due for his season ending oblique strain soon.

Jered Weaver retired

jamie moyer of the s.f. giants

Uncle Milty wrote:Who has the slowest fastball in the league now?

RA Dickey.

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?p ... 0&sort=4,a

Weaver's retirement has been looming for awhile

Angel Hernandez called it a strike.

WheelsFellOff wrote:Weaver's retirement has been looming for awhile

phatj wrote:

WheelsFellOff wrote:Weaver's retirement has been looming for awhile

Took too long for me to get this

me too

I was all like "is there a specific kind of looming machine called a Weaver's?"

stevelxa476 wrote:

Angel Hernandez called it a strike.

Who photoshopped #17's name?

a best players on bad teams list since 1995

Abreu is 4th, Rolen 10th for hitters

Halladay is 2nd, Schilling 6th, Lee 9th, AJ Burnett 18th, Moyer 20th for pitchers

That's kind of a misleading title, it's not "bad teams" it's teams that did not make it to at least the divisional series. It's one thing to have wasted war on a team that finishes 15 out, but another to be on a team that just misses the playoffs imo.

Bill McNeal wrote:That's kind of a misleading title, it's not "bad teams" it's teams that did not make it to at least the divisional series. It's one thing to have wasted war on a team that finishes 15 out, but another to be on a team that just misses the playoffs imo.

A pretty dumb attitude throughout, starting with the profile of Votto, whose production is "wasted" since the Reds have only made the playoffs three times in his previous ten seasons. Just about anyone outside the Yankees will take those percentages.

Heyman's top 60 free agents this offseason (before potential opt-outs for Tanaka and Justin Upton):

00 = Shohei Otani (would be at the top if he comes over)
01 = Darvish (could surpass 7/$175M)
02 = Arrieta
03 = Hosmer
04 = Moustakas (Angels?)
05 = Alex Cobb (only major FA SP still in his 20s)
06 = JD Martinez
07 = Wade Davis
08 = Holland (will opt out)
09 = Lynn
10 = Cain
11 = Vargas
12 = Cozart
13 = Bruce
14 = Carlos Santana
15 = Lucroy
16 = Chatwood
17 = Jaime Garcia
18 = Marco Estrada
19 = Hellickson
20 = Addison Reed
21 = Bryan Shaw
22 = Neshek
23 = Gregorson
24 = Brandon Kintzler
25 = Todd Frazier
26 = LoMo
27 = Tony Watson
28 = Anthony Swarzak
29 = Sabathia
30 = Duda (Mariners?)
31 = Jarrod Dyson
32 = Jay
33 = Eduardo Nunez
34 = Cashner
35 = Neil Walker
36 = Alonso
37 = Carlos Gonzalez
38 = David Hernandez
39 = Carlos Gomez
40 = Austin Jackson
41 = Melky
42 = Granderson
43 = Rodney
44 = Mark Reynolds
45 = Lackey
46 = Jesse Chavez
47 = Alex Avila
48 = Miguel Gonzales
49 = Chris Tillman
50 = Juan Nicasio
51 = Tyson Ross
52 = Joe Smith
53 = Colon (if he doesn't retire)
54 = Werth (likely looking at a 1-year deal)
55 = Scott Feldman
56 = Clippard
57 = Holliday
58 = Chacin
59 = Matt Belisle
60 = Jose Reyes

no thanks

The Rangers are leaving Globe Life Park for....Globe Life Field (in 2020)

so ~25 years is the life expectancy of a ballpark these days? Aye Karumba.

interesting (i thought) article from eno sarris about getting to the ball out in front of the plate. that's where his quote from hoskins the other day came from. hoskins seems like a good student of the game.

link

and now we have pitch counts

Serves him right for not keeping his foot on the rubber.