2016 MLB Season

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Interestingly, the Kansas City Royals resurgence has been entirely based on the "little" game, stringing hits together, adroit baserunning and stellar defense.

Works especially well for them especially with KC being a smaller market team ! There's always more than one way to play a game. Different styles keeps things interesting. Maybe more teams should emulate what the Royals have been able to accomplish with a "little" game. Just like more NFL teams should mimic the Packers and Patriots rosters in a "copycat" league, right?
 

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Declining fundamentals in sports and in all aspects of life in Western Civilization. I especially agree with your middle paragraph regarding The fading strategy in baseball. Making America's past time a glorified homerun derby isn't good for the game. Do you have the link for that article Don? I'd like to share it, thanks.

It's in the print magazine, issue dated May 9th. Carson Wentz is on the cover. It might be on their website also, I haven't checked.

Regarding the Royals, the article says: "Point to recent Royals teams if you'd like; those teams were, relative to the league, maybe the greatest contact-hitting lineups ever, and they still had just middle-of-the-pack offenses. Even they needed to hit a number of critical homers during their postseason runs. The 2016 Royals have scored 37% of their runs on homers, 16th in MLB."
 

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Yeah, this year's Royals have strayed from the fundamentals of the last two years, surprising under Ned Yost. That's one of the reasons they are mired in mediocrity so far this year.
 

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Watching Cardinals vs Nationals. All 3 runs so far have been solo shot homeruns. Bryce Harper blasted a triple Decker, 430+ feet!
 

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Too bad my late friend Labman isn't here to detail the decline of the Pirates this season. The super-cheap ass ownership bailed on the team at the trade deadline even though they are still in the wildcard race albeit not a good team at all, making their time-honored giveaway trades to lower the payroll.

Andrew McCutcheon has been terrible this year, at the plate and in the field. The team's hispanic players, like their kinsmen throughout MLB, continue to flaunt how allergic they are to even the most basic fundamentals of the sport, knowing that just as with blacks in football and every other sport they play, they won't be called on it.
 

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Sadly, Colorado SS Trevor Story is out for the year with an injury. He started off hot and was hot when he got injured. Colorado is now above .500 and in the Wild Card race.

From BSPN:
A week ago it seemed obvious that Colorado Rockies rookie Trevor Story was going to break the record for most home runs in a season by a shortstop. After all, he's at 27 blasts and the record is 30 set by former Boston Red Sox star Nomar Garciaparra in 1997.

Well, this is why they play the games. Story won’t be breaking the mark because he won’t be playing any more games. Surgery to repair the torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left thumb is pending and a fascinating season is likely over. It’s a shame, too, because Story wasn’t done making history, but I can’t imagine any fantasy owner can complain about his ridiculous power, plus a .272 batting average and eight steals over only four months!

It was also nice to see that his racial apprenticeship to Jose Reyes ended with superior production and to see Reyes' status diminished. There's so many more Whites like Story in all of sports that always must rely on something happening to a precious afflete before he can prove himself.
 

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Mark Teixeira, 36, a shell of his former self due to injuries, is retiring at the end of the season. He has 404 home runs, and also won 5 Gold Gloves.

Andrew McCutcheon, the Pirates' franchise player I mentioned in post #32, is still beloved by the team's DWFs. There's a social media movement to give him a standing ovation when the Pirates return from their current road trip despite his atrocious play and petulant behavior, such as blaming his problems on umpires when he even acknowledges he's struggling. It was first suggested by a Pittsburgh sportswriter (the same one I had the exchange with about Peyton Manning several months ago). In sharp contrast to the lovefest for McCutcheon, Pittsburgh DWFs are traditionally brutal on White players -- it took Terry Bradshaw decades before he could return to the city, and hockey fans still boo Jarimir Jagr every time he comes to town even though he is one of the Penguins' all-time greats and is an amazing athlete who is still productive in the NHL at the age of 44.

Looks like "black fatigue" still hasn't set in among DWF Nation, which comprises a huge chunk of the population. Most Whites simply unconditionally adore blacks and apparently always will.
 

