If he bats .800 over the season, he’ll get more than rookie of the year.
Nats got their first win of the season, avoiding the sweep by the Mets, with some clutch hitting by new Nat Nelson Cruz and rookie Lucius Fox.
Speaking of the Nats, rumors of the Lerners selling the team.
The Washington Post is definitely a better source than someone’s Twitter account in mommy’s basement.
I certainly hope this doesn’t affect the Soto negotiations, and we’re able to lock up his services for the rest of his career.
My God the umping this weekend was bad. Robo umps now.
It sure got no better yesterday for the game my daughter and I went to (which was super fun through three innings.) The ump missed 23 ball/strike calls, many of which were not close. The Saturday ump missed 15, but in percentage terms (it was a lower scoring game, so fewer pitches to call) was just as bad.
Umps can do way better - in one CLE-KC game, Cory Blaser missed only two calls the entire game - but it’s just silly to expect humans to get these things right.
And some good, old fashioned small ball. (don’t worry, they’ll outlaw the bunt soon enough).
A little history for rookie Steven Kwan of the Cleveland Guardians:
With a triple and two walks on Monday (in addition to his 8-for-10 efforts entering the day), Kwan has reached base 15 times in his first four MLB games – the most any player has logged in his first four career games since at least 1901.
What’s this referring to?
More of my frustration with too many so-called sports journalists who tweet out nonsense and then talk more nonsense on some two hour podcast
Nats broke out their bats last night in a 12-2 win over the defending world champion Braves. Love it. Hope we didn’t blow all our offense in one game out of the three-game series.
Twin brothers Taylor and Tyler Rogers pitched against each other in the Padres’ 4-2 win over the Giants on Monday night, with Taylor picking up the save and Tyler, the loss. This is the first time twin brothers have ever pitched against each other in MLB history.
oohh and their in the same division … that might make holidays a bit rough …
That’s the good news. The bad news is, Kevin Frandsen is, far and away, the worst color man I have ever heard. And that takes in a lot of really, really bad announcers.
(Tried listening to the radio guys but they’re way out of synch with the MLB.TV telecast).
The quality of sports journalism is worse than ever, in my honest and humble opinion. There’s good stuff out there but now it’s mostly old idiots and screaming talking heads whose job it is to say outrageous bullshit.
As early as it is, and I can’t complain about the Jays going 3-1, new acquisition Matt Chapman has struck out eight times in sixteen trips to the plate and he LOOKS like a guy who will do that. His precipitous rise in strikeouts over 2020-2021 might just be how he’ll always be, which ain’t good. He seems like a nice guy and he sure can play defense but holy shit he’s a whiff machine.
I disagree. The typical places you used to go for sports journalism are terrible - newspapers and ESPN are on opposite ends of the awful scale. Newspapers are out of touch and cranky, ESPN is all Hot Takes, all the time. The good journalists have consolidated at places like The Athletic, or gone independent. You have to find the people you enjoy reading/listening to, and meet them where they are. That’s usually twitter, an app, or a podcast.
And for the love of god, can we please get past the “mom’s basement” bullshit adage? We’re on a message board from the 90s! 
And it’s the 2nd time the winning, losing and saving (?) pitcher were all born in the same city.
You were saying?? Ouch, that was a painful beat down.
History was made Tuesday night as Alyssa Nakken became the first woman to ever make an MLB appearance when she took over as first base coach in the third inning, when Antoan Richardson was ejected.
Oh, there was one thing that stuck out to me during last night’s beatdown of my beloved Nats.
Cool.
What I can’t figure out is what her REGULAR job is. She is just an “Assistant coach” and has a wide swath of experience with the Giants - she’s worked for them basically since graduating from college. Obviously she’s been reading the scouting reports and knows her baseball or she wouldn’t have been the backup first base coach.
I noticed the same thing on Blue Jays opening night, that the coaching staff is way bigger now. Which, really, makes sense.
I think the other terrible thing about this is that from now on, when this historical moment is remembered, the pictures are going to show those terrible alternate Giants uniforms they were wearing last night. Where is Dale’s outrage when it’s needed?!