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Postby stevelxa476 » Sat Sep 21, 2019 18:06:56

BigEd76 wrote:Padres fired Andy Green and made ol friend Rod Barajas interim manager for the last few games


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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby kruker » Sat Sep 21, 2019 18:20:01

BigEd76 wrote:Padres fired Andy Green and made ol friend Rod Barajas interim manager for the last few games


Barajas gets a managing gig before Sal? My god
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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby Bucky » Sat Sep 21, 2019 19:10:08

Bill McNeal wrote:Been seeing this around the interwebs today.

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I bet he was aiming to take the whole thing down

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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby philliesphhan » Sat Sep 21, 2019 20:58:27

Bill McNeal wrote:Been seeing this around the interwebs today.

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Doesn't work for me, the suspense is killing me
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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby phatj » Sat Sep 21, 2019 20:59:46

philliesphhan wrote:
Bill McNeal wrote:Been seeing this around the interwebs today.

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Doesn't work for me, the suspense is killing me

RIght-click -> Show image in new tab
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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby Bucky » Sat Sep 21, 2019 21:01:29

it's an mp4 video, you can cut and paste the link or go here for the scoop

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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby philliesphhan » Sat Sep 21, 2019 21:02:24

phatj wrote:
philliesphhan wrote:
Bill McNeal wrote:Been seeing this around the interwebs today.

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Doesn't work for me, the suspense is killing me

RIght-click -> Show image in new tab


thanks

Bucky wrote:
Bill McNeal wrote:Been seeing this around the interwebs today.

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I bet he was aiming to take the whole thing down
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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby BigEd76 » Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:51:59

Ned Yost just announced he's retiring on Sunday

With Yost and Bochy retiring, the longest-tenured manager is Hurdle (2011), who might get the axe next week

After that, all playoff contenders (Melvin OAK, Francona CLE, Cash TB, Counsell MIL, Hinch HOU, Maddon CHC), then it's another potential axe in Servais, even though he was extended through next year

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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby philliesphhan » Wed Sep 25, 2019 03:25:28

Respect to Yost for just walking away rather than guys like Bochy who announce before the season, so ESPN and others can suck him off all season long
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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby Wolfgang622 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 05:18:35

Imagine the hell it must be being a Twins fan. Your team looks poised to post only its second 100 win season in team history. Thanks to the crummy AL, however, that accomplishment this season will be somewhat less valuable as you’ll be the third of three AL teams to hit the mark, making you the third season, and on a dead-on collision course with another first-round playoff series against guess who? The New York Yankees, the same team that has bounced you unceremoniously in the first round of five of your previous six playoff appearances, dating all the way back to 2003 (the other was a first round division sweep at the hands of another perennial Yankee victim, the Oakland Athletics). We hear about the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry all the time, but on the current baseball landscape, no other fan base must hate, or be psychologically tortured by, the New York Yankees more than the Twins fan base.

And you know damn well it’s going to happen again, because they are frankly better than you.

The agony. The inevitability. I’d think you give just about anything to make the postseason and draw ANY other opponent. The fact that seemingly every time you make it, there they immediately are must be the most frustrating thing in the fucking universe.

Indeed, here is a whole article about it from Sports Illustrated.
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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby SwingOnThis » Wed Sep 25, 2019 07:03:21

Red Sox couldn't beat the Yankees either until they could. Time for the Twins to get it done!

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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby CFP » Wed Sep 25, 2019 09:25:17

philliesphhan wrote:Respect to Yost for just walking away rather than guys like Bochy who announce before the season, so ESPN and others can suck him off all season long


I imagine he didn't go into this year knowing he was going to walk away, and the Royals probably gently told him he was going to be fired if he didn't "retire."

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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby BigEd76 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 12:44:32

MattEddyBA
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is hitting .274/.342/.439 (108 OPS+) with 15 HR and 69 RBIs. While that may seem ho-hum given the hype, he is a member of an exclusive club.

Vlad Jr. has one of just 39 player seasons of 500 PA by a 20U hitter since integration.

The top 25 sorted by OPS+

pretty good list to be on

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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby phatj » Wed Sep 25, 2019 21:15:19

Wolfgang622 wrote:Indeed, here is a whole article about it from Sports Illustrated.

Great line from that:

For almost the entire 21st century the Bronx Bombers have had Minnesota's number, and that number is still stored in a Nokia flip phone.


Then I thought about it -- did Nokia ever make flip phones?
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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby Bill McNeal » Wed Sep 25, 2019 21:25:35

phatj wrote:
Wolfgang622 wrote:Indeed, here is a whole article about it from Sports Illustrated.

Great line from that:

For almost the entire 21st century the Bronx Bombers have had Minnesota's number, and that number is still stored in a Nokia flip phone.


Then I thought about it -- did Nokia ever make flip phones?


They not only did, but they still do! (Kinda)

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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby phatj » Wed Sep 25, 2019 21:28:49

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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby BigEd76 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 23:43:33

Tigers clinched the #1 pick in the 2020 draft, and the Orioles clinched #2

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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby philliesphhan » Thu Sep 26, 2019 14:21:25

CFP wrote:
philliesphhan wrote:Respect to Yost for just walking away rather than guys like Bochy who announce before the season, so ESPN and others can suck him off all season long


I imagine he didn't go into this year knowing he was going to walk away, and the Royals probably gently told him he was going to be fired if he didn't "retire."


You think so? Looking into it, he only signed for this season and is 64, so they couldn't really fire him either way.

They're rebuilding (or even just losing) so I don't think they have any reservations about him as a manager
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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby BigEd76 » Thu Sep 26, 2019 18:08:42

Twins set a new ML record with 300 HRs in a season

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Re: Random Baseball News/Discussion: Heading into the 2020s

Postby Bucky » Fri Sep 27, 2019 20:19:51

Mark Gub impressing with his analysis

maybe we can bring him home


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