New to Baseball (Questions, etc)

[BigMac1212]

Any word who will be the TV Play-by-Play announcers fro the Dodgers and Padres for the 2017 season?

 

[rangerssharks414]

Any word who will be the TV Play-by-Play announcers fro the Dodgers and Padres for the 2017 season?

Joe Davis for the Dodgers (calls NCAA football and NCAA basketball for FOX) and Don Orsillo for the Padres (former Red Sox play-by-play guy who got fired two years ago).

 

[BigMac1212]

I never even noticed this thread before...but a quick change here -

LF is 7 and RF is 9.

I have to be honest; I would easily make that mistake.

 

[BigMac1212]

Hey, Rangers fans;

Where are the good cheap seats at Globe Life Park? I'll watch the Phillies-Rangers game on May 17th, and I want to stay out of the heat.(I wanted to ask in the Stars forum, but I couldn't find a generic Other Dallas sports tread on that area, and I didn't want to start a new thread being a Coyotes fan. )

 

[rangerssharks414]

I'm not new to baseball, but this has always confused me.

For example, Yoan Moncada played in the majors last year, but for only a handful of games. The White Sox are purposely leaving him in the minors to push his free agency back a year. When could they call him up and still get his free agency pushed back?

(Yes, I am stashing him in fantasy leagues, which is mainly why I'm asking.)

 

[IU Hawks fan]

May 15th for another year

AS Break to avoid Super 2 - no reason for them not to wait in a total tank year


https://twitter.com/craigjedwards/status/845373308266795009

 

[rangerssharks414]

May 15th for another year

AS Break to avoid Super 2 - no reason for them not to wait in a total tank year


https://twitter.com/craigjedwards/status/845373308266795009

Thanks. It sounds like it'll be awhile.

 

[AdmiralsFan24]

There is no set date. You typically need 3 years of service time to be eligible for arbitration. The top 22% of players in service time between 2 and 3 years qualify for arbitration. So, if no rookie is called up between now and July and Moncada is called up on June 30th and isn't sent back to the minors and then a bunch of teams start calling up their rookies, he would qualify as a Super Two because he would be in the top 22% of his rookie class in service time when he gets between two and three years of service time.

 

[ZDH]

Kind of random seems line the best place to ask this -

Im looking for a Rockies cap with their original logo can anyone point me to a site to order that online?

 

[rangerssharks414]

There is no set date. You typically need 3 years of service time to be eligible for arbitration. The top 22% of players in service time between 2 and 3 years qualify for arbitration. So, if no rookie is called up between now and July and Moncada is called up on June 30th and isn't sent back to the minors and then a bunch of teams start calling up their rookies, he would qualify as a Super Two because he would be in the top 22% of his rookie class in service time when he gets between two and three years of service time.

Yeah, I know that there's no set date for the Super 2. I'm not sure if that was the answer that I was looking for, but it might have been.

 

[rangerssharks414]

Also, I'm watching the Red Sox/Blue Jays game, and Marco Estrada is pitching for Toronto. I've always wondered... why does nobody ever say "crafty righty"? I always hear "crafty lefty", but never righty.

 

[AdmiralsFan24]

Also, I'm watching the Red Sox/Blue Jays game, and Marco Estrada is pitching for Toronto. I've always wondered... why does nobody ever say "crafty righty"? I always hear "crafty lefty", but never righty.

Crafty righties usually aren't good enough to make it in the majors for any length of time.

 

[robert terwilliger]

pretty much. if you have kids, teach them to throw left-handed.

 

[GIN ANTONIC]

Crafty righties usually aren't good enough to make it in the majors for any length of time.

pretty much. if you have kids, teach them to throw left-handed.

Yeah, that Greg Maddux guy was a real hack. Only had the career that he did because he wore glasses so people just thought he was smart or something.

 

[robert terwilliger]

oh god.

 

[GIN ANTONIC]

oh god.

It's a joke brah

 

[robert terwilliger]

4/20 bro

 

[BigMac1212]

Here's may be a stupid question:

Why do we concern ourselves whether a ballpark is hitter's friendly, neutral, or pitcher's friendly in baseball, yet not so much in other sports?

 

[rangerssharks414]

Here's may be a stupid question:

Why do we concern ourselves whether a ballpark is hitter's friendly, neutral, or pitcher's friendly in baseball, yet not so much in other sports?

The dimensions are different from stadium to stadium in baseball. Sure, the ice may be bad in some NHL arenas, or the puck may bounce off the boards differently, but the dimensions are the same in every arena. The wind and weather varies from NFL stadium to NFL stadium, but the length and width of the fields are still the same. You can't say that for baseball.

 

[garnetpalmetto]

The dimensions are different from stadium to stadium in baseball. Sure, the ice may be bad in some NHL arenas, or the puck may bounce off the boards differently, but the dimensions are the same in every arena. The wind and weather varies from NFL stadium to NFL stadium, but the length and width of the fields are still the same. You can't say that for baseball.

Yup, pretty much this. There were some concerns about NHL arenas being of differing sizes when you had old barns like the original Boston Garden kicking around, but now out of the Big 4, MLB's the only one where parks aren't all built to the same configuration. Once you get past the distance from the plate to the mound and from base to base, ballparks are pretty individual. The closest I can think of to that in any other sport might be in the NFL where some stadiums have more challenging kicking conditions at one end than others (for instance at Heinz Field, the south end of the stadium, which faces the Allegheny, has notoriously difficult kicking conditions.

 

[BigMac1212]

Followup on the sentiment; how does SunTrust Park shape up on the Hitter's Park/Neutral/Pitcher's Park scale so far?

 

[rangerssharks414]

Followup on the sentiment; how does SunTrust Park shape up on the Hitter's Park/Neutral/Pitcher's Park scale so far?

I don't think I've watched a Braves home game yet, but I can tell you that the sample size is probably too small.

 

[hockeykicker]

Weird question but one I've been thinking about. Why do baseball teams play everyday (with the random off days)

 

[garnetpalmetto]

From what I understand the Braves wanted SunTrust to be a fairly neutral park - so it'll be more hitter friendly than Turner Field was but not as hitter friendly as Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium was. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a good piece here.

 

[AdmiralsFan24]

Weird question but one I've been thinking about. Why do baseball teams play everyday (with the random off days)

Because double headers suck? I mean, I guess they could shorten the schedule to like 82 games like the NBA and NHL and start the season in May and end it in August but the owners and the players wouldn't like how many games of revenue they lose.