OldTimer’s Dugout - Off Topic Thread

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Through 10 games for the Stripers, Vaughn Grissom recorded a .366 batting average, a .458 on-base percentage, a .585 slugging percentage, one home run, four RBI, eight runs scored, and 15 hits.

Remind me again why this guy isn’t on the major league team??? We’ve got a guy batting .083 but we can’t give one of our best young players those ABs. Just another reason why Snitker shouldn’t be managing.
 
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cardvolfan said:
Ozuna is the man!
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He was awesome in 2020 but he’s been extremely below average ever since. Funny that he has better stats for the Marlins and Cardinals but of course the Braves get screwed on another free agent. They just need to stick with making trades and handing out the contracts to the homegrown kids. Anything free agency related has been a cluster for the Braves, from the Freddie ordeal to the BJ (I have a not so flattering nickname for this one that I cannot post) Upton deal.
 
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On April 14 in Baseball History...​
  • 1910 - William Howard Taft becomes the first president to throw out the first ball at a baseball opener in Washington. Walter Johnson catches it, then pitches the first of his 14 Opening Day games. An easy fly hit into the overflow crowd becomes a ground-rule double, marring a 3-0 Big Train pitching gem.

  • 1915 - The Athletics' Herb Pennock comes within one out of pitching the first Opening Day no-hitter. A scratch single by Harry Hooper is the only Red Sox hit in a 5-0 loss.

  • 1917 - Eddie Cicotte of the Chicago White Sox pitched an 11-0 no-hitter against the St. Louis Browns.

  • 1925 - In the first regular-season Cubs game to be broadcast on the radio, Quin Ryan announces the contest from the grandstand roof for WGN. Grover Alexander wins for the Cubs 8-2 over the Pirates and adds a single, double, and home run.

  • 1925 - The Cleveland Indians opened the season with a 21-14 victory over the St. Louis Browns, the most runs scored by one team on opening day. The Indians scored 12 runs in the eighth inning when the Browns made five errors, four of them by first baseman George Sisler.

  • 1925 - Two future Hall of Famers make their major league debuts for the A's in the same game. Lefty Grove starts against Boston and leaves in the fourth after walking four and striking out nobody. He gives up five runs on six hits. In the eighth, Mickey Cochrane pinch-hits for catcher Cy Perkins, singles, and stays in behind the plate while the A's go on to score nine runs in the last four innings to win 9-8 in ten innings. Grove, known as Groves in Baltimore, is also listed that way in the New York Times box score. Grove will become the first pitcher to lead the A.L. in strikeouts and walks in the same year.

  • 1946 - Manager Mel Ott of the Giants hits his 511th and final home run on Opening Day, an 8-4 home victory over the Phillies. The next day Ott will injure his knee diving for a ball and play only occasionally thereafter.

  • 1955 - Elston Howard becomes the first black to wear a Yankees uniform. He singles in his first at-bat, against the Red Sox, as the Yanks win 8-4.

  • 1964 - Sandy Koufax throws his ninth complete game without allowing a walk as he beats St. Louis 4-0 in his only start as an Opening Day pitcher.

  • 1967 - Red Sox rookie Billy Rohr debuts at Yankee Stadium. He startles everyone by taking a no-hitter to the ninth inning, but Elston Howard lines a 3-2 pitch for a single to right-center with two outs. Carl Yastrzemski had kept the no-hitter alive with a spectacular grab of a Tom Treshdrive to deep left field to open the ninth. Rohr wins the game 3-0, but he will pitch only once more for Boston before returning to the minors.

  • 1968 - Jim Bunning's first win with Pittsburgh, 3-0 at Los Angeles, is his 40th career shutout and includes his 1,000th N.L. strikeout, making him the first pitcher since Cy Young with 1,000 in each league.

  • 1969 - The first major league game outside the United States was played in Montreal's Jarry Park with the Expos defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 8-7.

  • 1990 - Bret Saberhagen gets the win and Mark Davis earns the save as Kansas City beats Toronto 3-1. It is the first time ever that two reigning Cy Young Award winners have figured in the same victory.

  • 1991 - Nolan Ryan becomes the 12th pitcher to surpass 5,000 innings pitched and gets plenty of hitting help as Texas whips Baltimore 15-3.

  • 1993 - The first-ever Australian battery comes from Milwaukee. Left-hander Graeme Lloyd and backstop Dave Nilsson, who make up half of the total number of Australian players to ever make the major leagues, make history in the Brewers' 12-2 loss to the Angels.

  • 1998 - Mark McGwire hits three home runs, breaking an eight-game homerless drought, as the Cardinals rout the Arizona Diamondbacks 15-5. After tying Willie Mays' major league record by homering in the first four games of the season, McGwire had not homered since April 4.

Baseball Birthdays on April 14... ​


Baseball Deaths on April 14... ​

 
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4/14 Holidays

International Laverbread Day
National Gardening Day
National Dolphin Day
Look Up At The Sky Day
National Day of Silence Day
National Pecan Day
National Ex-Spouse Day 😬
National Pan America Day
National Reach As High As You Can Day

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TheMookieMonster said:
Pretty massive recruiting news. Gone are the days of 12 year olds committing to schools. This is a huge change.

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Nope that is not what it means. Unless I read something it still only covers off campus but either way it won’t stop it. They will just do it through summer coaches or others. Won’t change a thing.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
Pretty massive recruiting news. Gone are the days of 12 year olds committing to schools. This is a huge change.

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mad4vols said:
Is this good or bad?
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If coaches would actually abide by the rule it would be a good thing. Kids need to enjoy being kids as long as they can until they have to start thinking about college. Junior year sounds like a good time for all sports, not just baseball.
 
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