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I’m all for giving Mateo a chance (and Martin and whoever). Let them play the rest of the season, and see if they make any strides towards becoming a major leaguer. If not, then at least it’s entertaining. A little Barnum & Bailey is at least a distraction from this season in the abyss.

I would rather try Jones at second and take ABs away from Valaika than from Mountcastle or Hays.

What does that have to do with Mattingly, or baseball? Anyway, I hope for Don’s sake that it’s isolated and that he’s okay. He’s one of the (very) few Yankees that I always respected.

Snarknado, available now on DVD and Blu-Ray! Et tu, Frobbe?

If you’re watching baseball at the Olympics, Hyun-Soo Kim is playing for the South Korean team.

IIRC, “We Simply Suck” was the same tagline used by that windowless therapeutic massage parlor on Pulaski Highway in the late ‘80s, before the cops shut them down. I think they were called Discreet Fitness? I never heard what happened to them, but my uncle Roger sure was upset when they closed.

Product warning label; “Wearing the InstaChair may strain lower back muscles and ironically require the user to sit for extended periods of time. One of the steel legs may be shorter than the other and require you to insert a folded beer coaster or business card beneath it to prevent ‘wobble’. Not for use by children, the elderly, adults afraid of mockery or near anyone with a fear of cyborgs.”

I suppose home run balls hit by opposing players would count as giveaways. Odds are pretty good of getting one or two of those. Overall I like the idea. It’s just weird that it’s standing-room only areas. Why not stretch that to include any general reserve seat, like upper deck, bleachers and such? After watching our starter get knocked out in the third, I generally need to sit down.

I get confused by “Fat Sid” between Ponson and Fernandez. It’s like saying “Thin Ripken”.

MLB: We need a bunch of bobbleheads for the ASG. Dodgers: We have 10,000 extra bobbleheads you can have for a song… but can you work around the fact that the face mould is Trevor Bauer’s? MLB: Totally. The German language has a great unique word for something this ugly: ‘augenkrebs’, which literally means ‘eye cancer’.

Jeez, Mr. Karnak, maybe you could have spoken up 14 years ago and spared those professional baseball scouts all that trouble from Wieters and his 18 WAR he provided. And to think we could have drafted Matt LaPorta instead. Well, hindsight and all…

If anyone missed it, McKenna made a nice diving catch in the left-center field gap to rob Kurt Suzuki of a double.

I have watched some of Bauer’s videos and found them informative, in terms of how detailed the measurements are and what data is collected as far as physical performance and response, drills, and conditioning. But I just find this repulsive. Even if she did meet him a second time, it doesn’t absolve him of guilt. If I met someone who liked to to be smashed over the head with an acoustic guitar, El Kabong-style, it doesn’t mean I should do it (let alone to then hit them over the head with a B.C. Rich Warlock once they’re unconscious).

Valaika is normally OK — and just OK — against lefties, but he should never, ever be starting against RHP.

Matt Harvey wasn’t terrible, and really nice job by Scott, Fry and Sulser out of the pen (combined 4.2 IN, 1 BB, 1 H, 0 R, 5 K). But what a bad play by Astros third baseman Garcia in the first inning. Mountcastle hits a hard grounder to Garcia’s backhand and he doesn’t try all that hard to stop it, it goes past his glove into the corner for a 2-run double and Mountcastle later scores.

Maybe. But let’s face it, Sheets was never what scouts would have called a ‘multifaceted’ player.

How Scott Garceau Made Me Forget All About My Former Broadcasting Partner, Ol’ What’s-His-Name, by Jim Palmer.

Santander OPS by month: April .551 May .924 June .567

Cedric made my questionable comparison a moot point in yesterday’s game. He’s now tied with Acuña at 3.5 fWAR, above Bogaerts and Semien.

Mullins is currently 8th among all MLB players with 3.3 fWAR. What an exceptional start to the year. Tatis is sitting 11th, for frame of reference. (Gausman is #12)

Whenever I search Statcast myself, I get info about the result (pitch data, exit velo, distance, result) but I never find the Statcast fielding info. I don't see much reason to 'hide' fielding data or put it behind a paywall, so I have to wonder if it's my input that's at fault. I searched this play too but only see the basic info on the pitch/play, nothing about Mullins.

Cue the “Crazy Mike” commercial, for those of us that grew up within the NY/NJ/PA area.

Forgive me if the MLB network already covered this, I don’t get that over here — so, Yasmani Grandal. After 171 PA’s for the ChiSox, he’s only hitting .160 — yet he has a .400 OBP and .829 OPS due to 10 homers and 49 walks vs 46 K’s. I love these anomalies in baseball.

Such a weird flare-up. One year you hit .316 with 31 HR and 94 RBI, a .921 OPS, the next year it’s a .645 OPS over a full season, and a year later in the off-season you’ve been traded for Mike Brumley (who didn’t even make the team). Mike Brumley. I wouldn’t even trade Mike Brumley for two Mike Brumleys in return.

Well earned. When I first joined this board and started actively participating a decade or so ago, I was a little surprised about the muted reaction or interaction that most of my early posts would get. Then I came to understand the rhythm of OH’s beat (generally very well informed, be prepared to back up your claims, no swearing). I preferred it to almost any other site out there. And Michael was one of the few people who responded to my early posts (the non-idiotic ones, at least), and that really made me feel at home. That helped bring me a sense of community at a time when I had almost none, a stranger living in a strange land abroad where soccer ruled everyones’ lives and nobody truly understood baseball. And in the years since I have come to genuinely enjoy interacting with almost all of you; think that I would genuinely like meeting up with many of you; and have only had to ignore a few of you in order to keep my love of the game. Weams, we haven’t been able to meet (yet) but I hope we get that chance one day soon. Strength to you and your loved ones when you all need it the most.