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Official 2016 MLB Season Thread (Nats Blow It Again)

JDawg said:
and not throw 200 pitches/300 innings

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It was very, very, very rare to throw 200 pitches. but 125 wasn't unusual. After they went to five man rotations, 300 innings was also rare.
 
Thor on his two home run game.

 
Phils 13-6 over the last 19, with 16 of those on the road. Thanks, Nat's.
 
bluefish said:
Phils 13-6 over the last 19, with 16 of those on the road. Thanks, Nat's.
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Everything's coming up Phillies. There are rumors that Tommy Joseph may be called up soon. He was largely written off after switching to first following concussion woes, but has been crushing the ball so far this year.

When Noah Syndergaard Frightened the Dodgers

Offspeed, and Syndergaard read it. It wasn’t even a bad pitch, but after this take, you couldn’t blame the Dodgers for thinking Syndergaard was just seeing everything perfectly. Most pitchers in baseball whiff at this. Many hitters in baseball whiff at this. Syndergaard was on to the plan from the start. And now for the amazing: A second mound conference, with the opposing pitcher up to bat.

Two. Two mound conferences. So much concern. It was a pretty high-leverage situation, with the bases packed, but the Dodger battery had to hold two separate conversations. In the first, they discussed how to get the other pitcher out. In the second, they discussed how else to get the other pitcher out. Ultimately, they settled on something effective — pitch No. 5 got the job done.
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The Phillies are 5 games over .500 with a RD of -27.

That's astonishing, even in a 35 game sample size.
 
meant to quote my fave part:

Perhaps my Tampa Bay Rays team would even be awarded a world championship.

Early before practice one spring training morning following our loss to the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2008 World Series, it was revealed that the Phillies reliever J.C. Romero had failed a drug test during the postseason. During that postseason, Romero threw seven scoreless, high-leverage innings, using a miraculous 98 mph fastball and a brand new slider that looked dizzying from my spot on the bench. As was customary, during spring training, a players union representative was to explain Romero's grievance to each team; each team's players, as card-carrying union members, were implored to stand in solidarity with him. Except this crowd was the team that lost the World Series on account of Romero's performance.

The late MLBPA executive director Michael Weiner, who had a great sense of humor, tried his best to give Romero's case its due diligence and with a straight face, as the conference room of Rays players called bullshit. (Literally: one of our team veterans called out "BULLSHIT!" amid the uproar.) Weiner's presentation was interrupted by our team's remembrances of how hard Romero was throwing, impromptu discussion on how the testing was inadequate, and how the rules enabled cheating in the postseason since you could appeal and then continue pitching. Wasn't it worth cheating at that point in the season if you'd only sit out regular-season games when you lost your appeal?
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oh man, and i somehow missed this:

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/recovering-ballplayer-vol-2-the-ballad-of-john-jaso

one of my fave under the radar rays writing about another. FUN! loved this part especially:

In the offseason, he was shipped down to Oakland. He was the perfect Billy Beane player, and Beane just had to have him. With Derek Norris, John formed the best catching platoon in baseball, appearing as the DH when he wasn't catching. He grew out his hair like a true Oakland Athletic, though things got psychedelic for John in the worst way. His two productive seasons in Oakland were cut short due to concussions John sustained from foul tips striking his facemask. While the "Buster Posey is too handsome for roughhousing" rule is in effect to protect catchers from collisions at home plate, nothing can protect them from this sort of head trauma.
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I suspect he gets confused for a member of the coaching staff often.
 
JDawg said:
122 pitches

and I disagree about the last part....that was his fifth start, then after TJ he still had a very good four year stretch
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DaDeacs said:
This is silly. All of it.
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I should've added the [sarcasm] brackets to my hot take. I figured the Harold Reynolds crew would be talking about Scherzer's arm falling off immediately after the game ended.
 
Phis take the Reds by a score of, what else, 3-2. Hellickson with one of his good starts--0 earned and 9 K's.

Smoke, mirrors and a good bullpen.

Phillies must lead the league in runners picked off of first.
 
What a freaking game. Papi is incredible.
 
He seems to have a pretty good handle on how to deal with this farewell tour thing.
 
Both Phillies corner outfielders now hitting .200. Watch out.
 
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