/mlb/ - 9-21 edition

Still couldn't make this up.

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no-chill

1st for
>MUH PROSPECTS

>Cusb play Broors again
Wow they're just padding their stats

Detoilet Ligers

Who /directionless/ here?

Fuck off doyers

Is Yonder Alonso elite?

here, whobro

>no leafs yet

Jays

How can the defending National League Champions be direction less? What happened?

Injuries.

It happens when you play in the worst division in baseball

>Bob NightengaleVerified account
>@BNightengale
>Commissioner Rob Manfred would like to see a pitching clock implemented in majors just as they have in minors

Thoughts?

yes

also reenforce that stay in the box rule that they enforced for like 2 weeks last season

Nah

Sure why not. It's not like it affects the game that much.

I've always appreciated pitchers like Mark Buehrle who work quick and don't fuck around with batters.

>doyers getting arrogant before they choke the NLCS to the jints/nast/cusb/fish/mest/literally anyone

bueno

So how are the Dodgers winning?

Yeah why isn't this enforced? You're not supposed to leave the box during an at bat so why does it happen literally every at bat? This plus a pitch clock could conceivably shave off 15 minutes a game or so.

Actually, in the minors it dropped the time of the game by like 20 minutes almost, which is huge

It absolutely would make a huge impact to pace of play, moreso than that dumb "stay in the batters box" rule

Because they actually have offense?

>cusb
Literally the only team they can beat

Theyve also have 28 players on the DL and 14 different starting pitchers... Your team is just shit

mhm ok

that dumb rule actually shaved a few minutes though for the short time they enforced it

Ya, close to a 9 minute difference actually, and the pitch clock would make an even more dramatic difference.

this desu
realistically it'll be the cusb or walgreens they lose to, not us
if royce turns it on, I think walgreens will have a good chance this postseason. also scherzer is an adrenaline babby and they have potato man and melancon


t. mets fan

John Farrell is the worst manager in the league. It's not even close.

>leave work to come home with sox up 3-1 top 8
>come home to tied 3-3 bases loaded nobody out
TOP KEK

>arrogant before they choke

We're bragging over the Jints my friend. The jints.

Jints have reasons to be arrogant, doyers don't. Maybe try winning a playoff series

What did he mean by this?

Oh how i hate him.

I hate him so fucking much.

>It's an Ausmus shows why he's the best manager in the league episode

He's a selfless mensch who's willing to step down from being the ace because he knows it's kyle hendricks' time to shine and be the superior pitcher.

>Jon Couture @JonCouture 3m3 minutes ago
>Oof. Sixth time in the last 26 games #RedSox blew a lead in the seventh inning or later and lost.

JOHN

FARRELL

NEEDS

TO

BE

FIRED

Really makes you think doesn't it?

>John Farrell was almost ejected in the 2nd inning

if only

>John Farrell is the worst manager in the league
That's adorable

Ziegler was put into a fucking bullshit spot.

Just like he has been in his last like 10 appearances. Farrell has fucked him over so god damn much in the period of a month.

WHY WOULD YOU GO TO A STRUGGLING TAZAWA TO START THE 8TH?

HES BEEN AS BAD AS ABAD, IF NOT WORSE

HES BEEN STRUGGLING EVERY FUCKING GAME

IN HIS LAST 13 APPEARANCES, HE'S ALLOWED LEAST ONE RUN

EVERY

SINGLE

FUCKING

TIME

THIS STUPID FUCKING MANAGER IS SO FUCKING INCOMPETENT

If he had JUST FUCKING PUT ZIEGLER IN TO START THE 8TH, we'd have fucking won.

This manager deserves to be fired. He doesn't deserve a job.

CAN'T WAKE UP

No it's not even close anymore.

Farrell is the dumbest fucking retard in the league and it's NOT EVEN CLOSE.

Ahem

NOT.

EVEN.

CLOSE.

>tfw you can smell the sweet stench of bombston butthurt from across the Atlantic

>win ws
>still hold wild card spot
adorable

Why did you post a card with a blue wall?
And why are you posting a blurry gray wall?

