The Yankees were using a defensive shift, with two outfielders and five infielders, but still....
Alejandro Kirk DID steal a base once, but it was in high school chemistry class.
Sean Casey DID legitimately ground out to the left fielder:
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The Yankees were using a defensive shift, with two outfielders and five infielders, but still....
Alejandro Kirk DID steal a base once, but it was in high school chemistry class.
Sean Casey DID legitimately ground out to the left fielder:
I've seen that from right field, but from left is taking it to another level.
Jose Bautista used to like to try that from right field, sometimes to the chagrin of the coaching staff.
How hot is Hazel Mae? The truculent Barry Bonds was Big Daddy Sweetness when she interviewed him. Can't find it...fangula Rogers.
Barry's Godfather.
Barry's Godfather.
- Jun 15, 2004
- 8,146
- 1,185
- 113
...... the last San Francisco Giants to hit at least 30 home runs and he did it in 2004. Since 2004, the Giants have won the World Series in 2010, 2012 and 2014.
That’s a remarkable running stat imho.
Classic Atkins.
They asked him about the lack of hitting in the first 10 games and his reply was, "Trust the process".
TBH, Buck has said this tons of times already, "Be patient. This will improve. He'll get his stroke back. This won't last." They said the same last year and we waited all season and they scored 1 run in 2 playoff games.
This season can slip away in a heartbeat, especially in the AL East. AL East already has the best record in baseball. Boston is off to 7-3 start.
They asked him about the lack of hitting in the first 10 games and his reply was, "Trust the process".
TBH, Buck has said this tons of times already, "Be patient. This will improve. He'll get his stroke back. This won't last." They said the same last year and we waited all season and they scored 1 run in 2 playoff games.
This season can slip away in a heartbeat, especially in the AL East. AL East already has the best record in baseball. Boston is off to 7-3 start.
I don't know how the rest of you feel, but I might struggle to watch another home game this year. That view of the back drop is so distracting. Way to bright, advertising on the back wall is distracting, the people in seats are way to close and intrusive. Not to mention all those graphic hanging from the roof during breaks in the action. This was painful to watch for me.
This is the shit that is ruining baseball for purist like me that like old school baseball in old school diamonds.
Everything is to flashy and polished now. No grit to anything anymore.
This is the shit that is ruining baseball for purist like me that like old school baseball in old school diamonds.
Everything is to flashy and polished now. No grit to anything anymore.
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All the advertising is an assault on the senses...I watch a pre advertising on boards in the NHL game sometimes and it's refreshing.
NEW YORK -- Gerrit Cole threw a baseball for the first time in four weeks Monday. He threw it 25 times from 60 feet. He noted 22 of the 25 tosses hit his target.
The catch session, the first of three scheduled this week, represented an important checkpoint in Cole's recovery from nerve inflammation in his right elbow that will sideline him at least until late May. That's a better outlook than a few of his peers across the majors.
Cole is one of several prominent pitchers to sustain a major arm injury since teams reported for spring training in February. The recent surge was unnerving enough for Tony Clark, the Major League Baseball Players Association executive director, to release a statement Saturday blaming the increase in elbow injuries on the pitch clock. Major League Baseball responded with its own statement, without attribution, dismissing Clark's thesis that day, pointing to the rise of pitcher injuries in recent decades, long before the pitch clock was enforced.
"I'm just frustrated it's a combative issue," he said. "It's like, 'OK, we have divorced parents and the child's misbehaving and we can't get on the same page to get the child to behave.' Not that the players are misbehaving, but we have an issue here and we need to get on the same page to at least try and fix it."
In the meantime, numerous pitchers are dealing with similar injuries.
Across the clubhouse from Cole on Monday was Jonathan Loaisiga, diagnosed with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow. He said he is tentatively scheduled to undergo season-ending surgery next weekend.
Across the field were the Miami Marlins, the team perhaps hardest hit by pitcher injuries. Last week, the club announced 21-year-old Eury Perez, one of the sport's top young pitchers, will undergo Tommy John surgery. He joined fellow starters Sandy Alcantara (elbow), Edward Cabrera (shoulder) and Braxton Garrett (shoulder) on the Marlins' injured list.
In addition to Perez, Guardians ace Shane Bieber found out he needed Tommy John surgery, and an MRI revealed structural damage in Braves ace Spencer Strider's elbow over the weekend. They joined a list of players out with significant arm injuries that includes Shohei Ohtani, Jacob deGrom, Robbie Ray, Shane McClanahan, Walker Buehler, Lucas Giolito and Dustin May, among others.
