MLB 2024 Off Season

DewieCox

“Hey Dexter, I’ll give you $100 if you go yard.” - random fan at the Ari-StL game in the 19th inning.

tempo_n_groove

DewieCox said:

“Hey Dexter, I’ll give you $100 if you go yard.” - random fan at the Ari-StL game in the 19th inning.

HA!  That's funny!  Were there any fans left for that game?

DewieCox

tempo_n_groove said:

DewieCox said:

“Hey Dexter, I’ll give you $100 if you go yard.” - random fan at the Ari-StL game in the 19th inning.

HA!  That's funny!  Were there any fans left for that game?

He may have been the only one. 

HesCalledDyer

tempo_n_groove said:

Ketel Marte for AZ.  Anyone see what he's been doing all year?  Completely under the radar.

Check him out.  He filled in for the loss of Goldie in a big way.  His team stinks so no one cares.

Acuna left with Hip Tightness...  I really really hope he gets shit together and steals those 3 bases.  It will be immortal if he does.

For about the first 3 months of the season, I kept thinking it was Starling when I was looking at stat columns.  Cubs got all their Dbacks games out of the way in April, so I had no inclination to pick up on him then.

Jason P

Ryan Braun hit his 3rd career grand slam in the great american ballpark tonight ... which got me searching for which player has the most grand slams in an opposing teams field when I stumbled upon this fun fact:  A-Rod has 25 grand slams against 25 different pitchers.  That is an impressive stat that I'm surprised doesn't come up more often.

tempo_n_groove

Jason P said:

Ryan Braun hit his 3rd career grand slam in the great american ballpark tonight ... which got me searching for which player has the most grand slams in an opposing teams field when I stumbled upon this fun fact:  A-Rod has 25 grand slams against 25 different pitchers.  That is an impressive stat that I'm surprised doesn't come up more often.

It's one of those "dumb stats".

The only really cool dumb stat that I liked is Stan Musial's hit total for home and away games.  Look it up.  You'll see why.

Cliffy6745

Twitter question

If you create a team out the Yankees and Astros, could they beat a team out of the rest of baseball?  Let's say a 7 game series.

F it, I say yeah

MayDay10

Cliffy6745 said:

Twitter question

If you create a team out the Yankees and Astros, could they beat a team out of the rest of baseball?  Let's say a 7 game series.

F it, I say yeah

igotid88

Twins first team to 300 home runs

Wobbie

tempo_n_groove said:

Ketel Marte for AZ.  Anyone see what he's been doing all year?  Completely under the radar.

Check him out.  He filled in for the loss of Goldie in a big way.  His team stinks so no one cares.

Acuna left with Hip Tightness...  I really really hope he gets shit together and steals those 3 bases.  It will be immortal if he does.

AZ always stinks....except for the year they bought their WS.

Poncier

Cliffy6745 said:

Twitter question

If you create a team out the Yankees and Astros, could they beat a team out of the rest of baseball?  Let's say a 7 game series.

F it, I say yeah

Assuming everyone is healthy and I can have for example:

Trout OF

Yelich OF

Bellinger OF

Abreu 1B

Marte 2B

Bogaerts SS

Donaldson 3B

Realmuto C

A starting 4 (since its a 7 game series) of Ryu, deGrom, Morton, Strasburg

Not gonna bother with assembling a bullpen, but I like my chances.

The Yankee Tralfazes would be using exclusively HOU starters I assume.

Cliffy6745

Poncier said:

Cliffy6745 said:

Twitter question

If you create a team out the Yankees and Astros, could they beat a team out of the rest of baseball?  Let's say a 7 game series.

F it, I say yeah

Assuming everyone is healthy and I can have for example:

Trout OF

Yelich OF

Bellinger OF

Abreu 1B

Marte 2B

Bogaerts SS

Donaldson 3B

Realmuto C

A starting 4 (since its a 7 game series) of Ryu, deGrom, Morton, Strasburg

Not gonna bother with assembling a bullpen, but I like my chances.

The Yankee Tralfazes would be using exclusively HOU starters I assume.

So this is what I would do.

