Clayton Kershaw especially should not be included on this list. Dodgers have the highest payroll in baseball and also are trying to get under the luxury tax by 2018. They’re not letting the best pitcher on the planet walk.

Chapman isn’t a veteran, he’s been on the team all of four months and will be a free agent this off season. Which may be even further reason why the Cubs seem unconcerned with his usage. They don’t have to worry about his arm after the game is over tonight.

5:00 PM start time is pretty brutal for us on the West Coast as well, especially considering every game in the series started at 1:00 or 2:00 PM otherwise. I get it you have to stay up late. I would rather stay up late then have to decide between taking a day off work or watching while at work.

If you don’t watch baseball and are too lazy to look up stats to back up your claims, maybe skip commenting on it all together because you add zero value to the conversation.

THANK YOU! When Clayton Kershaw has been pulled from playoff games, he’s left a total of 14 men on base. His bullpen has allowed 9 of those 14 to score. Another fun stat, Kershaw has pitched on short rest in the playoffs 4 times. All other pitchers combined have done it 7.

“The Dodgers’ three best hitters this year were Corey Seager, Jacob Turner, and Joc Pederson.”

not sure you watched the games, but it was evident they were playing for nothing. once Roberts left McCarthy in it was clear winning was not a priority.

yeah the dumb country hick is going to beat the shit out someone who grew up in abject poverty in Cuba and dealt with black market smugglers to get to America. *rolls eyes into back of skull*

False rape/domestic abuse allegations are incredibly rare. Unfortunately incidents such as these and the Rolling Stone debacle with UVA make it that much harder for real victims to report abuse as it feeds into the narrative that women are lying or embellishing claims. It’s quite tragic actually.

1) His contract isn’t that big, is it that hard to do research on that?

Can you please update the story to reflect this. Keeping the part about Puig “storming” off when that was made up out of whole cloth is really misleading and damaging to Puig’s reputation. Don’t continue the horrible journalism by Ken Rosenthal.

Detailed review of his first five walks: http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/5/31/…

?? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? horrible comment.

Puig has been in America for less than 5 years. Also maybe people just feel more comfortable speaking through a translator in their native tongue. Regardless, you are still able to read the translated quotes in English so why do you care?

If you take out any teams best player they would be significantly worse. Statements like that are misleading.

His name in Enrique, common nickname for that is Kiké (with the accent). It’s not a typo. And yes he may be the true gem from that deal! :)

1998!!!

you seem fun.

you’re comparing intentional physical injury that could be career ending and/or deadly to trash talk. perhaps you need a better argument.

it’s pseudo. you’re an idiot.