*** OFFICIAL *** 2015 MLB Thread

[Dan Druff]

Enjoy your 3-month rental of Cueto.

Yes, he was the best available pitcher who was up for trade, but he's not staying in KC past 2015.

Also, your rotation sucks so far this year, so your team may not look quite as sweet this year in the postseason.

So so so much fail in such a short post.

No shit Cueto is a 3-month rental. Unlike your GM and team we dont spend ridiculous amounts of money on free agent players, only to not really accomplish anything. Did you think you made a sick burn by telling me he is a rental player like I didnt know that already? And he is not the best pitcher available by trade, that would be Cole Hamels. Im sure if LA gets him later this week you will all of a sudden have an epiphany and realize that.

Our rotation sucks and you have two of the best pitchers in baseball. Wanna guess who's team has allowed less runs? How has that dominant regular season pitching done for you in the post season? Oh yeah, Kershaw chokes I forgot. And since you have such a great team, wanna compare records? I didnt think so. Poor man's Dodgers my ass. The Royals are head and shoulders above the Dodgers (Dan Druff pun and all). The Royals nearly won the Series last year. Maybe if you guys spend another $300-$400 million you can get there. Keep chugging away you little engines, you'll get to the top eventually. And let me tell you the scenery is pretty sweet up here.

Kansas City is just rounding into form and everyone should be worried about them. Cueto added to the staff. Volquez has been every bit as good as Shields last year. Duffy has been amazing since coming off the DL, throwing all quality starts. Ventura just went out yesterday and threw 7 innings of 1 run ball. So look up all the stats you want about our starters ERA, but guess what in the playoffs we aint starting Guthrie or Vargas or Chris Young. Thats where the bloated starter stats come from.

Say anything critical about the Royals, and searles acts like you just insulted his momma.

First off, you're incorrect about Cueto/Hamels. Cueto is the better pitcher. Do you realize that Cueto's WORST season in the last 5 years was 2013, where he had a 2.82 ERA and missed most of the year with injury? He hasn't had an ERA above 3.00 since 2010. He hasn't lost more than 9 games since 2009. He pitched half his games in a ballpark that favors hitters. He's only 29 years old. 4 of the last 5 years he's had a WHIP under 1.100. Hamels has finished with below a 3.00 ERA only twice in his 10 year career, and his WHIP has been over 1.100 in eight of those ten years. So no question Cueto is better, and you have no clue.

Cueto is also better because the broke ass Royals can't afford Hamels (who has a few years left on his contract), while Cueto is just a rental. So they went with the rental.

And now you're trumpeting Edinson Volquez?



You mean him of the 4.30 career ERA and the 1.433 career WHIP? LOL. Yeah, good luck with him keeping up his past 1 1/2 seasons in the long term. Hilarious that you think he's replacing Shields.

Bottom line is that your team won fewer than 89 games, and ALMOST won the World Series thanks to an improbable late season hot streak. Too bad ALMOST doesn't count.

Good luck riding Edinson Volquez to erase the ALMOST this year.

[jsearles22]

So so so much fail in such a short post.

No shit Cueto is a 3-month rental. Unlike your GM and team we dont spend ridiculous amounts of money on free agent players, only to not really accomplish anything. Did you think you made a sick burn by telling me he is a rental player like I didnt know that already? And he is not the best pitcher available by trade, that would be Cole Hamels. Im sure if LA gets him later this week you will all of a sudden have an epiphany and realize that.

Our rotation sucks and you have two of the best pitchers in baseball. Wanna guess who's team has allowed less runs? How has that dominant regular season pitching done for you in the post season? Oh yeah, Kershaw chokes I forgot. And since you have such a great team, wanna compare records? I didnt think so. Poor man's Dodgers my ass. The Royals are head and shoulders above the Dodgers (Dan Druff pun and all). The Royals nearly won the Series last year. Maybe if you guys spend another $300-$400 million you can get there. Keep chugging away you little engines, you'll get to the top eventually. And let me tell you the scenery is pretty sweet up here.

Kansas City is just rounding into form and everyone should be worried about them. Cueto added to the staff. Volquez has been every bit as good as Shields last year. Duffy has been amazing since coming off the DL, throwing all quality starts. Ventura just went out yesterday and threw 7 innings of 1 run ball. So look up all the stats you want about our starters ERA, but guess what in the playoffs we aint starting Guthrie or Vargas or Chris Young. Thats where the bloated starter stats come from.

Say anything critical about the Royals, and searles acts like you just insulted his momma.