Insider article by Keith Law on the Dbacks:

The Arizona Diamondbacks have some major decisions to make on the future of their front office, including a contract option for GM Dave Stewart for 2017 that must be exercised or declined by Aug. 31 and the soon-to-expire contract of "Chief Baseball Officer" Tony La Russa. These decisions should be incredibly easy for an organization that has done nothing but go backward since their hires. The La Russa/Stewart Reign of Error has been as mistake-filled as any front office regime in the last five years, with most of their gaffes becoming public embarrassments to the organization, contributing to the perception around the sport that Arizona's front office is a laughingstock, falling well behind the rest of the industry in its processes and capabilities.

Just look at their track record of bad decisions: Yoan Lopez fiasco

No mistake has loomed larger than the constant stream of errors around Cuban right-handed pitcher Yoan Lopez. The brand-new front office reached to sign him for $8 million after the 2013 season, even though it appeared that he was priced by other teams at about one-tenth that number. The Diamondbacks didn't understand the international bonus pool rules, and thus were unaware they would have to pay an $8 million penalty on top of Lopez's bonus AND would be prohibited from signing any July 2 free agents for the next two signing periods until after Lopez's deal was official.

As it turns out, Lopez has not only underperformed, but he has also earned negative reviews from within the Diamondbacks' own system, as coaches and players alike have had problems with him. He contemplated quitting baseball last month, which spurred a series of comments from La Russa where he claimed, "we have three guys in that scouting group in the last year that have rated (Lopez) in the Top 3 as far as potential arm strength/variety of pitches/body type, in our organization and compared to (other) major-league (organizations).”

The team is succeeding DESPITE HIM

HES COST US GAMES

COUNTLESS FUCKING GAMES

>win ws

that literally doesnt count, he did nothing that year and almost lost us games in the fucking world series even

Why are you butthurt

As I said on Twitter at the time, this can't be, because Lopez isn't even a top 3 prospect in Arizona's system or a top 200 prospect in all of baseball.

The Lopez disaster had a ripple effect a few months later, when the team packaged 2014 first-round pick Touki Toussaint, a very high-upside but raw teenage pitching prospect, with the injured Bronson Arroyo in a "Weekend at Bernie's" pairing that allowed Arizona to shed much of Arroyo's dead money, but at the cost of a significant prospect.

Stewart's unfamiliarity with the rules hasn't just applied to the international pools. According to multiple sources, in early 2015 he tried to make a trade with another team that would have violated MLB rules, and the GM of the other team had to explain to him that such a move was not allowed.

The 2015 draft debacle

The 2015 draft was a huge opportunity for the Diamondbacks to restock their farm system, as they had the top overall pick and one of the draft's largest signing budgets. Before the draft even began they squandered part of that, trading a competitive balance pick to Atlanta just to rid themselves of Trevor Cahill's contract. The two trades came a few days apart, where Arizona sent Cahill to Atlanta for minor leaguer/org player Josh Elander, whom they released after 14 games, and then sent the pick to Atlanta for outfield prospect Victor Reyes.

That pick's slot value was $814,300, which the Diamondbacks could then not spend on their own picks … and the trade also meant that was one fewer chance for the Diamondbacks to use some of the savings on pick No. 1, Dansby Swanson, to sign a first-round player who fell for financial reasons to an over-slot bonus at that pick. This was a complete failure to understand how to properly play the current draft system.

>win ws

Ned fucking Yost won a world series. that doesnt matter in measuring managers

Farrell, Ventura, Gibbons and the like are bad managers because you can just tell their decisions most of the time cost the teams wins rather than help

How complete? The Diamondbacks failed to spend up to their full allotment of signing bonuses in 2015, leaving $1.7 million on the table, money they could have spent on players without penalty. That's equivalent to forgoing an entire first-round pick, all because of poor planning. Most teams will take at least two or three players with high bonus demands later in the draft for just such a scenario -- if they have money left over from their pools after they sign their picks in the top 10 rounds, they go spend it on one or more players from later in the draft. The Diamondbacks didn't do this. They just pocketed the money to the detriment of the farm system.

