2025 MLB Thread

[tiger2022]

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

Derek Jeter is exhibit one for the fact that defense is nice, but hitting is nicer.

Jeter's BR page is interesting. Hit over 330 three times and had an OBP over 400 4 times but never led the the league in either category. His best bold face numbers were leading the league in hits twice (200+ hits 8 times in his career) and runs once.

Yet ARod was a great shortstop and had to move to 3rd.

[Tiger337]

4 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Derek Jeter is exhibit one for the fact that defense is nice, but hitting is nicer.

 

There is little doubt about that, but I don't think hitting is something that is underrated very often.  It's more likely to be fielding.  

[gehringer_2]

5 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

Yet ARod was a great shortstop and had to move to 3rd.

There certainly was a tremendous amount of noise about ARod going to third, and at the time the argument he was a better SS was a good one, but my guess is he probably wasn't going to be able to stay at short much longer anyway and the Yankees probably recognized that.

[tiger2022]

Jeter refused to move positions.

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, tiger2022 said:

Derek Jeter?

Made routine plays for 29 other shortstop into diving stops.

Here’s a hoary old chestnut for you: “Did you know that Derek Jeter’s favorite food is spaghetti? It’s true—during every Yankees broadcast, Michael Kay will refer to him right in the middle of a play as ‘pasta-diving Jeter.’”

[gehringer_2]

Just now, chasfh said:

Here’s a hoary old chestnut for you: “Did you know that Derek Jeter’s favorite food is spaghetti? It’s true—during every Yankees broadcast, Michael Kay will refer to him right in the middle of a play as ‘pasta-diving Jeter.’”

nyuck-nyuck

[tiger2022]

I have a relative who was engaged to one of the top pro bowlers.  300 games are a dime a dozen to him.

[IdahoBert]

I wish I could get paid $25 million over two years for a 6.95 ERA like Jordan Hicks. 

[casimir]

On 1/31/2026 at 11:12 AM, gehringer_2 said:

Derek Jeter is exhibit one for the fact that defense is nice, but hitting is nicer.

Jeter's BR page is interesting. Hit over 330 three times and had an OBP over 400 4 times but never led the the league in either category. His best bold face numbers were leading the league in hits twice (200+ hits 8 times in his career) and runs once.

It must be on his BR page somewhere, but I couldn’t find how many gift baskets he gave out.

[gehringer_2]

On 1/31/2026 at 11:30 AM, tiger2022 said:

Jeter refused to move positions.

He also should have gone to DH the last couple of years at least. He may only have ever been an adequate SS to begin with, but fielding a 40yr at SS is not the signature of a serious team, and indeed the Yankees were out of the playoffs his last couple years.

[Tiger337]

Eugenio Suarez signs with the Reds - 15 million with a mutual option for a second year.