Finally, it looks like we will have some semblance of a Major League Baseball season in 2020. Baseball for 2020 was halted by a Chinese oriented deadly virus that is traveling the world and killing massive amounts of innocent people. In March baseball was shut down as was most of America. As most of America regains its footing and is starting to recover, so is baseball.
The MLB owners and the MLBPA (players association) yesterday have agreed to play a partial 2020 season commencing around July 23-24. A second spring training will open July 1st, and each team will get in shape in their own home ballparks all across the nation. There is tentatively a 60 game season that will be played. There is always a probability what I post here may be amended by the owners, players, and baseball commissioner. Each division will play 40 games in their own division. That would make for 40 games, 10 with each rival in their division. Each team would also play 4 games against each team in their opposite division for 20 games making for the total of a 60 game season. The divisions will play each other geographically limiting travel. East vs east, central vs central, and west vs west. The regular season will end the last week of September. As of now each division winner and two wild cards in each league will make the playoffs. That is the same as the 162 game season. The inferior AAAA national league will use the designated hitter for their games for the first time in baseball history. The American League has used the designated hitter since April 6, 1973 when Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees became the league's first ever designated hitter. Also extra inning games will be started with a runner on second base which makes a mockery of the game and is a sham that demeans the game of baseball. Not all changes are bad, however this change is bad.
The playoffs will conclude the season as usual hopefully ending in October. In the end as it always has and hopefully always will the best players and best teams will reach the playoffs and then advance to the final series, the world's greatest sports event the WORLD SERIES.
The season without question will be shorter and different. Look at it this way, every one of the sixty games becomes far more important and losing streaks will eliminate teams fast, while a big winning streak can carry a team right into the playoffs. The players will need to get their heads fully into the season from the first game on. The fun part is the WIN METHOD becomes even more important. The players who produce when it matters most and do it the most often will lead their team through the season and into the playoffs. Hopefully all goes well healthwise and the season can be completed.
No matter what, happens and as always, LETS GO YANKEES!
PS....thank you all, WIN METHOD fans from all over the world for your unwavering support, your comments, and for being the most intelligent baseball fans in the world. The ignorance of the stat frauds doesn't exist here. They have no game. They are losers who love losing players.
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1 – 200 of 2949 Newer› Newest»Fantastic, great to hear from you again WIN METHOD. Great to have baseball back. No matter what, it will be different.
WIN METHOD, how is your season going considering Covid-19.
Nice to hear from you again WIN METHOD. Love ya,
For the died in the wool true baseball fan the extra inning rule will be a joke and hopefully will be abandoned by the smarter baseball officials in charge. But then again, the smarter people are aging and the younger indoctrinated imbeciles are more involved.
Carl Hooks, still interviewing. More spaced and more slowly equalling less interviews. Different protocols in different states and countries. It is what it is and it isn't good.
What is a short season? The only one I know is the nfl and the 16 games they play. A 16 game season is a joke. Most inequitable, shortest I know of, game is a farce. 60 minute clock with about 8 minutes of live action.
But, but, but, football players can only play once a week. Play completely unbalanced schedules also.
Really looking forward to some baseball, America's game.
I can see some details shifting as everything shakes out.
We should be completely healthy and ready to go.
Producing when it matters most will be at a premium in a shorter season just as it has been during the playoffs. Now it will be magnified.
Can't wait to hear the cry of PLAY BALL!
Every team is in the same boat. Injured players should be recovered except those who had major surgeries or other type of major issues. The mental part of baseball is all important now more than ever. Players will need to come prepared and the ones who eliminate "the slump" will help carry their team the most. Not much if any room for excuses, ifs, ands, or buts. Wins are the only thing that counts and the only thing that will determine the best teams and the best players. If there are no stoppages to the shorter season it will be very interesting to say the least to see who rises and who falls.
It's about 50-50 among stat frauds. Half want baseball this season and the other half don't care and think the season will be a fraud like they are. Then half of the half that are looking forward to baseball say they season is not a real one and the winner will be a fraud like them. The stat frauds truly are something else.
Opening day roster to have 30 players dropping to 28 after two weeks and then dropping to 26 after another two weeks.
Tom Wilson, All of that is fine, didn't even mind the designated hitter change. The DH made the game better in my opinion. Eliminating the almost sure out pitcher having to have to hit.
Don't like at all the extra inning with a runner at 2nd base. That inherently changes the game itself.
Could you ever imagine baseball played once a week. You would need only one starter. Imagine how much he would get paid. Pretty much how much of a joke professional football is.
