2010 MLB Catch-All Thread

[flavum]

Nix brothers facing each other tonight. Both in the lineup.

[Brian]

Earl Weaver took the line up card to the umps tonight...and got tossed. LoL

[Jordan4life_2007]

Josh Johnson's 1 ER or less streaks ends. The bum had the audacity to give up 2 runs in 8 innings. Not to mention 1 BB and 9 Ks.

[iamshack]

Josh Johnson's 1 ER or less streaks ends. The bum had the audacity to give up 2 runs in 8 innings. Not to mention 1 BB and 9 Ks.

And gets partially outdueled by Jon Garland, of all people.

[Quin]

Did anyone see Vernon Wells toss to Jays fan at the Phillies game?

[SoxAce]

Poor Rays... lol... seriously

 

They are becomming a joke (or a buddance of jokes by people) once again.. and the crazy thing is they are a freaking great team! Not the terrible one from years back who were a topic of jokes from the team, to their name, etc.. Weird.

[flavum]

Going into the final day of interleague:

 

AL 125

NL 113

 

The Sox are 15-2. You take that away, and the rest of the AL is down 110-111.

 

 

[Kyyle23]

Going into the final day of interleague:

 

AL 125

NL 113

 

The Sox are 15-2. You take that away, and the rest of the AL is down 110-111.

 

I think the Red Sox have a pretty good record vs the NL as well....

[iamshack]

Mariners trade for Russell Branyon, which is probably good news for us...hopefully this means they will at least hold off on trading Lee...

[southsider2k5]

Did anyone see Vernon Wells toss to Jays fan at the Phillies game?

 

That was incredible. How accurate can you be?

[iamshack]

I think the Red Sox have a pretty good record vs the NL as well....

That's what always happens...3 or 4 AL teams beat the crap out of the NL and the rest of the AL is .500 or below against them.

[Kalapse]

Mariano Rivera has allowed 17 H+BB in 27.1 IP this season (0.622 WHIP) oddly enough that is not the best in baseball and by a pretty wide margin. Luke Gregerson of the Padres has allowed 20 H+BB in 38.1 IP (0.522 WHIP). The all time record for a reliever in a 70+ IP season is Dennis Eckersley with a 0.614 in 1990.

[chw42]

Mariano Rivera has allowed 17 H+BB in 27.1 IP this season (0.622 WHIP) oddly enough that is not the best in baseball and by a pretty wide margin. Luke Gregerson of the Padres has allowed 20 H+BB in 38.1 IP (0.522 WHIP). The all time record for a reliever in a 70+ IP season is Dennis Eckersley with a 0.614 in 1990.

 

I think Gregorson was a throw-in back in some 2008 trade. Amazing.

[BigSqwert]

Mariano Rivera has allowed 17 H+BB in 27.1 IP this season (0.622 WHIP) oddly enough that is not the best in baseball and by a pretty wide margin. Luke Gregerson of the Padres has allowed 20 H+BB in 38.1 IP (0.522 WHIP). The all time record for a reliever in a 70+ IP season is Dennis Eckersley with a 0.614 in 1990.

Where is Randy Williams in the equation?

[Kalapse]

Where is Randy Williams in the equation?

Well if you multiply Rivera's WHIP by 3.7 and Gregerson's by about 4.5 . . .

 

That bastard Chad Qualls is making a run for Randy's league leader status; he's up to 2.250, unfortunately for Randy he hasn't pitched in over 2 weeks so he hasn't had an opportunity to raise his 2.292 WHIP but he still has a solid lead. If you want to know just how bad those 2 are; the #3 from the bottom is Rafael Perez at 1.890.

[lostfan]

Mariano Rivera has allowed 17 H+BB in 27.1 IP this season (0.622 WHIP) oddly enough that is not the best in baseball and by a pretty wide margin. Luke Gregerson of the Padres has allowed 20 H+BB in 38.1 IP (0.522 WHIP). The all time record for a reliever in a 70+ IP season is Dennis Eckersley with a 0.614 in 1990.

lol @ the people who thought Jenks should be on the All-Star team

[Jordan4life_2007]

lol @ the people who thought Jenks should be on the All-Star team

 

The people? You mean greg?

[lostfan]

The people? You mean greg?

There were 2 or 3 people.

[chw42]

lol @ the people who thought Jenks should be on the All-Star team

 

There is no remote chance that Jenks gets in the ASG unless a bunch of guys get hurt.

 

I just tried to project the rosters of the AL...

 

And I had to leave off both Soriano and Rauch because of the clusterfub of good closers on bad teams.

 

Starting Position Players (based on voting)

C - Joe Mauer (Twins)

1B - Justin Morneau (Twins)

2B - Robinson Cano (Yankees)

3B - Evan Longoria (Rays)

SS - Derek Jeter (Yankees)

OF - Josh Hamilton (Rangers)

OF - Carl Crawford (Rays)

OF - Ichiro Suzuki (Mariners)

DH - Vladimir Guerrero (Rangers)

 

Projected Lineup

1. RF - Ichiro Suzuki

2. 2B - Robinson Cano

3. 3B - Evan Longoria

4. 1B - Justin Morneau

5. LF - Josh Hamilton

6. DH - Vladimir Guerrero

7. CF - Carl Crawford

8. C - Joe Mauer

9. SS - Derek Jeter

 

Reserve Position Players

C - Victor Martinez (Red Sox)

