ArtVanDelay

It really wasn't though. Age doesn't matter? Alrighty then. .268 batting average? It's 2017, why would anyone ever cite batting average when we have actual useful stats? Rickard had an 86 wRC+. That's bad.

What's excellent about Tommy John?

Shockingly (), John Gibbons is probably the worst challenger in MLB. League average for challenges has been about 50/50 over the last 3 years. Gibbons has been 33% over-turned/67% not over-turned, 42/58, 36/64 https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/replay?challenge_type=&year=2016&challenger=teamchallenging&team=Blue Jays Gibbons has challenged 155 times over the last 3 years compared to 97 for Buck Showalter. Other team's fans seem to think that Buck complains a lot but that doesn't hold up through these numbers. Buck is one of the most infrequent challengers in the league, but he's been good at it, getting 53/97 correct.

Looks like I'm not going to see a Yankees losing season for the first time in my life.

Do they discourage strikouts in Bowie? Means: Frederick - 9.7 Bowie - 2.8 Lee: 2015 - 6.1 2016 - 3.3 Barker: AA Mississippi (ATL) - 8.0 Bowie - 4.8 Jason Garcia has typically had good K numbers through the minors, and he's striking out 4.7 per 9 at Bowie. Same with Bridwell and he's at 4.5.

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I like him better than Hess.

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Colby Lewis was perfect through 7 and 2/3 before walking Yonder Alonso. He still has a no-hitter going through 8.

No it won't.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Not sure who got beat worse, Ventura by Manny, or the Royals on the scoreboard. O's MURDER the Royals. <a href="https://t.co/mZCR4It08K">pic.twitter.com/mZCR4It08K</a></p>— Eroc RDT (@BarstoolRDT) <a href=" ">June 8, 2016</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Yep, it seems that this is exactly what happened. There's no way he didn't know Donaldson wasn't in the game.

Manny didn't throw a bat at Donaldson. Donaldson was out of the game at that point.

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Freddie Freeman is the only offensive threat they have. Markakis isn't an offensive threat. Unless you're talking about Braves fans being offended by his contract.

Five 20-game winners this year? :scratchchinhmm:

They can always option him when he struggles to save service time.

They'll only need to exceed expectations by about 30 games.

I don't think the Brewers plan to win this year.