2025 Major League Baseball Thread

[fatediesel]

The Nationals hired Dusty Baker as their manager today. They had tried to hire Bud Black initially but were being incredibly cheap, only offering him a cheap one-year deal and after counteroffers never went beyond two guaranteed years. Baker agreed to a two-year deal at $2 million per year, well below the $3.5 million he made when he was the Reds manager.

I'm surprised the Nationals would get so cheap when they should be a World Series contender. According to Forbes Nationals owner Ted Lerner is worth $4.9 billion and at age 90 he doesn't have time to be patient. You would think he'd be willing to hire whoever he thought gave them the best chance at winning a title, not the manager who would accept the cheapest deal.

[sycro]

Crowd at the end of the Royals parade for the rally that starts in over an hour.

[BaerGriggs]

Nearly half of the office is gone today for the parade, I live downtown and I'm probably not going to even bother trying to drive home until 7 or so.

[sycro]

It got worse downtown....

[sycro]

Estimated parade and rally attendance? 800,000

[Waboman]

Epic victory speech for the ages by Gomes.

Jonny Gomes gives amazing victory speech - YouTube

[sycro]

One last pic of the crowd. This is insane.



But since I don't go through downtown on my way home, traffic was awesome tonight!

[Lacit170]

ill never understand it. That looks miserable to me to be a part of that lol.... same goes the Macys Thanksgiving, New Years in times square...all just seem absolutely miserable lol

[Visco.]

Goodness I hate Johnny Gomes

[Lacit170]

Originally Posted by Visco.

Goodness I hate Johnny Gomes

ha, i thought the speech was great...im sure you wouldnt have a problem if it was your team.... assuming the royals arent your team lol

[Navster]

Originally Posted by sycro

One last pic of the crowd. This is insane.



But since I don't go through downtown on my way home, traffic was awesome tonight!

That's incredible, has to be 1+ Million?

Happy for that team and city

[sycro]

Originally Posted by Navster

That's incredible, has to be 1+ Million?

Happy for that team and city

They guessed 800K+

[Visco.]

Originally Posted by Lacit170

ha, i thought the speech was great...im sure you wouldnt have a problem if it was your team.... assuming the royals arent your team lol

He just emits douche to me

[sycro]

Former Braves and Angels pitcher Tommy Hanson died this morning following a day in a coma from massive organ failure. He was only 29.

[sycro]

Leads his league in defensive WAR for the third straight year (first time it's happened since Andruw Jones), and doesn't get a Gold Glove.

[sycro]

Braves trade Simmons for literally nothing.

So maybe Newcomb will be a good pitcher, but Simmons is one of the top defenders ever.

[Navster]

Originally Posted by sycro

Braves trade Simmons for literally nothing.

What the hell is wrong with your guys gm/ownership

[fatediesel]

Colby Rasmus accepted the $15.8 million qualifying offer from the Astros, becoming the first player to accept a qualifying offer. It's probably a smart move by Rasmus because if he had declined it he might have been in a situation like Stephen Drew Kendrys Morales, and Nelson Cruz faced where teams didn't want to give up a first round pick for them and they ended up making significantly less than the money the QO would have paid.

Rasmus might not be the only player to accept a QO this year. Pitchers Brett Anderson and Ian Kennedy could accept it to delay their free agency until next year as the free agent pitching market is loaded this year and very weak next year. Catcher Matt Wieters could accept it because there's not many teams in the market for a catcher and his value is low after only playing 100 games over the last 2 years due to Tommy John surgery.

Edit: Wieters and Anderson both accepted the qualifying offers. Kennedy declined the offer.

[Navster]

Kimbrel to the Red Sox, damn I was hoping Giants would make a run at him

[Moviefan1203]

Donaldson!