1B - Miguel Cabrera (Tigers)

1B - Kevin Youkillis (Red Sox)

1B - Paul Konerko (White Sox)

2B - Dustin Pedroia (Red Sox)xx

2B - Ian Kinsler (Rangers)*

3B - Adrian Beltre (Red Sox)

3B - Ty Wigginton (Orioles)

3B - Jose Bautista (Blue Jays)

SS - Elvis Andrus (Rangers)

OF - Alex Rios (White Sox)

OF - Vernon Wells (Blue Jays)

OF - Shin-Soo Choo (Indians)

OF - Torii Hunter (Angels)

 

Starting Pitchers

RHP - Jered Weaver (Angels)x

LHP - Cliff Lee (Mariners)s

LHP - Francisco Liriano (Twins)

LHP - David Price (Rays)x

LHP - Jon Lester (Red Sox)

RHP - Clay Buchholz (Red Sox)xx

RHP - Phil Hughes (Yankees)

LHP - Andy Pettitte (Yankees)*

LHP - Ricky Romero (Blue Jays)*

RHP - Jeff Niemann (Rays)*

 

Relief Pitchers

RHP - Mariano Rivera (Yankees)

RHP - Jose Valverde (Tigers)

RHP - Neftali Perez (Rangers)

RHP - Joakim Soria (Royals)

RHP - Andrew Bailey (Athletics)

 

Representatives By Tea

Angels (2) - Torii Hunter, Jered Weaverx

Athletics (1) - Andrew Bailey

Blue Jays (3) - Jose Bautista, Vernon Wells, Ricky Romero*

Indians (1) - Shin-Soo Choo

Mariners (2) - Ichiro Suzuki, Cliff Lee

Orioles (1) - Ty Wigginton

Rangers (5) - Josh Hamilton, Vladimir Guerrero, Ian Kinsler*, Elvis Andrus, Neftali Perez

Rays (4) - Evan Longoria, Carl Crawford, David Pricex, Jeff Niemann

Red Sox (6) - Victor Martinez, Kevin Youkillis, Dustin Pedroiaxx, Adrian Beltre, Jon Lester, Clay Buchholzxx

Royals (1) - Joakim Soria

Tigers (2) - Miguel Cabrera, Jose Valverde

Twins (3) - Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, Francisco Liriano

White Sox (2) - Paul Konerko, Alex Rios

Yankees (5) - Robinson Cano, Derek Jeter, Phil Hughes, Andy Pettitte*, Mariano Rivera

 

Total All-Stars - 38

Active All-Stars - 34

 

* - Replacement for another player

x - Pitches on Sunday, cannot pitch in All-Star Game

xx - Injured for All-Star Game

s - Projected Starting Pitcher

 

Snubs and Almosts

C - Jorge Posada (Yankees)

C - John Jaso (Rays)

3B - Alex Rodriguez (Yankees)

3B - Michael Young (Rangers)

SS - Alex Gonzalez (Blue Jays)

OF - Nelson Cruz (Rangers)

OF - David DeJesus (Royals)

OF - Nick Swisher (Yankees)

OF - Brennan Boesch (Tigers)

OF - Magglio Ordonez (Tigers)

OF - Brett Gardner (Yankees)

OF - Ben Zobrist (Rays)

SP - Felix Hernandez (Mariners)

SP - Justin Verlander (Tigers)

SP - John Danks (White Sox)

SP - Shaun Marcum (Blue Jays)

SP - Carl Pavano (Twins)

SP - C.C. Sabathia (Yankees)

RP - Rafael Soriano (Rays)

RP - Jon Rauch (Twins)

 

There's no way Jenks can make the team.

Edited June 28, 2010 by chw42

[Kalapse]

Brett Gardner scares me, I could see Girardi taking him and Rios staying home. Same goes for DeJesus (as the Royals 1 rep).

[chw42]

Brett Gardner scares me, I could see Girardi taking him and Rios staying home. Same goes for DeJesus (as the Royals 1 rep).

 

He's probably going to take Soria as the lone Royals guy.

 

If anything, Konerko is in more jeopardy than Rios is. That's unless Rios really tanks in the next few weeks.

Edited June 28, 2010 by chw42

[LittleHurt05]

Josh Johnson's 1 ER or less streaks ends. The bum had the audacity to give up 2 runs in 8 innings. Not to mention 1 BB and 9 Ks.

 

You can blame everyone's 2nd favorite rookie Mike Stanton for that. With a runner on 3rd, one out in the 5th. Jon Garland was at the plate. He hits a fly ball in the corner in foul territory, Stanton decides to catch it against the wall, instead of letting the pitcher take another swing, which lets the runner score from 3rd. That turned out to be the 2nd and winning run in a 2-1 loss for Johnson.

[justBLAZE]

Broxton blows a save, gives up 3 runs, game going extra innings.

[Milkman delivers]

Is Luke Gregerson somebody that will actually have a successful career in the bigs, or just another fluke reliever?

[flavum]

Final interleague tally:

 

AL 134

NL 118

 

15-3: Sox

14-4: Tex

13-5: Bos

11-7: NY, Det, LAA

9-9: Sea

8-10: Min, KC, Oak

7-11: TB, Tor, Bal

5-13: Cle

 

By opponents records, Texas and White Sox had the easiest schedules, and both teams did what they were supposed to do.

 

God, Cleveland sucks. Why are we 4-8 against them? Ugh...6 games left with them. They better win 5.