OF judge
OF stanton
OF Springer 
1b gurriel/DJLM 
2nd altuve
SS Gleyber 
3rd Bergman 
C Sanchez 

yes, Houston’s top 3 then severino/happ.

yankees bullpen plus osuna

Wobbie

have you seen those pathetic “crowds” in tampa? contract them....and the marlins, while you’re at it.

tempo_n_groove

Poncier said:

Cliffy6745 said:

Twitter question

If you create a team out the Yankees and Astros, could they beat a team out of the rest of baseball?  Let's say a 7 game series.

F it, I say yeah

Assuming everyone is healthy and I can have for example:

Trout OF

Yelich OF

Bellinger OF

Abreu 1B

Marte 2B

Bogaerts SS

Donaldson 3B

Realmuto C

A starting 4 (since its a 7 game series) of Ryu, deGrom, Morton, Strasburg

Not gonna bother with assembling a bullpen, but I like my chances.

The Yankee Tralfazes would be using exclusively HOU starters I assume.

No Scherzer or Kershaw?

I'll take the Yanks as the assembled team won't gel on a short notice.

Cliffy6745

Felix is the man

markymark550

No 40/40 year for Acuña. Braves have shut him down for the last 3 games. He's expected to be ready for the playoffs. Finished with 41 homers and 37 stolen bases. It's unfortunate that he couldn't get there, but it was still an amazing season for him.

tempo_n_groove

markymark550 said:

No 40/40 year for Acuña. Braves have shut him down for the last 3 games. He's expected to be ready for the playoffs. Finished with 41 homers and 37 stolen bases. It's unfortunate that he couldn't get there, but it was still an amazing season for him.

I hope he strives to purposefully get there next year. Get the SB's first.  The HR's will come.

markymark550

tempo_n_groove said:

markymark550 said:

No 40/40 year for Acuña. Braves have shut him down for the last 3 games. He's expected to be ready for the playoffs. Finished with 41 homers and 37 stolen bases. It's unfortunate that he couldn't get there, but it was still an amazing season for him.

I hope he strives to purposefully get there next year. Get the SB's first.  The HR's will come.

Yeah, definitely get the steals first. If you look at his game logs, he only had something like 13 steals before the All-Star break. Part of it was that he was hitting cleanup for about 25% of the year and it wasn't part of the offensive strategy with the other big bats around him. I think after moving to lead off, he was given the green light and really took off later on. If they keep him at lead off next year, he might be able to get to 40, although I imagine more teams will be more aware and try to hold him close to the bag. 

Jason P

For a while it looked like there were around ten players that were going to break 50 HR this year and a few that had a shot at 60 ... heading into the final weekend, only Alonzo has eclipsed the 50 mark and only one other player, Eugenio Suarez (49) has a shot at joining him.

I'm pretty sure at least 10 of Suarez' HR came at the expense of the Brewers ...

igotid88

Jason P said:

For a while it looked like there were around ten players that were going to break 50 HR this year and a few that had a shot at 60 ... heading into the final weekend, only Alonzo has eclipsed the 50 mark and only one other player, Eugenio Suarez (49) has a shot at joining him.

I'm pretty sure at least 10 of Suarez' HR came at the expense of the Brewers ...

Trout and Yelich got injured. Stanton missed 90% of tbe season. Judge missed a good amount. Gary Sanchez and Edwin Encarnacion as well. To name a few.

Wobbie

that cocksucker bellinger has a shot

Wobbie

oakland needs to take out tampa bay.....not because I have anything against tampa but because I don’t want a series in that abortion of a stadium.

mfc2006

Wobbie said:

that cocksucker bellinger has a shot

LOL

tempo_n_groove

Petey Alonso ties Judges rookie HR record.  Crazy that it only lasted 3 years...

Wobbie

tempo_n_groove said:

Petey Alonso ties Judges rookie HR record.  Crazy that it only lasted 3 years...

juiced ball.

Wobbie

what if a KC Royal led the AL in HRs and nobody noticed?

mfc2006

Wobbie said:

what if a KC Royal led the AL in HRs and nobody noticed?

Soler is a beast.

HesCalledDyer

Alonso breaks the record! Verlander joins the 3000 club! Cubs still own Wainwrong.

mcgruff10

Too two of my kids to citizen banks park for the first time last night;  place is awesome!! Scored 22 rows from Bryce Harper down the right field line for $22 on stub hub. 

Cliffy6745

It’s a fucking disgrace this is the last game at this beautiful rangers park