He shot himself.

Stripes wrote:

Uncle Milty wrote:I'm just thinking of the HOF voters. If I had a vote I'd choose Posey over Molina.

I guess I misunderstood where you were going with that.


With Yadi being nearer the end of his career, there seems to be more talk about him being a "sure-fire Hall of Famer." Posey's closer to the middle of his career, and he's certainly on the right path.

How close is Posey to the end of his career? He's got a bad hip now? Is he late career Mauer at this point? Who is PTK?

ReadingPhilly wrote:He shot himself.

I was afraid of something like that. How horrible for his family.

Posey will get in because he gets the press as much as anyone in the game. He hasn't been as good lately, but people still see him as that guy. And the injury that changed the catching rules also will help him. The league loves him.

stevelxa476 wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:

phatj wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:Teh Orioles were eliminated from the AL East race Friday. Still have a Tragic Number of 12 in the WC race, though.

How does this compare to the earliest eliminations ever?

Pretty close as far as I can tell. the '62 mets were eliminated early, being 50 games back with 49 to play, though I'm getting the date listed variously as August 7 and August 10. 1899 Cleveland Spiders, who won only twenty games,were apparently eliminated on August 4. But I can't find anyone in the Divisional era who can challenge the O's.

2003 Tigers were apparently eliminated from the WC on 8/19/03 and the Central on 8/22/03.

This is from a reddit post on it, so not 100% of its accuracy.

The Baltimore Orioles have tied the American League record for earliest mathematical elimination from the league/division
Other MLB teams eliminated on or before August 10 (excluding the NA):

NL 1876 Cincinnati Reds (elim. August 1)
NL 1876 Philadelphia Athletics (elim. August 9)
NL 1878 Milwaukee Grays (elim. August 3)
NL 1918 St. Louis Cardinals (elim. August 10 in hindsight, because of later canceled games)
AL 1932 Boston Red Sox (elim. August 10)
NL 1962 New York Mets (elim. August 7)

These sorts of compilations about “earliest” someone did something in the season always sort of annoy me because they all use relative measures, like dates. The Orioles being eliminated this early is surely bad, but not as bad as ANY of those, because I believe this was one of the earliest starts to a season ever. Back when there were only 16 teams and 154 games and 1 round of playoffs, seasons didn’t start until mid-April (sensibly, I might add), meaning fewer games had been played by any given point in the season.

There was some stat making the rounds this year too (or likely several) about this or that happening before the All-Star Break. Another relative measure. Not only did this season get started earlier than just about any other, the All-Star game was played later than it had been in my living memory. I know because my father’s birthday was July 12th, and it was essentially always the week of the All-Star game. This year the All-Star game was played the week after the week with what would have been his birthday in it, on July 17th. The result is that most teams had played 5-8 more games than they would have before the ASB in most years.

All such stats should really be measured by after x number of games in a season. It’s the only accurate measure.

Surprised that awful Tigers team isn't on these lists

*Nevermind now see the mention

The Reds are 1-17 in games started by Homer Bailey and 55-58 in all others

Padres called up their #4 prospect (#22 overall in MLB) Luis Urias. He's starting at 2B and batting 2nd

wait so the friars have 3 guys top 20????

As of now they have all of the following in the top 100:

#2 Fernando Tatis Jr (SS)
#11 MacKenzie Gore (LHP)
#21 Francisco Mejia (C/OF)
#22 Urias (2B/SS)
#48 Chris Paddack (RHP)
#49 Adrian Morejon (LHP)
#60 Michel Baez (RHP)
#85 Logan Allen (LHP)
#99 Ryan Weathers (LHP)

wow that's a lot

Bucky wrote:wow that's a lot

Well, when you've been tanking for 5+ years...

Mejia dropped his lawsuit against Michael Schwimer's "capital investment in young ballplayers" outfit.

Time for my annual 9/1 post about the expanded rosters being the dumbest thing in baseball post

The rear edges of 1st and third base align to the MIDDLE of the 2nd base bag, not the corresponding rear ages as I had always thought. How did I not know that

Ace Rothstein wrote:Time for my annual 9/1 post about the expanded rosters being the dumbest thing in baseball post

Hmmm. Why do you think that?

Wolfgang622 wrote:

Ace Rothstein wrote:Time for my annual 9/1 post about the expanded rosters being the dumbest thing in baseball post

Hmmm. Why do you think that?

It changes the game in a major way down the stretch

The Tigers went from this lineup last June

1. Ian Kinsler (R) 2B
2. Alex Avila (L) C
3. Miguel Cabrera (R) 1B
4. Victor Martinez (S) DH
5. J.D. Martinez (R) RF
6. Justin Upton (R) LF
7. Nicholas Castellanos (R) 3B
8. Alex Presley (L) CF
9. Jose Iglesias (R) SS
Justin Verlander P

to this today

1. Jeimer Candelario (S) 3B
2. JaCoby Jones (R) CF
3. Nicholas Castellanos (R) DH
4. Niko Goodrum (S) 1B
5. Mikie Mahtook (R) LF
6. James McCann (R) C
7. Ronny Rodriguez (R) SS
8. Dawel Lugo (R) 2B
9. Victor Reyes (S) RF
Matthew Boyd P

Dee Gordon and Jean Segura got into a fight in the locker room before tonight's Mariners game

details

As the media stood near the doors of the Mariners’ clubhouse in Safeco Field, waiting for a 3:20 p.m. media availability with manager Scott Servais, Gordon approached the group and said quietly, “Could you guys clear out of the clubhouse for just a few minutes, please?”

It wasn’t an unreasonable request. Perhaps a meeting of some sort was going to take place. It was quickly obliged and people moved from the entryway in the clubhouse out into a small foyer area of hallways as Gordon shut the doors. Of course, the windows of clubhouse manager Ryan Stiles’ office still offered a small view into the clubhouse.

After asking the media to leave, Gordon basically remained in the same spot. But then just a few minutes later, there was the sound of yelling, bodies moving and commotion. The once-closed doors to the clubhouse crashed open, showing an altercation between two players and about six players, including Cameron Maybin, Mike Zunino and Nick Vincent trying to break it up. Robinson Cano and others could be seen coming over to help diffuse the situation. The actual participants couldn’t be seen in the mass of bodies. And the doors were shut again. But Gordon could be heard screaming obscenities.

Sources indicated the incident was between Gordon and shortstop Jean Segura and stemmed from Gordon’s misplay on a ball in center field during Monday’s win over the Orioles.

When asked about it, multiple players refused to comment and offered up some version of “what happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse.”

the play Segura was pissed about

Tigers tweet included "in play, run(s)"