a700hitter

LOL!! I remember that in the off season after Kevin Maas came up for the Yankees that his rookie baseball card was being purchased in bulk.

The WBC tournament is pointless. It does not further the interests of MLB imo.

I was being sarcastic.

Benintendi with 2 terrible ABs so far. I am not sold on him hitting at the top of the order.

Craig with a productive day -- 2 HBPs.

Got it. Thank you! Will you be getting to Fenway this season?

Hi Israel, by mistake, you sent only $10. The fee is $20.

My Yankee fan friends are telling me that they don't think much of Judge's prospects. Maybe they are just lowering expectations.

How did Travis look?

[TABLE=width: 100%] [TR] [TD][h=1]SO MUCH FOR SPRING TRAINING STORYLINE THAT BLAKE SWIHART CAN’T THROW[/h][/TD] [TD=align: right]02.23.17 at 5:21 pm ET[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] By Rob Bradford http://fullcount.weei.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/swihartmask-400x266.jpgBlake Swihart (Jasen Vinlove/USA Today Sports) FORT MYERS, Fla. — Exactly a week ago, it started. Blake Swihart couldn’t throw back to the pitcher.Thanks to Comcast Sports Net New England cameraman Bill Messina, we had the video of the Red Sox catcher having a terrible time accurately tossing the ball back to Rick Porcello during a simple bullpen session. The next day was better, but not enough to stop the storyline to really gain steam. (To read about the saga, click here.) While there was significant progress from Swihart throughout whatever throwing exercises he was participating in, the true story wouldn’t be told until the actual games started. So, they did. And as it turned out, it wasn’t a problem. Swihart came in for the fifth inning and tossed the balls back to reliever Marcus Walden without incident. The throw downs to second base? Right on the money. That appeared to be that. “I mean, you tell me. Yeah, everything felt good,” he said after the Red Sox’ 9-6 win over Northeastern Thursday at JetBlue Park. “I went and cut off that ball and threw it to third. My throws in between innings were good. Throwing back to the pitcher was fine.” Was he concerned heading into the exhibition game test? “No. not for me,” Swihart said. “I wasn’t worried about it. Like I said, it’s just part of getting back in the groove.” Along with playing well defensively at a position he hadn’t manned since last April, Swihart was encouraged by how his surgically-repaired ankle responded to sprinting from first base to home plate on Steve Selsky’s double off the left field wall. The catcher had singled to reach with two outs in the sixth inning. “Every first game, everybody’s adrenaline should be going. I was excited,” he said. “June 4 was a long time ago. I was ready to get out there.”

Alan Craig cannot even hit Division Two college pitchers. What a huge wast of money.

Let's go, formerly fat slob.

Based on a demonstrated ability to repeat clutch performances.

I wouldn't call it bailing him out, because as was pointed out by Slasher (I think), Brady probably would have come up big on the next play.

A fat slob sample size.

By not crediting Brady for the play, you were calling it luck for Brady. You are really parsing your words.

And you diminish the plays that happened as luck.

280-290 qualifies for fat slob status. Sorry.

That is the basis of their argument.

Yes

Small Sample Size. He has probably only had 20 hot 4th quarters in the post season. Probably just randomness. LOL! Ryan wilted making stupid calls and taking stupid sacks. Brady was clutch as usual and dissected the defense.

Which makes me question why so much wealth is deliberately transferred out of the U.S. people here are going hungry.

Carmona choked by feeding him a cookie. Drew did not choke a pop it up. He crushed it.

How long until retirement?