2025 MLB Season

[tower912]

Tigers IL starting to resemble the Lions last season.  However, starting pitching is really good and Torkelson is hitting the crap out of the ball.

[PGsHeroes32]

Tigers IL starting to resemble the Lions last season.  However, starting pitching is really good and Torkelson is hitting the crap out of the ball.

Tork finding it is massive.

Will see how it lasts but he's been #1 pick Tork.

[Mutaman]

Way to answer something that had nothing to do with the question.

"I wonder" is a question?

[tower912]

Dirty pool by the Tampa Bay Rrays official scorer.

[MU82]

Twins are a disaster

Hey, they're 1 1/2 games ahead of the Mighty Whities!

[MU82]

Aaron Judge hit a deep ball at the Tampa minor-league park that was obviously fair by several feet. Yet even with replays, the umps somehow botched it and called it foul.

Probably won't be a worse call this season.

[MU82]

Over the years, Braves manager Brian Snitker has yanked three players from games for not hustling:

Ender Inciarte in July 2018 after Inciarte failed to run hard on a pop-up that was dropped by the shortstop ... Ronald Acuna in August 2019 after Acuna stood and watched what he thought would be a HR and ended up with only a single. ... and Marcell Ozuna in June 2023 after Ozuna watched a fly ball that hit the wall, thinking it would be an HR; it ended up only being a single.

After pulling Acuna from the 2019 game, Snitker said: "He didn't run. You've got to run. It's not going to be acceptable here. As a teammate, you're responsible for 24 other guys. That name on the front is a lot more important than the name on the back of that jersey. You can't do that. We're trying to accomplish something and do something special here, and personal things have to be put on the back burner. You just can't let your team down like that."

So it didn't sit well with Acuna on Saturday that Snitker took absolutely no action against Jarred Kelenic, who was thrown out at second base after having stood at home plate watching his presumed HR.

"If it were me, they would take me out of the game," Acuna twitted.

Snitker claimed he wasn't watching Kelenic's play - an odd admission for a manager to make - and said the two talked about the situation after the game. Kelenic said it was he, not Snitker, who initiated the conversation. Afterward, Snitker said: "All the situations when they happen, they're all different."

Some in the Latino community were not happy with the "different" situations - given that only one of the four ballplayers is a white American, and that the white American was the only one who wasn't disciplined.

No one but Snitker will ever know if that had anything to do with it, but it's obviously a bad look.

[JWags85]

Over the years, Braves manager Brian Snitker has yanked three players from games for not hustling:

Ender Inciarte in July 2018 after Inciarte failed to run hard on a pop-up that was dropped by the shortstop ... Ronald Acuna in August 2019 after Acuna stood and watched what he thought would be a HR and ended up with only a single. ... and Marcell Ozuna in June 2023 after Ozuna watched a fly ball that hit the wall, thinking it would be an HR; it ended up only being a single.

After pulling Acuna from the 2019 game, Snitker said: "He didn't run. You've got to run. It's not going to be acceptable here. As a teammate, you're responsible for 24 other guys. That name on the front is a lot more important than the name on the back of that jersey. You can't do that. We're trying to accomplish something and do something special here, and personal things have to be put on the back burner. You just can't let your team down like that."

So it didn't sit well with Acuna on Saturday that Snitker took absolutely no action against Jarred Kelenic, who was thrown out at second base after having stood at home plate watching his presumed HR.

"If it were me, they would take me out of the game," Acuna twitted.

Snitker claimed he wasn't watching Kelenic's play - an odd admission for a manager to make - and said the two talked about the situation after the game. Kelenic said it was he, not Snitker, who initiated the conversation. Afterward, Snitker said: "All the situations when they happen, they're all different."

Some in the Latino community were not happy with the "different" situations - given that only one of the four ballplayers is a white American, and that the white American was the only one who wasn't disciplined.

No one but Snitker will ever know if that had anything to do with it, but it's obviously a bad look.

Its a bad look, but I'll play Devils Advocate in a way.  Inciarte was a pereniall Gold Glove winning, recent All Star when he got yanked.  Acuña was the reigning ROY, an All Star, and budding superstar.  Ozuna was/is a star on a big contract (who also had a DUI and domestic violence suspensions in the previous year.  Meanwhile, Kelenic has been a tremendously mediocre pro and was terrible in Spring Training and has been to start the year.

