The Official 2024-25 MLB Hot Stove Thread

[Trips]

This was peak rivalry and even as a Yankees fan I couldn't defend this crap from Zimmer.

And I liked Zimmer.

There is a part of me that kinda respected it tho. Like, if you're from a certain generation you forget that you still have that dog in you. But come on man. You're like 100 years old.



I wish MLB would ...not encourage violence but let some of the emotion back into the game. All these major sports suspend or warn players for the littlest things. But they're happy as fukk to milk these fights and rivalry videos for views and video sales.

It was so good. I used to think I still had that likes to fight dog in me like I had in high school and college and my mid 20s. But went back to my college for Homecoming when I was 30 and saw a fight break out in a house party. This kid super man dove through a stairwell railing and tackled this dude. Kid was a wrestler after the super man dive he locked that boy in a half nelson and gave him the blues.



I used to wrestle and I was like nah I'm good on fights haven't had the itch since and I was just a bystander.

 

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It was so good. I used to think I still had that likes to fight dog in me like I had in high school and college and my mid 20s. But went back to my college for Homecoming when I was 30 and saw a fight break out in a house party. This kid super man dove through a stairwell railing and tackled this dude. Kid was a wrestler after the super man dive he locked that boy in a half nelson and gave him the blues.



I used to wrestle and I was like nah I'm good on fights haven't had the itch since and I was just a bystander.

I know how that feels.

Plus...and to be too serious about it, but I've seen enough videos on the internet to realize fights can get real serious, real fast.

You punch some idiot, he falls weird, cracks his head the wrong way on the ground...suddenly you're doing 15 years.

I'd rather just watch someone else fight and sip that water like D Wade.

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

That guy stinks
glad the goatgers let his sorry ass go

would rather have kike on the mound than that bum

 

[Spidey Man]

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Who remembers this brawl between the Braves and Phillies?
I used to hate watch the Braves on the Superstation, and tuned in one night and was like

Bobby Cox () getting tossed right off the bat

John Smoltz, Pat Corrales, Jerry Meals, Larry Poncino, the iceman Gerald Williams, Paul Byrd, Ned Yost,

And we've got a full fledged brou-haha going

Of course that goofball Randall Simon was right in the middle of it all

 

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Random season:

2003 Vernon Wells

215 Hits
49 doubles
5 triples
33 HR
117 RBI
.317/.359/.550
373 total bases (for context Bobby Witt Jr had 374 last season)

Vernon was pretty good in his career but he was elite that year.

 

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Random season:

2000 Jeff D'Amico

23 starts
12-7 W/L
2.66 ERA
162 innings
143 hits allowed
101 strikeouts

I only remember this because I vaguely remember having him rostered in a fantasy baseball league back then. And he helped me win.



This was back when Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez were averaging like 10 strikeouts per game.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Random season:

2000 Jeff D'Amico

23 starts
12-7 W/L
2.66 ERA
162 innings
143 hits allowed
101 strikeouts

I only remember this because I vaguely remember having him rostered in a fantasy baseball league back then. And he helped me win.



This was back when Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez were averaging like 10 strikeouts per game.

Only thing I remember about D'Amico is him having a 5 ERA with the Mets

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

Random season:

2003 Vernon Wells

215 Hits
49 doubles
5 triples
33 HR
117 RBI
.317/.359/.550
373 total bases (for context Bobby Witt Jr had 374 last season)

Vernon was pretty good in his career but he was elite that year.

Yeah the other day when we were arguing about andruw jones & the hof i decided to look up vernon stats

He was a pretty solid player especially with jays

 

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From what I can tell, the only players to have 500 doubles, 500 home runs, and 3,000 hits are

Albert Pujols
Alex Rodriguez
Willie Mays
Miguel Cabrera
Rafael Palmeiro
Eddie Murray

EDIT -- Hank Aaron also.

You'd think the biggest obstacle to reaching these milestones are the home runs. But actually it's the hits. A lot of great players never got to 3,000 hits.

Some, because they were robbed of a few years (Ted Williams with military service, Barry Bonds through collusion). But even Ruth didn't get there, and he played in an era were base hits were far more common.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

 

[Dem313wayz]

From what I can tell, the only players to have 500 doubles, 500 home runs, and 3,000 hits are

Albert Pujols
Alex Rodriguez
Willie Mays
Miguel Cabrera
Rafael Palmeiro
Eddie Murray

You'd think the biggest obstacle to reaching these milestones are the home runs. But actually it's the hits. A lot of great players never got to 3,000 hits.

Some, because they were robbed of a few years (Ted Williams with military service, Barry Bonds through collusion). But even Ruth didn't get there, and he played in an era were base hits were far more common.

Bonds would of had 500 home runs 500 doubles 3,000 hits and 500 stolen bases

 

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Someone posted a meme that Yadier Molina caught more games than Joe Mauer and Buster Posey combined.

I have to check if that's even true. Lol

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Tremendous player, severely underrated

 

[mvp_status]

Someone posted a meme that Yadier Molina caught more games than Joe Mauer and Buster Posey combined.

I have to check if that's even true. Lol

Don't know Posey's history off top, but I know Mauer converted to 1B at some point and Molina was catching for almost 20 years so I believe it.