MLB News & Notes (other than Cubs or Sox)

[jstraw]

I know some of you think Bucknor isn't the worst in the game but you're wrong.

[Kid]

I'd put him #2 behind Hernandez, but it's 1A and 1B really

[rok]

Darren Daulton once threatened to rip off Mitch Williams arm. God bless him.


By Craig Calcaterra

Apr 19, 2017, 1:55 PM EDT


Retired Phillies catcher Darren Daulton is, to steal a description, one of Gods own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.


He is on record believing in alchemy, auras, telepathy, energy transfers, astral planes, planetary ascension, and parallel universes. He believes that he had an had out of body experiences while playing at Wrigley Field one day. He believes that the universe is created and sustained by numerical synchronicities the number 11 is particularly important in his life and that all matter is charged with extra-dimensional vibrational energy.


Daulton believes that his moods have altered the weather before, that the pyramids were created by a lost civilization - or possibly aliens. He believed that people with knowledge of the workings of the universe were going ascend to a higher plane of existence on Dec. 21, 2012, at 11:11 a.m. Maybe that happened, maybe it didn't, but you cant prove Daulton wrong about that. And not just because hes still here. Maybe he chose to be, man, in order to help those of us who don't understand everything get by as best we can. Ever think of that? Didn't think so.


To put it succinctly, if you don't love and respect the unadulterated Darren Daultoness of Darren Daulton, I don't really want to know you.


One person who knows Daulton and his Daultoness well is CSN Philly's John Kruk. Kruk tells a story about Daulton in the first episode of his new podcast, called the KrukCast. You can hear it in its entirety via CSNPhilly.com, but this here is the good stuff:


"There was an incident, its been documented, with Mitch Williams our closer,"Kruk began. "Terry Mulholland pitched the gem of a complete game, which Terry had a knack to do. When he started it, he wanted to finish it. Mitch came in and he was upset. He yelled at Jimmy Fregosi for not bringing him in, 'If I'm your closer you gotta put me in that game.' Darren took Mitch to the back room and said, 'Look, that's not what we're about and if that ever happens again I'll rip your arm off and youll never pitch again.'"


Darren Daulton is . . . his own man, to say the least. And I think he operates on a level none of us can truly grapple with. But in his desire to put Mitch Williams and all of his nonsense in his place, he comes across as the hero we all want and the hero we all need.


God bless that man. God bless him.


Follow @craigcalcaterra

[rok]

Test him daily.

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2017/04/20/cubs...sing-peds/

[1060Ivy]

According the link and USA Today, MLB tested Thames after Monday's game so if he gets banned we'll know when he was tested. 

[Kid]

Eh, it was crap when people were accusing Arrieta based upon results.  Can't have it both ways.

[jstraw]

Test everyone. It's not crap to catch the cheaters.

[Kid]

Most assuredly not.  I'm just saying, it's hypocritical to be upset over Arrieta being blamed without evidence other than performance and do the same for Thames.

[1984]

Sammy Sosa and all those other crooks really turned me off baseball for a while.  I hope they catch everyone and throw them into the sea.

[rok]

I know it doesn't prove anything, but I don't believe Arrieta's body changed much if at all between his Orioles and Cubs days. Thames, on the other hand, left the country with an above average build and returned several years later as a physical specimen. If he passed his test on Monday, then god bless him. His career arc is a great story. I'll probably still remain suspicious for a little while longer.

[funkster]

Arrieta also always had the necessary tools, not sure the same can be said for Thames.  Whatever though, the Lackey stuff is just typical Lackey making excuses for himself.

[1984]

He has a homerun against the Cards today.

 

Who was it who hit a lot of homeruns early in the season last year?  Can't remember.

[rok]

Trevor Story

[1060Ivy]

Some background on Thames including how he learned plate discipline so late in his career - I'll donate the mason jars for the Cubs minor league system if all it takes is to track swings out of the zone and place a dollar in the jar for each of those swings


http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/19196...second-act

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

Most assuredly not.  I'm just saying, it's hypocritical to be upset over Arrieta being blamed without evidence other than performance and do the same for Thames.

 

Yup.