MLB Thread

[ProudMary]

MLB Network's tribute video to Bob Uecker. (8:32)

 

[Jane Tuesday]

Sasaki to the Dodgers. 

Forget the inequity for a minute. It's just so fucking BORING. Thousands of hours of MLB talking heads speculating, thousands of column inches about this rumor or that. And then he goes to the dogdamned Dodgers, where everybody with a brain and a tiny amount of baseball knowledge and understanding of human nature knew he would go all along.

I would have preferred he sign with the Cubs where he would torment us for years. At least that would have been INTERESTING.

This league needs an international draft, yesterday.

[mojoween]

Get bent, Dodgers.

[baldryanr]

17 hours ago, mojoween said:

Get bent, Dodgers.

 

Just remember, it's not the money, it's Jackie Robinson.  Sure, it was 70+ years ago and in Brooklyn instead of LA, but no normal team can compete with that.  They just can't!

[mojoween]

I love Buster but the roasting he took for that tweet was well deserved.

[Lantern7]

I think the Yankees have that level of mystique, if not more than the Dodgers.

[shoregirl]

 

Tanner Scott also to the Dodgers🤷‍♀️

I still think baseball needs a floor more than a cap ( but doesn't happen without the other) but I think baseball should cap how much a team can defer money

 

 

Edited Sunday at 04:46 PM by shoregirl

[Black Knight]

Eh, with Sasaki it wasn't money, as he could've gotten the same or more from Toronto. It's the first-class organization combined with the west coast location. The west coast is always going to be more attractive to Japanese athletes, and at that point there's no question the Dodgers are better run than the Padres, Giants, Mariners, and A's. If baseball were a bigger deal in Europe, then east coast teams would be benefiting from that proximity.

The Sasaki coverage of the last few months was mostly a waste of time and was just a way for media to fill their baseball section during the offseason, but I did learn from it that Sasaki lost his father, grandparents and home in the Fukushima tsunami, and credits baseball as giving him a way to cope after that tragedy. I wish him all the best.

[DMK]

2 hours ago, Black Knight said:

If baseball were a bigger deal in Europe, then east coast teams would be benefiting from that proximity.

The east coast does benefit vis a vis the Latin countries. Players from DR, Cuba, Venezuela, etc, seem to prefer east coast/southern teams.

[mojoween]

Anthony Santander is leaving Baltimore - oh thank goodness 

Anthony Santander is signing with Toronto - 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[ProudMary]

I wish Santander would have exited the AL East, too. He, along with Teoscar and Devers, are just perpetual Yankee killers and two of them are still in the AL East.

Twenty two days until pitchers and catchers report!