Daily Archives: April 7, 2016
Kyle Schwarber Carted Off The Field With A Leg Injury
Tonight is a rough night for Cubs fans. Young superstar, Kyle Schwarber, was carted off the of the field after a collision with fellow outfielder, Dexter Fowler, against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Nobody knows the severeness of the injury, but typically nothing good can come from being carted off the field. Based on the collision, it looks like there could be an injury to Schwarber’s upper leg (femur area), but that is a guess coming from a baseball blogger and not a doctor. Hopefully this injury isn’t serious because this could be a huge loss for the Chicago Cubs offense. To read the rest of the article and to see the collision (no apparent graphic content), click the link below:
How do you define a sports dynasty?
I’ve been wanting to write this piece for forever – I’ve started and I’ve stopped but this picture is an inspiration to finally write the story I need to write.
The “even year” San Francisco Giants are NOT a dynasty and the above picture illustrates that, but I have examples beyond that, that help prove my point.
DEFINITION OF A DYNASTY:
According to the dictionary this is the definition of a dynasty:
- a succession of rulers who are members of the same family
- the period during which a certain family reigns
That can be applied to sports teams …. I define a sports dynasty as follows:
Dynasties are teams that are DOMINANT over a significant period of time.
For further examples and information on sports dynasties and why they qualify as dynasties ….
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FanDuel Daily Fantasy Sports Alert For MLB Action Apr 7, 2016
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Last night, I won big with the following lineup in the MLB $5 Rally game! Thanks to the Yankees/Astros slugfest and debut of Los Angeles Dodgers sensation, Kenta Maeda.
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Offensive outburst conceals poor outing by Pineda
Last night, the Yankees rebounded from their flat performance on the previous night. In that game the team looked rather uninspired as they fell 5-3 to the Houston Astros.
Last night the outcome was way better as the Yankees beat the Astros 16-6. A slugfest showed exactly the opposite of what the Yanks showed on Tuesday.
Six multiple base hits (two doubles, a triple and three homeruns) drove in eleven runs.
Of the starters, only A-Rod and Brett Gardner did not collect a hit. Most hits collected Starlin Castro, who went 4 for 5 with 5 runs batted in. Didi Gregorius got three singles out of five at bats but did not drive in a run.
This slugfest totally concealed the poor outing of Michael Pineda. The tall Dominican right hander needed 87 pitches in only five innings. In the first inning he gave up a solo homerun to Carlos Correa already and in the next inning he gave up a grand slam homerun to George Springer after he hit Jose Altuve with a pitch. If that wasn’t bad enough, Pineda also gave up Carlos Corea’s second homerun of the game.
Its A Walk Year For Encarnacion + Bautista: Does This Mean Huge Years?
Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion are both free agents after this season. Will this fact translate into big years for the two?
Every Toronto Blue Jays fan knows that 2016 marks the end of both Jose Bautista an Edwin Encarnacion’s contracts. Both players set the start of the new season as their deadline to sign an extension. Neither one has signed a new contract with the Blue Jays.
If both Jose and Edwin stick to their words, it is likely that neither one will be a Toronto Blue Jay come 2017. Recognizing this fact, many sportswriters have been predicting that both sluggers will have monster seasons, if for no other fact than this is their “walk year” and a big season will translate into a big “payday”.
However, do players tend to have big years in the last year of their contract? In order to try and answer this question, I needed some comparisons to look at.
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4 Things We Learned from Day 2 of Baseball: Blue Jays, Pirates, Marlins, and Tigers
- Aaron Sanchez looks good. Sanchez’s fastball was sitting at 96 mph with some serious late life in the first inning tonight. That’s important because last season, 76% of his pitches were fastballs, which was actually down from the 93% clip that he used his fastball as a reliever. Early in his start, he was getting swings and misses against the fastball. Corey Dickerson, a really good hitter, looked over matched swinging through two 97 mph fastballs before watching one at 96 go right by for a three pitch strikeout. If Sanchez can be a consistent and effective starter for Toronto and throw about 160 good innings, that will be huge as the Blue Jays are lacking in talent in their rotation behind Marcus Stroman.
- Gregory Polanco is going to have a….
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Top Ten Things We Learned About the National League On Opening Day 2016
Opening Day has come and gone. Sure the pageantry of Opening Day will still be there for some of the teams that Mother Nature has forced to wait a day, but the day that we circled on the calendar back in November is behind us. We’re about to enter the grind of daily baseball contests and there are a lot of things to learn in these first few weeks back in the fold. Here are the top 10 things I picked up yesterday about the National League landscape while watching all (or parts of all) the games:
- Cedric Hunter is a baseball player. Hunter started yesterday for the Philadelphia Phillies, which by definition makes him one of the top 30 baseball players to have started in left field on Opening Day 2016. Hunter is actually a really good story. He made the Opening Day roster of the Padres back in 2011, and went 1 for 5 before being sent back down. In the scuffle of authenticating the ball from his first Major League hit, Hunter lost the ball. It’s been 5 years and Hunter is still looking for a ball that he hit for a Major League hit. He went 0 for 4 yesterday.
- The rebuilding Phillies seem to have a type. They’ve paired Cedric Hunter in the outfield with Odubel Herrera.Toss in Cesar Hernandez, Freddy Galvis and Carlos Ruiz and you have 5 of the 8 position players listed at under 6′ tall. They’re not all burners, but the Phillies seem to be cornering the market on sub-6 foot athletic baseball players. It’s not a bad strategy, considering these guys could be undervalued by the other organizations.
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Who Owned Baseball April 6, 2016 (Daily AL/NL Pitcher + Hitter MVP’s) + 2016 #WOB Standings
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Kenta Maeda threw six shutout innings in his major league debut, striking out 4 and walking none. He added a home run as well and took complete credit for the Dodgers 7-0 blanking of the Padres.
DJ LeMahieu went 2 for 4 with a homer and two runs scored in the Rockies 4-3 victory in Arizona.
Sonny Gray pitched 7 strong innings, allowing just 1 run and 3 hits and earned the first A’s win of the year over the White sox, 2-1.
Steven Souza Jr., went 4 for 4 with a pair of homers and 4 RBI in Tampa Bay’s 5-3 win over the Blue Jays.
They all owned baseball on April 6, 2016.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – April 7, 2016
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The Pirates are off to a great start. I know it is only three games in, but they were important in terms of a quest for 95 wins.
It all adds up in episode ofThe Sully Baseball Daily Podcast
Kenta Maeda, DJ LeMahieu,Steven Souza Jr., Sonny Gray, Carlos Rodon, Carlos Correa, Aaron Nola andAngel Pagan all added to their total of Who Owned Baseball.
See the updated listing of WOB on MLB Reports
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