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Congrats to Ichiro Suzuki on getting his 3,000th MLB hit last night. I feel compelled to congratulate him because BSPN and the rest of the "free press" certainly didn't think it was worthy of much attention.

Suzuki didn't play in the majors until he was 27 years old, after a distinguished career in Japanese baseball. To still reach 3,000 hits is a tremendous accomplishment that truly deserves the kind of media acknowledgement that only goes to black athletes in the USSA.

I only noticed the milestone because it was the lead blurb in a series of blurbs about last night's baseball games in the daily rag. It merited about 100 words, and came with the following idiocracy description: "He became the first player born in Japan to reach 3,000 and joined Paul Molitor as the only players to hit the mark with a triple. Suzuki was hitless in his first three at-bats of the game before he tagged Chris Rusin."

Who cares if he did it with a triple, or was hitless in the game before the historic base hit??? Are those the most pertinent details surrounding his career and achievement? This is typical of the kind of meaningless tripe the system cranks out every day. The message essentially is ho hum, Suzuki hit a milestone, next story. And the man isn't even White, just further evidence that the Caste System exists overwhelmingly for blacks (and to emasculate Whites), secondarily for hispanics, while Asians are basically "honorary (emasculated) Whites" ala Vijay Singh and many others in various sports.
 

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Congrats to Ichiro Suzuki on getting his 3,000th MLB hit last night. I feel compelled to congratulate him because BSPN and the rest of the "free press" certainly didn't think it was worthy of much attention.

Suzuki didn't play in the majors until he was 27 years old, after a distinguished career in Japanese baseball. To still reach 3,000 hits is a tremendous accomplishment that truly deserves the kind of media acknowledgement that only goes to black athletes in the USSA.

I only noticed the milestone because it was the lead blurb in a series of blurbs about last night's baseball games in the daily rag. It merited about 100 words, and came with the following idiocracy description: "He became the first player born in Japan to reach 3,000 and joined Paul Molitor as the only players to hit the mark with a triple. Suzuki was hitless in his first three at-bats of the game before he tagged Chris Rusin."

Who cares if he did it with a triple, or was hitless in the game before the historic base hit??? Are those the most pertinent details surrounding his career and achievement? This is typical of the kind of meaningless tripe the system cranks out every day. The message essentially is ho hum, Suzuki hit a milestone, next story. And the man isn't even White, just further evidence that the Caste System exists overwhelmingly for blacks (and to emasculate Whites), secondarily for hispanics, while Asians are basically "honorary (emasculated) Whites" ala Vijay Singh and many others in various sports.

That is odd since they made a pretty big deal of him reaching the "hits" record a couple weeks ago. Which was just an excuse to kick Pete Rose again.

Ichiro is at the end of a long career and seems to be pushing it as he is not a regular. Maybe he was waiting to get to 3000. He can retire on Friday with A-Fraud.

Which reminds me that A-Rod is quitting in the middle of the season. Considering all he went through to play the last couple of years you would have figured he was going to hang around until he got to 700 HR's, he's a few short, or better yet 715. Although I wouldn't be surprised if he signed elsewhere.
 

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Congrats to Ichiro Suzuki on getting his 3,000th MLB hit last night. I feel compelled to congratulate him because BSPN and the rest of the "free press" certainly didn't think it was worthy of much attention.

Suzuki didn't play in the majors until he was 27 years old, after a distinguished career in Japanese baseball. To still reach 3,000 hits is a tremendous accomplishment that truly deserves the kind of media acknowledgement that only goes to black athletes in the USSA.

I only noticed the milestone because it was the lead blurb in a series of blurbs about last night's baseball games in the daily rag. It merited about 100 words, and came with the following idiocracy description: "He became the first player born in Japan to reach 3,000 and joined Paul Molitor as the only players to hit the mark with a triple. Suzuki was hitless in his first three at-bats of the game before he tagged Chris Rusin."

