Farmer1906 said:

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Moving on.

Here is my hot take of the day. If Bregman loses to Joc Pederson then I think we need to demote him to AAA.

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Joc Peserson is a dewsh canoe. I want Bregs to win 100%, but if he get taken out I'd rather anyone other than Peserson.

Alex up next on the DA show! National Show so tune in 650 AM

My final thought on Jake. If meant to truck him he would have led with his left shoulder at the angle he was at and not exposed his head to contact.

Listened to MLB Network on the way to work. They were aqctually extremely reasonable, saying that it looked like Jake made a calculated decision to dive left and swipe the bag and that the ball took Lucory on his path. They kept saying that Jake ALWAYS dives head first and that he's not a dirty player and didnt mean to do create a collision. Even said that by the letter of the law Lucroy was blocking the plate, but you cant blame him because he had to go there to attempt to catch the throw. They all agreed it was an unfortunate faultless play.

But they then said that the rule SHOULD be that you always have to slide. My defense to that is that if you want that.. then the catcher is not allowed to remove his helmet. If you're going to force the runner to slide into an out, then the catcher shouldn't be able to fling aside his best protection.

mazag08 said:

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Listened to MLB Network on the way to work. They were aqctually extremely reasonable, saying that it looked like Jake made a calculated decision to dive left and swipe the bag and that the ball took Lucory on his path. They kept saying that Jake ALWAYS dives head first and that he's not a dirty player and didnt mean to do create a collision. Even said that by the letter of the law Lucroy was blocking the plate, but you cant blame him because he had to go there to attempt to catch the throw. They all agreed it was an unfortunate faultless play.

But they then said that the rule SHOULD be that you always have to slide. My defense to that is that if you want that.. then the catcher is not allowed to remove his helmet. If you're going to force the runner to slide into an out, then the catcher shouldn't be able to fling aside his best protection.

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I disagree with them that the throw caused Lucroy to slide to his right and drop to his knees. It was a one-hop easy pick and tag throw. Lucroy was positioned how every catcher is taught, giving the runner the back half of the plate. It was the perfect throw to pick and drop the tag on the runner. But Jake went inside and Lucroy reacted, probably instinctively, as there wasn't much time to think on either of their parts. What Lucroy did put himself in a worse position to field that hop.

And putting rules around what's a legal slide at home would be stupid, but given the direction baseball is headed, I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen.

Look like ill be able to catch the Hooks playing out in Midland this week while out there on business

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You can see where Jake decides to go to the inside, the blur of the ball bouncing seems that it will take the catcher to the outside. Lucroy may not be blocking the plate, but he sure does move to block him from taking the route he chose.

**not my images, I grabbed them from twitter

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That's my thought. You can see Jake cut inside once Lucroy starts to extend is mitt hand further outside the baseline. Problem was he then decided to lean inside the base line.

Would be nice if Yelich said something positive about Jake at the ASG as I think it would go a long way to establish Jake's character coming from a past roommate (but not an Astro) who has some serious clout in the league.

bottom of the 8th underway on the ATTsports game replay

one ironic thing...during Yordan's at-bat right after the wild pitch...Lance said "Lucroy's had a tough day back there"

foreshadowing what was to come 3 batters later

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O/U the number of bombs he gives up?

0.5

Cora told him he's an opener, so looks like 1 inning. What is the NL lineup? I'll say under

NATIONAL LEAGUE
1. Christian Yelich, Brewers, LF
2. Javier Bez, Cubs, SS
3. Freddie Freeman, Braves 1B
4. Cody Bellinger, Dodgers, RF
5. Nolan Arenado, Rockies, 3B
6. Josh Bell, Pirates DH
7. Willson Contreras, Cubs, C
8. Ketel Marte, Diamondbacks 2B
9. Ronald Acua Jr., Braves CF

AMERICAN LEAGUE
1. George Springer, Astros RF
2. DJ LeMahieu, Yankees, 2B
3. Mike Trout, Angels, CF
4. Carlos Santana, Indians, 1B
5. J.D. Martinez, Red Sox, DH
6. Alex Bregman, Astros, 3B
7. Gary Snchez, Yankees, C
8. Michael Brantley, Astros, LF
9. Jorge Polanco, Twins, SS
NATIONAL LEAGUE

2nd round draft pick, just turned 26, averaged 30+ HR & 110+ RBI last 3 years in the minors...if you're a team like the White Sox why not kick the tires? Was a pretty decent LHP in college too.

Based on the tons of Ks and low average in AAA I doubt he will ever be a good major league hitter but they are in a position to be patient.

Did Yelich take JV deep in Houston? I may revise my prediction

My final thoughts:

Jake did nothing wrong.

Lucroy consciously chose to block the plate and got hit. The pussification of baseball is real.

Disappointed in Ausmus

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"It certainly didn't look like a clean play," Ausmus said. "I don't know what actually happened. It looked like Marisnick took a step to the left and bowled into him with his arm up. The call was right. Major League Baseball should probably take a look at it and consider some type of suspension, quite frankly."

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Marisnick:

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"First and foremost I hope he's OK," Marisnick said. "That was a bad play. For me, I was running and I see him take a step kind of up the line like he's going to drop and go back so I tried to take an in-step and slide head first on the inside corner. And I watched the play again and it looks like he just drops right in front of me and once I kind of made a decision it was too late. And it was a bad play, and I hope he's OK."

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Hinch:

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"The ruling is that he deviated from his path," Hinch said. "And by the letter of the law and looking at it, it looked like [Marisnick] was coming down the line going as fast as he can and had to make a decision on whether to go left or right. As Lucroy was going to field the ball, he was either going to step in foul territory or you're going to hug the line in fair territory. And they both picked the same area. That is why the rule was made, to avoid those collisions. I don't fault Jake, because he wasn't hunting him, he wasn't going after him."

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https://www.mlb.com/news/jonathan-lucroy-injured-in-collision-at-home