2025 Major League Baseball Thread

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Originally Posted by toefer

I like the DH because I like baseball.

And my definition of baseball is good hitting and good pitching. Let the pitchers worry about pitching, and if someone wants to dedicate their entire training to hitting, and sucks at fielding, then I'm fine with that too.

The AL doesn't force a DH, it's just an option. Options are always good.

I hate that in the NL, a game could essentially come down to a combination of luck and timing, and where a pitcher's at-bats fall. If he comes to bat in a crucial spot of the game, you now have to weigh the benefits of putting in a real hitter vs the loss of having to take your pitcher out of the game.

Also, I don't buy the whole "DH's are too expensive thing", because most DH's also play in the field, and the DH is generally an extra fielder who is getting half a day off. People that tend to be DH-only players are in the latter part of their career, and probably aren't getting paid tons of money.

agreed!!!!! I don't like the pitchers getting a couple free strikeouts or easy outs because of it

on a side note tho it is cool when a pitcher klutches it and pulls of a winning single or a great hr

[toef]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

You're right on that part. Damon does play ALOT. He may be injured but he keeps on going. I hated him when he was in Boston, obviously lol but he grew on me as a Yankee. And when he came up to me in Tampa that really did it for me. Of course I didn't bring any balls to get signed... The Tampa complex is a whole different atmosphere from the Bronx. You can't get anything @ the stadium but Tampa is very laid back for the most part and as I've figured out during spring training, it's very easy to get auto's. Reggie was doing it as well. I was ticked off about Tino...he didn't even acknowledge us as well as Shelley Duncan but who cares about Shelley lol.


You're right about Pride. It's got to be hard to realize that you just don't have it anymore. He's 34 now and you can clearly tell that he's starting to get up there. I don't know if you saw that play the other day where his old teammate Sheffield slid into him to avoid the dp and Jeter completely jumped over him and threw to 1st(while in the air) for the double play(he makes it seem so easy). I thought it was a little greedy because he was out of the baseline but that's old school for you. Jeter still has it for the most part but he's not the percentage he was back in the Dynasty days. I'd like to see him on the team as long as possible. He still hasn't started a family yet so you'd assume that's part of his goal sometime down the road. He's dated a lot of well, hotties along his stint as a Yankee. I'm not sure what he'll do after he retires. I can't see him as a Manager. He is pretty quiet and he's been known for that. Maybe up in the booth. Who knows. I hate talking about it because it's sad to think that the Number 2 may not be in the field much longer.

I don't really like Jeter, but it will be a bit sad to see him go. Posada, Rivera and Jeter seem like they will be the last Yankees, for me, for a long time. Everyone else seems like they were brought to the team, and the ones they've developed (Cano, Melky, Gardner) don't seem like they'll reach the same level of greatness/fame/Yankeeness.

From looking at the current stadium, there is only room for one more retired number right now, in Monument Park, though I'm sure they can always make more room. But I don't know if they'll need more than 3 spots in the next 10-15 years.

One thing that surprised me about Jeter was how tall he was. As a kid growing up with the mid/late 90's Yankees, he always seemed like the small guy on the team, but he's actually quite tall (6'3").



Sabathia is a monster though. He looks pretty heavy, and at 6'7" he must weigh a ton.

[toef]

Yankees fans, bring out the tissues.

Yankees haters, feel free to high-five each other.

I think all the seats have now been removed. They might be doing some asbestos-cleanup work for a while, so it may appear as though the demolition stalls for a while, and then will suddenly pick back up.

[sfmarine]

Good call with moving our discussion here. We totally highjacked that tread...

But... after seeing those photos. My old man took me there as a kid and he went there as a kid. I was hoping that someday I could do the same. It's a shame they're demolishing it. It should have become part of Cooperstown or something.

[SDon1969]

500th consecutive sellout at Fenway tonight.

And, no surprise, I'm in favor of DHs as well, for the same reasons noted above...

Originally Posted by toefer

Yankees fans, bring out the tissues.

