chw42 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 QUOTE (northside sawx @ Jul 30, 2012 -> 08:33 PM) Ned Yost has banned his players from talking to opponent baserunners. Talk about micro managing The f***? That's straight up fascism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 30, 2012 -> 08:49 PM) The f***? That's straight up fascism. I think it's awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiliIrishHammock24 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Really excited for tomorrow's *hopeful* craziness. Winter Meetings and Trade Deadline are some of my favorite times in baseball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 (edited) Chris Carter has two more doubles tonight, off David Price. 8 HR, 17 RBI's in just 61 AB's. .279 Edited July 31, 2012 by caulfield12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiliIrishHammock24 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Travis Snider to the Pirates for Brad Lincoln. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiliIrishHammock24 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 http://mlbbuzz.yardbarker.com/blog/mlbbuzz...9?new_post=true Upton for King Felix. Do it you crazy sons of b****es! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Dodgers Acquire Brandon League By Mike Axisa [July 31 at 12:12am CST] The Mariners have traded Brandon League to the Dodgers for prospects Leon Landry and Logan Bawcom, the team announced. Earlier today we heard that a number of contenders had interest in Seattle's former closer as they looked to bolster their bullpens. League, 29, is owed approximately $1.8MM for the rest of the season before becoming a free agent this winter. He's pitched to a 3.63 ERA with 5.4 K/9 and 3.8 BB/9 in 44 2/3 innings this year, plus his usual sky-high ground ball rate is down to just 46.9%. The Dodgers have lost Matt Guerrier and Todd Coffey to injury this season, so League will add some late-inning depth. Landry, 22, is hitting .328/.358/.559 with eight homers and 15 triples in 376 plate appearances for Los Angeles' High Class-A affiliate this season while spending most of his time in center field. Bawcom, a 23-year-old right-hander, owns a 2.03 ERA with 11.1 K/9 and 4.1 BB/9 in 48 2/3 relief innings split between Single-A and Double-A this year. Neither player ranked among the team's top 30 prospects in Baseball America's Prospect Handbook before the season. A's won in the 15th becoming the king of the walkoff win these days. That's something like 11 or 12 now, most in recent weeks, and almost all of them have found different guys with the GW RBI. This time, weak-hitting Jemile Weeks with a SAC FLY. OAK still 1/2 game ahead of perhaps the best team in baseball, the Angels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 30, 2012 -> 11:32 PM) Chris Carter has two more doubles tonight, off David Price. 8 HR, 17 RBI's in just 61 AB's. .279 Fire KW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 05:57 AM) Fire KW It was actually ONE double and 2 walks, but still impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 QUOTE (northside sawx @ Jul 30, 2012 -> 08:33 PM) Ned Yost has banned his players from talking to opponent baserunners. Talk about micro managing I bet Farmer's crusty old ass loves it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlliniKrush Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 AJ Burnett no hitter into the 8th at Wrigley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Not sure that anyone pointed these out. TJS for Neftali Feliz. Might be a cautionary tale for taking a guy in the bullpen and putting him in the rotation. Selig reiterates that he'll retire at the end of 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 This time, Chris Carter might stick with the Oakland A's By Mark Emmons [email protected] Posted: 07/25/2012 02:35:21 PM PDT July 26, 2012 2:34 AM GMTUpdated: 07/25/2012 07:34:33 PM PDT This time, finally, it appears Chris Carter is ready. While 15 games is a mighty small sample size, there is cautious optimism in the A's organization that the quiet, power-hitting first baseman has begun to figure out what it takes to be a major-leaguer. In his previous stints in Oakland, the top slugging prospect in the system had looked badly overmatched and even a little timid at the plate. But since being recalled from Triple-A Sacramento last month, a new-and-improved Carter has performed like a ballplayer ready to fulfill his enormous potential after years of piling up eye-catching power numbers in the minors. "It's great to be able to feel good about yourself and have a little success instead of just pressing all the time," said Carter, who burst onto the scene with five home runs and nine RBIs in his first nine games back in Oakland. It all comes down to confidence, believes A's manager Bob Melvin. "Something has to be the difference," he said. "It's not like Chris is hitting left-handed or doing things completely differently. He's just a confident guy right now, and you're seeing the results. We already knew that the ability was there." It's easy to see why Carter, 25, who was born in Redwood City and grew up in Las Vegas, would have doubted himself. The shy Carter began his time in the big leagues with an atrocious 0-for-33 slump -- the longest hitless streak to start a career in Oakland history. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advertisement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heading into this season, his forgettable time with the A's included a .167 batting average and 41 strikeouts in 114 at-bats to go along with three homers and seven RBIs. But if confidence was Carter's issue, it wasn't due to a lack of it, said Sacramento hitting instructor Greg Sparks. "He's always been confident almost to a fault where he began to become stubbornness," Sparks said. "He was convinced what he was doing would work at the major-league level. This is a kid who just dominated down here, and he was probably wondering why he shouldn't stay with what had gotten him there in the first place." Ever since coming to the A's organization from the Arizona Diamondbacks as one of the centerpieces of the big Dan Haren trade in December of 2007, Carter had torn up minor-league pitching. In 2008, he smacked 39 homers and had 104 RBIs at Single-A Stockton. The next season, Carter combined to hit 28 homers and drive in 114 RBIs to go with a .329 average at Double-A Midland and Triple-A Sacramento. And there were 52 more minor-league homers in 2010 and 2011. At 6-foot-4 and 245 pounds, Carter seemed tailor-made for the role of big bopper who could anchor the A's lineup. But the hardest step to navigate is the jump from Triple A to the big leagues. And each time he was called up to Oakland, Carter shrunk in stature. "I had always hoped to carry over what I did in the minors to here," said Carter, a man of very few words. But that didn't happen. So, Carter ended up having a long heart-to-heart talk with Sparks and River Cats manager Darren Bush this spring. "We all made it our goal that when he got the next opportunity up there, it was going to be different," Sparks said. "It wasn't going to end the same way. We bounced around some ideas and agreed on one specific change. Then he had the guts to go out there, work hard, and never deviate even though he struggled here for a while." That change was slight. Like many big sluggers, Sparks said, Carter had an over-reliance on his upper body. So they focused on getting him to use his legs more -- adding some flex in his knees to make him less robotic at the plate. That made Carter less susceptible to pitches tailing away to the outside of the strike zone. "It's a small adjustment that's turned out to be something big for him," Sparks said. "He's covering the whole plate now. He has cut down on the strikeouts and has begun using the entire field." Now, Carter platoons at first base with Brandon Moss. A's hitting instructor Chili Davis said Carter's body language at the plate now says, "I can hit these guys." He even compares Carter's swing to Detroit's Miguel Cabrera. "What we were trying to do in spring training was raise his aggressiveness," Davis said. "It's so easy (for him.) He just swings, and boom! He can miss a ball and still hit it out of here. He's like Cabrera." The goal now is proving he can do it for the long haul. "The biggest adjustment is the mental part of it," said Carter, who is hitting .279 with six home runs and 12 RBIs after hitting a solo shot and driving in three runs in the A's 16-0 rout over the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday. "It's still the same game, but everything is so much bigger. But this is the first time where I've really been able to deal with all that." Joe Stiglich contributed to this report. Contact Mark Emmons at 408-920-5745. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/pro...=Chris-Carter-5 http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_21...t-stick-oakland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 (edited) QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 31, 2012 -> 06:57 AM) Fire KW He netted us Liriano, so I'm ok with that move. Edited August 1, 2012 by Quinarvy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 11:31 AM) He netted us Liriano, so I'm ok with that move. And essentially the 2008 AL Central title Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted August 1, 2012 Author Share Posted August 1, 2012 QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 11:36 AM) And essentially the 2008 AL Central title Not to mention the five years we didn't have to wait for him to start hitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 12:58 PM) Not to mention the five years we didn't have to wait for him to start hitting. And even though it hasn't been incredibly cheap, it's not like we've had a hole at 1b over that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scenario Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I wonder if anybody will put a claim on Carl Crawford? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 QUOTE (scenario @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 05:23 PM) I wonder if anybody will put a claim on Carl Crawford? If someone did, I think the Red Sox would actually contemplate making it a Alex Rios situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightni Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Isn't Crawford due for TJS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 04:36 PM) If someone did, I think the Red Sox would actually contemplate making it a Alex Rios situation. I don't think so...Crawford is still owed roughly double what Rios was owed when we took him off the Blue Jays' hands... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 06:28 PM) Isn't Crawford due for TJS? It's an ongoing discussion, but I think it is possible. QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 06:32 PM) I don't think so...Crawford is still owed roughly double what Rios was owed when we took him off the Blue Jays' hands... That's why I think the Red Sox would have to think about letting him go for nothing, if someone were crazy enough to claim him. He is due $102 million for 2013-2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sircaffey Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 The Red Sox would let Crawford go in a heartbeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scenario Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 It's going to really piss off Red Sox fans if they can't afford to resign Elsbury because of what Crawford is getting paid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 1, 2012 -> 06:51 PM) It's an ongoing discussion, but I think it is possible. That's why I think the Red Sox would have to think about letting him go for nothing, if someone were crazy enough to claim him. He is due $102 million for 2013-2017. Yeah, I don't think anyone would take him for nothing right now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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