MLB 2025 World Series

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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