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Post by bad guy™ on May 17, 2016 17:26:10 GMT -5
Today will forever be remembered as the day the Pirates actually spent money to re-sign a player. Don't worry, he'll be traded before the final year of his deal and we'll somehow get another Yankees catcher. If the Pirates are good at anything, it's teaching old pitchers how to throw again and helping rather sub par Yanks catchers earn big contracts elsewhere.
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Post by LA Times on May 17, 2016 18:18:50 GMT -5
Pirates sign Francisco Cervelli to a 3-year $31 million contract extension.... WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN WHERE FRANCISCO CERVELLI IS A $10+ MILLION DOLLAR A YEAR PLAYER? This is why we can't have nice things.... Is Francisco Cervelli the moron who claps his hands as he is rounding the bases after hitting a home run?
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Post by IRS on May 18, 2016 15:05:08 GMT -5
The Phillies are tied for for 1st place, and have the second best record in the Majors.
Next stop... WORLD SERIES, BABY!
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Post by bad guy™ on May 18, 2016 19:36:02 GMT -5
The Phillies are tied for for 1st place, and have the second best record in the Majors. Next stop... WORLD SERIES, BABY! When are they due for a clubbing by the NL Central?
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Post by IRS on May 18, 2016 19:49:50 GMT -5
The Phillies are tied for for 1st place, and have the second best record in the Majors. Next stop... WORLD SERIES, BABY! When are they due for a clubbing by the NL Central? Like two weeks.
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Post by bad guy™ on May 18, 2016 19:55:22 GMT -5
When are they due for a clubbing by the NL Central? Like two weeks. Expect to get swept by Chicago and take one from either the Cards or Pirates and get swept by the other. The Central is out of this world good right now. Philly may have the second best record in the NL but there's quite a few Central teams and Easy teams flanking you on both ends.
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Post by IRS on May 18, 2016 20:07:44 GMT -5
Like two weeks. Expect to get swept by Chicago and take one from either the Cards or Pirates and get swept by the other. The Central is out of this world good right now. Philly may have the second best record in the NL but there's quite a few Central teams and Easy teams flanking you on both ends. We face the Cubs twice in a week, I believe. And the Nats. It's not looking too pretty. Meh. I'm enjoying the ride while it lasts.
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Post by bigshab421 on May 19, 2016 11:57:56 GMT -5
Pirates sign Francisco Cervelli to a 3-year $31 million contract extension.... WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN WHERE FRANCISCO CERVELLI IS A $10+ MILLION DOLLAR A YEAR PLAYER? This is why we can't have nice things.... MARTIN AB BA OBP SLG OPS HR RBI R SB WAR ($15 million 2016, $20 million 2017-2019)2015 441 .240 .329 .458 .787 23 77 76 4 3.3 2016 103 .165 .235 .175 .410 0 8 5 0 -0.8 CERVELLI AB BA OBP SLG OPS HR RBI R SB WAR ($3.5 million 2016, $9mil 2017, $10.5mil 2018, $11.5mil 2019)2015 451 .295 .370 .401 .771 7 43 56 1 3.2 2016 116 .276 .386 .319 .705 0 18 11 1 0.5 Most Called Strikes Above Average
Since the start of last season, these catchers lead the league in number of called strikes gotten compared to the average MLB catcher. Francisco Cervelli, PIT 241.4
Yasmani Grandal, LAD 201.6 Tyler Flowers , ATL 179.8 Jason Castro, HOU 137.7 Buster Posey, SF 131.8 So he is the best pitch framer in the MLB, an above average bat for the catcher's position, is only 30 years old, and is consistent contributor with the Pirates. If he hit the open market, he would easily start at $15 million per season. VITA BELLA!! GO BUCS
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on May 19, 2016 14:01:21 GMT -5
Pirates sign Francisco Cervelli to a 3-year $31 million contract extension.... WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN WHERE FRANCISCO CERVELLI IS A $10+ MILLION DOLLAR A YEAR PLAYER? This is why we can't have nice things.... MARTIN AB BA OBP SLG OPS HR RBI R SB WAR ($15 million 2016, $20 million 2017-2019)2015 441 .240 .329 .458 .787 23 77 76 4 3.3 2016 103 .165 .235 .175 .410 0 8 5 0 -0.8 CERVELLI AB BA OBP SLG OPS HR RBI R SB WAR ($3.5 million 2016, $9mil 2017, $10.5mil 2018, $11.5mil 2019)2015 451 .295 .370 .401 .771 7 43 56 1 3.2 2016 116 .276 .386 .319 .705 0 18 11 1 0.5 Most Called Strikes Above Average
Since the start of last season, these catchers lead the league in number of called strikes gotten compared to the average MLB catcher. Francisco Cervelli, PIT 241.4
