MLB 2025 Season

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Major League Baseball just suspended spring training and postponed Opening Day..

Major League Baseball is delaying the start of the 2020 regular season by at least two weeks in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the league announced Thursday.

ESPN  - https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28892315/sources-mlb-expected-suspend-spring-training

F Me In The Brain

I know a guy who knows a guy...some teams are working on a plan for how things would look if they have to cancel the first half of the season.

Top 5?

Almost impossible to pick.

1. Babe Ruth
   
2. Willie Mays
3. Hank Aaron
4. Ted Williams
5. Mickey Mantle

To heck with pitchers!

(And to known roid ragers.  Bonds is an all time great but I am not putting him in my top 5)

DewieCox

tempo_n_groove said:

DewieCox said:

tempo_n_groove said:

DewieCox said:

Who’s top 5?

Babe
Mays
Bonds
Pujols
Ryan

Ryan?  You're joking right?

He was a horse for a loooooong time. I used to think he was overrated and then checked out his Baseball-reference one day. Bolded shit all over the place up for damn near a quarter century. He really only dropped off his last few years. 

Pujols at 23 is moronic. He’s a lock in the top 10. Fucking 700 hr clean

He lead in categories like K's, BB's, Hits per 9 innings, Wild pitches...  I do admit to loving him as he was exciting but no way was he one of the best.

Blyleven, Neikro, Carlton and Perry had a higher WAR than Ryan.  All his contemporaries.

EDIT: Yes I would put Pujols wayyyy up there as well.  For the first 12 years or so he was unbelievable.

WAR shmar...5000k’s/not one of the best?  Get outta here with that shit

DewieCox

F Me In The Brain said:

I know a guy who knows a guy...some teams are working on a plan for how things would look if they have to cancel the first half of the season.

Top 5?

Almost impossible to pick.

1. Babe Ruth
   
2. Willie Mays
3. Hank Aaron
4. Ted Williams
5. Mickey Mantle

To heck with pitchers!

(And to known roid ragers.  Bonds is an all time great but I am not putting him in my top 5)

Id put clean Bonds somewhere close behind Griffey.

tempo_n_groove

DewieCox said:

tempo_n_groove said:

DewieCox said:

tempo_n_groove said:

DewieCox said:

Who’s top 5?

Babe
Mays
Bonds
Pujols
Ryan

Ryan?  You're joking right?

He was a horse for a loooooong time. I used to think he was overrated and then checked out his Baseball-reference one day. Bolded shit all over the place up for damn near a quarter century. He really only dropped off his last few years. 

Pujols at 23 is moronic. He’s a lock in the top 10. Fucking 700 hr clean

He lead in categories like K's, BB's, Hits per 9 innings, Wild pitches...  I do admit to loving him as he was exciting but no way was he one of the best.

Blyleven, Neikro, Carlton and Perry had a higher WAR than Ryan.  All his contemporaries.

EDIT: Yes I would put Pujols wayyyy up there as well.  For the first 12 years or so he was unbelievable.

WAR shmar...5000k’s/not one of the best?  Get outta here with that shit

There are a lot of people that think Ryan is one of the best, why?  They must love the strikeout.

I would take Maddux 100 times over Ryan any day.  A list of other pitchers I would choose over him.

Scherzer
Kershaw
Mathewson
Koufax
Gibson
Drysdale
Gomez
Young
Johnson Big Train
Johnson Big Unit
Brown
Marichal
Nichols
Spahn
Clemens
Plank
Palmer

Again, I loved watching Ryan pitch.  Hearing him grunt when he threw was always cool!

tempo_n_groove

F Me In The Brain said:

I know a guy who knows a guy...some teams are working on a plan for how things would look if they have to cancel the first half of the season.

Top 5?

Almost impossible to pick.

1. Babe Ruth
   
2. Willie Mays
3. Hank Aaron
4. Ted Williams
5. Mickey Mantle

To heck with pitchers!

(And to known roid ragers.  Bonds is an all time great but I am not putting him in my top 5)

Mantle over Cobb?

F Me In The Brain

tempo_n_groove said:

F Me In The Brain said:

I know a guy who knows a guy...some teams are working on a plan for how things would look if they have to cancel the first half of the season.

Top 5?

Almost impossible to pick.

1. Babe Ruth
   
2. Willie Mays
3. Hank Aaron
4. Ted Williams
5. Mickey Mantle

To heck with pitchers!

(And to known roid ragers.  Bonds is an all time great but I am not putting him in my top 5)

Mantle over Cobb?

For my .02, yes.  Can understand others selecting differently.

tempo_n_groove

F Me In The Brain said:

tempo_n_groove said:

F Me In The Brain said:

I know a guy who knows a guy...some teams are working on a plan for how things would look if they have to cancel the first half of the season.

Top 5?

Almost impossible to pick.

1. Babe Ruth
   
2. Willie Mays
3. Hank Aaron
4. Ted Williams
5. Mickey Mantle

To heck with pitchers!

(And to known roid ragers.  Bonds is an all time great but I am not putting him in my top 5)

Mantle over Cobb?

For my .02, yes.  Can understand others selecting differently.

That's a bold move Cotton.  Hope it pays off for you.

tempo_n_groove

Let's do top 5 pitchers of all time.

Cy Young
Walter Johnson
Greg Maddux
Christy Mathewson
Warren Spahn

I do think people underestimate how great Spahn was.

HesCalledDyer

I don't know that I can do top fives.  It's too hard to narrow down.

