YeahTubaMike posted:

But enough about Tim Lincecum

Mike_V posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI8l87uyDXM

Joey Freshwater posted:

sportsgenius86 posted:

Baseball in general is not a great outlet for showcasing how good of an athlete someone is. I mean, if you watch regularly, you'd know, but the opportunities to do something freakishly athletic come way less frequently than in football or basketball.

Paul Zuvella posted:

lol has a persons entire career been effectively ended by a rule change before? The odds of this fringe reliever dude relearning his delivery from scratch seems extremely low.

Spoeank posted:

Statcast is going to have "hit probability" and "catch probability" based on historical launch angle/exit velocity data.

Sounds like a less sloppy way of measuring luck than BABIP. Cool.

tadashi posted:

Remember when some of us thought the Rockies were the dark horse to make a wild card game? Those were some times...

tadashi posted:

Tom Murphy broke his forearm. It's only going to keep him out 4-6 weeks but you have to worry how arm injuries can linger with hitters.

tadashi posted:

Does Bonds count as a prodigal son since he got fired and has taken one hell of a beating in the press since he played his last season in SF?

Luigi Thirty posted:

And they wonder why nobody watches loving MLB

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Moncada discovered Twinkies at Wal-Mart and started consuming them by the box, sometimes eating more than 10 in a single sitting even as the Red Sox were trying to counsel him on diet and nutrition. When David took Moncada to the dentist in the winter of 2015 -- the first dental visit of Moncada's life -- he had about 15 cavities, David says.

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It took him awhile to understand just how much money he had already earned. David explained that Moncada had just made the equivalent of 656,250 years of work, based on his $4 monthly salary playing for Cienfuegos. Still, when Moncada got his first check, the total was much less than what he'd been expecting, and he came to David in a rage, convinced he'd been robbed. "He didn't really know about the concept of taxes," David says. "I had to print out a pay stub and show him why it was 35 percent less than he thought."

Even at 65 percent, Moncada had money to spend on drones, video games, toys and clothes. He sometimes spent $1,500 or more during nights out, David says. After he purchased the second $200,000 car, Josefa tried to talk some sense into him. "You are being an idiot, just wasting all this money," she told him. "What are you even thinking?"

"Go big or go home," he told her with a smile.

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President Donald J. Trump may throw out the ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day for the Washington Nationals, POLITICO reports.

According to the report, Trump is in talks with the Nationals about throwing the first pitch. Washington's home opener is Monday against the Miami Marlins.

Trump could also join regional broadcasters in the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network booth after the pitch.

YeahTubaMike posted:

It has only just now occurred to me -- now that the thread is basically over -- to ask what the "C" in "C/V" stands for.

Sydin posted:

The NL West is also pretty strong. You've got the Dodgers who some are projecting to be a better team on paper than the Cubs, the Giants who aren't that far behind and have solidified the bullpen with Melancon, the Diamondbacks who will almost certainly perform better with a full year of Pollock + probable bounce back years from Grenkie and Miller, and the Rockies who are arguably ready to compete aside from their pitching, but something something Coors Field. Let's not talk about the Padres.