Tatis, big game last night
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Can’t believe people get mad at Tatis for hitting a bomb. Enough with the unwritten bs.Comment -
It wasn't that he hit a Grand Slam its that he swung at a 3-0 pitch up by 7 runs late in the game. I've never heard of teams getting mad for that and I don't agree with it because the game isn't over until its over so if you see a pitch you like by all means let it rip. I don't think he did anything wrong because the way todays's game is played 7 runs isn't safe anymore.Comment -
9:52pm: X-rays came back negative, Van Schouwen tweets. Robert’s day to day with a sore right hand.
9:38pm: White Sox phenom Luis Robert left the team’s game early Tuesday after an attempt at a diving catch in the seventh inning, James Fegan of The Athletic reports. Robert was “shaking his right hand,” per Daryl Van Schouwen of the Chicago Sun-Times. The White Sox replaced him with Luis Gonzalez.
While it’s unclear whether this will prove to be a serious injury, but any notable absence for the 23-year-old Robert would be a significant blow to the White Sox. The long-hyped prospect has more than lived up to the billing in his first major league season, and has emerged as a serious American League Rookie of the Year candidate. Through the initial 95 plate appearances of his career, Robert has slashed .276/.330/.517 (130 wRC+) with five home runs, four stolen bases and 1.1 fWAR.
Aside from Robert and Gonzalez, Adam Engel’s the only member of the White Sox who has played center this year. However, the club placed Engel on the injured list Monday because he may have come into contact with someone who has the coronavirus.Comment -
Wow. Only the Angels can lose to GiantsComment -
Who cares if he hit a Grand Slam and stole third. If the other team didn't want him to do that, than they should have stopped him.Comment -
Taris getting lots of support from other playersComment -
Can’t believe his own manager publicly said Tatis did wrong thing.Comment -
9:50pm: Bregman left with hamstring discomfort and is day to day, Mark Berman of Fox 26 was among those to report.
8:41pm: Astros superstar third baseman Alex Bregman exited their game Wednesday with a potential leg or ankle injury, Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle tweets. Bregman departed immediately after limping to second base on a double.
More on the severity of Bregman’s issue should be known soon, though it’s obvious losing him for any extended period would be yet another massive blow to an injury-riddled Houston club. The Astros lost one of their premier hitters, Yordan Alvarez, for the season because of a knee injury Wednesday. They’ve also been without reigning AL Cy Young winner Justin Verlander for almost all of the campaign on account of a forearm strain, and there’s no word on when he could return. Furthermore, Michael Brantley, Roberto Osuna, Aledmys Diaz, Brad Peacock and Jose Urquidy are also on the IL right now.
To the Astros’ credit, they have overcome their injury obstacles to begin the season 13-10, just one game back of wild-card position. Bregman has helped keep them afloat with a .272/.374/.500 line and four home runs in 108 plate appearances. Those aren’t the otherworldly, MVP-type numbers Bregman put up from 2018-19, but they’re still far above the league average.Comment -
Rockies swept by AstrosComment -
The only thing Tatis did wrong was apologize.Comment -
Reds suspend Thom Brennaman for using anti-gay slur on air
Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman has been suspended from working Cincinnati's games after using an anti-gay slur on air Wednesday night, prompting the team to apologize for the "horrific, homophobic remark."
Brennaman used the slur moments after the Fox Sports Ohio feed returned from a commercial break before the top of the seventh inning in the first game of a doubleheader at Kansas City. Brennaman did not seem to realize he was already on air. He later apologized.
