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Reds outfielder Tommy Pham slapped Giants outfielder Joc Pederson in an altercation before Friday's game at Great American Ball Park, according to multiple sources.
According to multiple sources, the beef stems from a disagreement the two had in a group text for a fantasy football league that includes players from several teams.
The confrontation happened during the Reds' batting practice and took place in left field, where Giants pitchers were warming up. Players ran in from both the dugout and the bullpens to break up the action.
Both Pham and Pederson are in their first seasons with their current teams. Pham has played for the Cardinals, Rays and Padres. Pederson has played for the Dodgers, Cubs and Braves.
Mane back when I was coach my son's team, we had players like this Kid. Damn i miss them days
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKIN KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!
Cuzzo
Don't laugh...
What are players going to do as legal gambling gets more and more and more popular?
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Angels' Suzuki alert after suffering neck contusion
Los Angeles catcher Kurt Suzuki left Saturday night's game against the Toronto Blue Jays with a neck contusion after being hit with a warmup pitch in the third inning, but the Angels said the veteran is alert and undergoing further testing.
Los Angeles Angels catcher Kurt Suzuki, 38, exits game in third inning with neck contusion after being struck with warmup pitch
Los Angeles Angels catcher Kurt Suzuki left Saturday night's game against the Toronto Blue Jays with a neck contusion after being hit with a warmup pitch in the third inning.
After the game, manager Joe Maddon said Suzuki came through his further hospital tests fine and then returned to Angel Stadium. He believes Suzuki may be available for Sunday's game.
With the Blue Jays leading, 1-0, Suzuki was catching pitches from starter Michael Lorenzen prior to the top of the third inning, when one bounced and appeared to hit Suzuki in the neck area.
The 38-year-old veteran was guided off the field by the team training staff as manager Joe Maddon walked with them. Finally, as he descended on the dugout stairs, he had to be helped into the dugout, where they took off his mask.
Suzuki, in his second season with the Angels, entered the game with a .191 batting average, one home run and four RBIs. He was 0-1 before exiting Saturday.
The Angels are his fifth MLB organization. Suzuki has also played for the Oakland Athletics, Washington Nationals, Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves. He had two stints each with Oakland and Washington.
This mufucka has been waiting since, at latest, December to see him. If this happened at the start of fantasy football when rules are made, he has been waiting since August. Talk about holding a grudge. Hope the prize money covered his playing time and he is going to have to find a new league to join
Just saw the tigers catcher/pitcher using this
MLB informs clubs PitchCom is approved for '22 season
After successful Spring Training test run, pitch-calling technology will be an option in regular season
April 5th, 2022
Anthony Castrovince
Pitchers and catchers will have the option of shaking off the traditional means of communicating between pitches during the upcoming Major League season.
MLB informed clubs in a memo today that it is moving forward with regular-season use of PitchCom -- a wearable device that transmits signals from catcher to pitcher -- in 2022. The technology, which will be optional, was approved by the MLB Players Association after receiving generally positive feedback in experimental usage at the Single-A level last year and in big league camps during Spring Training this year.
Aimed at both improving pace of play and preventing opponent sign-stealing, PitchCom eliminates the need for a catcher’s traditional finger signals. Rather, the catcher wears a forearm sleeve -- resembling a remote control -- with nine buttons for calling the pitch and location. The pitcher has a receiver in his cap, the catcher has one in his helmet and receivers can also be worn by up to three other fielders (typically, the two middle infielders and the center fielder) to adjust fielder positioning.
An encrypted channel can be used in multiple languages, and teams can also program in code words to replace pitch names such as “fastball” or “curveball.”
“It’s something that’s really going to get the game moving, I think,” Rays veteran catcher Mike Zunino said earlier this spring.
Mar 20, 2022
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1:29
Rays on PitchCom technology
Last year’s average nine-inning game was a new record high at three hours, 10 minutes, 7 seconds. The game is often slowed when teams have a runner or runners aboard, particularly at second base, where the runner can attempt to decode a catcher’s signals. Pitchers and catchers will typically switch up their signs in those situations to try to shield their calls.
With PitchCom, the communication between catcher is more seamless and straightforward. The technology can also conceivably reduce the number of mound visits in which pitchers and catchers go over signs.
“It has great possibilities,” Rockies director of pitching operations Steve Foster said. “Anything that can help the pitcher get the sign without anyone knowing what the sign is, we’re moving in the right direction.”
Royals veteran Zack Greinke was one of many proponents of the technology.
“The feeling in the hat is a piece of cake,” Greinke said. “Hearing is kind of easy, too. Just figuring it out, I mean, I’ve been looking down for signs my whole life, so you just have to get used to the difference of that.”
As if to illustrate how easily pitchers can adapt to PitchCom, Yankees manager Aaron Boone sprung it on Luis Severino about an hour before Saturday’s start against the Braves. Severino agreed and, after throwing four innings of one-hit ball, told reporters that the system worked “great.”
“I feel like we’re on to something,” Boone said.
Mar 21, 2022
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6:39
MLB tests PitchCom during spring
Not every pitcher and catcher will embrace the new technology, and they will not be required to use PitchCom. As Royals manager Mike Matheny pointed out, some catchers take great pride in their ability to hold different sign sets for different pitchers.
“I hate technology taking away something that someone has worked really hard for,” Matheny said. “But the way the game’s going, and where we are right now, this makes sense to me.”
PitchCom is the creation of ProMystic, a modular technology company that typically caters to mentalists and magicians. ProMystic approached MLB with its idea for a pitch signal communication device in 2020.
