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MLB Network’s 30 Clubs in 30 Days is March 13

My bad. Saturday is supposed to be cool and rainy in Glendale. Figures.

The Sox don’t assign 69 ever because they don’t want fans to get authentic jerseys with that. I’m for players wearing what they want, but it you’re going to wear a “look at me, everyone” number like 74, 84, 88 or 99, you better be able to back it up. Lastings Milledge starting out with 85 or whatever, comes to mind.

Rosenthal has said he was fed that question by the producer. He was too busy getting from the photographer’s well area to the field to watch Altuve himself.

He did say, “not this week, but the following week”. I watched it, so probably Friday, 2/28.

Decision by the 28th

MLB Network not showing Manfred live. Lame. MLB Tonight at 5 will edit out the awkwardness.

Brad Keller got suspended 5 games if that’s what you’re referring to. Sounds like penalties will be longer for everyone if they think the pitcher is throwing at the batter.

Good news for you. Coop changed back to 21 this season. Vaughn will wear 99 when he makes it up.

Manfred is talking at 3:30 central.

He's looking right in the camera and lying. If they really want to give a sincere apology, send the trophy to Cooperstown where they can keep it in storage for a few decades, take down any signage regarding the 2017 Championship, donate the amount all of the playoff share money from 2017 to charity, and no future team sponsored celebrations of the 2017 season. If they want to keep their rings they won unfairly, they can do it, but nobody really thinks they earned it.

Soon-to-be top 5 prospect in the Sox system...

Listening to Kris Bryant go off on the Astros. Pretty impressive dude.

I’m not a fan of the rule. You should have your roster for the day and deploy it any way you want. It’s not going to shorten games if the pitcher they want to replace stays in and walks two guys and gives up a homer. The 28 man roster in September is better because it caps it for everyone in the pen. Personally, I think they should turn in a daily 20 man roster, 7 pitchers, a 9 man lineup, a 4 man bench. If the game goes to extra innings, then the rest are eligible to play.

Giving Moncada a 10th place vote is fine. Keeping the guy who eventually finished 4th off your 10-man ballot, didn’t make Fegan look good. It was a shitty ballot.

It won’t happen, but it would be cool if they played this season thinking they’re good, and they win 92 games or whatever, and then on September 28, Manfred says no postseason for you.

July

Agreed, although that may just be a job for Hahn. The couple times Keuchel has spoken on the Astros, he’s partially said some ok things, and then he says the wrong thing. He needs to stop saying “that’s what baseball was at the time” even if it’s true. He knew his team was cheating at the time, and he needs to own it, or just move on with his new team and win the right way.

I think he started with 1 for a short time, and got his 22 back from Josh Fields. Fields changed from 22 to 7.

1 in 2009, when he came back. It’s on baseball-reference if want to look at the history. Unfortunately they only have players, not coaches numbers.

Vaughn is wearing 94 because he’s a rookie in his first camp. Don Cooper has worn 99 since Kevin Hickey died.

McEwing going millennial with #82 Menechino 22, Coolbaugh 46 unused- 1, 5, 21, 25, 45, 49

Exactly, and I think that’s what happened. Either Manfred knows for sure that it’s rampant in MLB, or he’s afraid to find out. He wants to keep this nice and tidy with the 2017 Astros, and to a lesser extent, the 2018 Red Sox.

This isn’t a court of law. If the stats significantly go down for these guys, what else are people going to think? That they just quit cold turkey after 2017? Nobody really thinks that already.

It’s going to be real interesting to see what the stats look like for Bregman, Correa, Springer, and Altuve. Still good players, but if they have real differences in hard contact rates, walks, strikeouts, xbh, compared to 2018 and 2019, it’s pretty much going to confirm they took cheating to the next level after the trash can stuff in 2017. This season is going to be a helluva thing.