MLB 2022

[gunnar hendershow]

2 hours ago, Jacob deBusch said:

White Sox hire Royals bench coach Pedro Grifol as manager.

Joe Espada must be a terrible interview to miss out again.

I've got a hunch Espada is manager-in-waiting in Houston. Dusty might come back for another year of course but I think it's very much a situation where they look to promote Espada after he's done.

[gunnar hendershow]

The Astros just threw a combined no-hitter. Second World Series no-hitter in history, and thus obviously the first since Larsen in 56.

[The Buscher]

I'm amazed at how this is being downplayed.  I see a lot of "well you have a bunch of hard throwers coming off an assembly line one after another, it doesn't say much to get no-hit"

 

[Krabby]

Also - boneless wings are great and that take makes Jeff Passan sound like a hack writer

[Maxx]

He's not wrong about them being the lesser wing though.  I don't hate them, but they're just fancy McNuggets.

[Schlitzbrille]

I hate all of you now because I wanna go get tendies over this 

[The Buscher]

SNY writer Andy Martino claims that Steve Cohen and Hal Steinbrenner have a chummy enough relationship where the Mets won't even bother pursuing Judge unless the Yankees, for whatever reason, were to deem themselves completely out of the running.  Similarly, the Yankees aren't expected to make any sort of pursuit of deGrom unless the Mets were to drop out.

Basically, both sides are worried about the PR windfall associated with star franchise player moving across town, so they've simply agreed to not engage in bidding wars for each others' stars as all it will do is jack up their prices more.

Now, I'm totally fine with the Mets not signing Judge.  After putting up the best walk season ever it's fine to wonder if he's got nowhere to go but down, and I'm not sure I trust him to stay healthy again anyway.  But the idea that the New York teams feel they need to do favors for each other is really lame.

[Lint]

On 03/11/2022 at 10:35, Krabby said:

Also - boneless wings are great and that take makes Jeff Passan sound like a hack writer

Boneless chicken wings are just chicken nuggets

[GhostMachine]

13 hours ago, Lint said:

Boneless chicken wings are just chicken nuggets

You're sooooooo wrong!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They're chicken tenders!

 

[The Buscher]

Dusty Baker finally wins the big one.

[gunnar hendershow]

Happy as heck for Dusty and Trey Mancini.

[The Buscher]

Not even 24 hours removed from the end of the World Series, Steve Cohen hands out a record contract for a reliever.  Edwin Diaz stays in New York for 5 years, $102 million.

[The Buscher]

Everybody knew since July that Diaz was getting $20M AAV/$100M total on the market.

Had the Yankees given out this deal to him, the media would've been lining up to heap praise on them for finally acting like the Yankees again and bringing in the top player at his position.

Had the Dodgers or Astros done this they'd have been praised for being aggressive in trying to win while in their window.

Hell even the Red Sox would've been praised for spending top dollar to fix their biggest weakness in the bullpeb,

But nah, because the Mets did it it's "LOLMETS $100 million for a reliever what a massive overpay!"

[gunnar hendershow]

The Handwringing World Championships are upon us

 

[The Buscher]

You only need 12 of 16 votes to get in, so it's a fairly fascinating case.  Really want Bonds and Clemens in not just because I believe they should be, but also because the writers would bitch and moan so much about being undercut.

[gunnar hendershow]

Elon better not kill off Twitter until after the results get announced. I demand to see the awful takes.

[The Buscher]

The Astros only offered GM James Click a 1-year contract with a slight pay bump.  Click publicly voiced his grievances about it at the GM meetings and he's now out.

Signs had been brewing for a while that Astros ownership wanted him out despite the success, and so they made him an insulting offer.

Great way to treat a GM who just won you a World Series.

[gunnar hendershow]

Wonder if Luhnow is coming back.

[GhostMachine]

I *may* be going to a Red Sox game next September. It'll be against the Orioles. 

[Meacon Keaton]

Scouting the enemies, eh? Good thinking. I wouldn't suggest wearing your Yankee hat unless you're looking to throw hands though.