Yankees haters, feel free to high-five each other.

LMAO!

[hc666]

Originally Posted by SDon1969

500th consecutive sellout at Fenway tonight.

And, no surprise, I'm in favor of DHs as well, for the same reasons noted above...



LMAO!

I remember when we use to sell out every game and were the first team to 4 million fans in one season! Damn that strike of 1994!

DH rocks... I couldn't even watch an Expos game back in the day because of the pitchers hitting lol

[sfmarine]

Originally Posted by SDon1969

500th consecutive sellout at Fenway tonight.


LMAO!

Fenway has decent affordable pricing. Yankee Tickets skyrocketed with that new stadium. I haven't even made it to a game yet and that's rare for me. Then again...it takes me almost 3 hours to get there plus parking and gas...it's expensive.

[fatediesel]

ESPN has a report that Pedro Martinez could be signing with either the Cubs or Rays soon. As a Cubs fan I don't understand this at all. The Cubs starting pitching has been fantastic this year, they just don't have any offense to help them. On the other hand the Cubs relievers haven't been great, and bringing in a starter that can only go 5 innings is a horrible idea. I know the Cubs loving bringing in big names but if Martinez had anything left he'd be signed by now.
If anything they should be looking for offense, maybe bring back Mark DeRosa, since they were idiots to trade him in the first place. He can play 7 positions and doesn't complain, why get rid of a guy like that for prospects. I really don't know what's up with the Cubs offense, only Derrek Lee has been playing decent lately. They have plenty of good hitters but nobody can get it going. Kosuke is doing what he did last year, start off strong and then tail off. Soto's having a sophomore slump. Soriano is just awful, even Milton Bradley passed him in BA. The Cubs don't have a single starter with a batting average over .285. I just can't imagine the hitting coach is to blame but I agree that firing the coach was the correct solution. I honestly think when the Cubs play Detroit next week that Zambrano should bat during his start and any of their position players should take the day off. I even think Zambrano should be their DH in their other road AL games.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4267760

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Originally Posted by fatediesel

ESPN has a report that Pedro Martinez could be signing with either the Cubs or Rays soon. As a Cubs fan I don't understand this at all. The Cubs starting pitching has been fantastic this year, they just don't have any offense to help them. On the other hand the Cubs relievers haven't been great, and bringing in a starter that can only go 5 innings is a horrible idea. I know the Cubs loving bringing in big names but if Martinez had anything left he'd be signed by now.
If anything they should be looking for offense, maybe bring back Mark DeRosa, since they were idiots to trade him in the first place. He can play 7 positions and doesn't complain, why get rid of a guy like that for prospects. I really don't know what's up with the Cubs offense, only Derrek Lee has been playing decent lately. They have plenty of good hitters but nobody can get it going. Kosuke is doing what he did last year, start off strong and then tail off. Soto's having a sophomore slump. Soriano is just awful, even Milton Bradley passed him in BA. The Cubs don't have a single starter with a batting average over .285. I just can't imagine the hitting coach is to blame but I agree that firing the coach was the correct solution. I honestly think when the Cubs play Detroit next week that Zambrano should bat during his start and any of their position players should take the day off. I even think Zambrano should be their DH in their other road AL games.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4267760

Agreed because now if they keep pedro as a starter then the bullpen who is a little shaky already has to carry him thru since he can only really go 4-6.

[fatediesel]

Great come from behind win for the Cubs today. They were down 5-1 in the 8th and Lee had a 3-run homer, and Soto followed with a game-tying homer. Soriano had a walk-off single to win. Hope this gets the team going again, and it's nice to see Soriano and Soto get big hits. Quality start for Zambrano with 7 innings and 3 earned runs, but Marmol got shelled, giving up 2 runs in 0.2 innings.