First off, you're incorrect about Cueto/Hamels. Cueto is the better pitcher. Do you realize that Cueto's WORST season in the last 5 years was 2013, where he had a 2.82 ERA and missed most of the year with injury? He hasn't had an ERA above 3.00 since 2010. He hasn't lost more than 9 games since 2009. He pitched half his games in a ballpark that favors hitters. He's only 29 years old. 4 of the last 5 years he's had a WHIP under 1.100. Hamels has finished with below a 3.00 ERA only twice in his 10 year career, and his WHIP has been over 1.100 in eight of those ten years. So no question Cueto is better, and you have no clue.

Cueto is also better because the broke ass Royals can't afford Hamels (who has a few years left on his contract), while Cueto is just a rental. So they went with the rental.

And now you're trumpeting Edinson Volquez?



You mean him of the 4.30 career ERA and the 1.433 career WHIP? LOL. Yeah, good luck with him keeping up his past 1 1/2 seasons in the long term. Hilarious that you think he's replacing Shields.

Bottom line is that your team won fewer than 89 games, and ALMOST won the World Series thanks to an improbable late season hot streak. Too bad ALMOST doesn't count.

Good luck riding Edinson Volquez to erase the ALMOST this year.

I understand it hurts that the small market broke ass Royals have had more playoff success than the might Dodgers over the last 30 years. I get it Druff. It hurts

I said Volquez has been better than Shields was last year. Do you dispute that? Of course you can't.

Last longer bet?

[gut]

fun fact from this article http://sports.yahoo.com/news/parity-...3418--mlb.html

Yet Oakland - with the worst record in the American League - is only nine games behind the second wild card.

It's been over a half-century since an entire league was within nine games of a postseason spot at this point in the year, and what's happening in the AL speaks not only to the effect of an extra wild card - but also to a level of parity that has become the norm in baseball in recent years.

On the morning of July 27, 1958, the entire eight-team National League was within 8 1/2 games of first place, according to STATS LLC.

I would bet it has also been quite awhile (if ever) that the worst team in a league has a positive run differential at this late in the season. Oakland is 44-56 with a +37 run diff, meanwhile Washington is first in the NL east at 52-45 with a +30 run diff.

[Sanlmar]

Bottom line is that your team won fewer than 89 games, and ALMOST won the World Series thanks to an improbable late season hot streak. Too bad ALMOST doesn't count.

First, Cueto IS a 3 month rental. Royals are going for the title. Winning the World Series is the goal right? Well played. Hang on to your prospects and swap stories with Braves fans in coming years.

Annually, we wrestle with Druff's failure to accept the concept that there are two seasons in baseball - regular season & playoffs. Perhaps this might actually be a general Dodger misunderstanding of reality - both fans & coaches. Perhaps Druff just parrots what he hears locally.

Example of regular season pitching approach as opposed to playoffs. In the regular season it is better for a starter to go 7 innings and give up 3 runs than go 5 innings and give up none. In the playoffs it is the opposite. Relievers are no longer being saved for a rainy day.

Now this difference is huge for many reasons. Once the concept is brought to your attention anyone can noodle out why and how to construct your staff and coach your starters for the playoff tourny.

What I love about this example is that coaching this aspect of playoff baseball was not within Donnie Baseballs range. In 2013 Mattingly had Kershaw pitch 124 in a comfortable 6-1 win against Atlanta in game one. At home Ryu fucked around throwing 91 mph fastballs to conserve energy instead of letting it go and throwing 95 until he was tired. gave up 4 runs in 3 innings. Yeah, they went on to win because of big offense but this was bad playoff baseball (ok for Druff's regular season).

Kershaw later had to pitch on short rest after 124 pitches in game one. He still hadn't inked his contract for hundreds of millions and threatened to hurt himself. How they fucked with this kids arm and head was what contributed to the unraveling. Is Kershaw not clutch or does he play for idiots. Maybe I am getting off track but the stupidity of the Dodger playoff coaching makes me feel self satisfied and I won't be denied.

That .800 reg season run masked Mattingly's coaching flaws. Also credit the dopey GM and his bullpen.

The Royals are just continuing the beautiful team play from 2014. Improbable run? 2013 Red Sox perhaps. 2014/2015 Royals are erasing this variance nonsense.

[simpdog]

Bottom line is that your team won fewer than 89 games, and ALMOST won the World Series thanks to an improbable late season hot streak. Too bad ALMOST doesn't count.

First, Cueto IS a 3 month rental. Royals are going for the title. Winning the World Series is the goal right? Well played. Hang on to your prospects and swap stories with Braves fans in coming years.

Annually, we wrestle with Druff's failure to accept the concept that there are two seasons in baseball - regular season & playoffs. Perhaps this might actually be a general Dodger misunderstanding of reality - both fans & coaches. Perhaps Druff just parrots what he hears locally.