“They had watched from afar the issues baseball was grappling with and pitched us on applying their technology for our sport,” said Morgan Sword, MLB’s executive vice president of baseball operations. “They showed us a prototype that they developed, and we have worked with them over the last 12 months to refine that prototype and make it fit the needs of our pitchers and catchers.”
PitchCom is seen as a potential solution to the paranoia that swept the game as technology improved the means by which teams decode each other’s signs. And Zunino thinks it could benefit pitchers in other ways.
“If [pitchers] have that extra time, maybe instead of having to look in, it gives you two to three extra seconds for recovery,” Zunino said. “There's a lot of different [benefits], but ultimately, the times we've used it, it's really sped up the game.”
MLB informs clubs PitchCom is approved for '22 season
After successful Spring Training test run, pitch-calling technology will be an option in regular season
April 5th, 2022
Anthony Castrovince
Pitchers and catchers will have the option of shaking off the traditional means of communicating between pitches during the upcoming Major League season.
MLB informed clubs in a memo today that it is moving forward with regular-season use of PitchCom -- a wearable device that transmits signals from catcher to pitcher -- in 2022. The technology, which will be optional, was approved by the MLB Players Association after receiving generally positive feedback in experimental usage at the Single-A level last year and in big league camps during Spring Training this year.
Aimed at both improving pace of play and preventing opponent sign-stealing, PitchCom eliminates the need for a catcher’s traditional finger signals. Rather, the catcher wears a forearm sleeve -- resembling a remote control -- with nine buttons for calling the pitch and location. The pitcher has a receiver in his cap, the catcher has one in his helmet and receivers can also be worn by up to three other fielders (typically, the two middle infielders and the center fielder) to adjust fielder positioning.
An encrypted channel can be used in multiple languages, and teams can also program in code words to replace pitch names such as “fastball” or “curveball.”
“It’s something that’s really going to get the game moving, I think,” Rays veteran catcher Mike Zunino said earlier this spring.
Mar 20, 2022
·
1:29
Rays on PitchCom technology
Last year’s average nine-inning game was a new record high at three hours, 10 minutes, 7 seconds. The game is often slowed when teams have a runner or runners aboard, particularly at second base, where the runner can attempt to decode a catcher’s signals. Pitchers and catchers will typically switch up their signs in those situations to try to shield their calls.
With PitchCom, the communication between catcher is more seamless and straightforward. The technology can also conceivably reduce the number of mound visits in which pitchers and catchers go over signs.
“It has great possibilities,” Rockies director of pitching operations Steve Foster said. “Anything that can help the pitcher get the sign without anyone knowing what the sign is, we’re moving in the right direction.”
Royals veteran Zack Greinke was one of many proponents of the technology.
“The feeling in the hat is a piece of cake,” Greinke said. “Hearing is kind of easy, too. Just figuring it out, I mean, I’ve been looking down for signs my whole life, so you just have to get used to the difference of that.”
As if to illustrate how easily pitchers can adapt to PitchCom, Yankees manager Aaron Boone sprung it on Luis Severino about an hour before Saturday’s start against the Braves. Severino agreed and, after throwing four innings of one-hit ball, told reporters that the system worked “great.”
“I feel like we’re on to something,” Boone said.
Mar 21, 2022
·
6:39
MLB tests PitchCom during spring
Not every pitcher and catcher will embrace the new technology, and they will not be required to use PitchCom. As Royals manager Mike Matheny pointed out, some catchers take great pride in their ability to hold different sign sets for different pitchers.
“I hate technology taking away something that someone has worked really hard for,” Matheny said. “But the way the game’s going, and where we are right now, this makes sense to me.”
PitchCom is the creation of ProMystic, a modular technology company that typically caters to mentalists and magicians. ProMystic approached MLB with its idea for a pitch signal communication device in 2020.
“They had watched from afar the issues baseball was grappling with and pitched us on applying their technology for our sport,” said Morgan Sword, MLB’s executive vice president of baseball operations. “They showed us a prototype that they developed, and we have worked with them over the last 12 months to refine that prototype and make it fit the needs of our pitchers and catchers.”
PitchCom is seen as a potential solution to the paranoia that swept the game as technology improved the means by which teams decode each other’s signs. And Zunino thinks it could benefit pitchers in other ways.
“If [pitchers] have that extra time, maybe instead of having to look in, it gives you two to three extra seconds for recovery,” Zunino said. “There's a lot of different [benefits], but ultimately, the times we've used it, it's really sped up the game.”
Pham suspended three games for slapping Joc over fantasy football
Tommy Pham has been suspended for three games for his altercation with Joc Pederson ahead of Friday night’s series opener between the Giants and Cincinnati Reds, MLB announced Saturday.
www.nbcsports.com
Dope tech
Sheesh! Muhfucka need a better slight of hand
Air Yordan 
-- #44 with a 444ft bomb
-- #44 with a 444ft bomb
It's been a couple good snags so far this season
Phillies slugger Nick Castellanos interrupts yet another broadcast; Ray Didinger offers his final goodbye
Announcer Tom McCarthy was discussing the importance of a gold chair at Citizens Bank Park when Castellanos ripped a home run.
www.inquirer.com
This is my 22 tiger's lineup with only 3 out of 9 hitting above the mendoza line 
@jack walsh13 you got your wish Girardi is outta there
if we're being honest, i was talking out of my ass when i said it...but i knew it was coming. all the talent on that team & they are just a few games better than the awful nats. I guess his 'tough guy ' act wore thin lol.
God is good. Fuck him. Mismanaged the fuck outta that bullpen. I hate him. Fuck him and his grandkids.
