2025 Major League Baseball Thread

[filmnut5]

Originally Posted by Hatter

Wow. Puig has no business being a breakthrough athlete nominee at the espy's. He's been amazing so far, but it's just 38 games.

Agreed...he may hit .200 (Mendoza Line), the rest of the way. Pitchers will figure him out and his stats will drop.

[JohnWayne]

Originally Posted by filmnut5

Agreed...he may hit .200 (Mendoza Line), the rest of the way. Pitchers will figure him out and his stats will drop.

Exactly why he shouldn't have even been nominated for the fan voting spot in the all star game,

[ChadFL]

Never realized that incredible deferred compensation plan Bobby Bonilla gets was dreamed up by Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff.

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/art...ball-contract/

How Bobby Bonilla Landed The Luckiest Baseball Contract Ever

The Bernie Madoff Connection

In 1986, Real estate developer Fred Wilpon purchased 50% of The New York Mets for an undisclosed sum. He purchased the remaining 50% for $135 million in 2002. Wilpon was also one of the biggest investors in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme hedge fund. Prior to the fund's December 2008 collapse, Madoff was returning a consistent (and completely fake) double digit rate of return every year. With those returns in mind, Wilpon knew that The Mets would actually make a huge profit by deferring Bonilla's $5.9 million. Even though that meant agreeing to pay him more than five times the amount they owed ($29.8 million), Wilpon could safely estimate that the Mets would make $60-70 million off $5.9 million over those 25 years investing with Madoff.

Unfortunately, as we all know now, Bernie Madoff's investment fund was actually a gigantic Ponzi scheme that wiped out between $20 and $65 billion in wealth for thousands of investors. Wilpon, who was under the false impression that he had made $300 million investing with Madoff, had potentially lost as much as $700 million. Not only did this completely invalidate the justification for Bobby Bonilla's contract but it almost forced Wilpon to sell The Mets to cover his debts. In 2011, Wilpon nearly sold 50% of The Mets to a billionaire hedge fund manager named David Einhorn, but was eventually saved by loans from Major League Baseball and Bank of America. Bobby Bonilla meanwhile is living the good life. On July 1st 2013, he received his third direct deposit from The Mets for $1,193,248.20. Just five months earlier, Bobby celebrated his 50th birthday. Bonilla is a living lesson for why we might all be better off turning down lump sums and instead opting for deferred payments. I hope we all have to make that choice some day!

[walruswarrior]

Hey Nav what do you think of Hughes for Belt?

[sycro]

Not to pile on the Jays, but.... their Single-A team was no hit for the third time this season.

[sycro]

Jeter's back on the DL. Retroactive to July 12.

[filmnut5]

Originally Posted by sycro

Not to pile on the Jays, but.... their Single-A team was no hit for the third time this season.

Definitely not a pile on, Syc. It is what it is.....a DISGRACE.

[Bizdady]

Woohoo Dodgers squeak one out against the Nats

[Hatter]

Adam Dunn has 430 career homeruns. He may well be the worst player ever to reach 500-550 homeruns if he continues to find a team to DH for. At that point, he'll turn into Chris Osgood (NHL) and his career will be made out to be so much better than it actually was.

Originally Posted by sycro

Not to pile on the Jays, but.... their Single-A team was no hit for the third time this season.

Even terrible teams usually manage to get a couple of hits here and there in a game. Three times is shockingly bad.

[Navster]

Originally Posted by walruswarrior

Hey Nav what do you think of Hughes for Belt?

Here's what I think about it...

[Hatter]

This is why sluggers never bunt

[Hi-Def Steve]

1/2 game out!

Thank you Giants

[Navster]

Originally Posted by Hi-Def Steve

1/2 game out!

Thank you Giants

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

Never realized that incredible deferred compensation plan Bobby Bonilla gets was dreamed up by Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff.

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/art...ball-contract/

Honestly the rate of return he was seeing (not that it was real lol) he'd have been stupid to not defer the contract. It's not like he gave Fatsworth 100 million he just tried to make more money ontop of more money and it bit him hard because of fraud.

Good for Bonilla though

[TxDave]

Ugh, how do you lose a game 4-2 when you give up only 1 hit?

[Hatter]

Originally Posted by TxDave

Ugh, how do you lose a game 4-2 when you give up only 1 hit?

Bedard had given up five walks in his 6.1 innings along with two passed balls and a sac fly. It was already 2-2 when he was taken out because of the walks and passed balls. All it took then was the one double to finish it off.

What I don't understand is the clueless fans who think it was wrong to take Bedard out because of a no hitter. It's unfortunate on how we over romanticize a no hitter sometimes. Five walks, two passed balls and a poor 61-48 strike to ball ratio in 6.1 innings isn't anything special and Bedard knew that which is why he agreed to be pulled after a mound visit in the seventh. Not to mention the three shoulder surgeries he's had in the past.

[Bizdady]

Zimmerman getting rocked early! Finally some early run support for Kershaw

[volcomsocal]

Washington D.C. just got a lot cleaner today.

GO DODGERS!!!

[sycro]

Yasiel Puig, July: .254/.286/.356.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by sycro

Yasiel Puig, July: .254/.286/.356.

He reminds me of when in baseball movies you see that angry guy whose the hot prospect killing the balls looking mean