Red Mosquito

Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe have been reinstated by MLB.

I appreciate it!
That was a good read.

javy baez is having himself quite the first half of the year (especially compared to the last couple of years).

Chris_H_2 wrote:javy baez is having himself quite the first half of the year (especially compared to the last couple of years).

Javing himself a year

Simple Torture wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:javy baez is having himself quite the first half of the year (especially compared to the last couple of years).

Javing himself a year

I flipped open a book of the 2025 official rules of MLB and this was the first rule I read:

Rule 5.05, a3:
A fair ball passes over a fence or into the stands at a distance from home base of 250 feet or more. Such hit entitles the batter to a home run when he shall have touched all bases legally. A fair fly ball that passes out of the playing field at a point less than 250 feet from home base shall entitle the batter to advance to second base only

Obviously there are no current stadiums with a HR fence less than 250 feet from home plate. But if there was, and a batter hit a ball that crossed over the fence at a point less than 250 feet from home, it would be a double.

This concludes my post of useless information.

Still thinking about this Daulton Varsho attempt

Interesting play in the Mets/Dodgers game last night where a ball was bobbled in the outfield and then caught (between two players!) and the Mets thought they got a double play because a runner didn’t tag up correctly. Many years ago, Jerry Remy explained this during a broadcast and I’ve never forgotten it: the runner can leave as soon as the ball is touched, doesn’t matter when it actually enters the glove. Umps knew this of course and it was reviewed and called correctly. RIP Remdawg

Simple Torture wrote:Interesting play in the Mets/Dodgers game last night where a ball was bobbled in the outfield and then caught (between two players!) and the Mets thought they got a double play because a runner didn’t tag up correctly. Many years ago, Jerry Remy explained this during a broadcast and I’ve never forgotten it: the runner can leave as soon as the ball is touched, doesn’t matter when it actually enters the glove. Umps knew this of course and it was reviewed and called correctly. RIP Remdawg

I never knew this rule. Rumor has it the rule was created because in the early days of baseball there were outfielders who would intentionally bobble the ball as they ran closer towards home plate in attempt to keep the runner from tagging up.

Matters wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:Interesting play in the Mets/Dodgers game last night where a ball was bobbled in the outfield and then caught (between two players!) and the Mets thought they got a double play because a runner didn’t tag up correctly. Many years ago, Jerry Remy explained this during a broadcast and I’ve never forgotten it: the runner can leave as soon as the ball is touched, doesn’t matter when it actually enters the glove. Umps knew this of course and it was reviewed and called correctly. RIP Remdawg

I never knew this rule. Rumor has it the rule was created because in the early days of baseball there were outfielders who would intentionally bobble the ball as they ran closer towards home plate in attempt to keep the runner from tagging up.

If that’s the case, it’s probably in the same vein as bunting a third strike—something that could easily be abused.

Simple Torture wrote:

Matters wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:Interesting play in the Mets/Dodgers game last night where a ball was bobbled in the outfield and then caught (between two players!) and the Mets thought they got a double play because a runner didn’t tag up correctly. Many years ago, Jerry Remy explained this during a broadcast and I’ve never forgotten it: the runner can leave as soon as the ball is touched, doesn’t matter when it actually enters the glove. Umps knew this of course and it was reviewed and called correctly. RIP Remdawg

I never knew this rule. Rumor has it the rule was created because in the early days of baseball there were outfielders who would intentionally bobble the ball as they ran closer towards home plate in attempt to keep the runner from tagging up.

If that’s the case, it’s probably in the same vein as bunting a third strike—something that could easily be abused.

You wonder of Conforto knew the rule or just got lucky...

The Rockies are 9-50, a winning % of .153. The next worst team in the league, the awful White Sox have twice as many wins and won their 10th game almost a month ago on May 4.

Matters wrote:The Rockies are 9-50, a winning % of .153. The next worst team in the league, the awful White Sox have twice as many wins and won their 10th game almost a month ago on May 4.

For a variety of reasons (namely incentivizing ongoing success at every level), I wish the MLB would adopt a relegation system similar to that soccer is like in England. The minor league system in the U.S. is kind of lame because quality players, especially in farm systems for teams that aren't stacked with superstars, disappear routinely. So you only wind up going to games if someone really good is coming through town on a rehab stint.

I'd love to see the whole farm system scrapped and make it so garbage MLB teams could be relegated down and kick ass minor league teams could be moved up. Imagine a world where the A's, the Pirates, the Rockies, the White Sox, the Angels, etc. all had to invest in winning or lose a significant amount of the owners' revenue stream and the AAA teams wasn't glorified training camp scrimmages.

It’s a fun idea to think about, but in reality teams would just create their own baseball academies and the best young talent would get siphoned there and the teams that are the “minors” now would have an even shallower talent pool. The problem is you’ve got a draft, so the rights for the best players are held by the MLB teams, and they’re not going to let an unaffiliated team develop their guys for a few years. The infrastructure just isn’t there for the Sugar Land Space Cowboys to convince a blue-chip shortstop to forgo the MLB draft to sign with them, or for them to scout Latin American players and do the same thing.



I guess if you wanted to try something totally radical, limit the MLB draft to like 3 rounds and then have a separate draft for all the other levels, 3 rounds each. Leagues can only sign undrafted FAs once all the separate drafts are complete. Players can still choose to go to college but their rights do not revert at the next draft (sort of like the NHL, right?). Greatly reduce the international signing pool (it’s currently between 5 and 7 million, why not make it 2?) and you might be onto something.

Some perspective on why that won’t work:

As an example, the Mariners’ stadium seats 45,000. The AAA Rainiers’ stadium seats 6,500.

Yeah that's another obvious reason. Although in a league like the EPL, you do have some stadiums that seat >60,000 and some that seat under 25,000.

its got to be so frustrating being on that team..

doug rr wrote:its got to be so frustrating being on that team..

They’ve been swept 10 times already this season.

doug rr wrote:its got to be so frustrating being on that team..

go broncos