In other Cubs news, their owners (Tribune) have started talking with another group about buying the team. Everyone thought that by now the Ricketts would have closed the sale but they are having trouble getting financing and their exclusive window has closed. Wish they'd just let Mark Cuban buy the team but baseball's cranky old owner's don't want someone like him.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4269936

[hc666]

So the Blue Jays beat up on the Rangers in Texas last week, then get swept at home by the Marlins and now the Blue Jays have just swept the defending champ Phillies in Philly!

Will the real Toronto Blue Jays please step forward!!! I guess when you have 4 rookie pitchers in your starting rotation and 1 reliever now as a starter things tend to go up and down.

Just burns me as a fan who hasn't seen his team in the playoffs since 1993, this team is a couple vet pitchers(or pitchers on the DL) and a big booper away from being a great.

[toef]

This Yankees game is pretty funny.... or at least the crowd is.

The game was supposed to take place at 1pm, but it was raining. They figured they'd wait out the rain, since they obviously won't be playing the Nationals again this year, so it'd be hard to work in a make-up game.

So 5.5 hours of a rain delay later, the game finally started. But most of the fans left.

There appear to be 0 fans in the upper deck of the stadium (or the upper two decks, if you want to count the split deck as two), and literally no more than 10 people in the bleachers. The rest of the stadium is fairly empty as well.

It's like watching the early 90's Yankees all over again.

[sfmarine]

Negative....just after the 1st half of the inning they let everyone fill into the lower levels. They did it to thank the fans for staying 5+ hours. That's a long time to wait around and eat hot dogs. Ticks me off because I was planning on going today lol.

[toef]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

Negative....just after the 1st half of the inning they let everyone fill into the lower levels. They did it to thank the fans for staying 5+ hours. That's a long time to wait around and eat hot dogs. Ticks me off because I was planning on going today lol.

Haha, well even then... for them to do that would mean tons of people didn't show up, so only, what, 10,000 people are there?

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The play Harris made on A-Rod's drive out to the LF was one of the best plays I've seen made at YS this year.

[sfmarine]

Originally Posted by toefer

Haha, well even then... for them to do that would mean tons of people didn't show up, so only, what, 10,000 people are there?

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The play Harris made on A-Rod's drive out to the LF was one of the best plays I've seen made at YS this year.

They're also giving all the fans a free ticket for a later game. Did you see Brett
Gardener's play?

Harris made an amazing catch as well. The game would have been a lot different had he not made that play.

[toef]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

They're also giving all the fans a free ticket for a later game. Did you see Brett
Gardener's play?

Harris made an amazing catch as well. The game would have been a lot different had he not made that play.

That's nice of the Yankees, considering for the most part they milk the fans for every dollar they can. I hate the people running the team now. As much as people hated Steinbrenner for being so controlling or evil or whiney, he always acted with the fans' interest in mind, and now his sons + Lonn Trost don't seem to care, and cater to the Wall Street crowd.

The Gardner play was pretty good, but a bit scary. I always thought those plexi-glass windows looked a bit dumb, because who cares about being able to see into the bullpen? Glad he seemed to be ok (based on not needing a stretcher, and seeming to be quite alert as they wheeled him off).

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O's win beat Krod in the 9th Huff single to win!!! all started with a wieters double.

[Jellybeans]

A-ROD BENCHED BY YANKEES FOR TWO DAYS.
Source : http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/story/?id=282349

[toef]

Originally Posted by Dark Elf

A-ROD BENCHED BY YANKEES FOR TWO DAYS.
Source : http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/story/?id=282349

Haha, you're always a day behind on these stories.

Also, he wasn't benched, so the headline is misleading.

He asked for a game or two off, because he said he was exhausted. Up until yesterday he started in every game since coming back from his hip surgery.

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Originally Posted by toefer

Haha, you're always a day behind on these stories.

Also, he wasn't benched, so the headline is misleading.

He asked for a game or two off, because he said he was exhausted. Up until yesterday he started in every game since coming back from his hip surgery.

Arod comments always beat my awsome O's ones lol

anyway how about wieters with some clutch hitting the past couple days I knew he'd be good!