Vladimir Tinzak, Cole would start every game. You wouldn't need a 25 man roster. And the pro baseball game would still be better than the pro football game.
Come on people, don't give Manfred any ideas.
No new info on 2020 season so far since announcement of season opening for July 23-24.
Will the teams play any spring training games in July before opening day games for all teams?
Patrick Healy, I would hope so, but I haven't heard anything. Might come out when the schedule for season comes out.
The first Yankee to go down will most likely be 'meatball'. Via either swinging a bat wildly or jogging down to first base.
YankeeBob, you have to also consider "meatball" maybe getting a walk and injuring himself walking down to first base.
You guys are unmerciful. I hope all of you as I am are wishing for Gary 'meatball' Sanchez to have his greatest 80 games of his career.
PS.. My husband and I are making progress on getting out of this hell hole city.
From what was passed on to me, MLB teams will have players report to their home parks by July 1 for a second spring training, which will last roughly three weeks. They will play a handful of exhibition games before the regular season starts on July 23 or 24.
WIN METHOD, thank you for the update.
Teena/Bronx, good for you. Good luck. You will love getting back to civilization.
Teena/Bronx, civilization only if you move to a red state.
Spring training games to align rotations.
Don't be surprised if Paxton comes in most ready to pitch.
Less than four weeks until baseball.
It will be an interesting 2020 baseball season to say the least. But it will be a foot note to what is going on in the world and particularly the USA this year.
For the record books, no cumulative records will be broken this season. Only something like batting averages (BA) and earned run averages (ERA) can set records, but they would be asterisked by a very short season. No matter, it will all come down to wins and winning.
I’m excited that it’s finally going happen. Every game will be played like September baseball. And it’s all within the division so there will be some real heated competition. Only issue I have is the designated runner in extra innings. It’s utter nonsense. No need for it at all. What’s next? A bullseye in behind the CF fence, where if you hit you get an extra run added on.
yankeeclipper, The runner at second base for extra innings is a very stupid idea. Likely by someone who won't attach his name to it.
MLB games will be scheduled just like they are in a full 162 game season. This is because of the contract between MLB and the television networks.
Just think of this being the final 60 games of the season and all the teams are pretty much even going into them. Fans would be going crazy during these 60 games. That's what it is a drive to the finish line and only wins (as always) will decide who is best.
RLA, these are the last 60 games of he season. Playoffs will follow for teams who make it.
August, September, and October will be fun. Cap it off in November with Trump win.
sid greenberg,nyc, Hear hear.
Yanks23245, I think you are right. Paxton didn't start throwing until sometime in March and did so very slowly on flat ground per doctor's orders. Then went to the mound and outings were well spaced out. He was hard throwing by May 1st and was continuing to build all thru the Chinese virus garbage. He started to really step up to be ready for the June 1st goal he was trying to meet or beat. I bet he kept throwing all thru June and I bet he will be able to go longer than almost anyone. Knowing guys like Tanaka, Cole, and Happ they will be well ready to go five innings minimum to start the season. And so will the other teams pitchers. The July 23-24 start is for real and only wins will make the playoffs. All other stats are for the stat fraud fake fantasy world games they play and live in.
All pitchers will be ready as will all other players. If they don't realize that 60 games determines who goes to the playoffs and who goes home they shouldn't be baseball MLB players.
The first player who gets off to a bad start and then blames the short training period should be chucked from any team he's on. Excuses for the stat frauds as they try to explain why their "superstar" highest paid players fail time and again.
What will some people say when this season turns out to be fantastic. I know the stat frauds will say it is a small sample size and means nothing.
Every game will be a big game in a 60 game season in order to make the playoffs.
Tanaka, Cole, and Happ are veterans, they know what will be expected of them and will deliver.
Izy Hernandez, and Paxton. And Chapman, Britton, etc.
The 2020 MLB season. Baseball at its best. With a very flawed uneven, unbalanced schedule. Just win, get into the playoffs and go from there.
Hogan Chapman, every team within their division has the same chance to win their division. The schedule for 2020 may be the most even for every team within their own division.
I think the season will be very different in that at some point, teams making the playoffs will have to face teams they haven't seen at all since last year.
Yankeeforever, usually not seeing pitchers favors the pitchers.
23 days and we open season.
MLB players all have the option of not playing this season if they have concerns about the Chinese created Covid-19 virus. We will see if any Yankees opt out.
With most Yankees being WIN METHOD I don't see any of them staying home.
Charlie Springer, you are probably right. Lets go Yankees.
