MiddleCoastBias

He may have just found it, depending on the severity of Madrigal's injury.

It sounds like the vuvuzelas from the World Cup.

If it's true some of the positive cases stemmed from them going to the casino despite all of the warnings, the rest of players in the league have got to be pissed. Shutting down the season because a few guys were too selfish to follow the rules impacts everyone else too. Lot of players going to lose their livelihood this year because of a handful of guys thinking they're above the game. I'd be livid if I was one of the other players.

This play alone locked up the league-lead for out of zone plays.

If he was slap hitter that only rolls over on groundballs to the same side of the infield in every AB, he wouldn't have been called up. He looks to be the type of hitter to "hit 'em where they ain't" and should be able to make a career out of finding the gaps.

I've also wondered this, but also very curious how the players would react to a 30 year old manager. This is primarily targeted at vets - are there old-guard vets on our team that wouldn't respond well to him? He seems to have the respect from all of the younger players he's managed and that may extend to vets, hard to say. The Hawks have Colliton a shot in a similar situation and they seem to have buy-in from their vets.

Do we, though? Mazara has to be back soon and Madrigal is up, it's not like we need Leury to play all 7 games next week.

It begins. If the league won't enforce the rules for all players, we're going to see more and more opt op until we reach a breaking point. The players will take it into their own hands and force the issue.

Can we update the thread title to be an MLB catch-all of covid updates and how they'll impact the season?

Put anyone up against Shane Bieber and they'll be exposed. I imagine Madrigal will have greater difficulty with a number of pitchers in our division alone. But I'm ecstatic we have a high-contact guy like him around, they can be energizers for a team watching your teammate grind and battle through a 13-pitch AB.

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That account was just created and has 10 followers, following zero accounts. Doubting this guy's credibility.

I'd bet if anyone picks him up, it'll be the Red Sox. I think people underestimate just how trash that pitching staff is, top to bottom. They'll be the team panic-trading or signing arms. Without it, they're not a playoff team.

Likely need a week or so to tune up? But good things are happening.

Seriously. We're still only down 3 runs and had the base loaded last inning. There are things to quibble over, sure, but people have already punted on the season.

Rick probably wants to "rest his throwing arm".

Also paints Yermin Mercedes' "skills" in a different light now

Man, it'll be good to get back to baseball today with a double dip of games, get our minds back on the action on the field. Here's hoping for a strong showing from Cease in Game 1, get the bats active again.

I agree that the league is just brushing off a non-competitive team. We can say they just forfeit their games until they can field a team, but what if a competitive team goes down? Would they really say the Yankees forfeit their games, effectively sealing it that they won't make the playoffs? I don't think so.

Agreed, moving the game up still stands as the best suggestion to guarantee they get it in. What what could be preventing that - tv and broadcast rights, like moving the game broadcast would interfere with other existing broadcasts today? Or do they just assume they'll make up tomorrow whatever they can't play today?

Boxing on ESPN Tuesdays and Thursdays has been a great distraction I was never interested in before.

The state of Florida is the worst, just ruining the party for the rest of us.

I'm sure the GT last night covered this, but it's made abundantly clear we can't give outs away. We need Madrigal's glove.

Fire up the grill with some loaded brats and hot dogs, buy a bag of unshelled peanuts, soft pretzel and cheese (groceries usually has these frozen), anything you would get at the stadium. Doing a Zoom call with some friends on the side as we distance-watch. That's my plan.

Listening to the talking heads on MLB Network today, they're saying this a good thing to expand and that the league "probably" wants to expand to 32 team and a more traditional 16-team playoff like the other leagues. League-owned network. Not sure how often those opinions are their own, or if this is a talking point they've been fed.