Example of regular season pitching approach as opposed to playoffs. In the regular season it is better for a starter to go 7 innings and give up 3 runs than go 5 innings and give up none. In the playoffs it is the opposite. Relievers are no longer being saved for a rainy day.

Now this difference is huge for many reasons. Once the concept is brought to your attention anyone can noodle out why and how to construct your staff and coach your starters for the playoff tourny.

What I love about this example is that coaching this aspect of playoff baseball was not within Donnie Baseballs range. In 2013 Mattingly had Kershaw pitch 124 in a comfortable 6-1 win against Atlanta in game one. At home Ryu fucked around throwing 91 mph fastballs to conserve energy instead of letting it go and throwing 95 until he was tired. gave up 4 runs in 3 innings. Yeah, they went on to win because of big offense but this was bad playoff baseball (ok for Druff's regular season).

Kershaw later had to pitch on short rest after 124 pitches in game one. He still hadn't inked his contract for hundreds of millions and threatened to hurt himself. How they fucked with this kids arm and head was what contributed to the unraveling. Is Kershaw not clutch or does he play for idiots. Maybe I am getting off track but the stupidity of the Dodger playoff coaching makes me feel self satisfied and I won't be denied.

That .800 reg season run masked Mattingly's coaching flaws. Also credit the dopey GM and his bullpen.

The Royals are just continuing the beautiful team play from 2014. Improbable run? 2013 Red Sox perhaps. 2014/2015 Royals are erasing this variance nonsense.

Good informative response.

I don't understand why Druff thinks finishing 2nd is that bad. Sure it's heart-breaking to lose in game 7 of the Series, but you got there.

Your young pups got some experience in the big show and anyone who is back is hungrier to get right the hell back there to finish the job.

[Sanlmar]

Greinke is my new binky.

So in 2013 the Dodgers go on a 42-8 run. Epic.

But in the second week of September when the Dodgers were a few victories away from clinching the division, something strange happened: they started losing. The Giants took 3 of 4 in Los Angeles including a 19-3 drubbing. Then they went to Arizona and dropped the first of a three game set. Los Angeles needed 2 wins to clinch.

Before the second game of the series, Mattingly addressed the team. He told them they were playing to clinch instead of playing to win. All they needed to do, Mattingly said, was put the division title out of their heads and just play for the day. Those in the room said it was an effective speech.

When he was finished, Zack Greinke stood up. "I've got something to say," Greinke told the room. This was unusual because Greinke wasn't prone to public speaking, but also because he was pitching that day, and most pitchers don't even like to make eye contact with other humans in the hours leading up their starts.

"I've been noticing something," Greinke said. His teammates leaned in. Greinke was generally thought to be the smartest, most observant guy on the roster. The room became silent.. This was gonna be good.

"Some of you guys have been doing number two and not washing your hands," said Greinke.

"It's not good. I even noticed it happening earlier today."

More silence.

"So if you guys could just be better about it that would be great," he said, and then he sat back down.

His teammates looked around the room at each other, stunned. They were expecting an insight into why they were losing, some brilliant observation that would help them bounce off the schneid. But Greinke wanted to talk bathroom hygiene. At first the players were not sure if he was kidding. But as the meeting broke up and they began heading out to the field and they realized he was serious, they laughed long and hard enough to shake off their tightness.

This is the best part....

When Puig's translator told him what Greinke had said, Puig didn't believe him. He asked Adrian Gonzalez if it was true, and Gonzalez confirmed that it was. Of Greinke, Puig said, Man that guy is crazy, and laughed.

Of course the Dodgers won that game.

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[chinamaniac]

Say anything critical about the Royals, and searles acts like you just insulted his momma.

First off, you're incorrect about Cueto/Hamels. Cueto is the better pitcher. Do you realize that Cueto's WORST season in the last 5 years was 2013, where he had a 2.82 ERA and missed most of the year with injury? He hasn't had an ERA above 3.00 since 2010. He hasn't lost more than 9 games since 2009. He pitched half his games in a ballpark that favors hitters. He's only 29 years old. 4 of the last 5 years he's had a WHIP under 1.100. Hamels has finished with below a 3.00 ERA only twice in his 10 year career, and his WHIP has been over 1.100 in eight of those ten years. So no question Cueto is better, and you have no clue.

Cueto is also better because the broke ass Royals can't afford Hamels (who has a few years left on his contract), while Cueto is just a rental. So they went with the rental.

And now you're trumpeting Edinson Volquez?



You mean him of the 4.30 career ERA and the 1.433 career WHIP? LOL. Yeah, good luck with him keeping up his past 1 1/2 seasons in the long term. Hilarious that you think he's replacing Shields.

Bottom line is that your team won fewer than 89 games, and ALMOST won the World Series thanks to an improbable late season hot streak. Too bad ALMOST doesn't count.

