2025 MLB Thread

[chasfh]

Dǐck Stuart is one of those guys who played within my lifetime (technically) who almost never registers with me as I think about players from his era. Talk about Dr Strangeglove: he had over 200 home runs and still couldn’t clear 8 WAR for his career. Amazingly, there are five other 200-home-run hitters who had even fewer wins even having hit 200+ homers, like Dante Bichette and Jose Guillen and Mark Reynolds.

[CMRivdogs]

The late great Bob Prince had a nickname for Stuart. Doctor Strangeglove

[papalawrence]

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

Dǐck Stuart is one of those guys who played within my lifetime (technically) who almost never registers with me as I think about players from his era. Talk about Dr Strangeglove: he had over 200 home runs and still couldn’t clear 8 WAR for his career. Amazingly, there are five other 200-home-run hitters who had even fewer wins even having hit 200+ homers, like Dante Bichette and Jose Guillen and Mark Reynolds.

I'm fascinated by the career of Chris Davis. He played 13 seasons and in 3 of those seasons his combined war was 15. The other 10 seasons his combined was -3.5

In his final season his ops+ was -8. I cannot wrap my head around that.

His compensation for that production was nearly 200 million

[Tiger337]

6 hours ago, chasfh said:

Dǐck Stuart is one of those guys who played within my lifetime (technically) who almost never registers with me as I think about players from his era. Talk about Dr Strangeglove: he had over 200 home runs and still couldn’t clear 8 WAR for his career. Amazingly, there are five other 200-home-run hitters who had even fewer wins even having hit 200+ homers, like Dante Bichette and Jose Guillen and Mark Reynolds.

I thought Bichette would have had more WAR than that.  13 years with an OPS+ above 100 and less than 8 WAR?  That is remarkable.  He had -34 Fielding Runs one year before you even get to the positional adjustment! 

He deserved a few WAR just for his eyebrows.

 

[chasfh]

17 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I thought Bichette would have had more WAR than that.  13 years with an OPS+ above 100 and less than 8 WAR?  That is remarkable.  He had -34 Fielding Runs one year before you even get to the positional adjustment! 

He deserved a few WAR just for his eyebrows.

 

Wins Above Retina.

[Arlington]

I looked at Edgar Martinez' stats and, unless I am reading things wrong, and I probably am, he appears to have been a better defending DH than the replacement DH.  https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/martied01.shtml

[Tiger337]

He was

40 minutes ago, Arlington said:

I looked at Edgar Martinez' stats and, unless I am reading things wrong, and I probably am, he appears to have been a better defending DH than the replacement DH.  https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/martied01.shtml

He was a good defender early in his career.  Then he started having hamstring problems and became a fuill-time DH.  

[Tenacious D]

Given that he probably wears a size 7 women’s cleat, would there be any other type of surgery? 
 

 

[papalawrence]

JJ Bleday dfa'd today. He was the pick right before Riley in the 2019 draft, and I recall reading Detroit would take him at 5 if he fell. 

[papalawrence]

Grayson Rodriguez for Taylor Ward? Not sure I get it. Rodriguez might need a transition year, but is under control for several years. 

Orioles Trade Grayson Rodriguez To Angels For Taylor Ward - MLB Trade Rumors https://share.google/nqo71ZXjYRARVCXkH

[gehringer_2]

45 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

Grayson Rodriguez for Taylor Ward? Not sure I get it. Rodriguez might need a transition year, but is under control for several years. 

Orioles Trade Grayson Rodriguez To Angels For Taylor Ward - MLB Trade Rumors https://share.google/nqo71ZXjYRARVCXkH

32 yr old OF who was already a late bloomer whose contact and OB have been dropping and his K rate rising, whose productivity is only sustained by his increasing HR numbers? Not a profile I find appealing. Maybe Rodriguez' rehab hasn't gone well.....

[SoCalTiger]

11 hours ago, papalawrence said:

Grayson Rodriguez for Taylor Ward? Not sure I get it. Rodriguez might need a transition year, but is under control for several years. 

Orioles Trade Grayson Rodriguez To Angels For Taylor Ward - MLB Trade Rumors https://share.google/nqo71ZXjYRARVCXkH

That's a head scratcher for Elias for sure who normally grips on his controllable players. 

[Tenacious D]

Randy Jones of Padres fame passed away at 75.  If you’re a Tigers fan of a certain age, you probably recall him facing off against Mark Fidrych in the’76 All Star game.  In addition, his ‘fro was majestic.  

RIP, Randy.

 

 

[papalawrence]

1 hour ago, Tenacious D said:

Randy Jones of Padres fame passed away at 75.  If you’re a Tigers fan of a certain age, you probably recall him facing off against Mark Fidrych in the’76 All Star game.  In addition, his ‘fro was majestic.  

RIP, Randy.

 

 

He was something like 15-3 at the all-star break that year. I remember it well. RIP. Had a few very good years. 

[lordstanley]

I didn't realize John C. Reilly was an All Star game starting pitcher.

[guy incognito]

I loathe Manfred but I have to hand it to him, he pulled a rabbit out of a hat with this new TV deal.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-announces-media-rights-deals-with-espn-nbc-netflix

 

Edited 8 hours ago by guy incognito

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, guy incognito said:

I loathe Manfred but I have to hand it to him, he pulled a rabbit out of a hat with this new TV deal.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-announces-media-rights-deals-with-espn-nbc-netflix

 

Looks like this new deal will take even more games out of the MLB.tv package and put them on another platform. All the games ESPN will be exclusive to them, as will the Peacock morning games. It looks like Apple, TBS, and FOX are unaffected by the new deal.

[Dan Gilmore]

Hoping T-Mobile keeps the free MLB games access (even if fewer games are available there).

[CMRivdogs]

3 hours ago, Dan Gilmore said:

Hoping T-Mobile keeps the free MLB games access (even if fewer games are available there).

From what I've seen the agreement still stands. I think the agreement runs thru 2028. I guess we'll see