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I wonder which contract is gonna age worse, Soto? Or Vlad Jr's?

Definitely Vlad Jr.'s.

Vlad is back to hitting under .800 OPS again this spring with 6 HRs.

Vlad had two seasons roughly worthy of his contract and the rest of the time he plays roughly like a 2 WAR player.

He also has a bad body type.

Soto might look worse at times because he's already a bad OF that's going to get worse at a position where mistakes get exposed.

Vlad is already a bad 1B by the metrics who drops way too many throws.
 
Definitely Vlad Jr.'s.

Vlad is back to hitting under .800 OPS again this spring with 6 HRs.

Vlad had two seasons roughly worthy of his contract and the rest of the time he plays roughly like a 2 WAR player.

He also has a bad body type.

Soto might look worse at times because he's already a bad OF that's going to get worse at a position where mistakes get exposed.

Vlad is already a bad 1B by the metrics who drops way too many throws.
Yeah. Jr sure ain't his father that's for sure.
 
Yeah. Jr sure ain't his father that's for sure.

Vlad Sr. was supposedly a manwhore. So Vlad Jr.'s mother might just be mystery meat, accounting for his Prince Fielder avatar build vs Papa Guerrero's svelte preset.

Vlad Jr. was born in Montreal during his dad's Expos days, technically making him Canadian although he spent his formative years in the DR. Not sure if Vlad Jr.'s mom was dragged along to Canada or if she had any local connections.

Vlad Jr. also supposedly was mostly trained by Vlad Sr.'s older MLB brother Wilton because he was out of the league and back in the DR by 2005 when Sr. would still play on the mainland for years.

So Vlad Jr. has 1/2 of his dad's genetics re: contact ability, power, arm strength, apparently his hoe of a mother's thicc Latina thighs and actual baseball skills tutelage from his washed up MLB utility man uncle.
 
Vlad Sr. was supposedly a manwhore. So Vlad Jr.'s mother might just be mystery meat, accounting for his Prince Fielder avatar build vs Papa Guerrero's svelte preset.

Vlad Jr. was born in Montreal during his dad's Expos days, technically making him Canadian although he spent his formative years in the DR. Not sure if Vlad Jr.'s mom was dragged along to Canada or if she had any local connections.

Vlad Jr. also supposedly was mostly trained by Vlad Sr.'s older MLB brother Wilton because he was out of the league and back in the DR by 2005 when Sr. would still play on the mainland for years.

So Vlad Jr. has 1/2 of his dad's genetics re: contact ability, power, arm strength, apparently his hoe of a mother's thicc Latina thighs and actual baseball skills tutelage from his washed up MLB utility man uncle.

Interesting. He's such a black nigger though that the mother was likely your average fatass sheboon and that's where he gets those genetics from.

Dodgers with a frustrating loss tonight. After the marathon game the night before, I figured that LA could take advantage of the Mets exhausted pitching.

Well, they only needed 2 guys to go 9 innings and LA's bats went to sleep. Ohtani is in a slump, given how he badly he's whiffing on pitches. Crazy as this may sound given the season that he had last year, he has work to do on the art of batting.

You see other great hitters fouling off multiple pitches and taking pitchers deep. Ohtani's at-bats always end quickly, regardless of the result. I really want to see him have competitive at-bats where he's making pitchers work and dig deep. That's the difference between him and some of the truly elite hitters.

I'm also tired of all of these frontline starting pitchers being out injured. Dodgers appear to have the greatest number of players on the IL across the league.

I don't think that Mark Prior is the issue as much as these kikes in the front office and their obsession with velocity and spin rate. They always try and pick up guys who can just fill in those 2 boxes, but those motherfuckers tend to get hurt a lot more than other pitchers. It's a vicious cycle if I've ever seen one.

I mean, I fully expect Yamamoto to be shut down for a period of time at some point this season because that's just how it goes with guys who throw that hard.