Poor player evaluation

Failure to properly assess talent here doesn't just apply to players outside the organization. Other executives have told me Stewart doesn't know his own players as well as a GM should. One glaring example is when the Diamondbacks placed reliever Will Harris on waivers after the 2014 season, spurring a rush of claims for him. Harris threw 52 2/3 innings in 2013 with a 2.95 ERA/2.74 FIP, missing some time and running into bad luck in 2014, but still striking out 30 percent of the batters he faced in that latter season. The Diamondbacks gave him away for nothing. The Astros won the claim and have received 117.2 innings of a 2.22 ERA/3.20 FIP from him in a year-plus since then. Meanwhile, the Diamondbacks' own bullpen has been one of those long-burning coal seam fires more or less since Stewart and La Russa took over.

Many of the moves made or proposed by Diamondbacks GM Dave Stewart have left many throughout the major leagues scratching their heads.

>it doesn't count
adorable

Fine.

Would you rather us trade managers?

Do you actually want Robin and his .308 win% since he started?

it really doesnt, thereve been tons of dumb managers that have won world series or at least made world series

farrell is a horrible manager with a career losing record, he got fucking lucky he was part of that 2013 team

The Swanson trade was bad when Arizona made it, but it's so much worse now. Shelby Miller's mechanics went in the toilet -- blame for which should sit squarely on the Diamondbacks, because if they didn't make these changes they certainly didn't fix them -- while Swanson remains a top 20 prospect and Ender Inciarte has been a 2-win player (per Baseball-Reference) so far for Atlanta this year.

Then La Russa went on Arizona radio and said that Miller had a "health issue," and then said that "I know this is really going to sound kind of yucky and kind of mysterious, but there was an issue that came up — believe me, it was not illegal, it wasn’t anything dramatically character-wise that was a problem — but there was something that came into the way that Shelby prepared that worked against him and not for him."

These comments were totally inappropriate for a club official to make, whatever he was trying to imply.

Of course, that's par for the course for La Russa, who has been like the water supply once the main shutoff valve has broken. During a series against the Pirates, with whom the Diamondbacks have an ongoing, dimwitted vendetta over hit batsmen, La Russa barged into Pittsburgh's radio booth to argue with longtime Pirates broadcaster Greg Brown over comments the latter made on air.

This is the same group that insisted that Yasmany Tomas could play third base -- shocker, he couldn't -- and that he would hit, which he hasn't. Tomas has a .304 OBP through 831 pro plate appearances, and even if we don't dock him for his misadventures at third base, which are really management's fault rather than his, he's still been below replacement level since his debut last spring. The Diamondbacks are still on the hook for $48.5 million of the $68.5 million they guaranteed him.

I'd rather we both just shoot our managers into the Sun tbqh with you joe.

Even this spring, the team couldn't handle rational projections of the team's capabilities. Before the 2016 season, Baseball Prospectus and Fangraphs ran projections of the season, publishing projected final standings that had Arizona at 78 and 79 wins, respectively. La Russa's response was to question the legitimacy of the companies and said of the projections that "you don't take it seriously." The Diamondbacks are currently 49-69, third-worst in the National League, and on pace to finish with 67 wins, well below either site's projection.

Not enough for you? How about the GM's wife being the agent for several Arizona players, who were clients of the GM before he transferred the business to her to take this job? How about the $34.5 million a year they owe to Zack Greinke, a steep price even before you look at his 4+ ERA this year? Or the trade of two prospects for Jeremy Hellickson, who gave them a year of replacement-level pitching for $4.275 million?

How can owner Ken Kendrick be surprised by these results? He hired a former manager with no front office experience to oversee the entire baseball operations department. That person hired a former agent who hadn't worked in a front office in 13 years – a period of time that encompasses the entire analytics revolution in the sport – to be the general manager. In an era where teams are building entire analytics departments of PhDs with degrees in fields like signal processing and machine learning, Arizona hired a longtime friend of La Russa's to run their analytics department. There are good, competent people in the Diamondbacks' baseball ops department, but they appear to have no sway over the decisions La Russa and Stewart are making.

Now that I can agree with!

