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Hmmm...Lefty for us in 2018 and released in 2019, now a Rays minor league sign Sean Gilmartin’s life just got bit more hectic, no doubt. https://www.draysbay.com/2020/4/7/21212107/kayleigh-mcenany-wife-rays-pitcher-sean-gilmartin-white-house-press-secretary

My mom was in his class at Southern...very nice man.

Hard to pay players if owners are getting zero revenue. And the owners have nonplayer expenses as well to deal with without revenue. The team’ cut from reruns of old World Series games on MLB.TV is probably getting pretty thin. Mookie’s situation and the Dodgers losing the traded players is really no different than if he had gotten injured in 2020...life can be filled with unpredictable events.

Hard to know, but this could very well be the only baseball season ever cancelled since the founding of the MLB structure in 1903...I hope not....no matter how short....

And they have Kyle Lloyd and Aaron Sanchez starting games for us....

In a word, no. But I always love watching baseball being played, at any level, Little League to MLB, so I have always watched many other teams and their games over the years. But root? Nope. Not ever, not now and never.

OPS of .400 probably.

The only one I have not seen is the no hitter, perfect game... I was in the Safety Patrol in school at the time and every year the Orioles would have Safety Patrol day with free admission...however, on this particular Safety Patrol day, it was also my Opening Day of Little League, so I stayed home. My friend next door, also in Safety Patrol, had NEVER been to (and never attended another) MLB game.....sure enough, Tom Phoebus pitched a no hitter that day. 50 plus years of attending and watching, no for me....but my friend’s only game ever, he gets a no hitter.

High school, American Legion, college...small time, not good with breaking pitches, went to med school instead...better idea...lol. A guy on my high school team was drafted by Indians as a pitcher but arm troubles arose and he never made it past A ball. Jim Spencer, Angel, Ranger, White Sox, Yankee was a first round pick out of my high school about 10 years before me, but used to come back, give clinics, tips... Although the real success out of my high school was our senior class president, Montel Williams...lol.

Wayne Garland

Absolutely...one will be remembered 50 years from now, one won’t...lol.

Personally and aesthetically, I will take the no hitters or a World Series or playoff win as alltime great i.e Cuellar, Bunker, Palmer, McNally, Boddicker, McGregor as opposed to a 2 hitter in a meaningless game in Texas...but, each to their own. And I don’t know if it was tongue in cheek...Jim is pretty proud of his achievements, usually. Also worth noting in that ninth inning is that Reggie Jackson, who had already hit 42 home runs, was walked for the third time by Palmer...pitching around him the whole game. He also walked Dick Green and Tommy Reynolds with two outs...maybe not intentionally but making them swing ONLY at his pitch and also knowing that Larry Haney, ex Oriole backup and weak hitter, was waiting beyond them for the third out. Palmer was perhaps the best Oriole pitcher I have ever seen at having a plan for every hitter, every situation and knowing what his strengths were in that matchup. Oh, and Jim also had two hits and a walk, including a double and drove in a run and scored a run. And threw 142 pitches...let’s see the modern guys do that regularly. But I did truly enjoy Bedard and Mussina too...

Jim would probably tell you why he walked each one...strategically. Maybe if they all swung at pitches in 1969 like Sammy Sosa did in 2007, Palmer would have struck out a lot more too. The game was obviously different. That in 2097 was Bedard’s only complete game and only shutout...Palmer had 6 shutouts and 11 complete games that year of 1969. Just different ...and, in my view, of both performers, Jim’s was the better. A no hitter is a unique pitching performance, I have been going to games for over 50 years and have not seen one. 2 hitters are a dime a dozen and I have seen a bunch, and strikeouts are interesting (though not democratic, as Crash Davis would say) but that doesn’t by itself give Bedard the alltime greatest Oriole pitching performance to me.

Since Ks are the only measure this guy used to determine “best” pitching performance. Not the context of the game as to important or not or whether it was against a quality opponent or not. When Erik Bedard pitched a complete game against the Texas Rangers in 2007 with 15 strikeouts, Palmer's broadcasting partner Gary Thorne asked rhetorically, "Have you ever seen a better pitched game than that?" To which Palmer replied, "Well, I did throw a no-hitter."

Hard to see how this game by Bedard is better than the complete game no hitters of Tom Phoebus in 1968 against the defending AL champion Boston Red Sox of Yaz abd Petrocelli,and Scott, etc. or the Jim Palmer no hitter later that year against the Oakland As of Sal Bando,Reggie, Bert Campaneris, etc.

When I was a kid, I had Strat-O-Matic leagues...way before fantasy baseball or computers...there were cards that at times said so and so is injured for 5 games or 10 games, etc.

Blister warming up.

This is the best single compilation of the 2014 moment....

It was a double steal...Belanger was on first and Brooks was on third with two outs in that same ninth inning and Belanger attempted a steal, trying to provoke a double steal where Brooks might score. But Perranoski threw home and Brooks was caught in a rundown, tagged out by the third baseman.

The likelihood of any of the season being played at all this year grows slimmer by the day.

There is no way this season gets played.

Austin Hays will leadoff...in April 2021.,

I used to go to Bluefield to see the rookie Orioles play. Don Buford was the manager there for awhile and before one game he was out helping the tarp roll off...I just walked out and introduced myself and mentioned to him that I was a kid sitting in the right field bleachers when he hit the 1st inning, second pitch homer there off Tom Seaver in the 1969 series. He said “Yep, then it all went south” and we shared a laugh. He said he was guessing slider rather than fastball off Seaver there and barrelled it up. He also talked about his basestealing method...very analytical about pitchers and their tendencies.

I too hope the best for Trey’s recovery and remission.

Eshelman is not a major league pitcher. Next up?