Report day tomorrow.
Let's hope for the best.
There will be no minor league baseball for 2020. Very sad for players, fans, employees.
Happy 4th of July everyone. God bless America.
Yes, happy 4th of July. Sadly, at the present time I think it may be more God save America.
Wes Quntrail, The young minor leaguers lose a year of development
Happy fourth all. Yes, America is at a crisis fueled by the radical left wing, socialists, democrat party. A shame, a shame.
No fireworks this year. No family gathering this year. Much rioting and destruction this year sponsored by the democrats funded bottom feeders.
Do your best to make the holiday fun for yourself. We can only try to save America in November. TRUMP is our only hope.
From the horse's mouth.........At a time when almost everything seems to have changed, the message being relayed from the top of the Yankees organization has remained consistent. As manager Aaron Boone prepares for a season that will bear little resemblance to any that preceded it, his team’s stated mission is to deliver another World Series championship trophy to Yankee Stadium.
Mike Trout doesn't seem to have that goal. He had the chance, but took money over winning.
Mike Trout. roflol. What are his playoffs numbers. roflol.
Celebrate July 4th the best you can. Have a good one.
God Bless America and Donald Trump. Have a great weekend WIN METHOD Yankee fans.
Everything going well at Yankee Stadium spring training camp. Happy fourth.
Three weeks and we open the season. Celebrate the fourth of July safely.
2020 one screwed up year in so many ways. Keep the faith fans. Save our country. Vote Trump in November. Drive the left wing democrat radical dweebs insane. MAGA
Happy 4th.
Win it all, short season is still a season. Lets go Yankees.
Happy long weekend everyone. Have a grand fourth of July.
President Trump with a great fourth of July celebration at Mount Rushmore tonight. Will be televised.
All players will gets lots of rest with 60 games in 66 days.
Celebrate America's great holiday of freedom and never stop fighting for it.
Harvey Wixman, the 60 games short season is exactly the same as that scheduled for the 162 game season. The last 60 games in 66 days. The difference is the short season coming up the players wouldn't have played 102 games already. Managers will play the best and hottest they have in order to reach the playoffs. Now, some stat frauds may not like who is playing, but the frauds do not manage the team and really do not know baseball.
Tom Wilson, When trying to make the playoffs or being the best only wins matter. Every at bat, every pitch, every play has more importance and value in a 60 game season than in a 162 game season. Several failures may be easier to overcome over 162 games, but not as easy in 60 games.
All people are equal. What each makes of themselves is determined by each. July 4th is Americas cerebration and should be celebrated by all. You destroy, and you should be destroyed. You deny, and you should be denied.
Have a grand July 4th, 2020.
Cole was throwing 99 MPH fast balls yesterday at Yankee Stadium and has been consistently throwing all thru the virus shutdown. He will be ready to go.
I have a feeling Boone will have the Yankees loaded for bear when the season opens.
I believe the Yankee team is hungry.
FOX NEWS covering President Trump at 10:00PM tonight from Mt. Rushmore. Must watch TV.
Lets go Yankees.
Trump was fantastic and said what needed to be said. USA USA USA USA USA
Happy fourth of July and happy independence day.
God bless America. Let's all help make America great again.
Fantastic fourth weather.
Happy Indepence Day!
November will be here before we know it. But first there is a baseball season ahead which will be much fun. In November there will be a presidential election. Vote Donald Trump and help save our country from the ravages, despair, and hate of the democrat left liberal progressives that want to destroy the greatest country the world has ever know.
19 days for Yankee 2020 season opening game. Smile, be happy.
Cessa and LeMahieu test positive for Covid-19 created by Chinese.
Also today Tanaka was hit in the head by a line drive off the bat of Stanton.
Tanaka was taken to hospital and cat scan showed up clean. He went home and is following concussion protocols. He did walk off the field after being hit which was a good sign.
Spring training now is not the same as spring training. Batters are getting live at bats against live pitching. Opposite of using pitching machines or batting practice pitchers.
Fireworks by Macy's last night were the best ever. Coney Island, Statue of Liberty, East River, Empire State Building. Great firework colors I have ever seen and spectacular camera work. Kudos to Macy's.
Vince/Brooklyn, I thought so also.
Hope no one gets hurt today.
Getting hit by a line drive anywhere will hurt, in the head hurts worse, off the bat of Stanton, worst.
18 days until we open our season.
Hard to believe the Yankees will open the season in 2 1/2 weeks.
Training at the Stadium is going hot and heavy. Live pitching versus live hitters. Every team is in the same boat. Got to be ready when the games are for real.
