MLB NEWS/RUMORS Thread

Growing up as a kid one of the things I most looked forward to every day was reading what the lineups were gonna be for that day's game and then reading the box scores the next morning.

No way does the FO think or want Bellinger to be a platoon player in his second or third year.
But they had similar feelings about Puig and Joc I'm sure.
You dance with the girl you brought to the party, even if she has two right feet.

 

When you do the right things it works out for everyone involved.

 

actually, no way they wanted him to suck after 1 yr

 

we'll see...

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The Dodgers appear to have gotten Brian Dozier at the right time. He
has hit an MLB-best 40 HR in 112 games from August to October over
the previous 2 seasons.
2:40 PM - Jul 31, 2018​

 

idk
glared into his dugout evidently at martinez
don't care if it's 25-4 game
you gotta put the team ahead of you
i say pass, but that's just my .02
i mean, houston obviously likes wife beaters and racists so...

 

Yeah, but my thought process is that he’ll be on a short leash and Roberts is way better than Dave Martinez so it could work, and any instance where Kelley’s red flags flare up, you can quickly cut him

 

I do think that if they are thinking of sending Bellinger down, it’d be done this week.

We have Axford and Turner coming back this week. We currently have an 8 man bullpen and so, Axford would be coming in and displacing a reliever (probably optioning Chargois or Baez or DFA Hudson). When Turner comes back, they have an interesting decision. They could go to a 7 man bullpen (which they don’t do often), they could phantom DL someone (like Utley or Kemp) or they’d have to send someone down. The options are basically Joc, Puig, Muncy, or Bellinger and it’s hard to argue against Bellinger being the most deserving.

I’m not sure if I actually think they’d do it, I’m just thinking that if they were to do it, now would be the time especially with the minor league season only having a few weeks left

 

you could root for both to get aids and die...







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lol nats
what a fucken mess
can't even do something wrong right
martinez is a clown
racist

Did the Nationals trade the wrong leaker?
by Greg Joyce | New York Post — 42 minutes ago



The rat may still be roaming the Nationals’ clubhouse.

After the team traded Brandon Kintzler to the Cubs on Tuesday, reportedly believing he was the source of leaks about the club’s inner turmoil, the reliever spent Wednesday clearing his name and got some help while he was at it.

The story in question was a Yahoo Sports report that cited anonymous sources claiming the Nationals’ clubhouse was “a mess.” The Washington Post suggested that the team believed Kintzler was the source, but the report’s author, Jeff Passan, called Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein to say he had never talked to Kintzler.

“Unsolicited, Passan called me this morning to tell me he’s never spoken to or communicated with Brandon Kintzler in his life,” Epstein said Wednesday on ESPN 1000 in Chicago. “So that was clearly a false report, and we knew it was a false report because it wouldn’t be in character with the reputation that Brandon has.”

Kintzler, who said he has always worked hard to be a good teammate, was appreciative of Passan’s call to Epstein.

“That’s cool of that guy, the fact that he wanted to go out there and set it clear for me,” Kintzler said Wednesday after making his Cubs debut. “It affected a lot of people, I’m sure.”

Cubs manager Joe Maddon cited his own sources in backing up Kintzler, who has also pitched for the Brewers and Twins across his nine years in the big leagues.

“I’ve heard the exact opposite from good sources,” Maddon said. “I’ve heard he’s a great teammate, great competitor and his agenda is to win. And if you look at his body of work, he’s not a strikeout guy, obviously, but he throws a lot of ground balls.”

Another Washington Post story published Wednesday afternoon said Kintzler “was too free with clubhouse information and criticism, according to people with firsthand knowledge of the situation.”

Grant Paulsen, a radio host for 106.7 The Fan in Washington, reported that the story the Nationals were upset with Kintzler about was a different Washington Post article on players’ concerns over how manager Dave Martinez was handling the bullpen. Kintzler was not quoted in that story.

The Nationals have won two straight since trading Kintzler, though they’ll have to do more than just beat up on the Mets in order to make a full revival in time for the postseason.​

 

I think those AL teams are good but I really think they’re being overrated by beating up on some truly shitty teams. The NL has a lot of average teams but it makes every game somewhat difficult whereas the AL ahead truly horrendous teams. Idk, I think the Red Sox and Astros are definitely the top 2 teams but after that it gets interesting