While, ideally, you hold all players to a similar standard of hustle and professionalism, we know thats often not the case.  But while I can see why someone would look at the Latino vs American angle, my initial read was a manager being harder on and expecting better of star players than someone who could very well end up in AAA later this summer if injuries subside in Atlanta.

[MU82]

Its a bad look, but I'll play Devils Advocate in a way.  Inciarte was a pereniall Gold Glove winning, recent All Star when he got yanked.  Acuña was the reigning ROY, an All Star, and budding superstar.  Ozuna was/is a star on a big contract (who also had a DUI and domestic violence suspensions in the previous year.  Meanwhile, Kelenic has been a tremendously mediocre pro and was terrible in Spring Training and has been to start the year.

While, ideally, you hold all players to a similar standard of hustle and professionalism, we know thats often not the case.  But while I can see why someone would look at the Latino vs American angle, my initial read was a manager being harder on and expecting better of star players than someone who could very well end up in AAA later this summer if injuries subside in Atlanta.

We'll agree to disagree on some of this.

Even if racism had absolutely nothing to do with it - and that's certainly possible, maybe even probable - it's a bad look to "let it slide" for a non-standout.

I've coached, and maybe you have too. You simply have to be consistent with this kind of thing. Your athletes are watching you, and they're noticing.

You think it helps Snitker's credibility or authority when a great player like Acuna is twitting about it - and when it's pretty much impossible to say Acuna's twit was wrong?

[JWags85]

We'll agree to disagree on some of this.

Even if racism had absolutely nothing to do with it - and that's certainly possible, maybe even probable - it's a bad look to "let it slide" for a non-standout.

I've coached, and maybe you have too. You simply have to be consistent with this kind of thing. Your athletes are watching you, and they're noticing.

You think it helps Snitker's credibility or authority when a great player like Acuna is twitting about it - and when it's pretty much impossible to say Acuna's twit was wrong?

Oh I think its a bad look regardless.  I wasn't excusing it in any way.  I was just saying what jumped out to me other than "he's just letting a white American slide", but even if his reasoning wasn't malicious, its still bad managing...even more so when you've won the NL East 6 out of the last 7 years, have an MVP caliber star, and were again expected to contend for the NL...and you have the second worst record in the NL.

[MU82]

Nice catch, Yelich!

[Vander Blue Man Group]

Go Cubs.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Devin Williams sucks.  Brewers must have been unhappy to trade him.  He's cost the Yankees at least 4 games this year already.

[Uncle Rico]

Devin Williams sucks.  Brewers must have been unhappy to trade him.  He's cost the Yankees at least 4 games this year already.

Wouldn't surprise me if he's damaged goods.  Injured last year and another post-season disaster.  Lot of scar tissue there

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Devin Williams sucks.  Brewers must have been unhappy to trade him.  He's cost the Yankees at least 4 games this year already.

I thought I typed happy!  Jeez.  But it sounds snarkier with unhappy.

[CreightonWarrior]

Surprised a guy that once punched a wall in celebration is having a hard time in a high pressure environment.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Surprised a guy that once punched a wall in celebration is having a hard time in a high pressure environment.

The prevailing theory per Mets fans is that Pete Alonzo broke him in the playoffs last season.

[MU82]

Gotta love the SF Giants winning an MLB game on a "Little League home run."

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/heliot-ramos-giants-stun-rangers-with-wild-walk-off-little-league-home-run-after-late-errors-231309346.html?

[WhiteTrash]

Gotta love the SF Giants winning an MLB game on a "Little League home run."

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/heliot-ramos-giants-stun-rangers-with-wild-walk-off-little-league-home-run-after-late-errors-231309346.html?

Ha! That was awesome. The Rangers did their best White Sox impersonation.

[Dish]

I'll ask this only because it looks on video that way...

Was that a suicide attempt in Pittsburgh?

I don't say that jokingly at all.

[MU82]

Mike Trout leaves today's game in Seattle with a knee injury.

Meanwhile, "my" Mariners are red hot!