2026 MLB (Non-Tigers) Thread

[tiger2022]

On 2/27/2026 at 7:55 AM, Motor City Sonics said:

So Giancarlo Stanton says he can't open a bottle or a bag of chips. 

 

Dude,  just retire.    Do the Yankees one solid and let them take the insurance money. 

 

You're done.    

 

I usually don't care about the Yankees, but this guy's just ripping them off at this point.  

I remember when mlb suspended Arod for his first failed PED test for 211 games even though the rule was 50 games for the first violation. The only reason it was 211 games was to save the Yankees a bunch of money.

So good for Stanton.

[Hongbit]

What an absolute failure by Team USA leadership thinking they had already clinched a spot in the next round when in reality they hadn’t.  

If Mexico beats Italy and scores less than 5 runs while doing it, USA goes home.    

[NorthWoods]

1 hour ago, Hongbit said:

What an absolute failure by Team USA leadership thinking they had already clinched a spot in the next round when in reality they hadn’t.  

If Mexico beats Italy and scores less than 5 runs while doing it, USA goes home.    

It'll be a legendary own goal.

[Hongbit]

3 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

It'll be a legendary own goal.

DeRosa’s real job is media talking head so he knew he had to come out and deny this was the case.  He said that he “misspoke” earlier in the day.

Leaving 5 players out of his original lineup including Cal Raleigh, Bryce Harper, Alex Bregman and Bryce Turang in a very big game suggests otherwise.   

[tiger2022]

In the WBC can you just play for whatever country will take you?  Obviously, you don't have to be born in the country you play for.  

[casimir]

21 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

In the WBC can you just play for whatever country will take you?  Obviously, you don't have to be born in the country you play for.  

I think you have to have some sort of lineage to that country to play for it.

[gehringer_2]

6 hours ago, casimir said:

I think you have to have some sort of lineage to that country to play for it.

If they didn't leave it open to US players with foreign ties they wouldn't get enough MLB players on the other teams to make it interesting. It would be the US, The Dominican, Mexico and a bunch of single A teams.

[casimir]

12 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

If they didn't leave it open to US players with foreign ties they wouldn't get enough MLB players on the other teams to make it interesting. It would be the US, The Dominican, Mexico and a bunch of single A teams.

Japan?

[gehringer_2]

8 minutes ago, casimir said:

Japan?

Yeah - add Japan.