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Gson said:
Lange's two seam fastball acts like a left hander's cut fastball to LHH's.. something that you just don't see at that kind of Velo.. not at all...
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I just don't think the Tigers will give him up at a friendly price...
 
sportscoach said:
I just don't think the Tigers will give him up at a friendly price...
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I'd gladly pay an acceptable unfriendly price..

queue response to anyone in the Guardians top 20 prospects & a few 20-30 >> N.F.W.
 
Hunter Greene started for the Reds tonight v The Dbacks - gave up a leadoff bunt single to the first batter and retired the next 21 batters - currently pouring in Cincy so I assume he's done for the night --- actually the rain came down so hard and so fast they had trouble covering the infield with the tarp, as water pooled on the tarp and made it virtually impossible to move --- my son suggested they ask the 37 fans in attendance to come on down and help --- regardless, Greene is must viewing every 5 days
 
xmasbuck said:
Hunter Greene started for the Reds tonight v The Dbacks - gave up a leadoff bunt single to the first batter and retired the next 21 batters - currently pouring in Cincy so I assume he's done for the night --- actually the rain came down so hard and so fast they had trouble covering the infield with the tarp, as water pooled on the tarp and made it virtually impossible to move --- my son suggested they ask the 37 fans in attendance to come on down and help --- regardless, Greene is must viewing every 5 days
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We have a couple of our very own Hunter Greenes on the way. Exciting stuff!
 
I am a casual BB fan, so rarely post.. but I got cheap tickets to the Padres Mets game last night..

It was a pitchers master class by the Padres..Darvish started .. guy has a lot of pitches, but a killer cutter, Four seam in the mid ninety range.. had more guys on base because of two questionable ump calls. Only hits were slow curve balls..

But then they brought lefty Adrian Morejon in relief. This guy is the real deal. Has a 98 mph four seam whenever he wanted and a nasty change up, also throws a cutter effectively.. think left handed Pedro Martinez.. in the top of the ninth he had hitters just closing their eyes and swinging.. What was funny is the home fans knew.. they were up 6 when he entered the game, and everybody started packing up and celebrating the win.. have not seen a pitcher so dominant in a long time..
 
CleveRocks said:
I am a casual BB fan, so rarely post.. but I got cheap tickets to the Padres Mets game last night..

It was a pitchers master class by the Padres..Darvish started .. guy has a lot of pitches, but a killer cutter, Four seam in the mid ninety range.. had more guys on base because of two questionable ump calls. Only hits were slow curve balls..

But then they brought lefty Adrian Morejon in relief. This guy is the real deal. Has a 98 mph four seam whenever he wanted and a nasty change up, also throws a cutter effectively.. think left handed Pedro Martinez.. in the top of the ninth he had hitters just closing their eyes and swinging.. What was funny is the home fans knew.. they were up 6 when he entered the game, and everybody started packing up and celebrating the win.. have not seen a pitcher so dominant in a long time..
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Morejon has good coaching now...
 
A season from hell
Less than a month ago, the Angels were on top of the world—or at least the AL West. Now, not so much.

Ever since Mike Trout’s emergence as the best player of his generation, the Angels have been the most frustrating franchise in baseball. They employ one of the best all-around players in history and even added two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani and yet they’ve still finished below .500 in six straight seasons. But things were looking different early this season. Los Angeles got out to a 24–13 start and sat in first place on May 15. Then the wheels fell off.

The Angels are 3–17 since that date, including a losing streak that was extended to 13 games after falling to the Red Sox last night. It’s their longest single-season losing streak in franchise history.

The first head to roll was manager Joe Maddon’s. He was fired yesterday before the game against Boston, 56 games into his third season in charge. (Phil Nevin was named interim manager.) The manager is an easy scapegoat when a team’s season goes sideways but it’s difficult to see how Maddon—an accomplished, World Series–winning manager—was the right guy to lead this team when it was in first place in May and yet deserves to be unemployed in June. Nick Selbe writes that it’s just another example of the Angels’ front office being impatient:

“[General manager Perry] Minasian is only in his second year with the organization, but that type of impulsive decision-making fits right in line with the club’s recent past. From 2000 to ’07, the Angels had one manager and one general manager: Mike Scioscia and Bill Stoneman, respectively. In the midst of that stretch—during which the team made the playoffs four times and won its only World Series title—[Arte] Moreno purchased the franchise from the Walt Disney Company. In the years that have followed, what was once a sturdy foundation has eroded into a volatile operation marred by dysfunction at nearly every turn.”

The good news for the Angels is that it’s still relatively early in the season. There are still 105 games left to play—plenty of time to turn things around and start playing like they did to start the season. With an expanded postseason that includes three wild card teams, it’s still not out of the question that they could make the playoffs for the first time since 2014. (Fangraphs puts their playoff odds at about 26% right now.)

Sneaking into an expanded playoff field shouldn’t be enough to let Moreno off the hook, if that even happens. He’s run this team terribly ever since he bought it and squandering the careers of Trout and Ohtani is an embarrassment. Trout is under contract through the end of 2030, but Ohtani has only one more season before he hits free agency after ’23. Will he want to stick around if Moreno and Minasian haven’t gotten things under control and built a strong foundation by then?
 
Reds give up 4 runs in the 9th, lose to the dbacks - despite playing better since that horrendous start, they're still on pace to win 56 games
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more important news however - tyler stephenson fractures his thumb and will be out a month at least
 
Can't even stay with Cubs ... at least there won't be out-cry to bring him back
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