Glasnow is an actual sissy boy faggot. He can't play with any amount of pain. I never liked Snell because this faggot walks way too many batters. Sasaki I've had questions about for a while now and he may just never be that good. Tanner Scott is a fucking joke. I read that they're making him throw more strikes this year and that's why he's being lit up.

I mean, if that's the case then he was profiting off of hitters swinging on anything like they're on some minor leagues shit. If you can't get guys out throwing strikes then maybe your "stuff" was never that good to begin with.

I really liked Gavin Stone and River Ryan but those motherfuckers aren't coming back until 2026 at the earliest it seems. They have some many injured pitchers that I can't keep track of this shit anymore.

I don't know...just frustrated about a lot of shit. Dodgers are posers right now and not nearly as good as whatever their record says.
 
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I figured that LA could take advantage of the Mets exhausted pitching.
Dodgers caught a break the other day with the rain delay and getting to tee off on the dregs of the Mets bullpen instead of SP Griffin Canning who has been great. It's the starting pitching and the top of the bullpen carrying the Mets success this year. Besides Alonso they aren't hitting as expected so if anything the mistake was not shutting them down on that front. Even Soto was hitting yesterday.

Everyone knows the Dodgers will fix any shortcomings with truckloads of money.
 
I'm also tired of all of these frontline starting pitchers being out injured. Dodgers appear to have the greatest number of players on the IL across the league.

I was looking at the Dodgers' 40-man roster a few weeks ago for something.

It was batshit crazy and was about 50 guys deep because they had 10 pitchers or so on the 60-day IL.

Someone mentioned at the time that they had so many pitchers hurt, that there were only 2 fielders left on the 40 man who WEREN'T playing in the big leagues on the 26-man roster as position players.
 
Sasaki I've had questions about for a while now and he may just never be that good.
While all NPB players certainly had adjustment periods and Sasaki being a young'un adds to the fact that he's a project, Mr. 102 miles per hour with a perfect game in NPB suddenly averaging 93 miles per hour on his 4-seamer screams of retarded pitching coach mismanagement to me. Maybe they tinkered with his grip to conform to their spin rate expectations which fucked with his arm
 
The Blue Jays have scored 4 runs in their last 5 games (and somehow still went 1-4).

The last two games against the Rangers have been very painful for both fanbases and both managers.

Toronto won 2-1 in Arlington on Monday afternoon on the strength of a solo 1st inning HR & a 4th inning sac fly. After being embarrassed 13-0 by the Rays on Sunday at Steinbrenner Field to close out the sweep.

Last night's game felt like it would never end because neither team wanted to score. Texas ended up winning it 2-0 on the strength of a RBI single & a throwing error to 3rd on a pickoff play by the catcher in the bottom of the 8th.

Marcus Semien started the series with an OPS starting with a 4 in year 4 of 7 of his deal.

The Rangers recently called up a new rookie LF, Alejandro Osuna to replace the husk of old Blue Jay legend Kevin Pillar who was apparently still in the league as of last week.

Osuna is 8 years junior to his older brother Roberto Osuna, former Blue Jays & Astros closer, ?former wife beater & one of the first players I recall going on the IL for "anxiety".

Not the best scenario when your line of work is walking the stress tightrope. I remember the broadcast & the fanbase all announcing how "brave" he was to tell it to the world and sit out for a while. All before his "anxiety" led to him take it out on his gf's face, of course.

As a visiting team, I really had no idea that the relatively new Globe Life Field is a cavernous pitchers' park with huge power alleys. It's 410 to left & right CF. It feels as though flyballs just go to die unless the hitters try to wrap one around the foul poles.

Nathan Eovaldi didn't come back out for the 3rd inning last night despite the game being 0-0. The team soon announced he was pulled for "triceps fatigue" but he was fine and wouldn't miss a start.

It kinda felt like when the police & government won't give any details about a public attack but immediately announce "It wasn't terrorism!".
 
When looking at the schedule this morning on MLB.com I found this on the front page:
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I really hope the sport isn't about to be shitted up NBA/WNBA style with promotion and news crap I will never care about.
 
