2025 Major League Baseball Thread

[Navster]

Love me some a Yanks/Red sox Sunday night baseball

[walruswarrior]

Originally Posted by Navster

Love me some a Yanks/Red sox Sunday night baseball

[Navster]

Lol at that whole sequence, Beltran fail for jogging to home plate

[Bizdady]

Love the Arizona sweep! Especially after their constant pool crying still lol

[Navster]

Originally Posted by Bizdady

Love the Arizona sweep! Especially after their constant pool crying still lol

Lol Arizona gonna finish in last in the West

[Bizdady]

Originally Posted by Navster

Lol Arizona gonna finish in last in the West

I'm going next Saturday for work. Organizing a seating chart for 100 sucked!

[ChadFL]

Los Angeles magazine has details of Yasiel Puig's defection from Cuba, and it sounds almost too insane to be true. Below are the highlights courtesy of Deadspin.

http://deadspin.com/yasiel-puigs-def...uld-1562954619

Much of the detail in Katz's story comes from a Cuban boxer named Yunior Despaigne, who along with Puig, Puig's then-girlfriend, and a Santeria priest defected from Cuba in June of 2012. Despaigne and Puig have since become estranged, and Despaigne is now a witness in a lawsuit that was brought against Puig by a jailed Cuban national who claims Puig snitched him out to the Cuban government after he offered Puig a path to defection. Based on Despaigne's testimony and his conversations with Katz, here is what we think we know about Puig's defection:

·He was brought to Mexico and stashed in a dingy motel for weeks by a group of smugglers with ties to Mexican drug cartels

·A small-time crook from Miami named Raul Pacheco promised to pay the smugglers $250,000 to deliver Puig, who would then give Pacheco 20 percent of his future contract earnings

·Something went wrong during the negotiating process, and Puig (and Despaigne) were essentially held hostage by the smugglers while they shopped Puig around to various agents

·Puig was eventually rescued from the motel by a group of men hired by Pacheco to stage a kidnapping at the motel and get Puig out of there

·Still wanting their money, the smugglers threatened Despaigne and his mother, claiming they'd harm them and Puig unless they were paid

·One of the smugglers, Leo, was killed execution-style after Puig allegedly asked a business associate of his, Gilberto Suarez, to help him make the threats stop

·After Puig and Despaigne's falling out, one of Puig's former teammates turned Despaigne's brother in to the Cuban authorities, claiming that he tried to convince him to defect

[Visco.]

That's the most insane thing I've ever read. I don't think I can believe it.

[sycro]

Top of the 6th in Cincy and the Pirates and Reds have combined for 9 HRs.

Pirates have gone back-to-back to start the 2nd, 5th and 6th.

[sycro]

It's contagious!

Back-to-back-to-back HRs in the 8th for the Braves!

[sycro]

Grand Slam Uggla!

That's HRs in back-to-back innings for him!

[Chef_Boy-RT]

F*** yea!!!! Jaso with the bomb to take the lead!

[A Sith Lord?]

Originally Posted by sycro

Grand Slam Uggla!

That's HRs in back-to-back innings for him!

Why haven't you joined my forum yet... ?

[Bizdady]

Damn this Giants Dodger game

[sycro]

Originally Posted by MasturB

Why haven't you joined my forum yet... ?

1 forum is too much for me :\

[sycro]

After last night's bomb, Giancarlo Stanton has 3 of the 4 longest HRs (based off "true distance", which is how far it would travel before hitting the ground without obstructions) thus far this year:

1. Giancarlo Stanton, 484
2. Justin Upton, 477
3. Giancarlo Stanton, 469
4. Giancarlo Stanton, 457
5. Buster Posey, 453

[TxDave]

My Astros finally call up George Springer.

[walruswarrior]

Tanaka!!!

[sycro]

Originally Posted by walruswarrior

Tanaka!!!

Well, it was the Cubs.

[Lacit170]

Originally Posted by walruswarrior

Tanaka!!!

damn... 10Ks huh.... he had a ton last outing too i believe

just read this....nice start!!

"Tanaka has compiled 28 strikeouts through his first three starts, shattering a club record held by Al Leiter, who had 25 through his first three outings in 1987."