Baseball 2017 Season Thread

[HVC]

Roy Hallady has died in a plane crash

[jimmy olsen]

Roy Hallady has died in a plane crash

RIP

[Valmy]

Roy Hallady has died in a plane crash

Man those private planes.

RIP you were a great one.

[Grey Fox]

[jimmy olsen]

Judge and Stanton in the same line up...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-should-we-fear-giancarlo-stanton-in-pinstripes/

If you use The Baseball Gauge's adjustment and extrapolate Stanton's 2017 homers to a typical park, he'd project to have hit about 66 homers — easily shattering Maris's mark. What's more, Yankee Stadium ranked as the third-most-favorable park in baseball for right-handed home run hitters last season. Continuing our exercise above to project Stanton's season into Yankee Stadium, he would figure to have hit around 73 homers (!!!) if he'd played in the Bronx instead of Miami. Now, the obvious caveats apply: Park factors are imperfect measurements that don't account for each park's exact dimensions, instead inferring the effect in a somewhat noisy way by looking at the change in home runs between a team's home and road games. But even so, Stanton is probably going to get some kind of assist in his power numbers simply by upgrading his park situation.

[jimmy olsen]

Jack Morris and Alan Trammell elected to the hall

https://sports.yahoo.com/jack-morris-alan-trammell-finally-voted-hall-fame-233134486.html

[Eddie Teach]

Judge and Stanton in the same line up...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-should-we-fear-giancarlo-stanton-in-pinstripes/

73 homers (!!!)

Been done.

[dps]

Jack Morris and Alan Trammell elected to the hall

https://sports.yahoo.com/jack-morris-alan-trammell-finally-voted-hall-fame-233134486.html

They should have put in Marvin Miller. 

[Barrister]

Out of the blue, Timmy asks if he could play baseball next year.

I say "well, it's the same time as soccer, so you couldn't play soccer then".  He loves soccer.

He says that's okay.

I have no idea where this is coming from.  Yesterday he asked to play catch, which we delightfully did a couple of times in the summer - but playing catch in the middle of December was just plain creepy.

Is 8 years old too old to start playing baseball?

[jimmy olsen]

Is 8 years old too old to start playing baseball?

He isn't looking to become an olympic gymnast.

8 is fine if he's in good shape and coordinated. 

Hell, every year you see a couple of guys make it to the NBA or the NFL and you hear that they'd never played until they were 15. I doubt baseball is any different.

[CountDeMoney]

Is 8 years old too old to start playing baseball?

Weird question, but hey, never had kids so what the fuck do I know.

[Barrister]

I just want to emphasize that playing catch in the snow in the middle December was really creepy.

[CountDeMoney]

If you say so.

[dps]

Little League starts at age 9, but they have other programs for younger children.  Generally, 4 and 5 year olds just play T-ball, and then move into programs where they hit actual pitched ball at ages 6-8.  So yeah, 8 isn't necessarily too young, but I have no idea what programs are available where you live.

[Eddie Teach]

I just want to emphasize that playing catch in the snow in the middle December was really creepy.

Yet you'd think nothing of putting metal blades on your feet to walk on a frozen lake.