2016 MLB thread. THE CUBS HAVE BROKEN THE CURSE! Chicago Cubs are your 2016 World Series champions

[nick.]

nah i put BMC (Betances, Miller, Chapman)

 

[jewbacca2]

baseball (almost) byke

baseball byke on friday.

College baseball is a great appetizer for the big league season 

 

[macbk]

nah i put BMC (Betances, Miller, Chapman)

Whoops I meant to write "I" in my post earlier this morning ^ made it seem like DiDi and Castro were our only positives heading into the season.

 

[madj55]

Should be a fun season

 

[macbk]

Should be a fun season

Just noticed your new avy. Over/under set at the ASB that Bryce gets into it with Dusty at least once. Not Papelbon bad, but they exchange words.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

I got Dusty quitting/being fired after one year

 

[jewbacca2]

I got Dusty quitting/being fired after one year

Dusty is the type of dude to bat a fast player with a .250 OBP lead off

 

[johnnyredstorm]

I got Dusty quitting/being fired after one year

Dusty is the type of dude to bat a fast player with a .250 OBP lead off

No wonder they traded for Ben Revere

 

[nick.]

is this the year Revere loses the hitch in his swing?

 

[johnnyredstorm]

Low-key I'm hoping this is the year Starlin Castro starts hitting line drives again

 

[nomnom]

A's will make playoffs with a starter ERA average of under 4 

 

[CP1708]

Low-key I'm hoping this is the year Starlin Castro starts hitting line drives again

 

[macbk]

Yankees Will No Longer Accept Print-At-Home Tickets, Thus Screwing Their Fans

As the Yankees are continuously striving to implement technological advances to provide our fans with a ticketing experience that is unparalleled, convenient, safe and secure, the Yankees are excited to announce, as a complement to traditional hard stock paper tickets, the availability of mobile ticketing for the 2016 baseball season. Print-at-home paper tickets (PDFs) are being discontinued so as to further combat fraud and counterfeiting of tickets associated with print-at-home paper tickets (PDFs). In addition to traditional hard stock paper tickets, the Yankees will be offering the opportunity for fans to receive mobile tickets on a fan’s Smartphone.

Mobile ticketing is a completely voluntary, opt-in feature. All season ticket licensees and group ticket buyers will automatically receive traditional hard stock paper tickets. For fans purchasing individual game tickets online at yankees.com, Ticketmaster.com, or via Ticketmaster telephone, you will have the option of receiving traditional hard stock paper tickets or mobile tickets at the time of initial purchase. Fans purchasing individual game tickets at the Yankee Stadium Ticket Office or at Yankees Clubhouse Shops will receive only traditional hard stock paper tickets (and will not have an option to receive mobile tickets or the option to convert their tickets to mobile tickets). Print-at-home paper tickets (PDFs) will no longer be available.

The Yankees would have you believe that eliminating print-at-home tickets is entirely motivated by a desire to prevent fraud, but the reality is that it has everything to do with the team’s partnership with Ticketmaster and ongoing war against StubHub.

When ticket resellers use StubHub, they can sell the ticket for as little as they’d like, but Ticketmaster sets artificial price floors that prevent sellers from listing tickets below face value. This practice has recently been called out by the New York Attorney General, as it deprives fans the opportunity to buy tickets on a fair market.

The Yankees’ wish to avoid the realities of supply and demand is the reason the team touts Ticketmaster as its official resale partner, and this new anti-PDF policy is a blatant attempt at further undercutting StubHub. The Yankees can’t force anyone to use Ticketmaster instead of StubHub, but it can make using the latter a much bigger pain in the *** by eliminating printable tickets.

Say you’re a Yankees fan, and you decide you want to duck out of work early and go to a ****** Twins-Yankees game on a Wednesday afternoon in August. There are tickets available for $19 on StubHub, but they are selling for face value on Ticketmaster, which will deliver an electronic ticket to your phone. You can’t get in with a PDF ticket, so unless you can figure out a way to get the StubHub seller’s physical tickets in your hands within a few hours, you’re stuck paying full price on Ticketmaster. You’ve been boned.

 

[madj55]

Just noticed your new avy. Over/under set at the ASB that Bryce gets into it with Dusty at least once. Not Papelbon bad, but they exchange words.

Harper won't get into it with Dusty. If anyone does it'll be that bum Jayson Werth.

And Revere probably will be our leadoff man considering we don't have many other options.

Revere
Rendon
Harper
Zimmerman
Werth
Murphy
Ramos
Espinosa/Turner

 

[nomnom]

Here goes Strasburg's last year in DC

 

[xxpizzo]

not a fan of the team but a fan of the player, with that being said i hope Stanton has a healthy season 

 

[madj55]

I hope Stras pitches like he did in the 2nd half of last season, he was lights out. Hoping Mike Maddux can help him finally put together a complete season that we all know he's capable of.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

I hope Stras pitches like he did in the 2nd half of last season, he was lights out. Hoping Mike Maddux can help him finally put together a complete season that we all know he's capable of.

He'll have a good second half for the Yankees

 

[jewbacca2]

He'll have a good second half for the Yankees

Trading what prospects to get him?

Expiring contracts aren't an asset in baseball

 

[johnnyredstorm]

But they have Mateo, Sanchez and Judge!

 

[nick.]

the future

 

[nomnom]

Who's making the fantasy league!

 

[CrownRoyalDaddy]

I have a good feeling about this season for the Mariners.

*same wrong feeling as every season

 

[Retroballer]

I have a good feeling about this season for the Mariners.

*same wrong feeling as every season

Well the A's have last place locked up.

 

[jjs07]

Buster Olney ‏@Buster_ESPN 6m6 minutes ago

Sources: The expectation of O's is that they will finish deals with both Gallardo and Fowler; Fowler expected to be BAL's right fielder.
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O's bats will be live this year....

Pitching, on the other hand... :x

Gallardo helps the rotation, but the team will need Gaus to REALLY make a jump this year.