. Chapman/Miller probably get their own shoutout also.

probs going to 2 rays/a's games this weekend, so i'm hoping for some shenanigans. maybe someone switching unis.

 

[CantStandYa]

Anyone interested in a slightly used Jeremy Hellickson?

Marlins were in on him before he went 8 innings against them last night, no?

 

[avalon]

Marlins were in on him before he went 8 innings against them last night, no?

Not a bad audition! Plus the Phillies are willing to keep salary, and we all know how the Marlins feel about money.

 

[wsc8521s]

Looks like 13-0's gon die, Strasburg getting smacked around this afternoon

 

[RedSoxFaithful]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1...ing-possible-limits-use-relief-pitchers-games

MLB talking about restricting number of relief pitchers in a game/inning. Huh.

 

[wsc8521s]

Kind of an odd response to all the arm problems for starters

 

[Shorty]

Absurd.

 

[DaDeacs]

Supposedly the White Sox were offered an amazing deal for Sale and they said No. Not sure where they think they are going in the next two years.

 

[CheesePritchard]

Well they have him for three. Can you blame them for likely wanting major league talent to move the best pitcher in the AL on a 3/38 after this one?