MLB to divulge 2020 season schedule tonight after 6PM.
Lets go Yankees. Yes you can.
Can't complain about our schedule. As always just have to produce when it counts.
The schedule had to be cobbled together and is extremely unbalanced. It is what it is.
No matter what the schedule is or who plays who, a team only advances with wins. Wins are the only stat that matters and determines the best players and teams.
Simulated games are best case scenarios for live action. Players are still able to take batting practice as needed.
Without all the extra minor leaguers not here as they would be in the spring training camps, the level of one on one pitcher vs batter competition is raised quite a bit. Sort of like cramming for an exam the night before the test. Only 16 days to game one in DC.
coryankee, add on that the hot weather doesn't hurt either. Not like having 60 degrees one day than 75 the next during spring training. Easy to get loose when it's around 90 every day.
Another good productive training day in the Bronx.
Cole and King are the starters for tonights intrasquad game.
Andujar homers off of Cole in simulated game tonight. Long blast to opposite field.
I notice in videos from the sim games there are a lot of batters taking pitches that are strikes.
Baseball needs to finish out this season including playoffs no matter who tests positive with the coronavirus manufactured by the Chinese. Open up everything and bury the liberals.
Walt Belamy, Lets go Yankees.
Heavy rain at the ballpark right now.
Cole did pitch five innings in his start. No issue going seven or more in season opener.
Yankee intrasquad game tomorrow had Deivi vs Monty.
It has been 'reported' Clint Frazier has a bad foot and has been playing through it. Looks like as if 'maybe' a reason to keep him off the season opener roster?
Andujar has been taking reps at first and third base and left field.
Two weeks from today at this time of day weather permitting we will be just about starting to play our opening game of the season in Washington DC against the Nationals.
Last night Deivi Garcia pitched a 12-pitch inning in a intrasquad game. The touted right-hander retired Mike Tauchman on a flyout, got Miguel Andújar to ground out to third base and struck out Gary Sánchez swinging. sanchez is in peak form.
Monty went three innings. He never stopped pitching routine from the spring training shutdown. Says his arm is strongest ever and just needs to work on control to be ready for season start. Looks as if he is a lock for fifth spot in rotation right now.
The Yankee pitchers are far ahead of the hitters so far. The Yankee pitchers never stopped their regimens during the Chinese virus and are very strong. The hitters for the most part never faced pitchers and batting machines are not the same as pitchers.
Heavy rains so far today.
I would assume today is a washout for the Yankees. Indoor work.
Yankees worked out indoors at Stadium.
Double duty sim games today for Yankees?
Gus Papa, if they can get on the field at all. We had an awful lot of rain yesterday.
Can you believe 12 more days and we open MLB 2020 season.
Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman will not be with the team “for the foreseeable future” after testing positive for some time. Chapman is experiencing mild symptoms but overall is doing well. The 32-year-old Chapman will have to receive two negative tests over a 24-hour period before he can rejoin the Yankees.
YankeeMike, really doesn't mean much. He can throw all he needs to on the side. Yanks only have one game over the next two weeks. We just do what we always do, play around all roadblocks and obstacles.
There are going to be Covid cases all season on every team. So what, play on and let the sniveling lowlives of the country whine.
Buy GOYA products. Bury the liberals.
In eleven days the Yankees go to Washington DC and open the 2020 MLB season with the Nationals. Let there be joy in Mudville.
Domenic, to really bury the liberals, vote for any republican anywhere and Trump everywhere. I am sure there is one or two people running for an elective office out there with a "D" next to their name who is good. Only one or two.
We play preseason games Sat, Sun, Mon, 7/18-7/20. Mets, Mets, Phillies.
Cole will likely go in Saturday game since it will line him up for season opener the next
Thursday.
Gerrit Cole is looking awesome. 84 pitches today with 9 K's. On track to easily complete his season opener if need be.
A random question, no rights or wrongs... How many Yankees will opt out of this season and just not play?
I'll go first and say 0, natta, naught, nil, none, zero, zilch.
No one.
0. I don't think anyone wants to lose out on a chance to win a World Series.
these guys are WIN METHOD, no one quits.
I don't anyone on the 30 man roster would quit. Maybe a minor leaguer or two, but I doubt even that.
No one.
1 Frazier.
I see it like yankeefan2 does. No one leaves unless they are carried out.
None. In my opinion the only players who would leave their team because there is a chance that they may get the virus or give the virus to some one else are players who I do not want on my team.
