I'm still convinced Langford is going to haunt Tigers fans for the next decade.
The Official 2024-25 MLB Hot Stove Thread
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Did the Dodgers go broke?
Max Muncy, Chris Taylor and Miguel Rojas
ain't enough to see if Pete or Vlad Jr can't man that corner. Plus isn't next years prize from Japan a 3B?
I'm baffled by the Orioles' lack of urgency.Luke Raley floated a couple of my fantasy teams in his late season surge.
The O's better get a pitcher during the Spring, this shyt is ridiculous. I don't even know who. But the more I start looking at Arms for Fantasy. I'm going to be very judgemental
I think the time to strike is now.
They finished 3 games behind the Yankees last season and Jackson Holliday wasn't anywhere near a league average player.
The move should have been go spend up to put veterans around Holliday, Rutschman and Gunnar Henderson.
I'm fine with not keeping Santander, but why not throw money at Teoscar Hernandez to replace him? They're both crappy outfielders but they have pop.
Instead they go for Tyler O'Neill, which...honestly that's not terrible. Maybe durability is the issue there but he was cheaper than both of those guys. Tyler doesn't excite anyone, though.
The Charlie Morton signing is really grasping at straws. The dude is 41 years old and while I think he could be fine, I don't think that's the move that signals to your team and your fans that you're seriously after a championship.
They're going into 2025 with Zach Eflin, Grayson Rodriguez, Charlie Morton and Kyle Bradish (assuming he can return).
Baltimore should have been more aggressive. I don't know if trading for Tarik Skubal or Garrett Crochet was realistic but if you didn't love the free agent SP's this winter, you probably had to look into those guys.
From what I can see, next winter's Starting Pitcher free agents doesn't look all that appealing.
It's gonna be Dylan Cease, Zack Gallen and Framber Valdez....all on the wrong side of 30.
Elias and Hyde seem to think they're Gucci.
Rubenstein lied he's just another Angelos or possibly even worse another fukkin Dan Snyder. Just content owning his favorite team.
All the O's blogs and reddit were lose Santander if it meant we got Teoscar
I'm still confident Jackson is going to be an elite player, but knowing he was one of the assets Detroit wanted for Skubal even if it was just rumor mill babble. Put his ass on the package and get Skubal!! Every year he plays and doesn't become elite, the value tanks
Not keeping Burnes shame. Missing on Fried and Snell what are we even doing?
Eflin/Rodriguez/Morton/Kremer and Sugano
with Povich and Rogers as the next arms us
First of all nothing about Hydes management style suits Morton. So why they signed him is beyond me.
We got to the playoffs early, we are squandering it away. At some point, we won't get lucky and that 97-2012 drought will be back. That haven't been to the world series since fukkin Cal Ripken was a rookie is going to double. - I lie more like quadruple (shyt that is still low) what is 60 years?
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I don't know much about the Orioles' farm system but MLB.com has two of them in the Top 20 prospects list:
Coby Mayo (3B/1B)
Samuel Basallo (C/1B)
Mayo had a couple of ABs late in the season, though he didn't do much.
I'm not sure where Mayo is supposed to play.
3B is blocked by Gunnar Henderson and 1B is blocked by Ryan Mountcastle.
-- Excuse me. As I'm writing this I forgot Henderson is a SS, not a 3B. I guess Mayo is expected to take the job from Ramon Urias.
Coby Mayo (3B/1B)
Samuel Basallo (C/1B)
Mayo had a couple of ABs late in the season, though he didn't do much.
I'm not sure where Mayo is supposed to play.
3B is blocked by Gunnar Henderson and 1B is blocked by Ryan Mountcastle.
-- Excuse me. As I'm writing this I forgot Henderson is a SS, not a 3B. I guess Mayo is expected to take the job from Ramon Urias.
Can never rule them out but he makes sense for Uncle Steve to throw his dirty money at next.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
He's gonna be a 1B in MLB.
2022-2024 were our graduation years.
in that time
Adley/Gunnar/Rodriguez/Westburg/Kjerstad/Cowser/HollidayMayo//Povich
DL Hall/Joey Ortiz - what we gave up for Burnes
Connor Norby/Kyle Stowers - what we gave up for Trevor Rogers
The Eflin trade - which actually worked out for us we gave up literally nothing. Like I really don't know their BA grades
what this says is our farm is not fort knox. We ain't got no ends. Either make it with what we have or sell some guys, there's nothing around the corner.
Also I hate you for making me tap into fandom and start using "WE" like I'm on the payroll
Professor K.
rap game Paul Millsap
He does have that 3B look to him
He played 3B before and somehow that is how I view him.He does have that 3B look to him
He does have that 3B look to him
Westburg is the technical day to day 3B.
Gunnar was expected to move to 3B long term due to Holliday. But, now Holliday seems like he will move to 2B or 3B long term if they both stay in Baltimore.
VegetasHairline
Veteran
What makes Ichiro a Hall of Famer, from those who knew him best
As a Mariners icon gets his Cooperstown call, teammates and opponents share what makes him 100% Hall of Fame worthy.
Mike Cameron, teammate with Mariners, 2001 to 2004: "My favorite story was his first year in spring training. Our manager was Lou Piniella. Ichiro was hitting foul balls over the third-base dugout and over the third baseman and he would get a lot of his base hits between first and second, short and third and over the shortstop's head. And one day Lou got pissed off. He was standing on the top step and Ichiro was coming back to the dugout. I think he had grounded out or something like that. And Lou always rattled out anything he wanted to say, and was talking so loud -- I'm sure Ichiro heard it -- he's asking our bench coach, 'Can this guy f---ing pull the ball one time?' And sure enough, the next at-bat, he got up there, he hit a homer to right.What makes Ichiro a Hall of Famer, from those who knew him best
As a Mariners icon gets his Cooperstown call, teammates and opponents share what makes him 100% Hall of Fame worthy.www.espn.com
"He came around the bases with no animation or anything, same dry face that he always has with his shades on, then he takes his helmet off, takes his gloves off, puts his bat in his bat rack, his personal bat rack that was on the bench, and he sat down and he said, 'How was that?'
"And everybody just died laughing."
Sweeney: "He leads off the game with a line drive to left-center field for a base hit and he gets over to first base and all I could think about was when I was in Japan playing against the Japanese all-stars, anytime that an American would get a base hit up on the jumbotron would be this big huge graphic, almost kind of like a 1950s/1960s graphic from Batman and Robin. Like 'Pow!' or 'Boom!' And it would say, 'Nice batting.' And so over the loudspeaker, you'd hear the PA announcer say, 'Nice batting.' And you'd see these big graphics up on the jumbotron.
"So being a kid from Southern California that doesn't speak any Japanese, I don't know what to say to Ichiro. I don't even know if he knows English. He had just gotten here in spring training. So I look over at him and I pat him on the back and say, 'Ichiro, nice batting.' And I don't know what kind of response I'm going to get. And he looks at me -- never met him before -- and he goes, 'Mike Sweeney, nice ass.' I just started dying laughing. I'm like, oh my gosh, his English was perfect. No accent. And I'm going, oh my gosh, this guy, he's going to be great."
"So being a kid from Southern California that doesn't speak any Japanese, I don't know what to say to Ichiro. I don't even know if he knows English. He had just gotten here in spring training. So I look over at him and I pat him on the back and say, 'Ichiro, nice batting.' And I don't know what kind of response I'm going to get. And he looks at me -- never met him before -- and he goes, 'Mike Sweeney, nice ass.' I just started dying laughing. I'm like, oh my gosh, his English was perfect. No accent. And I'm going, oh my gosh, this guy, he's going to be great."
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