bmags Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 This has actually been awesome. The players are pumped, nobody is going through motions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Beast Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Robertson got out of a jam, looked good. Hopefully it helps his trade value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Beast Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Sucks to suck, team USA. Andrew Miller s*** the bed again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigHurt3515 Posted March 12, 2017 Author Share Posted March 12, 2017 Confused why all these great Cuban players aren't playing for the national team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Mar 11, 2017 -> 10:20 PM) Confused why all these great Cuban players aren't playing for the national team The detectors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Israel somehow stays undefeated, Carlos Santana is bad at fielding and Andrew Miller blows a game. WBC is more fun than any All-Star game. Maybe it could replace the All-Star break? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSox13 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Looking forward to a Dumpster fire. Team USA should/better win this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonbluess Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 (edited) DR saved USA's ass with that extra inning win over Colombia. If it went the other way we'd have to win then beat DR in a tiebreaker. Now just beat the damn Canadians tonight and we advance. Edited March 12, 2017 by SmashROT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSox13 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Dumpster sucked as expected and gone already. 3-0 USA after 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSox13 Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 7-0 USA after two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtySox Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Who would the US potentially be playing on Wednesday? Venezuela if they beat Mexico tonight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonbluess Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Israel eliminated. Started 4-0, lost 2 in a row and are out. Japan 6-0. Juggernaut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavum Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Puerto Rico beat USA last night 6-5. Stroman gave up 4 runs in the 1st inning; Arenado made a huge error later in the game. Robertson gave up a long strike to Beltran, but had a 1-2-3 inning, as did Jones. The final 4 are Netherlands, Japan, Puerto Rico, and the winner of USA and Dominican Republic tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pettie4sox Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 USA looks poised to make the championship round for the first time in the WBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokona Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Great game last night, withthe US advancing. What a catch by Adam Jones. This tournament has been really great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 I can't imagine any other team is as harmed by non-participation as Team USA. In particular, our pitching staff seems bafflingly bad. Here are non-participating Americans listed by 2016 WAR: 1. Clayton Kershaw 2. Noah Syndergaard 3. Max Scherzer 4. Rick Porcello 5. Justin Verlander 6. Chris Sale 7. Corey Kluber 8. Madison Bumgarner 9. David Price 10. Kyle Hendricks 11. Jon Lester 12. Jake Arrieta 13. Jon Gray and then you finally get to the first American WBC participant, Stroman. And then we can look at relievers specifically: We do have the best, Andrew Miller. Yay! And then... 1. Addison Reed (had to double take at that one) 2. Zach Britton 3. Tyler Thornburg 4. Will Harris 5. Mark Melancon and then we get to Nate Jones and after that, about 10 more until you get to Luke Gregerson. Of course the point isn't that 2016 WAR should be the main criterion for selection, but we're just not anywhere close to assembling our best. And let's think about some of the position players missing: 1. Mike Trout 2. Kris Bryant 3. Mookie Betts 4. Josh Donaldson 5. Corey Seager 6. Adam Eaton 7. Brian Dozier and then Ian Kinsler and Brandon Crawford, a few spots and you get Murphy and Arenado. The outfield stands out, though—why does Team USA have Christian Yelich batting 3rd? McCutchen probably shouldn't be getting the time, but I understand how some may not be inclined to penalize him as much for last year when he had been so sensational for years beforehand. Either way, I find it galling that the US has the world's two best players (Trout and Kershaw) and neither is out there. They have their reasons that are perfectly rational, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. It's also bad for the tournament. On one hand, nobody will like it around the world if the US wins every time...it has to be competitive. But few would deny that the US has the most talent in the world, so it delegitimizes the tournament if Team USA does poorly each time, as it has pre-2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 QUOTE (Jake @ Mar 19, 2017 -> 02:47 PM) I can't imagine any other team is as harmed by non-participation as Team USA. In particular, our pitching staff seems bafflingly bad. Here are non-participating Americans listed by 2016 WAR: 1. Clayton Kershaw 2. Noah Syndergaard 3. Max Scherzer 4. Rick Porcello 5. Justin Verlander 6. Chris Sale 7. Corey Kluber 8. Madison Bumgarner 9. David Price 10. Kyle Hendricks 11. Jon Lester 12. Jake Arrieta 13. Jon Gray and then you finally get to the first American WBC participant, Stroman. And then we can look at relievers specifically: We do have the best, Andrew Miller. Yay! And then... 1. Addison Reed (had to double take at that one) 2. Zach Britton 3. Tyler Thornburg 4. Will Harris 5. Mark Melancon and then we get to Nate Jones and after that, about 10 more until you get to Luke