2017 MLB Thread

[Meacon Keaton]

Maybe Tampa Bay will realize that and trade us Chris Archer for scrubs. 

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

Just now, Meacon said:

Maybe Tampa Bay will realize that and trade us Chris Archer for scrubs. 

Hey! Stop that!

[Meacon Keaton]

Just now, Kevin "McD"allister said:

Hey! Stop that!

Soon we'll convince Tino Martinez to buy the Blue Jays and Bernie Williams to buy the Orioles, and we'll have almost all the talent in the East to ourselves. 

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

Was that the plan all along? To pay Yankees enough so they when they retire they can buy all the other teams? Then trade the best players to the Yankees.

Bold move, Cotton. 

[The Buscher]

Rockies sign Wade Davis. 3 years, $52 million. Highest per-year salary for a reliever ever.

They're clearly going for it and trying to shorten their games having signed Davis, Bryan Shaw, and Jake McGee for their bullpen.

[gunnar hendershow]

I think the Rockies are going about it well. They have a very good lineup, but below average starting pitching. Pouring the money into the bullpen is probably a better idea cost-wise, it gives them the chance to make every game a 6-inning affair and with that lineup they certainly can.

[The Buscher]

A little over a third of HOF voters have made their ballots public so far.  When the balloting started I figured it'd be a four man class and so far the numbers look promising for it.  At minimum there will be at least three as Chipper's polling at 98.6%, Thome at 95.2%, and Vlad at 93.1% - all will go in with little issue.

Two others are above 75% right now - Edgar at 80.7% and Hoffman at 78.6%.  Hoffman was the guy I had projected being the fourth man in and the writers who don't reveal their ballots early tend to value saves, so I'm certain he'll go over the hump.  Edgar on the other hand is a very pleasant surprise.  So far he's gained 18 new votes from people who left him off of their ballots last year.  Much as the old school voters value saves I think him being a DH is going to hurt him in the later stages of balloting, but even if he falls short I think he's going to be close and he'll be well-positioned to go in next year during his 10th and final year on the ballot.

Bonds and Clemens are super close at 72.4% but again, the old guard voters are going to drag them down at the end.  They each still have four years left after this so I'm still hopeful sanity prevails and they both go in when all is said and done.

Mussina's churned out a strong start at 71.7%.  He'll probably finish somewhere in the 60s and continue gaining ground.  Schilling's also gone up from a year ago at 67.6% with several writers stating they didn't vote for him last year due to his inflammatory comments about baseball writers, calling them scumbags and saying they should be lynched.

Nobody else is even remotely close.  Larry Walker's the next closest and has gained a bunch of votes but is still miles away at 40%.

[Meacon Keaton]

Go Moose go!

also I’m trying to catch up on the news of the last couple days. Rockies are going all in balls in on the “bullpens win championships” theory, eh?

[gunnar hendershow]

Mussina not being in the HOF is absurd. But the way it's shaping up if not this year then he probably makes it in the following one.

And then the Orioles have to awkwardly decide whether or not they retire his number, especially if he wears a Baltimore cap on his plaque. Though in all likelihood he won't have a team on it.