Barry Bonds is the greatest player of all-time. Greg Maddux is the greatest pitcher of all-time. Manny Ramirez & Ichiro are two of the best hitters I've ever seen, throw Pujols, Arod, & Gwynn in there, too.  Wish I was old enough to have seen 70's George Brett.

tempo_n_groove

HesCalledDyer said:

I don't know that I can do top fives.  It's too hard to narrow down.

Barry Bonds is the greatest player of all-time. Greg Maddux is the greatest pitcher of all-time. Manny Ramirez & Ichiro are two of the best hitters I've ever seen, throw Pujols, Arod, & Gwynn in there, too.  Wish I was old enough to have seen 70's George Brett.

With modern players I agree with you 100%.

People don't put in Frank Thomas enough either.  For like 10 years he had 100BB, runs and RBI's.  Dude was a machine in the 90's.

HesCalledDyer

Always loved Frank Thomas even though he played for the bad guys.

tempo_n_groove

This thread should be bellowing with people's Top 5's.

What say you?!?

This is where I like to hear "why" you like certain players that others do not.

Cliffy6745

The best player of all time is CLEARLY Gleyber Torres.  Don't even think about arguing with me.

tempo_n_groove

Cliffy6745 said:

The best player of all time is CLEARLY Gleyber Torres.  Don't even think about arguing with me.

I love you sometimes but this isn't one of those times, lol.

cutz

tempo_n_groove said:

Let's do top 5 pitchers of all time.

Cy Young
Walter Johnson
Greg Maddux
Christy Mathewson
Warren Spahn

I do think people underestimate how great Spahn was.

How about Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn ?

tempo_n_groove

cutz said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Let's do top 5 pitchers of all time.

Cy Young
Walter Johnson
Greg Maddux
Christy Mathewson
Warren Spahn

I do think people underestimate how great Spahn was.

How about Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn ?

HA!  One of my fav old nicknames. 
"Addie" Joss was another good one. Three Finger was another.

Baseball was very colorful years ago, lol!

cutz

HesCalledDyer said:

I don't know that I can do top fives.  It's too hard to narrow down.

Barry Bonds is the greatest player of all-time. Greg Maddux is the greatest pitcher of all-time. Manny Ramirez & Ichiro are two of the best hitters I've ever seen, throw Pujols, Arod, & Gwynn in there, too.  Wish I was old enough to have seen 70's George Brett.

Top 5 is difficult. 

Bonds is in the discussion. May Dad use to tell me that Willie Mays was one of, if not,  the Best overall player he saw. 

Manny Ramirez & Albert Pujols are 2 of the best RH hitters i've seen. 

George Brett almost hit .400 in 1980. Great swing.

I'll throw in Rod Carew and Tony Gwynn who were Ichiro before Ichiro.  Better hitters,  really. Same with Wade Boggs.  Gwynn may have hit .400 if it wasn't for the Strike(1994)

Steve Carlton & Bob Gibson are some of the pitchers that are right there with Maddux, that i saw. Check out ther Stats(ther complete game stat)

HesCalledDyer

cutz said:

HesCalledDyer said:

I don't know that I can do top fives.  It's too hard to narrow down.

Barry Bonds is the greatest player of all-time. Greg Maddux is the greatest pitcher of all-time. Manny Ramirez & Ichiro are two of the best hitters I've ever seen, throw Pujols, Arod, & Gwynn in there, too.  Wish I was old enough to have seen 70's George Brett.

Top 5 is difficult. 

Bonds is in the discussion. May Dad use to tell me that Willie Mays was one of, if not,  the Best overall player he saw. 

Manny Ramirez & Albert Pujols are 2 of the best RH hitters i've seen. 

George Brett almost hit .400 in 1980. Great swing.

I'll throw in Rod Carew and Tony Gwynn who were Ichiro before Ichiro.  Better hitters,  really. Same with Wade Boggs.  Gwynn may have hit .400 if it wasn't for the Strike(1994)

Steve Carlton & Bob Gibson are some of the pitchers that are right there with Maddux, that i saw. Check out ther Stats(ther complete game stat)

I caught the very end of Carlton's career.  Dude was revered as one of, if not THE best lefty ever.  Speaking of which, gotta bring up my local guy Lefty Grove.  Consistently put up sub-3 ERAs in a time when Ruth, Gehrig, and others were beating the absolute shit out of the ball!

tempo_n_groove

HesCalledDyer said:

cutz said:

HesCalledDyer said:

I don't know that I can do top fives.  It's too hard to narrow down.

Barry Bonds is the greatest player of all-time. Greg Maddux is the greatest pitcher of all-time. Manny Ramirez & Ichiro are two of the best hitters I've ever seen, throw Pujols, Arod, & Gwynn in there, too.  Wish I was old enough to have seen 70's George Brett.

Top 5 is difficult. 

Bonds is in the discussion. May Dad use to tell me that Willie Mays was one of, if not,  the Best overall player he saw. 

Manny Ramirez & Albert Pujols are 2 of the best RH hitters i've seen. 

George Brett almost hit .400 in 1980. Great swing.

I'll throw in Rod Carew and Tony Gwynn who were Ichiro before Ichiro.  Better hitters,  really. Same with Wade Boggs.  Gwynn may have hit .400 if it wasn't for the Strike(1994)

Steve Carlton & Bob Gibson are some of the pitchers that are right there with Maddux, that i saw. Check out ther Stats(ther complete game stat)

I caught the very end of Carlton's career.  Dude was revered as one of, if not THE best lefty ever.  Speaking of which, gotta bring up my local guy Lefty Grove.  Consistently put up sub-3 ERAs in a time when Ruth, Gehrig, and others were beating the absolute shit out of the ball!

See "Warren Spahn"...

Edit: Look up Steve Carltons 1972 stats then look up the Phillies wins that year...  One of my favorite pitching stats.