2013 MLB Regular Season running thread

[HanSenSE]

Maybe both leagues use the DH in even years and let the pitchers hit in odd years?

Since I cover mostly high school ball, I can live with the DH, albeit grudgingly.

 

[outofplace]

As long as we are posting newspaper stuff, here's everything you want to know about the Nationals. Well, most everything. We're holding SOME stuff back for tomorrow

http://bit.ly/104IvxR

In all seriousness, curious to see how they do as a team people expect to win.

The cover of said section, designed by a certain someone who hangs out here now and then:

I'd ask how they can continue to succeed without Michael Morse, but I guess they finally realized he doesn't walk enough.

 

[RickStain]

I'm really intrigued by Washington this year. I think they can put up a really, really gaudy win total.

NY and Philadelphia are bad, even if they don't want to admit it. Miami is truly, impressively awful. Atlanta? I just can't make up my mind about them. Sometimes I think they are underrated and have some breakout candidates, but other times I think they have some missing depth at key positions and could fall apart.

 

[MileHigh]

If they adopt the DH for both leagues -- which they should -- then just get rid if the leagues and go to dice or six divisions based in geography and rivalries.

 

[JakeandElwood]

The White Sox look to be heading toward a season of mediocrity unless they can rack up wins against the rest of this very bad division (outside of Detroit.) but based on their history that just isn't going to happen.

 

[Football_Bat]

If they adopt the DH for both leagues -- which they should -- then just get rid if the leagues and go to dice or six divisions based in geography and rivalries.

Big-market teams in the Premier League and small-market teams in the Champions League?

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

If the Astros are gonna' go through the trouble of going old school on the hats, go the entire way.

 

[Football_Bat]

 

[mpcincal]

If the Astros are gonna' go through the trouble of going old school on the hats, go the entire way.

I like the updated star-H logo, but those new uniforms are really blah. They look like uniforms Hollywood producers would use if they made a movie or TV show featuring the Astros and couldn't get the MLB licenses to use the logos.

 

[Riptide]

NYTimes A1 on A-Rod:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/sports/baseball/yankees-hitched-to-alex-rodriguez-an-aging-star-anatomy-of-a-deal-and-doubts.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all

Within two years, he helped to deliver the team’s 27th World Series title.

Sometimes my eyes can't to believe what I see in the NYT.

 

[Songbird]

Astros 8 Rangers 2 (F)

Ankiel's pinch-hit 3-run homer against Derek Lowe is big blow while Maxwell had 2 triples.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Astros 8 Rangers 2 (F)

Ankiel's pinch-hit 3-run homer against Derek Lowe is big blow while Maxwell had 2 triples.

Thanks for that. Can we just check back here for every game recap every day?

 

[Songbird]

And Bo Porter wins 1st game as manager.

 

[ColdCat]

If they adopt the DH for both leagues -- which they should -- then just get rid if the leagues and go to dice or six divisions based in geography and rivalries.

they could do that in a limited way out west, have the NL West be essentially the Pacific Division and the AL West be the Mountain Division, the East and Central in each league be as is. That would limit travel and teams in the central time zone playing all their division road games in the Pacific time zone.

The traditionalist in me hates the thought of that but in a world where the Houston Astros have the best record in the American League, life seems to no longer hold any meaning.

 

[Della9250]

In the perfectly divided geographical world:

East
Boston
New York
New York
Toronto
Philly

East
Atlanta
Florida
Tampa Bay
Baltimore
Washington

Central
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Detroit
Chicago

Central
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Kansas City
Minnesota

West
Anaheim
San Diego
Arizona
Texas
Houston

West
Seattle
Oakland
San Francisco
Colorado
Los Angeles

 

[MileHigh]

In the perfectly divided geographical world:

East
Boston
New York
New York
Toronto
Philly

East
Atlanta
Florida
Tampa Bay
Baltimore
Washington

Central
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Detroit
Chicago

Central
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Kansas City
Minnesota

West
Anaheim
San Diego
Arizona
Texas
Houston

West
Seattle
Oakland
San Francisco
Colorado
Los Angeles

Some slight adjustments:

East
Boston
Detroit
New York
New York
Toronto

East
Atlanta
Baltimore
Florida
Tampa Bay
Washington

Central
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Minnesota
Pittsburgh
Philly

Central
Chicago
Chicago
Kansas City
Milwaukee
St. Louis

West
Arizona
Seattle
Colorado
Texas
Houston

West
Anaheim
Los Angeles
Oakland
San Diego
San Francisco

 

[Riptide]

Yeah, those Chicago and LA teams would have to be division rivals.

 

[MileHigh]

If they adopt the DH for both leagues -- which they should -- then just get rid if the leagues and go to dice or six divisions based in geography and rivalries.

they could do that in a limited way out west, have the NL West be essentially the Pacific Division and the AL West be the Mountain Division, the East and Central in each league be as is. That would limit travel and teams in the central time zone playing all their division road games in the Pacific time zone.

The traditionalist in me hates the thought of that but in a world where the Houston Astros have the best record in the American League, life seems to no longer hold any meaning.

"Tradition" left MLB many years ago.

 

[Tom Petty]

Yeah, those Chicago and LA teams would have to be division rivals.

absolutely.

 

[HanSenSE]

They tried to put in radical realignment 15-20 years ago, with the expansion that begat the D'backs and Rays, but it failed. IIRC, the Giants' Peter Macgowan balked at sharing an NL market with the A's.