Who cares if he did it with a triple, or was hitless in the game before the historic base hit??? Are those the most pertinent details surrounding his career and achievement? This is typical of the kind of meaningless tripe the system cranks out every day. The message essentially is ho hum, Suzuki hit a milestone, next story. And the man isn't even White, just further evidence that the Caste System exists overwhelmingly for blacks (and to emasculate Whites), secondarily for hispanics, while Asians are basically "honorary (emasculated) Whites" ala Vijay Singh and many others in various sports.

Congrats to Ichiro on such a great achievement!
 

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Black Gold - Prince Fielder - may be forced to retire due to neck issues.

There was the super-ridiculous contracts to Carl Crawford and Jose Reyes. How did that work out? Things went downhill veryy quickly... Also looking that way for Pablo Sandoval.

And now all the attention is on Black Gold Jason Heyward. The Cubs' were getting too White so they had to go out and get a "Real Star." http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/players/playerpage/1611138/jason-heyward

Oy! Watch the big black guy, and ESPN poster-child, go!!
 

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Alex Rodriguez's career is finally over, as the Yankees gave him a sign-off ceremony last night. Maybe another team will sign him, but considering he's making $27 million a year and hasn't had a good season since 2010 it's unlikely.

I'm happy this self-absorbed cheater finished with less than 700 home runs, 696 to be exact. He didn't pass Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron, or fellow cheater Barry Bonds, which at one time it appeared he would do with ease. Rodriguez's admitted cheating with steroids and PEDs goes back to 2001; who knows how much else he got away with. And as with all non-White players, the DWFs were extremely forgiving of him compared to how White transgressors are treated. Good riddance.
 

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Black Gold - Prince Fielder - may be forced to retire due to neck issues.

There was the super-ridiculous contracts to Carl Crawford and Jose Reyes. How did that work out? Things went downhill veryy quickly... Also looking that way for Pablo Sandoval.

And now all the attention is on Black Gold Jason Heyward. The Cubs' were getting too White so they had to go out and get a "Real Star." http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/players/playerpage/1611138/jason-heyward

Oy! Watch the big black guy, and ESPN poster-child, go!!

Heyward stinks. Chicago practically signed him for his defense. Other than that, do you know what is as certain as death and taxes? A ground ball from Jason Heyward.
 

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Alex Rodriguez's career is finally over, as the Yankees gave him a sign-off ceremony last night. Maybe another team will sign him, but considering he's making $27 million a year and hasn't had a good season since 2010 it's unlikely.

I'm happy this self-absorbed cheater finished with less than 700 home runs, 696 to be exact. He didn't pass Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron, or fellow cheater Barry Bonds, which at one time it appeared he would do with ease. Rodriguez's admitted cheating with steroids and PEDs goes back to 2001; who knows how much else he got away with. And as with all non-White players, the DWFs were extremely forgiving of him compared to how White transgressors are treated. Good riddance.

Good riddance to Rodriguez and Fielder.
 

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Mark Teixeira, 36, a shell of his former self due to injuries, is retiring at the end of the season. He has 404 home runs, and also won 5 Gold Gloves.

Andrew McCutcheon, the Pirates' franchise player I mentioned in post #32, is still beloved by the team's DWFs. There's a social media movement to give him a standing ovation when the Pirates return from their current road trip despite his atrocious play and petulant behavior, such as blaming his problems on umpires when he even acknowledges he's struggling. It was first suggested by a Pittsburgh sportswriter (the same one I had the exchange with about Peyton Manning several months ago). In sharp contrast to the lovefest for McCutcheon, Pittsburgh DWFs are traditionally brutal on White players -- it took Terry Bradshaw decades before he could return to the city, and hockey fans still boo Jarimir Jagr every time he comes to town even though he is one of the Penguins' all-time greats and is an amazing athlete who is still productive in the NHL at the age of 44.

Looks like "black fatigue" still hasn't set in among DWF Nation, which comprises a huge chunk of the population. Most Whites simply unconditionally adore blacks and apparently always will.

I cannot stand McCutchen. I am not sure if he even had better numbers than his competition to win NL MVP years ago.
 
