Rogdaddy

Days. ‘Til pitchers/catchers report to Camelback. C’mon baseball!

Series wins against both wild card teams (4-3 vs WAS & MIL).

Went 4-2 against ATL.

Only series loss (3-4) was vs STL, thanks to that brutal 4-game sweep the 2nd week of April. Came back and swept them in Aug.

Got a good deal on a 300 Blackout 10.5 in upper. Had a friend mention there are different rules for a "pistol build". Having trouble googling what exactly those special rules are. Help?

My 15yo has a teammate on the baseball team messing with him. It's not abusive or bullying, but the kid is definitely a punk. Stole his Gatorade last week during a scrimmage, drank it all, put it in his bag, then denied everything. We put gatorade in hydroflask this week, & my son catches him drinking it between innings.

Can't really fight with him (bigger kid & don't want that kind of attention from coaches). Don't want to be the parent that calls the other parent. Anyway... thoughts? Ideas?

3.6 WAR.

We only have 2 players on our entire team with more than 3.0 WAR. Minor & Lynn.

What are we getting from behind the dish? -1.9 WAR.

Ugh.

Between summer travel & Dish being in another network pissing match, I haven't been able to watch the games... what's wrong with Elvis?

Terrible in July. Not much better in Aug. .601 OPS in the last month, .564 in the last 2 wks, .451 in the last week. Yikes.

One week to go. TOR closer Ken Giles? PIT closer Felipe Vasquez? Royals lefty Jake Deikman? Tigers closer Shane Greene? Rangers reliever Jose LeClerc? SF reliever Will Smith?

Thoughts? Preferences?

... is god awful. Holy Moses, aside from Elvis (who has been middle-of-the-pack), we're getting nothing from the catching position, nothing from 3B, nothing from 2B, nothing but defense at 1B. C & 2B are beyond awful. Nobody... literally nobody in MLB is getting less from behind the plate & 2B than we are.

How are we 3 games out of the WC?

45-36, 9 games above .500... that in itself is a huge surprise to me. Pitching has blown me away. I figured our rotation of Tommy John rehabbers & bullpen of spares would have us 20 games back by now...

Maybe not quietly. But I don't think many would guess that Freese has outplayed (offensively) everyone but Bellinger.

1.000 OPS, .349 BABIP, .416 wOBA. Better than Muncy, Pederson, Turner, Seager, Verdugo.

Old man is balling out.