I would hope no one quits so I will say no one.
0
The smart thing to do if you owned a team is to make sure you compile a list of all the players who do opt out this season and make sure they never play for your team in the future.
Tony Manchu, compile enough players from all the teams who opt out and you may be able an all
time team of losers.
None.
No Yankee will opt out. WIN METHOD rules.
Wanting to win rules. Quitters are losers.
The games against the Mets and Phillies will get the guys in a competitive frame of mind. Playing the enemy is reality while playing your teammates is more in tune with fun.
No one is opting out of this season for the Yankees.
Warren Hammond, hear hear. Lets go Yankees.
Maybe 'meatball' will opt out when his BA is on the Interstate as an excuse.
Sanchez better not have a black hole two months.
Meatball is leading the sim games in K's.
Gleyber Torres says his mission is simple: ''Win everything.''
Lets hope Torres really means it. Ballplayers usually say that, many don't mean it and just want money, Mike Trout is a perfect example of that. Many do mean it and do whatever they can to reach that goal. The Yankee goal every year is to 'win everything' and it always has been. Wins and winning always determines the best players and teams. However, no one or no team can win every year nor all the time. The best players do win the most over their careers and the best teams win the most over their history.
Natural talent is not all that makes for the best players. There is much more, WIN METHOD was one of the first and is surely the best at figuring it out.
Nine days until the Yankees and Nationals open the 2020 MLB season. Lets go Yankees.
FACT: For fans of sports all over the world. No matter what any individual baseball player achieves for himself makes no difference unless what he achieves for himself helps his team win enough games for the team to make the playoffs and then continue to win enough games to after the playoffs are over you are the only team standing and are the best of the best.
Maybe just maybe Sanchez will shock us all and have a great three months of his best baseball.
Hoyle, you have high hopes. If he does what you say we win a World Series.
Did someone say the Yankees will win a World Series. Hear, hear.
Yoki, they will surely try. So will other teams.
Sanchez with HR in sim game tonight.
Eight days until opening day.
Lets go Gary, lets go Yankees.
Lets go guys. No one is bigger than the team. No one is more important than the team. Produce when it counts the most, pitching, hitting, defense and you will win games and only winning games determines who is best. Forget the stat frauds and meaningless individual stats.
okiened, you have touched upon why the stat frauds are unable to comprehend wins and winning. They think the only thing that determines wins is individual stats. The truth and fact is individual stats are just that, stats of an individual player. Everyone on the teams contributes to the team's success or failure. Producing when it matters most determines who wins games.
Wins and winning is all that matters.
RLA, words to okay by and win by.
Judge HR is sim game tonight.
Good for both Sanchez and Judge.
What a great Yankee posting site. Been a fan for a while now. Lets go Yankees.
Welcome MAGA2020. Love the monicker. Post your thoughts and opinions.
Everyone don't forget, buy GOYA products.
One week from today we open our season in DC.
But but but we can't buy GOYA products because the scum of our nation, the democratic liberal progressive left says we shouldn't. So, buy GOYA if you want to and support TRUMP to save America.
Yes, our great governor opened up Georgia and we are still going strong.
For everyone who had the MLB tv package who will see Yankee baseball Sat, Sun, and Mon.
It's about time. And in a week it will be LETS GO YANKEES big time.
Hope for the best.
Do not be surprised if you see the liberal progressive democrat garbage try to halt the baseball season.
DJ Lemahieu to rejoin Yankees this week. Has a chance to be ready for start of season.
There was a ballplayer Smokey Burgess during 50's-60's who it was said about, he could wake up on Christmas Day and hit a line drive double down the line. LeMahieu reminds me of him. DJ will be fine anytime.
Six days until we open baseball season.
LeMahieu is a catalyst for the Yankees ie Derek Jeter.
Deb F, he is also a clutch hitter ala Jeets. When it matters.
Yankee/Met game 7PM tomorrow.
Michael King starting tomorrow night.
This is someone who loves you. You need to go to the hospital and get treatment for your schizophrenia. We are all here for you. You are going to get yourself hurt. It was harmless when you pretended to be involved with baseball, but now you are sending threatening messages to Dr. Fauci? Please get help!
ATTENTION......I allowed the above post to be viewed. Everyone can clearly see it is aimed at no one (or is it everyone). The above post looks as if it may have been intended for social media or another forum somewhere. The post is meaningless, disrespectful, and an out and out lie. I suggest everyone disregard it and pay it no attention. Thank you all who post your opinions and views with class and reality.
johnsondc, thank you, good job.
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