Good luck riding Edinson Volquez to erase the ALMOST this year.

I understand it hurts that the small market broke ass Royals have had more playoff success than the might Dodgers over the last 30 years. I get it Druff. It hurts

I said Volquez has been better than Shields was last year. Do you dispute that? Of course you can't.

Last longer bet?

[Suicide King]

Dodgers putting Puig up if the right deal comes along.

[ToasterOven]

I'm hoping the Tigers sell. They could get a Cueto like return for Price, plus a nice return for Cespedes and some prospects for Soria, Rajai Davis and Avila. Apparently, Dombrowski was in the clubhouse after this latest loss, so hopefully it was to deliver the news that the team is going to sell. The Tigers have been going for it for 10 years, give or take, and need to replenish the farm as much as possible.

Brutal year.

[ToasterOven]

Dodgers putting Puig up if the right deal comes along.

Sell low! The secret known only to baseball teams and bitcoin enthusiasts.

[Sanlmar]

I'm hoping the Tigers sell. They could get a Cueto like return for Price, plus a nice return for Cespedes and some prospects for Soria, Rajai Davis and Avila. Apparently, Dombrowski was in the clubhouse after this latest loss, so hopefully it was to deliver the news that the team is going to sell. The Tigers have been going for it for 10 years, give or take, and need to replenish the farm as much as possible.

Brutal year.

It was a good run Lew. yard sale

Heard talk if Sox GM gets sacked Dombrowski might get a look. I am sure it was a Yankees fan twisting the knife.

[jsearles22]

I understand it hurts that the small market broke ass Royals have had more playoff success than the might Dodgers over the last 30 years. I get it Druff. It hurts

I said Volquez has been better than Shields was last year. Do you dispute that? Of course you can't.

Last longer bet?

Royals won it in '85, you know within the last 30 years. LA won it in '88. They haven't been back since. We went to 3rd base game 7 last year. So yeah, my statement you boldest is true.

[ToasterOven]

Take it easy, Sizzle, 30 years is a long time. Settle down before a Giants, Yankees or Sox fan whips their dick out. Even a Marlins fan could give you a facial.

[ToasterOven]

I'm hoping the Tigers sell. They could get a Cueto like return for Price, plus a nice return for Cespedes and some prospects for Soria, Rajai Davis and Avila. Apparently, Dombrowski was in the clubhouse after this latest loss, so hopefully it was to deliver the news that the team is going to sell. The Tigers have been going for it for 10 years, give or take, and need to replenish the farm as much as possible.

Brutal year.

It was a good run Lew. yard sale

Heard talk if Sox GM gets sacked Dombrowski might get a look. I am sure it was a Yankees fan twisting the knife.

DD doesn't have a contract for next year. I think he's been pretty good, overall, considering he showed up when the Tigers had no major league team and no farm system.

[chinamaniac]

Royals won it in '85, you know within the last 30 years. LA won it in '88. They haven't been back since. We went to 3rd base game 7 last year. So yeah, my statement you boldest is true.

This is the 30th season AFTER the royals last won

Oh and the Dodgers have more success since 1981, why go with 1985?

[lewfather]

[Dan Druff]

Rockies shipped off Tulowitski to Toronto for.....

 

Jose Reyes?!!?!?

There's gotta be more to this, or it's an epic fail for Colorado.

[Charham]

Boy Detroit looked unstoppable at the start of the season but wow what an implosion. KC will be AL Champ, but if Yankees and/or Angels add an Ace, game on. No Al team has what it takes to beat NL this year. St louis and San Fran are putting it all together. I still think Puig is a poison for the locker room, and despite the two most exciting pitchers in the league, Dodgers can't pull it together. Washington if they can stay healthy may stay in it, but comes down to STL and SF in my opinion. Like watching Minnesota and Mets overachieve so far.

MY biggest bets so far this year were tonight on STL and SF, and earlier this year on Yankees pounding the Cubs and early Det Price games. I am staying on STL and SF against any mediocre team and when top pitchers are playing obv. Run line even in some cases. But the trend can change so beware.

[WillieMcFML]

rajai davis followed 30 twitter accounts related to the cards today- current/former players, media, etc

pretty weird

http://www.mlbdailydish.com/2015/7/2...son-on-twitter

https://twitter.com/rajai11davis/following


and after reading some comments regarding a possible trade, can anyone tell me why the cards (or anyone else for that matter) would covet davis?

i don't get it

[Suicide King]

Rockies shipped off Tulowitski to Toronto for.....

 

Jose Reyes?!!?!?

There's gotta be more to this, or it's an epic fail for Colorado.

And a minor leagues pitcher. Every pitcher must fucking die when their told they are going to play for the Rockies.