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Trout continues to dominate at such an unbelievably young age! He just turned 25 and he's already racked up some incredible stats. He's well on his way to his 5th straight season of 100+ runs.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/troutmi01.shtml

As for this year, a couple of categories to keep on eye on for Trout as we wind up the year:

On-Base% s c a p y
1. Altuve (HOU) .427
2. Trout (LAA) .426
3. Ortiz (BOS) .404

Runs Scored s c a p y
1. Donaldson (TOR) 93
2. Kinsler (DET) 92
3. Trout (LAA) 91
Betts (BOS) 91
5. Altuve (HOU) 86

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1. Trout (LAA) 80
2. Donaldson (TOR) 75
3. Davis (BAL) 67

SB % s c a p y
1. Trout (LAA) 90.91
2. Davis (CLE) 88.89
3. Gardner (NYY) 86.67
Gomez (HOU) 86.67
5. Kiermaier (TBR) 85.71

Wins Above Replacement--all s c a p y
1. Trout (LAA) 7.6
2. Altuve (HOU) 6.9
3. Betts (BOS) 6.6


Trout started putting up huge numbers in all categories at such a young age - he may very well end up as the best MLB player since Babe Ruth by the time he ends his career..... most kids are just getting their first call up at age 25 and Trout has 4 (maybe 5 with this year) straight first or 2nd place MVP seasons under his belt already.
 
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Heyward stinks. Chicago practically signed him for his defense. Other than that, do you know what is as certain as death and taxes? A ground ball from Jason Heyward.

Heyward is living proof that the "WAR - wins above replacement" stat is completely bogus.

I catch the Chicago radio station in the car and they still kiss his butt. "sure his stats are ugly, but he still brings a lot to the game just by showing up every day" " his defense is incredible" "he feels really bad he's not hitting" ... but not bad enough to return his check I guess. Cardinal fans are saying he was quoted as saying he didn't want to be a 'core' player... he wants to let others bear the burden, but he wanted to be paid like one. And that's why he left st. louis.
 
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What a year Daniel Murphy is having!

Batting Average s c a p y
1. Murphy (WSN) .347
2. LeMahieu (COL) .337
3. Ramos (WSN) .331

Slugging % s c a p y
1. Murphy (WSN) .612
2. Rizzo (CHC) .572
3. Braun (MIL) .571
On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1. Murphy (WSN) .999
2. Rizzo (CHC) .970
3. Braun (MIL) .962
4. Carpenter (STL) .951
5. Votto (CIN) .940
 
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Strasburg is having a phenomenal season for the Nats, going 15-4 with 11.1 K / 9 IP.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/strasst01.shtml

Strasburg is an elite talent, but he's been babied too much in my honest opinion with strict enforcement of innings limits and pitch counts.

The Nats will be tough to beat in the playoffs with Scherzer and Strasburg pitching back to back. They look like a very pro-white team - Harper, Werth, Strasburg, Scherzer, Turner, D. Murphy, etc. Unfortunatley being managed by an African but the roster is very white.
 

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Heyward is living proof that the "WAR - wins above replacement" stat is completely bogus.

I catch the Chicago radio station in the car and they still kiss his butt. "sure his stats are ugly, but he still brings a lot to the game just by showing up every day" " his defense is incredible" "he feels really bad he's not hitting" ... but not bad enough to return his check I guess. Cardinal fans are saying he was quoted as saying he didn't want to be a 'core' player... he wants to let others bear the burden, but he wanted to be paid like one. And that's why he left st. louis.

Chicago has been winning in spite of Heyward. Heyward has become the Bruce Bowen of MLB of baseball. They are winning because of Rizzo and Bryant playing at a high level.
 

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Heyward is a joke. He was ridiculously overhyped in Atlanta and was soon overdshadowed by the underrated Freddie Freeman and than he goes to a white friendly cardinals team is somewhat successful and parlays that into an idiotic deal with the Cubs. Heyward is a mediocre player and was a
Failed bspn not enough blacks in baseball experiment. He is now causing the better athlete and baseball player Matt sczur to be a role player rather than everyday outfielder.
 
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