Posted on 07/31/2017 1:38:47 PM PDT by TBP
The Yankees are officially all-in.
The team acquired Sonny Gray from the A’s an hour before the trade deadline, The Post’s Joel Sherman confirmed. The Yankees sent heralded prospects Dustin Fowler, Jorge Mateo and James Kaprielian for the 27-year-old.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
All in all, deadline day saw 40 players move in 14 transactions.
http://nypost.com/2017/07/31/where-everyone-landed-in-mlb-trade-deadline-that-exploded-late/
Oakland will just trade those prospects next year.
No, they’ll get 5+ years of major-league service out of them and deal them when they’re up for free agency.
Punished with the Bills??!! Are you sure youi don’t need grief counselling?
I follow you on the MLB channel. I, unfortunately, get it as part of my cable and I also feel sick every time I watch a game on TV until the announcers say something so stupid I wonder who hires them. And that goes for the MLB channel on their followup descriptions post game.
I’m an ex-player, college, and umpire, as high as class A officiating, and I have been a student of the game since the mid fifties. My failing health chased me out. But I can promise you, I know when a player or coach screws up and it sickens me for the announcers to blame it on the umpires, bad hops, the sun or shadows, or the dust in the air and think people with some history believe them. But the further vexing is they probably do as the fans have been force fed a substandard game, with lowered mounds, illegal pitches based upon the ball and what gets on it, and a ball wound so tight I’m surprised the scene from The Natural when the ball disintegrates doesn’t actually happen. They have hot bats, hot balls, and a list of foreign players trained from age three and up in schools by the parent clubs to keep the contracts down for a majority of the players so they can establish their stars. Is everybody a potential superstar in baseball? Are there no journeymen players anymore. And if I hear the phrase, “they do it as well as anyone in the game,” again, my lunch will be gone.
I also remember the NY Giants. (Lord, haven’t heard that name in a long time) I can even tell you the starting lineup from their last year in the Polo Ground.
No, the game has been ruined with money, questionable actions by owners and unions, and a really good media program to protect it. Sad.
rwood
“a stopwatch on the pitcher.”
They already got your back on that one. A modified version of Rule 8.04, which discourages unnecessary delays by the pitcher, shall apply. Rule 8.04 requires the pitcher to deliver the ball to the batter within 12 seconds after he receives the ball with the bases unoccupied. The penalty prescribed by Rule 8.04 for a pitcher’s violation of the Rule is that the umpire shall call a “Ball.”
I strongly rooted for the Giants when they arrived on the left coast in the late fifties. The magic of Mays in center, and starters like Johnny Antonelli and Mike McCormick and that floating knuckle curve of Stu miller’s was fun for a child of the game to watch.
I stopped rooting for them a few years back when they hired Oral Hershiser to be their pitching coach. He was a main negotiator during the baseball strike in the the mid nineties and for a, so called, Christian, blantantly lied about the intent of the strike and what the players were trying to accomplish on numerous occasions. I can put up with errors. I can’t with liars. So I don’t root for anyone anymore. But I’m tired of seeing the Yankees and the Red Sox. And even more tired of hearing the rah rah section called announcers try to lie to cover their mistakes and just plain inadequate play. Way too many times less than major league level. And sometimes less than class B.
rwood
Glad to see he is doing so well. So many professional athletes during that era fell apart financially after they leave “the game” and try to open businesses based upon their notoriety like restaurants and bowling alleys. A few like Mays, Aaron, Namath, and Joe Lewis go into meet and greet situations working for peanuts for organizations like casinos and large corporations. And when the next generation steps into the fray, they are just paper heroes, not real ones. That group, who has to take up the slack of the last generation that actually saw the players, have no idea what the did or what it took to get it done. They only know 100 mile an hour fastballs and hot balls going 350 feet off a check swing mistake.
I was in attendance when Mays hit a home run to right field at Candlestick. But, it wasn’t that simple. As you know, the ball didn’t carry well in the evening, and the wind was blowing that direction. So after two strikes, he shifted his feet, and took the ball to right and out. Simple right? Also saw Mays stop at first base on balls he could have made into a double to they would pitch to Willie McCovey instead of around him. But that was Mays.
rwood
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