Baseball Chat (BASEBALL)

[fung_derf]

BTW, Big Game Nate comes through once again! 99 pitch complete game when the bullpen has already been overused. What a stud he has been for us!
I thought I remembered him before we got him as a guy who has a good year, then a bad year.....

[fung_derf]

Ahhhh, but the bigger question to you is.....would you give up possibly 5 years of your life for $50 million?

[fung_derf]

Do they pay you if you fail a doping test?

Absolutely not, which is why my point, why keep taking those after you get the big contract.

Because he wants to perform for his contract.

[BullNBear52]

No money for failing the test for the length of the suspension. Quit and you don't get paid unless Boras was your agent.

[rocketeer357]

Ah, thanks for clearing up the obvious. So Profar is owed $12 million this season. If I'm understanding the fine print, the 80 day hit on the $12 million is about $2.6 million, which means Profar will still bank $39.4 million dollars over the life of his contract, courtesy of the Braves.Hey, if he flew under the radar all of last season, I can understand why he didn't quit using PEDs. That's a risk/reward proposition that sure looks pretty tempting compared to bussing around the Florida panhandle for 40k a year as your 20's peel off the calendar.

[SSKILLZ1]

Do they pay you if you quit?

They absolutely will pay you if you quit the peds and they don't catch you even you stink for the whole contract. I wasn't saying quit baseball, I was saying quit the peds after you get the big contract, before they catch you.

Do they pay you if you fail a doping test?

Absolutely not, which is why my point, why keep taking those after you get the big contract.

On the the Mets. Anytime Lindor gets a hit in April, that's a game the Mets gotta have

Problem is he has more errors in this game than he has hits all season. This team offense has been not very good this season they had one game, but the other 4 they have scored 3 runs or less and most of them have been less.

[rocketeer357]

Do they pay you if you quit? Do they pay you if you fail a doping test?
On the the Mets. Anytime Lindor gets a hit in April, that's a game the Mets gotta have 

[Eli's Gone]

Addition by subtraction in the Big O's case---now we have two # "0"--exciting

[SoxFan]

Well we traded away Sale last year and he won a Cy Young. We just released Ottavino so things must be looking up for him

[Eli's Gone]

Ottavino----Yanks bring back the guy who said he'd strike out Babe Ruth but couldn't even strike out Dr Ruth...

[SSKILLZ1]

Call me nuts for saying this. wouldn't it been smarter to I don't know quit after you got the big contract. who cares if your performance falls off a cliff, you got the money regardless in my opinion.

[BullNBear52]

You definitely need some pitching help and Cortes as a starter is not the answer. Move him to the BP.

[rocketeer357]

Could explain a few things about his numbers last season.....Gotta say, for 42 million bucks, I'd be tempted as well if my career numbers were that ugly. 

[rocketeer357]

In Milwaukee's case,  you might have to modify the end of the old "you can't win the pennant in April" saying to "but you can lose it in March". Helluva run differential in Brewtown. 

[Eli's Gone]

Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar suspended for 80 games...

[SSKILLZ1]

Nice to see the mets offense getting going here. Yes it is the marlins, but nice to see Pete hit a grand slam.

[BullNBear52]

Accentuate the positive.

[Eli's Gone]

impressive---over a 500K pace....

[SoxFan]

Update: 0-19 with 15ks

[Eli's Gone]

but he does have a bases loaded rbi walk...

[SoxFan]

So far Devers is 0-18 with 14Ks

[SoxFan]

He's pissed he's not the third baseman so he continue his streak of most errors by a third baseman 6 years on a row. True team player

[Eli's Gone]

Saw several of Devers K's---ball was on the way back to the pitcher by the time his swing had finished---I didn't notice whether the donut was still on the bat...

[SSKILLZ1]

I thought it was the all star game and we were watching the home run derby. LOL.

[fung_derf]

Well, either the Rangers have the pitching staff to compare to the '54 Indians, or........
The Red Sox suck!
I thought this was supposed to be their year and they're already counting down when they are eliminated from the playoffs.

[SoxFan]

Red Sox suck

[BullNBear52]

They asked Judge if he was using the bat and he said No. And if they had any questions look at his last 2 years.

[Preciouslife1]

JUDGE is NOT USING the new shaped Torpedo Bats, yet people are wrongly stating his opening games burst is due to the new bat shapes ... to be SO IGNORANT of the FACTS and WRONG is an insult and denigration of his tremendous talent imho ..

