MLB News & Notes (other than Cubs or Sox)

[funkster]

Well, not to mention that type of injury is usually a precursor to TJS.  May not be season ending now, but could end up major in the next few years.

[Kid]

http://twitter.com/Pirates/status/741714146564116480

 

http://twitter.com/Pirates/status/741703675916124160

[funkster]

Good.  Sorry, but I can't stand his ass.

[Kid]

http://twitter.com/AdamRubinESPN/status/...0764546049

[rok]

https://twitter.com/MikeBerardino/status...1484088321

[rok]

Another reason to (potentially) hate the Giants even more.


https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/...0795435008

[Butcher]

It's hard to envision Braun getting moved anywhere with his contract.

[Butcher]

Dusty will never learn...

 

 

What it says is that, ulnar collateral ligaments be damned, Baker is not about to baby his starters. A year after ranking 12th in the majors with 93.6 pitches per outing under former manager Matt Williams, Nats starters are averaging 100.7 pitches, most in baseball, with Baker at the helm. Four-fifths of the rotation is over 100 pitches per start, including Tommy John survivor Stephen Strasburg, who was famously shut down for the 2012 playoffs and who has been treated with kid gloves for most of his career -- until now. After averaging 89 pitches per start last season, Strasburg is at 103 this season, the heftiest hike on the Nats. The only one who's under the century mark -- 22-year old Joe Ross, who was powered off after hitting the rookie wall late last season -- has seen his workload increase from 85 to 94 pitches per start.

[jstraw]

He's kind of an asshole.

[1060Ivy]

Why should Dusty be worried starters' health?  It's June.  Pennants are won in April, May, and June - just ask any fan.    

 

Starters who can't throw >110 pitches on their one start every fifth game should be some other manager's concern - not Dusty's.

 

BTW, Nationals have 3 (Strasburg - 103, Scherzer - 103, Gonzolez - 101) of the top 25 pitchers with most pitches per game.  Cubs have 2 pitchers in the top 25 (Arrieta - 102, Lester - 101)

 

https://www.teamrankings.com/mlb/player-...s-per-game

[jstraw]

Why should Dusty be worried starters' health?  It's June.  Pennants are won in April, May, and June - just ask any fan.    


 

Starters who can't throw >110 pitches on their one start every fifth game should be some other manager's concern - not Dusty's.


 

BTW, Nationals have 3 (Strasburg - 103, Scherzer - 103, Gonzolez - 101) of the top 25 pitchers with most pitches per game.  Cubs have 2 pitchers in the top 25 (Arrieta - 102, Lester - 101)

 

https://www.teamrankings.com/mlb/player-...s-per-game

FTFY

[rok]

That SP plan should work out perfectly for us if we meet the Nats in the playoffs.

[jstraw]

That SP plan should work out perfectly for us if we meet the Nats in the playoffs.

 

Will their pitching staff be having fun then?

[rok]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="rok" data-cid="280460" data-time="1466012170">
That SP plan should work out perfectly for us if we meet the Nats in the playoffs.

 

Will their pitching staff be having fun then?</blockquote>
I hear that the Dr. Andrews Spa is like paradise in October.

[Kid]

Status quo for all star voting (please note this is not an invitation for further lamenting how having Addison Russell start might cost the Cubs if 1000 dominoes fall in a certain direction):