Baseball Thread

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

Getting a big star does not really solve the issues that the Jays are in with a that pitching core that regressing and hitters that can not hit. The Mariners buck broke the Jays and management panicking to fix the issues doomed them.

Shapiro and Atkins tried to buy a starting rotation with Gausman and Bassitt (along with trading then extending Berrios) to accelerate the contention window back around 2021-2022 when Vlad and Bo broke out.

The problem is that no other pitching talent or otherwise came up through their system to fill holes or replace aging vets came afterwards.

It also made whiny Redditor fans more entitled, expecting and demanding that the team add yet another saviour mercenary FA star every winter to paper over the stars and scrubs nature of the flawed roster.

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

It also made whiny Redditor fans more entitled, expecting and demanding that the team add yet another saviour mercenary FA star every winter to paper over the stars and scrubs nature of the flawed roster.

Which is dumb considering all three times they have been to the playoff in the Vlad era, they got swept. The team is not ready to contend.

 

[Fleetwood]

After all their signings already the Dodgers have signed two of the top relievers Kirby Yates and Tanner Scott. Their hoarding of talent in the offseason after a WS win is triggering discussion of new payroll and balance rules. https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb...-discussions-about-baseball-economics-2018044

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

After all their signings already the Dodgers have signed two of the top relievers Kirby Yates and Tanner Scott. Their hoarding of talent in the offseason after a WS win is triggering discussion of new payroll and balance rules. https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb...-discussions-about-baseball-economics-2018044

I had no idea that the 38 y/o Yates had such a career year (or was still pitching TBH).

The Jays signed him one offseason to be their closer (after he failed another team's physical IIRC). He never threw a pitch because his arm blew up in ST.

 

[Looseleaf Paper]

After all their signings already the Dodgers have signed two of the top relievers Kirby Yates and Tanner Scott. Their hoarding of talent in the offseason after a WS win is triggering discussion of new payroll and balance rules. https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb...-discussions-about-baseball-economics-2018044

This is getting ridiculous, I must admit, and will probably result in some rule changes. What is particularly weird to me, though, is that a lot of these deals aren't even unreasonable. Like, Tanner Scott's deal was 4 years for 72 million, and that doesn't seem obscene to me for Tanner Scott. I'm surprised the Phillies, Red Sox, or Braves really didn't want to try and add a couple million to that to bring him over instead. I just don't understand what other large market teams are doing. It has literally just been the Yanks, Mets, and Dodgers getting these large players.

Also, I don't know the details of the Yates deal yet, but it could be one that might bite them in the butt. He was fantastic last year, I saw it with my own two eyes, but he didn't pitch a whole lot since he was the closer on an anemic Rangers offense. If the Dodgers want to use him more than a standard closer (which I assume they will since he probably won't be the closer), then he probably will get injured since he is old and prone to that. Could be wrong, I don't know.

 

[AllieKat]

These cocksuckers are the BWA don't deserve an anonymous HOF ballot.

When you have Nolan Ryan, Ken Griff Jr and now Ichiro not be unanimous like WTF?

How do you not vote for Ichiro?!

 

[Gay Communist Gun Club]

These cocksuckers are the BWA don't deserve an anonymous HOF ballot.

When you have Nolan Ryan, Ken Griff Jr and now Ichiro not be unanimous like WTF?

How do you not vote for Ichiro?!

Remember when Dan Le Batard gave his vote to Deadspin and put down whoever they voted and then posted the ballot? Granted the BBWAA revoked his voting rights after that but it was pretty cool. You also get some writers who are just assholes and have internal rules like "I don't vote anyone on their first ballot."

I just do not care who gets inducted or not since Jerry Reinsdorf forced Harold Baines in via a special committee, and it's never been pure even from the beginning.

 

[Preferred Penne]

Every time someone complains that the Hall of Fame has "now become a joke", I remind them that such luminaries as Jesse Haines and Rabbit Maranville have been Hall of Famers for decades.

 

[A.P. Hill]

Also, I don't know the details of the Yates deal yet, but it could be one that might bite them in the butt. He was fantastic last year, I saw it with my own two eyes, but he didn't pitch a whole lot since he was the closer on an anemic Rangers offense.

Rangers smoke the hopium about getting Sasaki due to NTT/Toyota being in Dallas, they of course don't get him, and then the Dodgers take their lights out closer as an extra fuck you. Brutal day for the 'plex. At least we spent 19 million on a platoon DH though.

 

[Looseleaf Paper]

Rangers smoke the hopium about getting Sasaki due to NTT/Toyota being in Dallas, they of course don't get him, and then the Dodgers take their lights out closer as an extra fuck you. Brutal day for the 'plex. At least we spent 19 million on a platoon DH though.

Still not as bad as winning the WS in our own stadium before we did.

 

[I.B. Niggin]

Kill all baseball writers, behead all baseball writers, curbstomp all baseball writers, chop up all baseball writers and fry them in a wok, hit dingers with a baseball writer's skull...

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

Serendipity that Mariano Rivera, who apparently became a preacher, is being accused of facilitating child molestation at his bible camp at the same time that he's back in the news again over Suzuki's unanimous HoF ballot snub.

TBH, I thought Jeter got in unanimously a few years back.

 

[Bassomatic]

Absolutely based class for the HOF this year.

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

I wonder since Pete Rose pasted away will they finally put him into the hall?

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

I wonder since Pete Rose pasted away will they finally put him into the hall?

I think Bonds has a better shot.

It was more the boomer beat writers that had all the steroid hate. The younger ones don't seem to care as much.

The younger guys also likely didn't have to deal with Bonds' abrasive clubhouse presence personally.

The fact that he's black helps too.

I would say the same thing for Clemens, but the allegations of grooming and fucking an underage country star who later roped herself are going to be a lot harder for all the soyboy types to overlook.

The whole industry hates Curt Schilling despite his Boston cult hero status because he wants to rope journos, is vaguely Republican and ran a shitty MMO studio.

 

[five of em]

I wonder since Pete Rose pasted away will they finally put him into the hall?

Controversial but if Ohtani gets in, he should. The main thing holding Rose back was himself.

 

[Active User]

These cocksuckers are the BWA don't deserve an anonymous HOF ballot.

When you have Nolan Ryan, Ken Griff Jr and now Ichiro not be unanimous like WTF?

How do you not vote for Ichiro?!

I do know of writers who might want to save a guy who's just barely holding on to the ballot, and to do that they'll move a vote away from the guy who is obviously getting in with or without them. It sucks to be literally one vote off, but at the end of the day a hall of famer is a hall of famer at 100% or at 75.1%.

 

[Fleetwood]

Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara was sentenced to 57 months in prison and $17M restitution.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/02/ippei-mizuhara-sentenced-to-57-months-in-prison.html

 

[Iron Hamster]

Controversial but if Ohtani gets in, he should. The main thing holding Rose back was himself.

Do you mean Ichiro?

 

[AllieKat]

St Pete Mayor recently said he's ready to move on from the Rays if Stu Jewberg doesn't start movement on the stadium deal