When looking at the schedule this morning on MLB.com I found this on the front page:

On first glance, I thought the "AUSL" was referring to the Australian Baseball League.

I've heard recently that the Aussie baseball league is close to folding. Two of their six teams recently pulled out but their commissioner is claiming they can still move on.

MLB teams would very occasionally send some of their fringe non-Latino prospects over there as a Whiter & safer alternative to the Latin American Winter Leagues.

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Some kek seeing Kim Ng as their commissioner.

Kim Ng was astroturfed for so long as this brilliant baseball mind when she was with the Dodgers & the MLB Commissioner's Office. All the ID pol types wanted her to break that glass ceiling so badly as their champion.

For so long, they claimed it was inevitable that someone would hire her to be GM and her brilliance would lead to a dynasty. Teams would interview her for every open executive spot as the token diversity candidate (like they force teams now to interview POC manager candidates), but she was ever the bridesmaid.

Then they eventually gave her Derek Jeter's clusterfuck of a Marlins GM position that no one else wanted in a no-win situation.

Then they didn't actually give her enough time or resources to actually fix anything and fired her as soon as they could because the Marlins were still the Marlins.
 
When looking at the schedule this morning on MLB.com I found this on the front page:
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I really hope the sport isn't about to be shitted up NBA/WNBA style with promotion and news crap I will never care about.
…Maybe it just isn’t for me, but does anyone who doesn’t know a player/team watch this? What exactly is the appeal? I see it playing on television sometimes in the middle of the day, but never hang around long enough because it just isn’t interesting.
 
…Maybe it just isn’t for me, but does anyone who doesn’t know a player/team watch this? What exactly is the appeal? I see it playing on television sometimes in the middle of the day, but never hang around long enough because it just isn’t interesting.
I don't mind if softball is on ESPN3 or whatever but if they aggressively push it i'm going to aggressively not watch it ever.
 
So the Yankees and Phillies and D backs all got slapped silly today. Double digits.
Arizona's game is especially interesting. Their starting pitcher Brandon Pfaadt was credited for allowing 8 earned runs without getting a batter out before being pulled. Washington ended up scoring 11 runs in total before ending the top of the first inning after Scott McGough gave up 3 of his own prior to his team getting to bat. The game's in the sixth inning now and the Nats have been shutout since, but Arizona's making a comeback and it's 11-7 (Randal Grichuk just a two-run homer.)

The top of the first inning started with Washington having their leadoff batter, CJ Abrams, get hit by a pitch. He was then hit again, this time by McGough, later in the same inning. Washington also ended up hitting 5 doubles (4 off of Pfaadt.)
 
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Bo Bichette has been on a tear lately, hitting 3 HRs in the last 4 games, including coming off the bench while day-to-day with a sore back to hit a PH HR to beat Texas 2-0 ( in a series that the Jays won 2 out 3 by scoring 6 runs total).

This was after having an okay year to date, but lacking power otherwise with only 4 HRs all year before the hot streak (though lots of doubles).

The broadcast mentioned that Bo is the 1st Blue Jays SS to ever hit 100 HRs with the club.

Looking up the all-time leaders (the club started in 1977), it only takes 18 HRs to make the Jays' Top 10 career HR list at SS.

#4 with 36 is Mr. Glass himself Troy Tulowitzki, who barely played in Toronto because he was hurt all the time.

#5 with 24 is Senor " Tu es maricon" Yunel Escobar who the triggered Leafs ran out of town for writing "You are a faggot" on his eye black.

Tied for #9 with 18 is Freddy Galvis who only played half a season up North before being put on waivers after no one wanted him at the trade deadline.

You don't even have to have hit these HRs while playing the SS position for the Jays because Clement is on the list at #13 with his 16 dingers, most of them while playing 2nd or 3rd.

Although the list must have some sort of inclusion criteria for who they consider a SS because Troy Glaus isn't on the HR list when JP Ricciardi & John Gibbons were crazy enough to play Glaus at SS sometimes back in the aughts to try to wring out more offense.
 
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