Gregerson. Of course the point isn't that 2016 WAR should be the main criterion for selection, but we're just not anywhere close to assembling our best. And let's think about some of the position players missing: 1. Mike Trout 2. Kris Bryant 3. Mookie Betts 4. Josh Donaldson 5. Corey Seager 6. Adam Eaton 7. Brian Dozier and then Ian Kinsler and Brandon Crawford, a few spots and you get Murphy and Arenado. The outfield stands out, though—why does Team USA have Christian Yelich batting 3rd? McCutchen probably shouldn't be getting the time, but I understand how some may not be inclined to penalize him as much for last year when he had been so sensational for years beforehand. Either way, I find it galling that the US has the world's two best players (Trout and Kershaw) and neither is out there. They have their reasons that are perfectly rational, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. It's also bad for the tournament. On one hand, nobody will like it around the world if the US wins every time...it has to be competitive. But few would deny that the US has the most talent in the world, so it delegitimizes the tournament if Team USA does poorly each time, as it has pre-2017. This is really one of the more frustrating things about it. I understand why players don't go, but it would be amazing to actually put out the top teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 The pitchers make a lot of sense to me, but I dont get as much why the top hitters won't go, guys like Trout or Bryant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 I don't care it's raining LA should be embarrassed. Whole thing should have stayed in Miami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pettie4sox Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 These conditions are absolutely awful. They should have played in Arizona or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pettie4sox Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 (edited) Since when do homers go out at night at Dodgers stadium? Edited March 22, 2017 by KagakuOtoko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eminor3rd Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 (edited) I f***ing love the WBC. I've been following the NPB ever since Balentien broke the HR record. I actually went over their and saw three games last September. Tsutsugoh hit 3 homers in the two BayStars games we saw. I bought a shirsey. Jose Lopez also hit a couple, lol. As fans, they simply have WAY more fun than we do at games. Also, look up Brandon Laird's stats for Hokkaido. Ha Edited March 22, 2017 by Eminor3rd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eminor3rd Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 QUOTE (Jake @ Mar 19, 2017 -> 02:47 PM) I can't imagine any other team is as harmed by non-participation as Team USA. In particular, our pitching staff seems bafflingly bad. Here are non-participating Americans listed by 2016 WAR: 1. Clayton Kershaw 2. Noah Syndergaard 3. Max Scherzer 4. Rick Porcello 5. Justin Verlander 6. Chris Sale 7. Corey Kluber 8. Madison Bumgarner 9. David Price 10. Kyle Hendricks 11. Jon Lester 12. Jake Arrieta 13. Jon Gray and then you finally get to the first American WBC participant, Stroman. And then we can look at relievers specifically: We do have the best, Andrew Miller. Yay! And then... 1. Addison Reed (had to double take at that one) 2. Zach Britton 3. Tyler Thornburg 4. Will Harris 5. Mark Melancon and then we get to Nate Jones and after that, about 10 more until you get to Luke Gregerson. Of course the point isn't that 2016 WAR should be the main criterion for selection, but we're just not anywhere close to assembling our best. And let's think about some of the position players missing: 1. Mike Trout 2. Kris Bryant 3. Mookie Betts 4. Josh Donaldson 5. Corey Seager 6. Adam Eaton 7. Brian Dozier and then Ian Kinsler and Brandon Crawford, a few spots and you get Murphy and Arenado. The outfield stands out, though—why does Team USA have Christian Yelich batting 3rd? McCutchen probably shouldn't be getting the time, but I understand how some may not be inclined to penalize him as much for last year when he had been so sensational for years beforehand. Either way, I find it galling that the US has the world's two best players (Trout and Kershaw) and neither is out there. They have their reasons that are perfectly rational, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. It's also bad for the tournament. On one hand, nobody will like it around the world if the US wins every time...it has to be competitive. But few would deny that the US has the most talent in the world, so it delegitimizes the tournament if Team USA does poorly each time, as it has pre-2017. You are, of course, correct in that assumption. But Japan is hit really hard too, if only on the pitching side. Sugano and Ishikawa are really legit, and Norimoto probably has the best raw stuff outside of Otani, but they're missing: 1. Yu Darvish 2. Shoehei Otani 3. Masahiro Tanaka 4. Kenta Maeda 5. Chihiro Kaneko 6. Hisashi Iwakuma On the position side, though, they're absolutely stacked. Those are all the best hitters and they're mostly high-end defenders too. I've been following Tetsudo Yamada for a few years (because the Swallows were the team I paid attention too because Balentien), just praying he would get posted and the Sox would pounce. Now that he's moved to second base (used to be SS) and we got Moncada, though, I no longer think we'd get him. Unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavum Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 I hope Robertson strikes out Baez and Molina tomorrow night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pettie4sox Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 21, 2017 -> 11:24 PM) I hope Robertson strikes out Baez and Molina tomorrow night. He will give up bombs, that's all the Sox pitchers have been doing all WBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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