[BullNBear52]

Yankees' new 'Torpedo' bats create a stir amid 15-homer weekend barrage
March 30th, 2025
https://www.mlb.com/news/yankees-discuss-new-torpedo-bats

Yes it is legal and took a rocket scientist to invent it.

[rocketeer357]

Something tells me the Brewers need pitching.Hmmm.... 36 runs allowed in 3 games. We got 'em right where we......This opening series is horrible for Milwaukee, which is a team that usually gets off to a decent start. On the other hand, they're a half game up on the Braves and only a half game behind the Red Sox. 

[Eli's Gone]

Record setting pace after opening sets LOL

Judge 216 HR's

Jake Bauers 108 appearances out of the bullpen

Rafael Devers on pace for 486 K's

[SSKILLZ1]

I don't think there pitching is great by any means, but you have to believe it is a lot better than that. Granted that isn't saying much. The NL Central is a very weak division so the brewers despite how they looked this series will have a shot. Pittsburgh has promising SP but no lineup. The cardinals are trying to rebuild, the cubs on paper should be decent, than again they should of been waaaaaaaaaaaay better last year, so who knows. The reds are the unknown for me, I can see a scenario with francona where they are better than you think. But to me this is the one division where pretty much when I say it is wide open it really is, the others I kind of got an idea of what I think is gonna happen the NL Central not so much in my opinion.

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/yankees-tie-mlb-record-with-15-home-runs-in-first-three-games-of-2025-season/

[BullNBear52]

Something tells me the Brewers need pitching.

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.mlb.com/news/aaron-judge-gives-young-fan-a-ball-on-opening-day

[PegnVA]

LOL!

[Eli's Gone]

That's OK---I'm still bragging about ones I saw over 70 years ago

[PegnVA]

Thanks....here's hoping the YANKS have a good season!
I met a Red Sox fan recently and he's still bragging the RS won a World Series SEVEN years ago. :)

[BullNBear52]

Well you get to feast on Stroman today.

[SSKILLZ1]

I'm aware of that but that still leaves 4 more which is insane for a week let alone a game, but at the end of the day the pitchers is part of the team errors as well. But end result is I'm more forgiving of pitchers errors, they have to pitch and are generally in a compromised position to field the baseball at the start of the play, the fielders are just standing around hopefully in position to field a baseball when the ball is thrown. Having said all that if your point is he played a part in staying out there longer I get that, but still way too many errors from Yankee fielder not named pitchers, granted out of the meaningless win stat on fried statistical column in reality it meant nothing, because the Yankees won thanks to the fact they were hitting homers out at a absurd pace. And won the game like it was a football score. I continue to say the yanks have nothing to worry about and will be a easy playoff team in the AL, although I think the Mets are actually better the yanks, the Mets have to careful, because if they get off to a slow start they may not be a playoff team as I think the NL WC will be a very high total, I think 90 gets it done, but I'm not even 100% sure that will be enough. Because the two best teams in baseball in my opinion are in the NL West (Dodgers and Padres). Followed by the phillies, braves, mets, d-back, etc, and someone has to come out of the NL central. So one of those 6 good team aren't gonna make it in my opinion.

[BullNBear52]

If you read the box score one of the errors was Fried's

[Eli's Gone]

MVP,,,MVP...good to see you Peg

[PegnVA]

crazy watching Judge go for #4 today...What's Judge trying to do? Repeat...
2024 Outstanding Player of the Year Award (Player's Choice)

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BV2GxH8GF/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[rocketeer357]

The Lake Mary Florida 2024 Little League championship team would have qualified for evil empire status if they faced the Brewers today. Those were some mighty swings on ugly pitches.

[rocketeer357]

I stopped watching after the Judge salami....m,aybe nestor could pitch to every contestant in this years HR derby. Those first 3 pitches were room service ordered.

[Eli's Gone]

I now expect he Yankees to hit 9 shots/game LOL...crazy watching Judge go for #4 today vs Jake Bauers' eephus pitch at 55mph...

[SSKILLZ1]

they are 2/21 with risp to start the season. vientos did hit the ball hard ,but outside of soto everyone is struggling badly out of the gates it is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay early, but not the best start offensively to say the least. And I'm under the opinion this is gonna be a big time offense and the best part of them. what I do like for a change so far is they may actually have a bullpen that is good, I'm used to the dumpster fire, so good makes me very happy. Once again early but like those early results in my opinion.

[Eli's Gone]

Vientos scorched it but right at Pena...the end

[rocketeer357]

Was there a game today?