2025 MLB Thread

[Klondike]

On 7/5/2025 at 3:36 PM, chasfh said:

Related to this, I really really hate looking up stats on Reference and seeing ATH instead of OAK.

Speaking of unrelated stats. I was browsing Baseball Reference and was curious to discover Oakland A's great Blue 'Moon' Odom had a higher WAR as a hitter ( 3.4 ) than pitcher ( 2.2 ). I knew he was a good hitting pitcher but thought he had a better pitching career... had some bad seasons I guess..

Edited 5 hours ago by Klondike

[Hongbit]

32 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

What’s boosting the WAR of his stats?

247/306/349 with 11HR and 43 RBI. That 655 OPS is horrendous.  

He’s stolen 15 bags on 83% efficiency but I thought that was weighted much less.  

 

I think the rebirth of Jo Adell is definitely all star worthy.    His WAR is full point less than Julio despite 8 more HRs, 9 more RBI, and almost 180 points better in OPS.  He’s only 3/3 on stolen bases but that can’t be that big of difference, correct?    

 

[chasfh]

51 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

What’s boosting the WAR of his stats?

247/306/349 with 11HR and 43 RBI. That 655 OPS is horrendous.  

He’s stolen 15 bags on 83% efficiency but I thought that was weighted much less.  

 

Julio's defense is. Point being it's not as though Arozarena is blowing Julio out of the water when it comes to winning games for his team. Julio wins the tiebreaker on the star-marketing attribute.

[chasfh]

30 minutes ago, Klondike said:

Speaking of unrelated stats. I was browsing Baseball Reference and was curious to discover Oakland A's great Blue 'Moon' Odom had a higher WAR as a hitter ( 3.4 ) than pitcher ( 2.2 ). I knew he was a good hitting pitcher but thought he had a better pitching career... had some bad seasons I guess..

Whoa, wait, that's for his whole career? daaaaamn ...

[lordstanley]

Yankees broadcaster and Jays broadcaster have a beef. The first is arrogant, the other's a dork.

https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/sports/michael-kay-claps-back-at-fawning-fanboy-blue-jays-broadcaster/

 

 

 

[Tiger337]

54 minutes ago, Klondike said:

Speaking of unrelated stats. I was browsing Baseball Reference and was curious to discover Oakland A's great Blue 'Moon' Odom had a higher WAR as a hitter ( 3.4 ) than pitcher ( 2.2 ). I knew he was a good hitting pitcher but thought he had a better pitching career... had some bad seasons I guess..

He had a couple of pretty good years, but he was so overrated.  Everybody just loved his nickname.  I love your hitter WAR > pitcher WAR factoid though!

Edited 4 hours ago by Tiger337

[papalawrence]

Odom did close out the Tigers in 1972. He sucks!

[IdahoBert]

1 hour ago, lordstanley said:

Yankees broadcaster and Jays broadcaster have a beef. The first is arrogant, the other's a dork.

https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/sports/michael-kay-claps-back-at-fawning-fanboy-blue-jays-broadcaster/

 

 

 

This is the kind of thing that my daughters would roll their eyes over and say “it’s such a boy thing.“

[IdahoBert]

Didn’t Charlie Finley assign colorful names to his players just to make things more colorful, exciting, and quirky?

[IdahoBert]

Just saw that Nats Dave Martinez was fired on Sunday along with general manager Mike Rizzo. I somehow missed the earlier posts on this. It’s amazing that they won the World Series in 2019 then couldn’t do a thing after that. This is a hard game.