The Reds took Brennaman off the broadcast in the fifth inning of the second game, handing his duties to alternate play-by-play man Jim Day.Comment -
Mets-Marlins game pp along with Mets-Yankees tomorrow. 2 people within Mets organization tested positive including 1 player.Comment -
Good riddance to Brennaman, always riding on his dad’s coattails anyway. What a clown.Comment -
Machado with that bomb last nightComment -
It's weird to see the Giants generating a ton of offense this year. In years past their offense was dreadful and their pitching was what got them wins. Now they have to slug because their pitching is terrible. Of course it could just be that the Angels have horrible pitching making even the Giants offense look like a Major League offense.Comment -
Big runs at Coors againComment -
The Blue Jays might’ve looked like a potential deadline seller just one week ago, but they’ve rattled off five straight wins to boost their record to 12-11. That, Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet writes, has them back in the playoff picture and thinking about ways to add to the club with the Aug. 31 trade deadline looming. Specifically, general manager Ross Atkins cites starting pitching as an area of focus.
It’s been a rather inauspicious start to the year for the Toronto rotation, which ranks 19th in the Majors in ERA (4.93), 26th in FIP (5.34) and 24th in xFIP (4.84). Further complicating matters is the fact that prized pitching prospect Nate Pearson just landed on the injured list due to tightness in his right elbow after a pair of rough starts.
Lefty Hyun-Jin Ryu has been a solid presence atop the starting staff, giving the Jays five starts and a 3.46 ERA with terrific K/BB and ground-ball numbers. Beyond that, however, it’s been a struggle. Fellow winter signee Tanner Roark has battled uncharacteristic control issues and run up an ERA of 4.76. Pearson’s last two starts were ugly, and Matt Shoemaker has not at all resembled the 2019 form he showed prior to sustaining an ACL tear. Chase Anderson has been limited by an oblique strain and is still building up his workload (though he’s pitched well through 9 2/3 frames).
There’s some depth beyond that group down at the alternate training site, but none of Sean Reid-Foley, T.J. Zeuch or Sam Gaviglio can necessarily be relied upon to stabilize the rotation. The Jays plan to utilize left-hander Ryan Borucki as a reliever for the foreseeable future, per Atkins, which only further limits their in-house options.
The expanded postseason field might drive down the number of motivated sellers, but that should also drive up the number of buyers and create a market for the interesting arms that are out there. Lance Lynn, Mike Minor, Taijuan Walker, Kevin Gausman, Johnny Cueto, Alex Cobb and perhaps Dylan Bundy (among others) could all draw varying levels of interest this year. Nicholson-Smith reports that Gausman was of interest to the Jays before he signed with the Giants this winter.
Given the big-picture status of the Blue Jays — a young club just now beginning to emerge from a rebuilding effort — it’s unlikely that they’d part with anything of particular significance for a short-term piece. It stands to reason that they’d be interested in low-cost rentals or in arms they could control beyond the 2020 season. The rental market, in general, seems unlikely to yield any major returns, given that acquiring teams would only be picking up a month or less in terms of regular-season control over said player (plus any possible postseason contributions).
Atkins also discusses the team’s defensive outlook, his thoughts on Teoscar Hernandez’s upside, Borucki’s future role and several other topics in a broad-reaching piece that Jays fans will want to take in. Nicholson-Smith also suggests that a bench bat with some pop could be a potential target for the Jays, which opens no shortage of additional possibilities as the deadline looms.
As noted earlier when looking at the D-backs’ hunt for bullpen pieces, it’s worth pointing out that any current fringe contender is, to a degree, at the mercy of their next week’s results. A substantial losing streak or additional key injuries could tamp down the motivation to make a win-now trade or even swing the pendulum in the other direction. One could also argue that that reality only increases the urgency to make a move proactively, but recent history suggests that today’s breed of front office will wait until closer to the deadline to gather more information before making a rash move. Perhaps that trend will be bucked in this atypical 2020 campaign, but we’ve yet to see a notable swap throughout the league.Comment -
Great.
Now my fantasy team has lost my 3B Bregman.
Now I have my 2B down DJ, my SS down Torres, and now Bregman.
I just got Y. Diaz from the waiver wire to fill in at third,Comment -
Can't wait to get back to an area that has decent connectivity....to see what is really going on with sports....Comment
