2020 MLB Season Thread

[757690]

LA Times columnist Bill Plaschke writes about his experience with Covid. Very well written article, very personal perspective.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story...-19-experience

But still, there are things about this insidious illness that nobody tells you. There are things that surprised me, things that stick with you long after the fever has spiked and the headaches have stopped.

Nobody tells you about the dread. From the moment my doctor phoned me with the test results, to the moment I am writing this column, I have been scared out of my mind.

I know the minuscule overall fatality percentages. I know the overwhelming odds of survival for a 61-year-old male in good health with no preexisting conditions. It doesn’t matter. Once you realize you have a virus that could kill you and there’s nothing anybody can do about it, you live in constant fear.

A couple of weeks ago, I didn’t follow my instincts. I briefly let my guard down. The coronavirus came out swinging.

[Ron Madden]

Ken Rosenthal
@Ken_Rosenthal
League working with union on setting full Cardinals schedule. Players want additional doubleheaders to create off-days. League believes STL still could get close to 60 games, and maybe even to 60 by making up doubleheader if necessary day after season ends.

[Ron Madden]

Yu Dervish is no hitting the Brewers through 5 innings

[DocRed]

Wow...MLB reduces Laureano suspension to 4 games!
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/...our-games.html

[JaxRed]

Wow...MLB reduces Laureano suspension to 4 games!
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/...our-games.html

translation: Go ahead and brawl. We really don't care that much.

[Rijo's Ghost]

translation: Go ahead and brawl. We really don't care that much.

This year that 4 game suspension is equivalent to 11.

[DocRed]

Clevinger and Plesac reinstated and optioned to alternate training site!!

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/...ch-plesac.html

[Ron Madden]

Jayson Stark
@jaysonst
The #Phillies and John Middleton just announced a really cool thing:

They're going to retire No. 15 in honor of Dick Allen.

He's the first player in team history to have his number retired even though he's not in the Hall of

I remember when his name was Ritchie Allen and he was playing 1B for the Phillies.

I was at Crosley Field one night when he hit a fly ball to RF that knocked a pigeon out of the air and killed it.
Weird memory I know

[Ron Madden]

Dennis Lin
@dennistlin
Source: Padres have traded for Yonder Alonso. He will report to the taxi squad at USD.

[Ron Madden]

Zach Buchanan
@ZHBuchanan
There's a rule that one umpire crew shouldn't see the same team twice in a 19-day span. This year, due to COVID-19, some have seen the same team 13 games in a row.

[Ron Madden]

Dan Shulman
@DShulman_ESPN
3 players in MLB history have amassed 80 hits, with 37 of them being extra base hits, in their first 58 big league games. Roy Weatherly and Joe DiMaggio (both in 1936), and Bo Bichette. As the kids like to say...that’s it. That’s the list.

[DocRed]

Joe Kelly also had his suspension reduced to 5 games from 8

https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/08/13/jo...ension-reduced

[Tom Servo]

Complete game in Coors for Lance Lynn of the Rangers.

Just thinking about how there were some arguing strenuously against me two years ago insisting that Matt Harvey was equal to or superior than Lynn as an impending free agent target.

[WrongVerb]

Bo Bichette was taken in the 2nd round of 2016, after the Reds selected Chris Okey.

[kaldaniels]

Bo Bichette was taken in the 2nd round of 2016, after the Reds selected Chris Okey.

You almost can't go wrong taking sons of 1990s-ish MLB players....