2025 MLB Season

[Shaka Shart]

It's going to be very difficult fir Toronto to bounce back tonight after such a gut-wrenching loss.  I feel like they blew the opportunity.  I might try some unorthodox tactics today. 

What does this have to do with trees

[TallTitan34]

Agreed.  Every team in baseball has the chance to pay Shohei $365MM, Freddie Freeman $162MM, Shohei $700MM, Blake Snell $182MM, Yoshinobu Yamamoto $325MM, Tyler Glasnow $136.5MM.  It's a completely even playing field.  Baseball really has it figured out.

So your solution is a salary cap that current Brewers ownership won't approach? 

[Shaka Shart]

So your solution is a salary cap that current Brewers ownership won't approach? 

Maybe they should try deferring some salary

[wadesworld]

So your solution is a salary cap that current Brewers ownership won't approach? 

Like I said. Baseball has it all figured out. Certainly more popular than the NFL and NBA.

[wadesworld]

I liked Detroit's chances against anybody during the 3/4 of the season they were hitting at a high level.   I was stunned they beat Cleveland hitting that poorly.  I expected them to lose to Seattle if they didn't hit.

.118 loses to the Rockies.

.194 does too. As does .212.

It's almost like the Dodgers pitching is good.

[tower912]

Never said it wasn't.

[JWags85]

Glasnow is absolutely capable of winning a Cy Young.  He had a 2.77 ERA with a 0.932 WHIP, giving up 5.6 hits per 9, 1 home run per 9, 2.8 walks per 9, and striking out 12.6 per 9 through 14 starts in 2021 before he tore his UCL.  Robby Ray won the AL Cy Young Award with a 2.84 ERA and 1.045 WHIP that year, giving up 7 hits per 9, 1.5 home runs per 9, 2.4 walks per 9, and striking out 11.5 per 9.  Would Glasnow have kept that up over another 16 starts?  Maybe not.  But he's certainly a Cy Young caliber arm.

So Glasnow had 1 year where he was in the realm of the Cy Young in the AL that year, but numbers that wouldn't have put him in contention any other year in the last 10 years in either league.  And since the injury he's not even been in the same realm of that level, much less the Cy Young level above that.  Its like talking about Derrick Rose being an MVP caliber player his first year with the Knicks cause of the level that he was in 2011.

I get that you're pissed about how the Brewers season ended and the Dodgers likely going back to back.  But you're kind of tilting at windmills here

[MuggsyB]

Toronto has a great chance to get this one.  They need two runs here. 

[MuggsyB]

Definitely safe at first. 

[wadesworld]

So Glasnow had 1 year where he was in the realm of the Cy Young in the AL that year, but numbers that wouldn't have put him in contention any other year in the last 10 years in either league.  And since the injury he's not even been in the same realm of that level, much less the Cy Young level above that.  Its like talking about Derrick Rose being an MVP caliber player his first year with the Knicks cause of the level that he was in 2011.

I get that you're pissed about how the Brewers season ended and the Dodgers likely going back to back.  But you're kind of tilting at windmills here

Really not pissed about how the Brewers season ended. Great season. Never had a chance against the Dodgers. Had zero expectations of winning that series.

What's funny is people here pretending that the lack of a salary cap does not give certain teams an advantage (and other teams a disadvantage).

Glasnow also had a 1.78 ERA, 0.89 WHIP, 5.9H/9, 0.6 HR/9, 2.1BB/9, and 11.3K/9 in 2019 in 12 starts. Since the start of his 4th year in the MLB he has a 3.16 ERA and 1.01 WHIP. He made the All Star Game just last year. Injuries are the only thing that have kept him from being one of the best starters in the MLB year in and year out.

[MuggsyB]

Thos is exactly why I thought this would be long series.  The Dodgers bullpen is often quite vulnerable. 

[Billy Hoyle]

Poured some Gretzky Double Oaked before the sixth in game one, that worked. Poured it before the seventh tonight. I know what I'm pouring tomorrow night

[CreightonWarrior]

It's going to be very difficult fir Toronto to bounce back tonight after such a gut-wrenching loss.  I feel like they blew the opportunity.  I might try some unorthodox tactics today. 

hmmmm

[JWags85]

Really not pissed about how the Brewers season ended. Great season. Never had a chance against the Dodgers. Had zero expectations of winning that series.

What's funny is people here pretending that the lack of a salary cap does not give certain teams an advantage (and other teams a disadvantage).

Nobody is arguing that or pretending that.  All that I, and others, are saying is that you still play the games.  And the Dodgers aren't Thanos as the Blue Jays are showing.

Glasnow also had a 1.78 ERA, 0.89 WHIP, 5.9H/9, 0.6 HR/9, 2.1BB/9, and 11.3K/9 in 2019 in 12 starts. Since the start of his 4th year in the MLB he has a 3.16 ERA and 1.01 WHIP. He made the All Star Game just last year. Injuries are the only thing that have kept him from being one of the best starters in the MLB year in and year out.

Again, like the D Rose example, all of that is wholly and completely irrelevant.  Injuries are a reality of life and they impact careers of some people in cruel ways (sup Bo Jackson), but its still impactful on the ability and upside of a player.  Glasnow hasn't been a Cy Young caliber pitcher since his injury, he pitches more for SOs and absorbing hard contact than he did pre-injury, and pretending he is cause of what his arm showed 5 years and a major injury ago is just cope.


Speaking of the Blue Jays, that was a MASTERFUL at-bat by Gimenez, just taking what you're given.  For every chance they squandered last night, that AB/hit (plus his fingertip beating Muncy's throw the next AB) could be beyond pivotal.

[18thandWells]

Kudos to MLB for having an 8-run World Series game end in under three hours. Before the pitch clock, this could taken a lot longer.

[MU82]

Huh. 4 runs off another unhittable LA pitcher. Impossible! Another win against an unbeatable team. Nope.

[Shaka Shart]

hmmmm

Make every possible prediction in the heat of the moment and then you can go back and cherry pick the one that's closest to being right

[MU82]

Been through the L.A. rotation once in this World Series. The starters' collective ERA is 4.38, with 1 "quality start" between them.