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1. The Duke Posted: May 10, 2022 at 04:29 PM (#6076100)As I understand it they got him down to AAA days before they could no longer do that given his service time. He's now in baseball purgatory. Can't bring him up or we lose him, so he'll only be up in some kind of serious emergency. He'll be stuck in AAA now for 2 years. Save your money, Paul.
Devil Magic wears off fast.
Brendan Donovan is the first player in MLB since at least 1900 to make his first four career starts at the four different infield positions
Well it's not much but you can tell your grandchildren that two guys played in 2100 games straight but only one guy played his first four games at different positions.
Greinke is not pitching tonight, but Perez will catch and there are a few other veterans I have at least seen before (Whit Merrifield, Hunter Dozier, Andrew Benintendi), and I know about Bobby Witt Jr. That's actually a pretty good haul for me, I tend to know no visitors these days except from the AL West. Perez, Merrifield, & Dozier were in the lineup when I saw the Rangers play in Kansas City four years ago; the Rangers have completely turned their roster over since.
And despite or because of all these known quantities, the Royals are off to a terrible start, even worse than the Rangers.
I'm surprised they don't see how Edman fares at SS; he's played it decently in the past, although he is Gold Glove caliber---both in metrics and in the eye test---at second base, his current position.
But if Edman can handle SS, how long do the Cardinals wait before they bring uo masher Nolan Gorman to play 2B?
This is a bit of a transition year with Waino, Molina and Pujols leaving. Next year is a better time for him.
Won't matter since it looks like the Cardinals are going to be shut out.
Loaisiga goes up and in on Bichette, does not hit him, Blue Jays manager gets ejected
as games go this year this one b interesting
Yeah, I'm watching, at work, from Sydney. Mr. Kate Upton on the bump...fun game.
Likely done for the day ... 3 runs and 63 pitches in just 3 innings just off the IL. Hope the offense overcomes the 3-2 deficit (not likely) and that Miley's arm is still attached in the morning and call it a small victory.
It was Judge's 168th home run, and his first walkoff. No doubt about this one.
And #66 steals 3rd and scores on a wild throw. (#66 is actually Ortega who has been on the roster the whole year.)
And now something I'm not sure I've ever seen before ... Contreras on 2B, hard GB to third, Contreras gets caught off 2B ... almost coulda turned the oddest DP I've ever seen -- arguably Contrereas interfered but the umps didn't see it that way. (Note Contreras wasn't running he just got snuck behind.)
Pffft, it wasn't the money, it's that they gave away(at the time) a decent position player(Shaw), who of course had a couple of good seasons in the meantime. The Sox were guilty of the "never trade a position player for a reliever" move and of course got the results I expected.
So the Sox won! Yes, won a game! Here come the Red Sox.
EDIT: Detmers made it through the top of the 7th on 83 pitches.
Sidebar: I don’t think homers hit off of position players should count for fantasy baseball purposes.
Do the pitching stats count for the guy stuck with the position player?
Which pretty much tells you how freakishly talented professional athletes are. Wrong handed, the dude hit the ball over 360 feet. Most humans couldn't hit a baseball more then 250 feet hitting from their preferred side.
In fairness, no worse than Kluber. :-)
Proof that people will complain about literally anything.
Dude finished at 108 pitches. If someone got on, they get someone warmed up, go into stall mode, and have someone ready by the time Detmers pitches to one or at most two batters. Seriously no big deal. I mean, "malpractice" ... what kind of drama queening is that.
What was he going to do if it got broken up?
It's Maddon. He'd have intentionally walked the next three batters to relieve the kid of the pressure of trying to complete the shutout, then put the C on the mound, bring in his 3B to catch and play with 8 men on the field.
I'm sure Maddon would have stalled if it came to that, but my guess is that he wanted Detmers to know he had complete confidence in him and not to worry about any potential relievers coming in. This was the same kind of rationale he gave when he intentionally walked Corey Seager with the bases loaded earlier this year. It fired the team up, or some such thing. To some degree, I get it. These guys aren't robots. But I think Maddon goes a bit overboard with it.
To preserve his arm, Detmers could have gone into Brett Phillips mode to finish the complete game.
Gleyber Torres 3-run HR to RF gives the Yankees a 3-1 lead after 4. Not sure if the 361 foot blast will be sufficient to satisfy the distance-scolds, but the runs seem to always be put on the scoreboard without regard to such objections.
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