2025 MLB Season

[BM1090]

Yeah he shouldn't be on the NLDS roster. Has the stuff. Needs to learn how to pitch. Gasser didn't look great but he looked more reliable than Miz

[Mutaman]

He threw 57 pitches tonight and 55 of them were fastballs, most of which were not in the strike zoan.

[Mutaman]

Last time the Redlegs won a series from the Brewers, Rollie Fingers blew the save.

[BM1090]

Some really fun WC series matchups.

[Billy Hoyle]

Congrats to the Tigers on their record setting season

https://x.com/BenVerlander/status/1972415844719403220?t=zkaGZ7-zalo5ytJk10YDIA&s=19

[BM1090]

Congrats to the Tigers on their record setting season

https://x.com/BenVerlander/status/1972415844719403220?t=zkaGZ7-zalo5ytJk10YDIA&s=19

Yet somehow I expect them to win this series.

[MU82]

Congrats to the Tigers on their record setting season

https://x.com/BenVerlander/status/1972415844719403220?t=zkaGZ7-zalo5ytJk10YDIA&s=19

And yet your team survived, and now everyone is 0-0. The Mariners will play the Det-Cle winner ... and no, I don't expect it to be easy.

[Uncle Rico]

David Stearns will not have a bite at the apple this season

[18thandWells]

6/7 teams from the AL East pre-'94 strike are in the 2025 playoffs.

[WhiteTrash]

After making a very tenative 5 win improvement prediction for the CWS, they proved me wrong with a respectable 19 win improvement.  And while they will not,and shouldn't, do anything in FA, I'm feeling good about them ending the 100+ loss streak at 3 seasons. (Although,4 would tie the record and they are a record setting franchise)

[GB Warrior]

WC playoffs starting 1 PM local time. Send Manfred to the Hauge

[Shaka Shart]

WC playoffs starting 1 PM local time. Send Manfred to the Hauge

An American (?) spelling The Hague wrong is on brand. Idiot

[Pakuni]

6/7 teams from the AL East pre-'94 strike are in the 2025 playoffs.

6 7

[Billy Hoyle]

And yet your team survived, and now everyone is 0-0. The Mariners will play the Det-Cle winner ... and no, I don't expect it to be easy.

True. It could be like the Cardinals meltdown down in 2006. This Tigers fan remembers all to well how that turned out.

[MU82]

After 14 years in Charlotte, it's nice being in a city with MLB again. Especially in October.

[JWags85]

After 14 years in Charlotte, it's nice being in a city with MLB again. Especially in October.

Charlotte Knights slander spotted

[MU82]

Charlotte Knights slander spotted

I was careful to say MLB.

Knights games actually were a lot of fun - great little downtown ballpark.

But silly me, I'll take watching Raleigh, Rodriguez, Naylor and Woo over White Sox minor-leaguers.

[TallTitan34]

For my fellow Cubs fans here:
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/pete-crow-armstrong-chicago-cubs-mlb-baseball

[Uncle Rico]

Out as skippers:  Rocco Baldelli in Minnesota and Bob Melvin in San Francisco

Staying:  Don Kelly in Pittsburgh and Carlos Mendoza with the Mets

[TallTitan34]

Out as skippers:  Rocco Baldelli in Minnesota

Fall guy right there.  He should have no problem getting a job elsewhere.

[MU82]

Only three nine-inning games lasted longer than 3:30 this season - compared to 391 such games in 2021.

[TallTitan34]

Only three nine-inning games lasted longer than 3:30 this season - compared to 391 such games in 2021.

And I believe I saw somewhere TV ratings rose about 10% this year on every network that carries national MLB games.

I don't like most stuff Manfred has done (extra inning baseball specifically) but the pitch clock has been a great addition.

I'm hoping full time robo umps for balls and strikes is the next move.

[The Sultan]

Yeah, I am not sure about the extra inning rule. Maybe the extra runner should start in the 11th instead of the tenth?

The pitch clock has been incredible. I can't think of an addition to any sport that has made it instantly more watchable than that. And I think the numbers show it.

I do appreciate that he is willing to float trial balloons and try stuff in the minor leagues. For years MLB was just ossified by "tradition," and putting ideas out there, even if they are initially ridiculed, isn't the worst thing in the world.

[tower912]

I love the pitch clock.  Going back several years to when Jose Valverde was the closer for Detroit, I try to imagine what the pitch clock would have done to his pre-pitch ritual.   Maddening.

[GB Warrior]

Yeah, I am not sure about the extra inning rule. Maybe the extra runner should start in the 11th instead of the tenth?

The pitch clock has been incredible. I can't think of an addition to any sport that has made it instantly more watchable than that. And I think the numbers show it.

I do appreciate that he is willing to float trial balloons and try stuff in the minor leagues. For years MLB was just ossified by "tradition," and putting ideas out there, even if they are initially ridiculed, isn't the worst thing in the world.

I completely agree. And they've done it in a pretty measured way through the minors and spring training where there is real evidence to support decision making. Unlike the NFL who just arbitrarily makes rule changes (that said - new kickoff rules are great and eff Brandon Aubrey's right leg).

I'm all for the ABS challenge system but we're going to quickly realize that we don't need to live this way where we're at the whims of CB Bucknor when the robot overlords are grading each call in real time. Why leave it to a challenge for the sake of gamesmanship? Don't we want to get it right? (Narrator: No - we need something to bitch about the next day).