MLB 2012 Season

[DodgerKing]

Listening to MLB radio on XM and they are ripping Campos apart. Not only criticizing his awful strike zone, but his extremely poor decisions, not just for yesterday's game, but many others he has called.

Evidently Campos is a part time ump and wants to prove himself. He is only proving himself worthy of never being full time.

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[Mets82]

I saw highlights of the Pirates/Dodgers game yesterday and it was weird with all the ejections plus the umpire. I think some of these umpires go on serious ego trips which is why they throw people out of games.

 

[salsadancer7]

Gianacarlo Stanton last night hit the longest HR of the year so far...494 feet at Coors.

Wow....

 

[AntAltMike]

The Red Sox, as of this moment, after beating the Yankees this afternoon, trail Tampa by seven, Baltimore and Detroit by six and Los Angeles and Oakland by five and a half.

The Red Sox have 41 games left, the Angels have 42, Tampa Bay, Baltimore and Detroit have 43 and Oakland has 44. These numbers will change in a few hours.

So if the Red Sox manage to win seven out of ten down the stretch, but if any two teams ahead of them win six out of ten, the Red Sox miss the wild card by about two games.

Simple arithmetic says that since the five teams they trail each have won only 53 to 54% of the games they have played, then if they continued to do so, the Red Sox could catch them by playing .700 ball for the remaining six weeks, but unfortunately, compound probabilities don't work like that. It is likely that two of those four teams will win more than 53 to 54% while two will win less. So the Red Sox will also need an 8-2 stretch to crawl back into this,

The Red Sox ace in the hole might be Aceves. Bailey has now pitched three times in four days, and if he is installed as the closer, Aceves can replace Cook or (gulp) Beckett in the rotation. Jon Lester, who is finally rolling, has nine starts remaining, including the final game of the regular season against the Yankees.

 

[Mets82]

I dont know if the Red Sox have enought to make it. Bucholtz has been very good for them but Beckett and Lester need to be like Beckett and Lester and honestly, I think time is running out. Even if Beckett and Lester were .500 pitchers this year, they would still be a little ahead of where they are now.

 

[raoul5788]

A word about umpiring from one who has been there. I umpired fast pitch softball for 25 years. I wasn't the best, but I did move up to do some college and semi-pro games so I have some experience to relate. First, I agree that there are some umps in the majors who shouldn't be there, based on their attitude or lack of ability. However, players seem to think that they should be immune to bad behavior themselves. Can you imagine a second baseman booting a ground ball and the umpire yelling at him "you suck!" Of course not, but somehow if an ump misses a call, players and fans alike think it's perfectly okay to berate him! Why? Should he be perfect? Except for a very few like Bob Davidson and Joe West, the major league umps get the vast majority of their calls right. Perfect? Of course not, but then, it wouldn't be baseball! JMHO.

 

[DodgerKing]

The Dodgers and Braves just played one of the weirdest games.

All hits by both teams were for extra bases, no singles at all. Four hits by the Dodgers, all HRs. Five hits for the Braves, 3 Doubles, 1 HR, and 1 Triple.

The Dodgers scored all 6 runs on HRs and all of the 4 hits they had were HRs.

The Dodgers went back to back to back for HRs in the 2nd inning: Hanley Ramirez, James Loney, and Luis Cruz. All solo shots

Hanley hit 2 of the 4 HRs and drove in 4 of the six runs: One solo shot and one 3-run HR (two runners got on by a walk ahead of him)

 

[DodgerKing]

In 23 games with the Dodgers, Hanley Ramirez has 4 HRs, 27 RBIs, and his batting average jumped 15 points from .249 to .264. In the month of August alone he is batting .362 with 15 RBIs.

 

[AntAltMike]

Those are rather ordinary numbers for a Dodger's, stretch run acquisition of a Ramirez.

[B]Year Age Tm Lg G  PA  AB  R  H  2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB  SO  BA   OBP  SLG[/B]

Manny:
2008 36 LAD NL 53 229 187 36 74 14  0 17  53  2  0 35  38 .396 .489 .743 

Hanley:
2012 28 LAD NL 23 102  91 16 30  6  1  4  27  2  1  9  14 .330 .388 .549

 

[DodgerKing]

Wow! I just realized the Angels lost last night. What in the heck happened?

I watched the first 4 innings and they were up 8-0. I turned the game off writing it off as a one sided boring definite win for them.

They blew an 8 run lead

 

[AntAltMike]

By my informal tally, there have been more gigantic, blown leads this year by contender/pretenders than ever before.

 

[salsadancer7]

In 23 games with the Dodgers, Hanley Ramirez has 4 HRs, 27 RBIs, and his batting average jumped 15 points from .249 to .264. In the month of August alone he is batting .362 with 15 RBIs.

That bastard...! I knew this would happen... :-(

 

[KCK_Halo]

I NEVER thought I would write this, but painful as it may be, it is time for DiPoto to cut bait and fire Mike and his entire staff. Yet another pitcher is starting a game looking like a deer in the headlights walking in runs and hitting batters. Everything is out-of-synch in Anaheim right now and the season is lost. Time to make a statement NOW!

 

[SabresRule]

It would be staggering if the Angels miss the playoffs at the expense of Oakland or Baltimore.

 

[KCK_Halo]

It would be staggering if the Angels miss the playoffs at the expense of Oakland or Baltimore.

I don't know who will be in the AL playoffs but it will not be the Angels this postseason.

 

[lsilvest]

In 23 games with the Dodgers, Hanley Ramirez has 4 HRs, 27 RBIs, and his batting average jumped 15 points from .249 to .264. In the month of August alone he is batting .362 with 15 RBIs.

Maybe he's been in Melky's medicine cabinet?

 

[Jimbo]

I NEVER thought I would write this, but painful as it may be, it is time for DiPoto to cut bait and fire Mike and his entire staff. Yet another pitcher is starting a game looking like a deer in the headlights walking in runs and hitting batters. Everything is out-of-synch in Anaheim right now and the season is lost. Time to make a statement NOW!

It would be staggering if the Angels miss the playoffs at the expense of Oakland or Baltimore.

It would be Staggering if they actually fire Mike.
He'd be unemployed until people dialed his phone number which would be about 5 minutes.

Fwiw, the Tigers had better JUMP at the chance to get someone with Mikes quality to Manager them ... I would love it...

 

[salsadancer7]

Maybe he's been in Melky's medicine cabinet?

No. Read my post from Deadspin about Melky and you might think differently Personally, he does carry the burden of "being the man" in the lineup. He had that in Miami. in LA, the man is Kemp. Period. In LA, there is pressure, but no where near as much as he had in Miami because the offensive revolved around him.

 

[DodgerKing]

Maybe he's been in Melky's medicine cabinet?

Actually, I would not be surprised.

Just heard on MLB Radio from really good sources that there will be another west coast player whose name will be made public in the next couple of days. He said that he has ties to Miami.

 

[salsadancer7]

Actually, I would not be surprised.

Just heard on MLB Radio from really good sources that there will be another west coast player whose name will be made public in the next couple of days. He said that he has ties to Miami.

The team or the city?