David Jay

Grumpy optimist.
Professional fundraiser, freelance baseball writer ( chief bottle washer at

[David Jay @dmjay]

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@TooMuchMortons_ And his walk rate is now almost down to 20%.

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@TooMuchMortons_ His performance after the year last year was the outlier in his career.

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The responses to this post serve as a great reminder: Before you write something on the internet, ask at least one person who likes you whether it'll make you sound like the stupidest person they know. Many Padres fans clearly didn't follow that practice.

[San Diego Padres @Padres]

We have made the following roster moves:

[David Jay @dmjay]

The fact that he is chiming in on the wrong side of an issue while simultaneously demonstrating he doesn't know the basic facts of the matter is the most on-brand thing anyone will do all week.

[Evan Drellich @EvanDrellich]

President Trump said Friday that Major League Baseball should have added a salary cap "a long time ago."

"Don't they sort of have one?"

The president has picked a side in baseball's labor talks: the owners'.

https://t.co/yBi9Qjt3Lv

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@afmazon @JohnConniff @justinlivinlife @madfriars @MiserableSDFan If we're being honest, nobody actually objects to anyone insulting Eric.

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@justinlivinlife @madfriars @MiserableSDFan It's understandable that you didn't think Conniff wrote that since everything was spelled correctly, but sometimes there are two in a crowd.

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@BKG_98 To be fair (as someone who absolutely panned this trade from the moment it was made), he needs Fermin to play everyday because a 28-year-old journeyman has been second on the depth chart for the last three weeks, and you're third. Campusano, and maybe even Hunt, will change that.

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@bmetzmetz It's incredibly early to have wrapped up the honors for stupidest tweet of the month, yet here you are getting it done! Congratulations!!

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Raise your hand if you saw that coming after the first eight pitches to Machado today.

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@bmetzmetz I'm sorry, are you suggesting he intentionally struck out on six pitches in the first two at-bats as some sort of rope-a-dope strategy???

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Slam Francisco, if you will

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

The Giants have 5 grand slams in their last 17 games

That’s the most grand slams in a 17-game span in Giants franchise history

Their previous shortest span to accumulate 5 grand slams was 23 games, between April 14 and May 10, 1970

h/t @EliasSports

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@TooMuchMortons_ @SacredTube It's not like he was good at the end of last year, either.

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Lolololol

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@RyanPayne32 You should talk to whoever hacked into your account to write, "I am a stat nerd. Which is why I don't pay attention to exceedingly small sample sizes." That guy might have some good insights for you!

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@RyanPayne32 And it seems odd that you're simultaneously aghast at a LHH hitter in the cleanup spot AND arguing for getting another (demonstrably inferior) LHH into the lineup.

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@RyanPayne32 Again, he's in the cleanup spot because they stacked the 3 RHH at the top and moved him - the best (only) productive LHH option - down. That's not only not horrible, it's the obviously right thing to do.

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@RyanPayne32 If you weren't categorically wrong about both of those, you'd be making an interesting point!

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@RyanPayne32 Sure, but that's a far cry from, "just awful construction." That's, "hey, I have a minor quibble about shit at the margins."

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@HolySheetsLover I didn't say to have confidence in him.

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@HolySheetsLover Hunt came off the 60-day IL yesterday.