The GM chair here is a desirable job -- most GM positions are -- because the Diamondbacks still have a fair amount of talent on the major-league roster. You can do a lot with the talent that's here. But if they continue to mishandle their money in the draft and internationally, to lose value in the majority of their trades, to squander so much of their budget on one starter who can't solve their roster woes even if he turns back into a Cy Young candidate, then they're going to continue to move backward even as the rest of the division -- and the industry -- moves forward.

The time is now for Arizona to change its direction, hire any of the numerous qualified candidates from other teams who can keep up with the best demonstrated practices of Arizona's 29 competitors, and stop embarrassing themselves on and off the field.

>career losing record
>.503
a.d.o.r.a.b.l.e

it was prior to this season at least

Anyone else get their ~free~ MLB.tv code today from Wendy's? ^_^

>During a series against the Pirates, with whom the Diamondbacks have an ongoing, dimwitted vendetta over hit batsmen, La Russa barged into Pittsburgh's radio booth to argue with longtime Pirates broadcaster Greg Brown over comments the latter made on air.

kek

>day off
>extend division lead
Good day

Is there anyone in North America who doesn't have mlb.tv yet?

Its not fucking fair, we should be tied right now.

God I hate this manager so much.

You'd still be a half game back but yeah, that's a tough loss.

What? Explain how!

oh ya i forgot weve got two games in hand

thank you based detoilet

I'm v.surprised at the degree to which they basically give away their streaming product

The NBA and NFL are super protective of their OOM services

This Brewers Cubs game is getting pretty out of hand

It was a promotion they're running in the United States where if you buy a frosty (or just find a picture of one) and tweet a picture out, they'll send you a free MLB.TV sub (by following those steps)

...

Tweet #50CentFrostyMLB with a pic of a frosty and follow mlbtv on twitter. Here, use my pic

Oh, I am old/grouchy and hate twitter, so don't have an account.

>Mets vs Giants 4 game series.
Which team is this series more important for?

>tfw not eligible

Oh, you're eligible friend ^_^

Mets. They're fighting to get into WC position while the Giants currently hold one. Plus the Giants are historically capable of doing damage in the postseason whether they take their division or not.

It's only 34.000 subscriptions with the Wendy's promo, which I'm sure the advertising partnership mores than pays for.

MLB Advanced Media is a huge $3.6 billion industry that Disney just bought a major stake in.
forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2016/07/05/disneys-investment-in-mlb-advanced-media-spin-off-will-be-a-win-win-for-both-sides/#73b3a80354d6

They handle the streaming infrastructure for HBO, WatchESPN, the PGA, WWE Network, March Madness, etc.
latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-advanced-media-20150930-story.html

>Dodgers bragging
... it's what they do.

>September 18, 2013
>... at 33:05
>Tommy Lasorda
>brags about winning it all

youtube.com/watch?v=LmvGCIA5_kM

Bryant is 5-5

Why has Zobrist been so awful lately?

Does the partnership mean apehoop won't be front page all summer?

Wasn't he ejected before the meltdown?

>Chapman with no control

No, our 3rd base coach was ejected.

Based buttermeme took the fall for Farrell, but I wish he didn't.

Probably not because ESPN still heavily influences what's covered.

That's not what the other leaf's post was getting at though. NFL's and NBA's streaming services aren't the behemoth media company that MLB's is.

Don't even worry about it.

Can someone with photoshop talent make an edit of the Cusb main logo with the rings but replace the C with a crescent moon of the Ottoman Empire?

Windians?

Salazar vs Rodon

Practically a free win today so yes

Mets, but barely. It's huge for the Giants because they're spiraling out of control, but the really big series is the one after, against the Dodgers

There's a day off before the Dodgers series so I hope that Cain gets his start skipped so the Giants can start their 1,2,3 in the biggest series of the year so far, but I know Bochy won't do it because he's a puss who doesn't like to shake things up. Pls Bochy

Giants are done for the season unfortunately. The dodgers proved they have the depth to content no matter the circumstances even with the MVP down

I hope the whos blow Salazar the fuck out just for your hubris