MLB 2025 Season

tbergs said:

Pretty interesting breakdown of the possible Cole deal and what it would actually mean in comparison to total revenue of MLB as a whole and previous pitchers in similar situations.

https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2019/12/10/21004691/mlb-free-agency-stephen-strasburg-contract-record-deal-price-kershaw-gerrit-cole-yankees-mlb-revenue

With how pitching is now a days, it has become a premium.

Parents, please teach your kids how to do two things great.

Place kicking and throwing a knuckleball.

Please teach them how to do both of these things great.

Thanks

tbergs said:

tempo_n_groove said:

igotid88 said:

Only Mattingly and Murphy are not in the Hall

https://twitter.com/sn_mlb/status/641970407063572480?s=19

What homer made this list?  This must have been a fan vote.  Whenever Nolan Ryan gets mentioned as the best I get cautious.

I would have put up Stieb and Quisinberry before Ryan.  Ryan was the most exciting to watch though, I'll admit to that. 

Popular name in Ryan, but not even close to best pitcher of that decade. Fernando Valenzuela and Stieb were solid for sure. Even the half decade work of Clemens, Gooden and Hershiser is more impressive, but Quisinberry, nah, below Ryan for sure.

I always did really like Murphy though. A shame he has still not gotten in.

People forget how much of a beast Quis was.

Plzzzz Rendon don't leave the nationals.

F Me In The Brain said:

9/324
Damn

Can’t wait for Tommy John halfway through

But the reality for the rest of baseball is far more grim, for the signing of Cole isn’t a blast from the past, but an embodiment of the game’s worst fears. The Yankees are well-run, well-heeled and well-schooled in the art of reeling in the big fish. And as a result, the best pitcher in the game joins a team that will be favored to win the World Series. It happened not because of impulse or short-sighted thinking, but because a calculated process rooted in data led the Yankees to a clear conclusion.

https://theathletic.com/1451329/2019/12/11/carig-gerrit-cole-is-a-yankee-and-now-everyone-else-must-pay-the-price/?source=shared-article

How did they convince him!?

The Juggler said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Cliffy6745 said:

But the reality for the rest of baseball is far more grim, for the signing of Cole isn’t a blast from the past, but an embodiment of the game’s worst fears. The Yankees are well-run, well-heeled and well-schooled in the art of reeling in the big fish. And as a result, the best pitcher in the game joins a team that will be favored to win the World Series. It happened not because of impulse or short-sighted thinking, but because a calculated process rooted in data led the Yankees to a clear conclusion.

https://theathletic.com/1451329/2019/12/11/carig-gerrit-cole-is-a-yankee-and-now-everyone-else-must-pay-the-price/?source=shared-article

And here I thought 9yr contracts to older players was a thing of the past.

Yankees front office said to me "hold my beer"...

AND to a pitcher!

Yanks better get at least 2 WS out of this.  They only got one out of A-rod and he was the reason they did get that one.

I'd say 2 at minimum for that insane money. 

Or what? The Steinbrenners are going to be in line at a soup kitchen in Tampa?  The Yankees print money.  They know they are going to have to do other things over the next 9 years and pretty sure they factored that in.  Will this stop them from getting free agents? Of course, but this is the guy they picked because they are knocking on the door of a world series and this is exactly what they were missing. 

Also, this is the crop of upcoming free agent pitchers. The time is now.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-free-agents-for-2020-2021-and-2022-c302396056

MayDay10 said:

How did they convince him!?

He was a Yankees fan growing up. They drafted him. Cashman wanted him for a while.  

tbergs said:

The Juggler said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Cliffy6745 said:

But the reality for the rest of baseball is far more grim, for the signing of Cole isn’t a blast from the past, but an embodiment of the game’s worst fears. The Yankees are well-run, well-heeled and well-schooled in the art of reeling in the big fish. And as a result, the best pitcher in the game joins a team that will be favored to win the World Series. It happened not because of impulse or short-sighted thinking, but because a calculated process rooted in data led the Yankees to a clear conclusion.

https://theathletic.com/1451329/2019/12/11/carig-gerrit-cole-is-a-yankee-and-now-everyone-else-must-pay-the-price/?source=shared-article

And here I thought 9yr contracts to older players was a thing of the past.

Yankees front office said to me "hold my beer"...

AND to a pitcher!

Yanks better get at least 2 WS out of this.  They only got one out of A-rod and he was the reason they did get that one.

I'd say 2 at minimum for that insane money. 

I'll go out on a limb and say they make 3 appearances in a world series within the first 5 years and Cole is top 5 pitcher the first 3 years, but no CY. Then he basically becomes a journeyman who can still scrounge 10 -15 wins a year with a low 4 ERA and the Yankees don't get past ALCS. By 2025, he's dead weight.

I am more than happy with this outcome.