Yasmani Grandal, LAD 201.6 Tyler Flowers , ATL 179.8 Jason Castro, HOU 137.7 Buster Posey, SF 131.8 So he is the best pitch framer in the MLB, an above average bat for the catcher's position, is only 30 years old, and is consistent contributor with the Pirates. If he hit the open market, he would easily start at $15 million per season. VITA BELLA!! GO BUCS He's never driven in more than 43 runs in his life......Bryce Harper should get $50 million a year then. MLB can't get to the point where the starting salary for a mediocre player is $15 million. Defensive specialists didn't used to make dick in MLB....now all of a sudden bench players make what used to be a salary reserved for ELITE players. Baseball is getting out of control. This just ruined the market because everyone who is better or thinks they're better than Cervelli just raised their asking price. Jorge Posada never made more than $13 million a year and he was one of the best hitting catchers in the game, years with 80-100+ RBI's and 20-30 HR's, 5-time All-Star and 5-time Word Champion. Now, you get a guy who drives in under 50 RBI for that price. MIKE PIAZZA only had 5 years of his career where he got above the $10 million dollar range and he's in THE HALL OF FAME! Piazza and Posada didn't stop playing that long ago either, it's not like I'm up here being like "Nolan Ryan usually only made one million dollars a year", I know the game has changed..... I'm sorry, just because there are guys making too much that aren't living up to the contract does not mean that the threshold for a $10 million dollar a year player should begin with Francisco Cervelli. He's a defensive specialist that should be making $1.5 million a year tops. I like Cervelli, he's a little obnoxious, but we've had him, he won a ring with us, he seems like a good kid even though he took steroids and got suspended in the Biogenisis thing.....but in my eyes, he's not a $10 million dollar a year player. The Jays overpaid for Martin and as of right now Cervelli is outplaying him, but that doesn't make Cervelli a $10 million dollar a year player. $10 million dollar a year players used to give you at least .280/30/100.......now, $10 million gets you maybe .250/10/50.
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Post by bigshab421 on May 19, 2016 14:08:15 GMT -5
MARTIN AB BA OBP SLG OPS HR RBI R SB WAR ($15 million 2016, $20 million 2017-2019)2015 441 .240 .329 .458 .787 23 77 76 4 3.3 2016 103 .165 .235 .175 .410 0 8 5 0 -0.8 CERVELLI AB BA OBP SLG OPS HR RBI R SB WAR ($3.5 million 2016, $9mil 2017, $10.5mil 2018, $11.5mil 2019)2015 451 .295 .370 .401 .771 7 43 56 1 3.2 2016 116 .276 .386 .319 .705 0 18 11 1 0.5 Most Called Strikes Above Average
Since the start of last season, these catchers lead the league in number of called strikes gotten compared to the average MLB catcher. Francisco Cervelli, PIT 241.4
Yasmani Grandal, LAD 201.6 Tyler Flowers , ATL 179.8 Jason Castro, HOU 137.7 Buster Posey, SF 131.8 So he is the best pitch framer in the MLB, an above average bat for the catcher's position, is only 30 years old, and is consistent contributor with the Pirates. If he hit the open market, he would easily start at $15 million per season. VITA BELLA!! GO BUCS He's never driven in more than 43 runs in his life......Bryce Harper should get $50 million a year then. MLB can't get to the point where the starting salary for a mediocre player is $15 million. Defensive specialists didn't used to make dick in MLB....now all of a sudden bench players make what used to be a salary reserved for ELITE players. Baseball is getting out of control. This just ruined the market because everyone who is better or thinks they're better than Cervelli just raised their asking price. Jorge Posada never made more than $13 million a year and he was one of the best hitting catchers in the game, years with 80-100+ RBI's and 20-30 HR's, 5-time All-Star and 5-time Word Champion. Now, you get a guy who drives in under 50 RBI for that price. MIKE PIAZZA only had 5 years of his career where he got above the $10 million dollar range and he's in THE HALL OF FAME! Piazza and Posada didn't stop playing that long ago either, it's not like I'm up here being like "Nolan Ryan usually only made one million dollars a year", I know the game has changed..... I'm sorry, just because there are guys making too much that aren't living up to the contract does not mean that the threshold for a $10 million dollar a year player should begin with Francisco Cervelli. He's a defensive specialist that should be making $1.5 million a year tops. I like Cervelli, he's a little obnoxious, but we've had him, he won a ring with us, he seems like a good kid even though he took steroids and got suspended in the Biogenisis thing.....but in my eyes, he's not a $10 million dollar a year player. The Jays overpaid for Martin and as of right now Cervelli is outplaying him, but that doesn't make Cervelli a $10 million dollar a year player. $10 million dollar a year players used to give you at least .280/30/100.......now, $10 million gets you maybe .250/10/50. Nobody in the MLB is worth the money they are getting, I agree with you. But as far as it goes, Cervelli is definitely a $10 million dollar player. He has been a consistent hitter, never below .275, outstanding blocker and framer, and from all reports a MAJOR leader inside the Pirates clubhouse.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2016 16:04:06 GMT -5
8 game suspension for Odor.