Cole said he didn't have any solutions for the problem but contended MLB's assertion -- that the pitch clock isn't a factor in the injuries -- after one season of implementation is "shortsighted."
"We are going to really understand the effects of ... The pitch clock maybe five years down the road," Cole said. "But to dismiss it out of hand, I didn't think that was helpful to the situation. I think the players are obviously the most important aspect of this industry and this product. And the care of the players should be of utmost importance to both sides."
Cole, 33, recalled "a couple of situations" early last season when he was caught off guard by fatigue. He said he believes the pitch clock was the reason, but he was "able to handle it." Fellow Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt said the clock is a factor.
"I think it can play a factor for sure," Schmidt said. "I think when you're having a high-stress inning and it's like that thing seems like it's almost zero seconds every single time when there's runners on base and you're rushing to get back. So it definitely plays a factor."
Cole argued the pitch clock is just one variable introduced in recent years that could have negatively impacted pitchers. He noted the shortened ramp-ups before the 2020 and 2022 seasons, the crackdown on pitchers using foreign substances for grip and the industry's relentless arms race to throw harder and spin the ball more than ever as other possible elements.
"I think it's just irresponsible for either side to say any one of those things definitely has no impact on pitchers' elbows or shoulders," Cole said. "That's not helpful."
www.espn.com
To the Jays fans...Do you think the pitch clock might explain the problem with Manoah? I recall he was a methodical worker.
Cole brings up some good points here.
The catch session, the first of three scheduled this week, represented an important checkpoint in Cole's recovery from nerve inflammation in his right elbow that will sideline him at least until late May. That's a better outlook than a few of his peers across the majors.
Cole is one of several prominent pitchers to sustain a major arm injury since teams reported for spring training in February. The recent surge was unnerving enough for Tony Clark, the Major League Baseball Players Association executive director, to release a statement Saturday blaming the increase in elbow injuries on the pitch clock. Major League Baseball responded with its own statement, without attribution, dismissing Clark's thesis that day, pointing to the rise of pitcher injuries in recent decades, long before the pitch clock was enforced.
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Yankees' Cole set to begin throwing this week
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"I'm just frustrated it's a combative issue," he said. "It's like, 'OK, we have divorced parents and the child's misbehaving and we can't get on the same page to get the child to behave.' Not that the players are misbehaving, but we have an issue here and we need to get on the same page to at least try and fix it."
In the meantime, numerous pitchers are dealing with similar injuries.
Across the clubhouse from Cole on Monday was Jonathan Loaisiga, diagnosed with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow. He said he is tentatively scheduled to undergo season-ending surgery next weekend.
Across the field were the Miami Marlins, the team perhaps hardest hit by pitcher injuries. Last week, the club announced 21-year-old Eury Perez, one of the sport's top young pitchers, will undergo Tommy John surgery. He joined fellow starters Sandy Alcantara (elbow), Edward Cabrera (shoulder) and Braxton Garrett (shoulder) on the Marlins' injured list.
In addition to Perez, Guardians ace Shane Bieber found out he needed Tommy John surgery, and an MRI revealed structural damage in Braves ace Spencer Strider's elbow over the weekend. They joined a list of players out with significant arm injuries that includes Shohei Ohtani, Jacob deGrom, Robbie Ray, Shane McClanahan, Walker Buehler, Lucas Giolito and Dustin May, among others.
Cole said he didn't have any solutions for the problem but contended MLB's assertion -- that the pitch clock isn't a factor in the injuries -- after one season of implementation is "shortsighted."
"We are going to really understand the effects of ... The pitch clock maybe five years down the road," Cole said. "But to dismiss it out of hand, I didn't think that was helpful to the situation. I think the players are obviously the most important aspect of this industry and this product. And the care of the players should be of utmost importance to both sides."
Cole, 33, recalled "a couple of situations" early last season when he was caught off guard by fatigue. He said he believes the pitch clock was the reason, but he was "able to handle it." Fellow Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt said the clock is a factor.
"I think it can play a factor for sure," Schmidt said. "I think when you're having a high-stress inning and it's like that thing seems like it's almost zero seconds every single time when there's runners on base and you're rushing to get back. So it definitely plays a factor."
Cole argued the pitch clock is just one variable introduced in recent years that could have negatively impacted pitchers. He noted the shortened ramp-ups before the 2020 and 2022 seasons, the crackdown on pitchers using foreign substances for grip and the industry's relentless arms race to throw harder and spin the ball more than ever as other possible elements.
