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Re: GameTime!™

21199 by seagull
This is a post from J.R. about 2017 Spring Training.
I thought it was bad when the Tigers started charging an extra 5 bucks to watch the home team's batting practice at Lakeland, but this is amazing:

The Pirates charge FIFTY BUCKS for this:

BP Experience info:
• Game tickets are required to watch Pirates Batting Practice (does not include visiting team batting practice).
• BP Experience ticket holders will be admitted before the general public at 10am for day games and 3pm for night games to watch Pirates batting practice.
• BP Experience tickets must be purchased in advance (will not be available day of game).
• In order to be admitted onto the field to watch batting practice, ticket holder must be 16 years of age or older.
I just received an e-mail from Goodyear Park announcing the 2018 schedule and Fan Experiences.

90 minute on-field training session at the practice facility. Hit balls, field grounders, shag flies. $130

60 minutes post-game meet and greet with two players and a member of the broadcast team. $105

Watch Indians pre-game batting practice at the practice facility on the track behind the cage. $80

Unbelievable.

Makes me pine for the good old days at Winter Haven where you didn't have to pay to talk to players or watch batting practice.

Re: GameTime!™

21204 by TFIR
civ - watching it on STO. It's the Milwaukee broadcast. I guess that's one way to increase your ST schedule is to pick up the opposing team broadcast for some of them
"I've suffered a great many tragedies in my life....most of them never happened". Mark Twain

Re: GameTime!™

21206 by TFIR
Ooo Bradley with an RBI single to left this time. Nice!

Edit - next time up he smoked a ball to 1B but retired.

Mejia smokes an outside pitch that stayed up - hooked it over LF wall.
"I've suffered a great many tragedies in my life....most of them never happened". Mark Twain

Re: GameTime!™

21207 by TFIR
According to the Brewer announcers Erik Gonzalez just made the highlight play of the day (at 2B)

Ball was smoked up the middle and caught it backhanded just off the ground (in the air) and throws from the ground to 1B to double up the runner.
"I've suffered a great many tragedies in my life....most of them never happened". Mark Twain

Re: GameTime!™

21208 by civ ollilavad
I'd like to see Erik getting some work in LF; I think he played a bit in the outfield in AAA, another option for a RH bat out there.
I note that SS Yu-Cheng Chang is working mostly at 3rd, not surprising since he'll not replace Lindor. I'd like to see him working in the outfield too, since he's a RH hitter with very good power.

Re: GameTime!™

21209 by TFIR
Jason Kipnis clobbered two homers and drove in four runs in a 16-8 rout over the A's on Tuesday in the Cactus League.

Kipnis is off to a red-hot start in the Cactus League this spring, already with three home runs. It's obviously a very small sample size, but it's also nice to see after his up-and-down 2017 campaign.

Keep an eye on Kipnis for a potential bounceback in 2018.
"I've suffered a great many tragedies in my life....most of them never happened". Mark Twain

Re: GameTime!™

21210 by civ ollilavad
I guess Richie Shaffer is not considered a prospect although he hit 30 homers last year for Columbus; He's 4-5 with 2 homers and 9 RBI in his first week in Goodyear. He's 26, he's right-handed and he plays all the corner positions. Of course he has downsides, like he has 50 strikeouts in 122 major league at bats. And maybe his defense is awful? but a team that could use a right-handed bat for 1st and left field, he could be helpful.
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