Enough that, combined with the time it takes for the pitcher to come out of the bullpen, there’s an opportunity to make money (read: commercial break). I wouldn’t expect to see this change any time soon.
As has been mentioned countless times since they started the whole “speed up the game” bullshit - if you want the games to go faster, cut out some of the commercials. They are by far the biggest time-waster.
Everyone agrees with that except the owners, so, there it is.
Ok, I’m exhausted from “speed up baseball” talk. Let’s talk about how the often overrated Wil Myers just became only the 2nd player in Padres history to hit for the cycle. The first was way, way back when Matt Kemp did it in 2015. Is that unbelievable?
Another cycle anomaly is that the Chicago White Sox, around since 1901, only have 5 in franchise history. The Diamondbacks, 97 years younger, have 6.
In the long history of the Red Sox, only one player has hit a double in seven consecutive games. And Mitch Moreland did it within his first nine games with the team.
It’s funny how stuff like that clusters. To use an obvious example with Mr. Myers’s team, the Padres, in all their years of existence, have never had a pitcher pitch a no-hitter. They are the only team about which that can be said. (The Mets have only had one, and they’ve been around longer and have had some pretty good pitchers you might recall the names of.)
But the Marlins have had five. Go figure.
Early days yet, but it’s possible that once Altuve is done, three of the four greatest Astros position players will have played second base.
Aside from him and Craig Biggio, who are the others? Joe Morgan? And I’m scratching my head on the fourth. I’d think that Jeff Bagwell, and Lance Berkman would be ahead of anyone else, and maybe Jose Cruz, too.
ETA: Duh, Altuve is the fourth you’re talking about.
I remember when our minor league team was seattle affiliated and cruz was here when he started … …he kept the team viable when people were questioning the need to have one
Doug Glanville on Tim Tebow: mixing the trite and obvious with the spiritual and metaphysical, to produce a dog’s breakfast of an essay that says nothing meaningful at all and leaves the reader no better informed at the end than he or she was at the beginning.
Pretty sure you’re referring to Jose Cruz Jr., son of the Jose Cruz mentioned in the earlier post. Cruz the younger was a good player, highly regarded when he came up, and had a few fine years. Cruz the elder, who played most of his career with Houston, was not as well thought of as a young player but ultimately produced at a much higher level.
Jarrett Parker of the Giants slammed into the left field wall making a catch against the Rockies.
Came off the wall holding his shoulder and looked to be in severe pain.
Video on Twitter
Don’t pick on Tim, he’s glowing brightly as a member of the Columbia Fireflies (.185 average at last check).
Rod Carew has had a heart and kidney transplant from former NFL player Konrad Reuland, who died of a brain aneurysm.
I actually wasn’t picking on Tim; i was picking on Glanville.
The Orioles are up 6-0 over the Blue Jays after six innings. The poor old Blue Jays, after starting 2-9 and having one starting pitcher (Sanchez) out with a finger blister, lost today’s starting pitcher J.A. Happ in the 5th inning with what also looks like it might be a blister. He was pitching nicely before he had to leave the game.
The hapless Blue Jays are now Happless. 
And as i type this, Troy Tulowitski muffs an easy grounder to short, putting Manny Machado on base.
Glanville has also recently offered the idea that the Red Sox outfield could take over from Jackie Robinson and get black kids to play baseball again, since there are three black ones, not including Benintendi.
The Cub championship rings featured a goat, “11-3-16, 12:47 am” (the date and time they clinched the championship), 1908 gems (signifying the last title won, in 1908), and each player’s name.
In what I consider to be a classy move, they had rings made for Ernie Banks and Ron Santo, Billy Williams. Fergie Jenkins, and Ryne Sandberg.
And there’s the key word; old. **They’re the oldest team in North American professional baseball. ** Sooner or later it was going to crash and burn, and apparently it’s sooner.
It’s unfortunate that three key players are injured, but players do get injured. If you have a deep organization you can plug in an OK player and get through a couple of weeks without Josh Donaldson, or replace a pitcher whose elbow blows out. The Jays don’t; for several years now, actually, they’ve been paying with a talent base that’s quite wide but extremely shallow. There are no MLB-ready prospects unless you count the (also, buit not for long, injured) Dalton Pompey, and they have no quadruple-A players, really. They had to sign Chris Couglan a few weeks ago just to have one of those.
I mean, all Blue Jays fans who were paying attention knew this. The team burned all its minor league prospects (pretty much all of them pitchers) in two waves, the 2013 trades and the 2015 deadline trades. Which is fine - they made the ALCS two years in a row, and maybe they didn’t win the World Series but, hey, they were right there and if you can get that fa you took your chance to win and you can’t fault them for that. But now they’re old and the cupboard is bare. It’s time to rebuild. It’s just going to take awhile, because for a few years yet they have some unsellable contracts.
I still have no idea what to make of the Tigers. Six month of trying to tear the team down to bones and failing utterly in that effort have left an unusual situation.After a couple weeks they are in first place(yay) winning a road series with the Indians(double yay) with a differential well under 0 (boo). Already pretty much every pitcher has already looked great and shitty both, and the hitters have talent but are highly inconsistent. So far they have done enough at the right times, but I don’t believe that ever holds up over 162, so they have to build on their lucky start by actually getting better to make it.