"I think it's just irresponsible for either side to say any one of those things definitely has no impact on pitchers' elbows or shoulders," Cole said. "That's not helpful."
Cole 'disheartened' by discourse over arm injuries
Yankees' Gerrit Cole is one of several prominent pitchers to sustain a major arm injury since teams reported for spring training in February.
www.espn.com
To the Jays fans...Do you think the pitch clock might explain the problem with Manoah? I recall he was a methodical worker.
Cole brings up some good points here.
Too drastic a drop off to blame solely on the pitch clock. Every pitcher has had to adjust.NEW YORK -- Gerrit Cole threw a baseball for the first time in four weeks Monday. He threw it 25 times from 60 feet. He noted 22 of the 25 tosses hit his target.
The catch session, the first of three scheduled this week, represented an important checkpoint in Cole's recovery from nerve inflammation in his right elbow that will sideline him at least until late May. That's a better outlook than a few of his peers across the majors.
Cole is one of several prominent pitchers to sustain a major arm injury since teams reported for spring training in February. The recent surge was unnerving enough for Tony Clark, the Major League Baseball Players Association executive director, to release a statement Saturday blaming the increase in elbow injuries on the pitch clock. Major League Baseball responded with its own statement, without attribution, dismissing Clark's thesis that day, pointing to the rise of pitcher injuries in recent decades, long before the pitch clock was enforced.
For 20 minutes Monday, Cole, the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, addressed the surge of injuries and the ensuing exchange between the parties, saying he was "disheartened" by the back-and-forth.
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"I'm just frustrated it's a combative issue," he said. "It's like, 'OK, we have divorced parents and the child's misbehaving and we can't get on the same page to get the child to behave.' Not that the players are misbehaving, but we have an issue here and we need to get on the same page to at least try and fix it."
In the meantime, numerous pitchers are dealing with similar injuries.
Across the clubhouse from Cole on Monday was Jonathan Loaisiga, diagnosed with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow. He said he is tentatively scheduled to undergo season-ending surgery next weekend.
Across the field were the Miami Marlins, the team perhaps hardest hit by pitcher injuries. Last week, the club announced 21-year-old Eury Perez, one of the sport's top young pitchers, will undergo Tommy John surgery. He joined fellow starters Sandy Alcantara (elbow), Edward Cabrera (shoulder) and Braxton Garrett (shoulder) on the Marlins' injured list.
In addition to Perez, Guardians ace Shane Bieber found out he needed Tommy John surgery, and an MRI revealed structural damage in Braves ace Spencer Strider's elbow over the weekend. They joined a list of players out with significant arm injuries that includes Shohei Ohtani, Jacob deGrom, Robbie Ray, Shane McClanahan, Walker Buehler, Lucas Giolito and Dustin May, among others.
Cole said he didn't have any solutions for the problem but contended MLB's assertion -- that the pitch clock isn't a factor in the injuries -- after one season of implementation is "shortsighted."
"We are going to really understand the effects of ... The pitch clock maybe five years down the road," Cole said. "But to dismiss it out of hand, I didn't think that was helpful to the situation. I think the players are obviously the most important aspect of this industry and this product. And the care of the players should be of utmost importance to both sides."
Cole, 33, recalled "a couple of situations" early last season when he was caught off guard by fatigue. He said he believes the pitch clock was the reason, but he was "able to handle it." Fellow Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt said the clock is a factor.
"I think it can play a factor for sure," Schmidt said. "I think when you're having a high-stress inning and it's like that thing seems like it's almost zero seconds every single time when there's runners on base and you're rushing to get back. So it definitely plays a factor."
Cole argued the pitch clock is just one variable introduced in recent years that could have negatively impacted pitchers. He noted the shortened ramp-ups before the 2020 and 2022 seasons, the crackdown on pitchers using foreign substances for grip and the industry's relentless arms race to throw harder and spin the ball more than ever as other possible elements.
"I think it's just irresponsible for either side to say any one of those things definitely has no impact on pitchers' elbows or shoulders," Cole said. "That's not helpful."
Cole 'disheartened' by discourse over arm injuries
Yankees' Gerrit Cole is one of several prominent pitchers to sustain a major arm injury since teams reported for spring training in February.
To the Jays fans...Do you think the pitch clock might explain the problem with Manoah? I recall he was a methodical worker.
Cole brings up some good points here.