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Post by IRS on May 20, 2016 0:27:18 GMT -5
8 game suspension for Odor. That stinks. (Yes, I was just going for the pun. Obviously well deserved.)
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on May 20, 2016 9:49:42 GMT -5
Whatever coach has the responsibiity for making sure that the Yankees know how to run the bases should be fired immediately. I don't think there is a team in the game that runs the bases worse than the Yankees right now. They just have no idea what they are doing out there. Castro has been caught sleeping how many times straying too far off a base.....it's happend at 2nd base and 3rd base most of the time, which is WAY worse than just getting picked off of first.
The Yankees just seem to get horrible reads on balls, last night you got Beltran not even knowing how many outs there are and he's running back to 2nd base on a ball dropped in the outfield WITH TWO OUTS!
And on another note....Girardi has found his new favorite toy, using Betances, Miller and Chapman all in the same game after he said he was going to try and avoid using them all in games so that you always had at least ONE of them available to close.....well, he used all 3 of them on:
May 14 May 15 May 18 May 19
Those are back to back games (14,15) and (18,19)....so Girardi left himself no bullpen on May 16 and he actually admitted throwing the game away by calling up rookie Chad Green to start istead of wasting Pineda or Eovaldi in a game where Betances, Miller, and Chapman were not available....., and now he's got NO BULLPEN for tonight, because he's got a rule about not using a guy more than 2 games in a row.
So you've got CC Sabathia tonight making his first start off the DL, he doesn't go deep into games anymore, and the Yankees do not have Betances, Miller, and Chapman, so unless the Yankees bats somehow come alive.......you've got no relief pitchers you can trust coming out of that pen except Shreve SOMETIMES.
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Post by LA Times on May 20, 2016 21:56:31 GMT -5
Shin Soo Choo came back after 6 weeks on the DL with a calf injury and then got injured after 2 innings tonight
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Post by LA Times on May 21, 2016 20:38:04 GMT -5
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Post by LA Times on May 25, 2016 19:30:01 GMT -5
I was bored at work, so I started voting for the MLB All Star Game. Here are my picks:
American League 1B-Eric Hosmer 2B-Ian Kinsler SS-Xander Bogaerts 3B-Evan Longoria OF-Norichika Aoki OF-Jose Bautista OF-Shin Soo Choo C-Kurt Suzuki DH-David Ortiz
National League 1B-Ryan Howard 2B-Daniel Murphy SS-Trevor Story 3B-Kris Bryant OF-Yoenis Cespedes OF-Bryce Harper OF-Jayson Werth C-Wellington Castillo
Who are your picks?
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Post by bad guy™ on May 25, 2016 19:33:00 GMT -5
Haven't voted yet but I'm hard pressed to put my Homerism aside and not send Harrison, Marte or The Shark to the game. They've been very good this season. Not as good as in the past, but it's fair to say those three are the only reason the Pirates are in as good a spot as they're sitting.
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Post by IRS on May 27, 2016 18:58:36 GMT -5
I know for sure Odubel Herrera will be one. What a ing steal he was. In other news, losing isn't as fun as winning.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2016 1:16:38 GMT -5
in Twins.
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Post by sean™ on May 28, 2016 16:43:54 GMT -5
Holy ****. That was quite sweet.
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