JoeC

Still curious to see the breakdown of costs for $2K for travel baseball for a kids’ team. I have a hockey background, and the fees for a local travel team were about $2500… for a U16 team. That included ice costs ($250 / hour X 3 hours / week) and uniforms.

Is it better to shut down Kopech a couple of times for a couple of weeks, or is it better to have him go out every 5 days and only throw 40~50 pitches for those starts?

Fatigue recovery can lead to longer sustained velocity (less velocity reduction over the season), no? I'm quite curious about these sorts of topics (they've always intrigued me), so if you have any sort of formal expertise I'd love to learn more.

If he regains his form last year (or something close to it), Lynn may be the best option in the playoffs. Right mentality, and he'll have the freshest arm of any of the comparable alternatives.

Unfortunately that 13-7 record is tied with the Twins over that same span.

...and by "a nice problem to have," I mean "being able to demote a Cy Young vote recipient from the #1 spot in the rotation to #3 ~ #4 because other guys just got way better presumably without the original guy regressing" is a nice "problem" to have.

Honestly a nice problem to have. If healthy, a rock solid 1~4, albeit with significant restrictions on the workload of one of those four (Kopech). Hoping that between Keuchel's impending demotion to the bullpen (at least part-time) and VV / ReyLo being able to be used as heavy-workload swingmen, we would be able to manage Kopech's workload down the stretch.

Love that Donaldson came up with the game on the line yesterday and popped up. TA came up and delivered.

Anyone else think Hahn will trade for Hicks midseason?

Knowing this team, it’s still possible. give us just enough hope to make it hurt

Sorry - posting from phone…

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Agreed. pretty awful… and consistently so.

Watch TA sit this evening’s game too… just because.

Love the bunt double

If Uribe would have done that wearing pinstripes (or even in a Red Sox uniform), there would be an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary on the catch. They would interview the fans in the area, who would talk about Uribe in reverence. They would have statements from the nacho vendor in the area. Joe Buck would have even said something positive to describe it.

Recommended reading: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078LJKP88/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Book about Derek Black, a former White Nationalist (godson of David Duke), and how he learned to shed the beliefs of his upbringing.

In all seriousness I would hope that the Yankees clubhouse is addressing this. This goes beyond "us vs. them" on the field.

"That'll show 'em!"

For context, here's Donaldson's statement:

Also, whatever happens / happened, kudos to Yaz for sticking up for TA and bringing this out to the forefront. Anyone else notice Yaz took his earpiece out (assuming he was mic'd up for something) before chirping at Donaldson?

Also, players typically speak with their teammates about all on-field jokes with opposing players, and then publicly go on the record as having discussed it with teammates, right?

Now onto the fake apology.

Late to the party, and I'm sure I'm missing other publicly available instances of players playing while on LSD, but I'm choosing to believe that there is a 100% correlation between taking LSD and throwing a no-hitter based on the only (willingly known) evidence I have.

I hope not.