The 2021 Baseball Season - Things to Come

LOL

 

Such an overrated player.

 

I know Toronto cannot move their roof in cold weather because it would break, but do they ever close it or have they just neglected it so much (plus its age, 30+ years) that it stays open? Thought it was odd to have a rainout in a roofed stadium.

 

They're playing in Florida right now. Think at their minor league teams(Dunedin) stadium. Think they want to eventually move back to Toronto. If they can't, they'll go back to Buffalo when it gets warmer.

*but I think they do close their roof in Toronto

 

LOL, totally forgot about that. I was just glancing at the scores seeing if I wanted to watch anything and saw a Toronto home rainout.

 

It’s 5:32am and Alec Bohm still hasn’t touched home plate.

 

I still want to know the outcome of the Altuve one in Boston 2-3 years ago on SNB. Mitel never tweeted about it because it was so egregiously wrong.

I agree that the replay official in NY should be put on the spot and explain the decision making. The umps on the field are catching heat for something the system is supposed to protect them against.

 

It got so bad, I almost felt sorry for the guy. Almost

 

Carted off...

 

Joe West (arguably the worst umpire in the past 50 years), Billy Wagner, this is a great story:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...tion-lawsuit-against-paul-lo-duca/7197588002/

You can scream at him, curse at him, and call him names, but if you attempt to discredit veteran umpire Joe West’s credibility, well, be ready to pay a lot bigger price than simply being thrown out of a game.

West, Major League Baseball’s senior umpire who’s scheduled in May to pass Hall of Famer Bill Klem for the most games umpired in history, was awarded $500,000 plus interest Monday by the New York Supreme Court in his defamation lawsuit against former player Paul Lo Duca.

 

The fact that he won the case makes me think it's 100% true. West is a pile of garbage.

 

The Atlantic League will also institute a “double hook” rule governing the designated hitter: Teams can keep a DH in their lineups as long as their starting pitcher remains in the game. When a manager goes to the bullpen, the new pitcher must bat or be substituted out of the game.

That rule amounts to a compromise between the rules in the American League, where teams can use the designated hitter for all of their pitchers, and the National League, where teams are not allowed to use one at all.

MLB hopes that allowing teams to use a designated hitter until the starter is out of the game will incentivize teams to rely more on starting pitchers, something the league’s fan surveys said would be a popular shift. At a time when several teams use “openers” for a few innings and even proven top starters often last just five or six innings, league officials hoped the loss of a designated hitter might influence some managers to keep their starter in an inning or two more.

 

Default Judgement, meaning that Lo Duca (also a world-class jackass) didn't show up to offer a defense.

"There are no winners here"

 

Good luck with that, MLB. I'm sure the MLBPA will promptly sign off on:

a) increased injury risk for starting pitchers
b) decreased value for relief pitchers
c) decreased value for designated hitters
d) a metric f***ton of 4 hour games