For combination Blue Jay/ RUSH fans, Geddy Lee was in his season seat tonight at the home opener. It looks like he's sitting one row higher this year. Around the 5th or 6th inning when the broadcast was getting ready to cut to a commercial, they showed him and Dan Shulman said something like "there's Jays Super fan Geddy Lee". Well, the poor guy was in the process of taking his first bite of an enormous hot dog loaded with toppings. I had visions of George Costanza eating his sundae at a tennis match, but Geddy kept it neat. I hope the dog was Kosher. By the 8th inning his seat was empty.
"And the men who eat giant hot dogs
Must be the ones to start
To mould a new reality.
Onions make him fart.................."
"And the men who eat giant hot dogs
Must be the ones to start
To mould a new reality.
Onions make him fart.................."
Or maybe pitchers are throwing harder than what the arm is meant to endure.NEW YORK -- Gerrit Cole threw a baseball for the first time in four weeks Monday. He threw it 25 times from 60 feet. He noted 22 of the 25 tosses hit his target.
The catch session, the first of three scheduled this week, represented an important checkpoint in Cole's recovery from nerve inflammation in his right elbow that will sideline him at least until late May. That's a better outlook than a few of his peers across the majors.
Cole is one of several prominent pitchers to sustain a major arm injury since teams reported for spring training in February. The recent surge was unnerving enough for Tony Clark, the Major League Baseball Players Association executive director, to release a statement Saturday blaming the increase in elbow injuries on the pitch clock. Major League Baseball responded with its own statement, without attribution, dismissing Clark's thesis that day, pointing to the rise of pitcher injuries in recent decades, long before the pitch clock was enforced.
For 20 minutes Monday, Cole, the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, addressed the surge of injuries and the ensuing exchange between the parties, saying he was "disheartened" by the back-and-forth.
7hJeff Passan
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"I'm just frustrated it's a combative issue," he said. "It's like, 'OK, we have divorced parents and the child's misbehaving and we can't get on the same page to get the child to behave.' Not that the players are misbehaving, but we have an issue here and we need to get on the same page to at least try and fix it."
In the meantime, numerous pitchers are dealing with similar injuries.
Across the clubhouse from Cole on Monday was Jonathan Loaisiga, diagnosed with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow. He said he is tentatively scheduled to undergo season-ending surgery next weekend.
Across the field were the Miami Marlins, the team perhaps hardest hit by pitcher injuries. Last week, the club announced 21-year-old Eury Perez, one of the sport's top young pitchers, will undergo Tommy John surgery. He joined fellow starters Sandy Alcantara (elbow), Edward Cabrera (shoulder) and Braxton Garrett (shoulder) on the Marlins' injured list.
In addition to Perez, Guardians ace Shane Bieber found out he needed Tommy John surgery, and an MRI revealed structural damage in Braves ace Spencer Strider's elbow over the weekend. They joined a list of players out with significant arm injuries that includes Shohei Ohtani, Jacob deGrom, Robbie Ray, Shane McClanahan, Walker Buehler, Lucas Giolito and Dustin May, among others.
Cole said he didn't have any solutions for the problem but contended MLB's assertion -- that the pitch clock isn't a factor in the injuries -- after one season of implementation is "shortsighted."
"We are going to really understand the effects of ... The pitch clock maybe five years down the road," Cole said. "But to dismiss it out of hand, I didn't think that was helpful to the situation. I think the players are obviously the most important aspect of this industry and this product. And the care of the players should be of utmost importance to both sides."
Cole, 33, recalled "a couple of situations" early last season when he was caught off guard by fatigue. He said he believes the pitch clock was the reason, but he was "able to handle it." Fellow Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt said the clock is a factor.
"I think it can play a factor for sure," Schmidt said. "I think when you're having a high-stress inning and it's like that thing seems like it's almost zero seconds every single time when there's runners on base and you're rushing to get back. So it definitely plays a factor."
Cole argued the pitch clock is just one variable introduced in recent years that could have negatively impacted pitchers. He noted the shortened ramp-ups before the 2020 and 2022 seasons, the crackdown on pitchers using foreign substances for grip and the industry's relentless arms race to throw harder and spin the ball more than ever as other possible elements.
"I think it's just irresponsible for either side to say any one of those things definitely has no impact on pitchers' elbows or shoulders," Cole said. "That's not helpful."
Cole 'disheartened' by discourse over arm injuries
Yankees' Gerrit Cole is one of several prominent pitchers to sustain a major arm injury since teams reported for spring training in February.
To the Jays fans...Do you think the pitch clock might explain the problem with Manoah? I recall he was a methodical worker.
Cole brings up some good points here.
