So there's a human being named Lars Nootbaar, and he plays for St. Louis, and he did this to Colin Moran:
What in the blue **** was the batter thinking trying to get to 2nd base on that?? Did that dumbass really think the runner on 1st base was going to get to 3rd on that??
Padres fire their pitching coach today, Larry Rothschild. I then looked at the SD games the last 3 series.....lose 3 of 4 to Arizona, lose all 3 to Colorado, and lose 2 of 3 to the Phillies. I guess the Astros aren't alone at losing to bad teams.
Panic move at the Petco. Half their pitching staff has been hurt, they even tried Arrieta for a start and he got hurt during it.
Padres are 100% missing the playoffs. The MLB regular season can be so fickle... ATL looked dead in the water, lost Acuna, added a few pieces, and look on track. Padres looked like a shoe-in through 2 months. Brewers were average until July. Trashstros against Royals, Tigers, Twins, & Orioles, Blastros against White Sox, Red Cocks, and most other good teams.
MLB seeking player input on baseball prototypes that could be long-term sticky stuff fix Major League Baseball has begun disseminating prototypes of pre-tacked baseballs to solicit player feedback, Yahoo Sports has learned. This represents an early step in potentially developing a new baseball to address concerns from pitchers about grip and consistency. Rich Hill confirmed that the New York Mets reviewed the prototypes about a week-and-a-half ago. Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers were also shown the balls while playing in New York, and the San Francisco Giants are expected to receive them during their series against the Mets this week as well. “I think they’re getting there,” Hill said. “They’re working on it, and I know they’re going to come, hopefully, to a good resolution.” […] Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball and the Korea Baseball Organization use pre-tacked balls and MLB officials have been in contact with both leagues as they’ve worked to develop their own prototype. At least some of the pitchers who have experience with those baseballs found them to be preferable to the current MLB ball, and the American pitchers who played at the Olympics in Japan earlier this month were even more effusive about the pretacked SSK ball used there. “It is, I can’t say enough, the best baseball I’ve ever touched,” Twins pitcher Joe Ryan, who played for Team USA, said of the balls being used at the Olympics. “We need this.” It won’t be that exact ball. But after years of false starts, MLB is once again involving the players in their pursuit of something similar.
It’s 2:39am and the Dodgers/Padresare still playing. (Pollock just hit a HR to go ahead 5-3 in the top half of the 16th inning)
Small sample warning! So moving the mound back a foot three weeks ago has lead to more power in the Atlantic League, but little to no effect on contact (if anything, it has decreased contact). https://theathletic.com/2790449/202...leagues-latest-lab-experiment-three-weeks-in/
Owner: “criticizes” team on twitter President: Fans have every right to boo! Players: *thumbs down* to fans (HOW DARE YOU! UNACCEPTABLE!)
Pirates have fired Rick Epstein as hitting coach. Apparently gritty pissantness is not a genetic trait, his brother got it all.
