2025 MLB Season

[tower912]

The Brewers managed 14 hits in 4 games.  Giving up 15 runs in 4 games is respectable.   Hit better.   Alas.

[CreightonWarrior]

All worth it to get cubs fans super triggered about (checks notes) using the wrong colored L flag IMO.

[18thandWells]

All worth it to get cubs fans super triggered about (checks notes) using the wrong colored L flag IMO.

"Owning the _____," is very popular these days, oftentimes becoming more important than previously determined goals.

[Uncle Rico]

All worth it to get cubs fans super triggered about (checks notes) using the wrong colored L flag IMO.

As disappointing as the finish was, it was a super fun season in Milwaukee.  Hope the front office and ownership treat this off-season as a-go-for broke mentality.

As for the salty Cubs fans, mad over a flag, don't become Badger and Cardinals fans.  It's unbecoming and if anyone should know better after dealing with St. Louis bfib nonsense, it should be you.

[HutchwasClutch]

Brewers hit .118. Lowest in MLB post season history in a 7 games series.

And they improved their average over the final few innings!  Came into game 4 at .103 😳

[HutchwasClutch]

As disappointing as the finish was, it was a super fun season in Milwaukee.  Hope the front office and ownership treat this off-season as a-go-for broke mentality.

As for the salty Cubs fans, mad over a flag, don't become Badger and Cardinals fans.  It's unbecoming and if anyone should know better after dealing with St. Louis bfib nonsense, it should be you.

Hope this too, but highly unlikely.

[HutchwasClutch]

If I'm Arnold, need to find a shortstop as a placeholder until one of Made, Peña and Pratt are ready, which won't be next year.  Ortiz is good defensively, but a complete liability at the plate.  Have to get more production out of that position. 

[MuggsyB]

Nobody is even remotely close. It'd be like telling NBA teams they can pay players whatever they want and Giannis, Luka, Paolo, Booker, and Mitchell all played on the Lakers. It's not every single one of the top 5 players in the league, but it's also not far from it.

They're still beatable and could very well be overconfident.  If Seattle or Toronto can get into their bullpen you will see a 6 or 7 game series imo. 

[Uncle Rico]

They're still beatable and could very well be overconfident.  If Seattle or Toronto can get into their bullpen you will see a 6 or 7 game series imo. 

Correct.  Baseball is not like basketball where the better team usually prevails in a best-of-7.

That's said, if the Dodgers starting pitchers pitch like they have been, it won't matter.

[MU1in77]

The end of the Brewers season kind of reminds me of the 2002-2003 MU season where they reached the final four only to get blown out by Kansas in the semifinals

[MuggsyB]

Correct.  Baseball is not like basketball where the better team usually prevails in a best-of-7.

That's said, if the Dodgers starting pitchers pitch like they have been, it won't matter.

Agreed.  But I don't see them being that dominant. The Brewers were historically putrid.  Other than Chourio (and he was hobbled), the Dodgers pitchers had absolutely no anxiety facing them.  I just don't think that will be the case in the WS.  You can't have 7 hitters in your line-up bat like .050.

[tower912]

It is going to be an interesting offseason in Detroit.  There are a lot of players in the minor league system that project to be as good or better than the starting position players from 24 and 25.  The question is how many will be MLB ready in 26.  Detroit under Harris and Hinch rarely rushes position players, preferring them to get lots of at bats at all of the levels before bringing them up.

From a pitching standpoint, do they open up the vault for Skubal?  I think they eventually make a competitive offer, but by then Boras will have manufactured a disrespect card and Skubal turns down the Detroit offer for a little more from the Mets.   I do not think Detroit trades Skubal for a raft of players.

So, the TL:DR version, I highly doubt Detroit makes a big splash in free agency.  I think they make a mostly symbolic effort to extend Skubal but ultimately do not offer enough.

[wadesworld]

It is going to be an interesting offseason in Detroit.  There are a lot of players in the minor league system that project to be as good or better than the starting position players from 24 and 25.  The question is how many will be MLB ready in 26.  Detroit under Harris and Hinch rarely rushes position players, preferring them to get lots of at bats at all of the levels before bringing them up.

From a pitching standpoint, do they open up the vault for Skubal?  I think they eventually make a competitive offer, but by then Boras will have manufactured a disrespect card and Skubal turns down the Detroit offer for a little more from the Mets.   I do not think Detroit trades Skubal for a raft of players.

So, the TL:DR version, I highly doubt Detroit makes a big splash in free agency.  I think they make a mostly symbolic effort to extend Skubal but ultimately do not offer enough.

The Dodgers will get a Kershaw holdover, if they're healthy in the Playoffs next year they'll 3 peat, and then Skubal will head back to CA for $50MM more than anyone else offered him.

[tower912]

Perhaps.  It would not surprise me.

[Uncle Rico]

Agreed.  But I don't see them being that dominant. The Brewers were historically putrid.  Other than Chourio (and he was hobbled), the Dodgers pitchers had absolutely no anxiety facing them.  I just don't think that will be the case in the WS.  You can't have 7 hitters in your line-up bat like .050.

Dodgers will go through the AL team like ICE through a Latino community

[cheebs09]

Great season for the Brewers with a disappointing end. Weirdly if we were going to lose, I'm glad it wasn't a heartbreaker. Just ran into a much better team.

If anything, I feel this means the Brewers won't go for broke. Their best postseason players were rookies and a castoff from the White Sox. If anything, I feel they might double down on the strategy. It's wild this was supposed to be maybe a .500 team.

[The Sultan]

No need to "go for it" when Garrett Mitchell is set to return.

[MU82]

This October has provided a lot of evidence that there's no such thing as momentum within an MLB postseason series.

The Mariners went to Toronto and won twice. The second game, they did whatever they wanted and won big. They were hitting the ball, their pitching had stymied the Toronto bats, they were going home to their raucous crowds, up 2-0. You couldn't have more momentum than the Mariners had.

And then they got crushed in back-to-back games. Vlad Jr. went from slumping to being on fire, their pitchers (even 75-year-old Max Scherzer out of mothballs) stifled Seattle hitters, the momentum had completely turned.

But then the Big Dumper went deep, and Saurez followed with a grand slam, and so much for Toronto's momentum.

The same dynamic played out in several other series this month. One team had momentum ... until it didn't. I guess one could argue that the Dodgers captured momentum in their very first game and have kept it the entire way, but is that really momentum or just great pitching and superior talent?

Anyhoo, Seattle appears to have a decided pitching advantage in Game 6, but I thought the same about Game 4, and Toronto rolled. So who knows? I'm certainly not expecting any carryover effect from Saurez's slam.

[HutchwasClutch]

The end of the Brewers season kind of reminds me of the 2002-2003 MU season where they reached the final four only to get blown out by Kansas in the semifinals

Sadly, it conjured up the same memory for me.

[tower912]

Sadly, it conjured up the same memory for me.

Lost in the final 4.

[18thandWells]

Making "MLB Final 4" a thing turns the 2016 Cubs into a dynasty.

[MU82]

Blue Jays fans are all over the interwebs ripping Schneider for supposedly mismanaging the bullpen last night. The main gripe was that, one night after using closer Jeff Hoffman in a 6-run game, Schneider didn't use Hoffman to protect a 1-run lead.

I don't follow the Jays enough to know much about their bullpen, but Toronto fans are saying that Schneider has a history of bad decisions in these situations.

In the broadcast booth, Smoltz criticized the decision to throw a 2-strike fastball to Saurez, who had been struggling mightily to hit breaking pitches.

Everyone's a critic! I rather liked all those decisions!!

[GB Warrior]

No need to "go for it" when Garrett Mitchell is set to return.

Joey Ortiz new swing mechanics are the major postseason move.

[MuggsyB]

It's vital that Seattle wins G6. 

[MuggsyB]

Complete loss of focus defensively for Seattle.  Can't happen.