2026 MLB (Non-Tigers) Thread

[Tiger337]

4 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

How long did Soler get?

7 days, but he is appealing.  I acquired him for my fantasy team shortly before he charged the mound. 

[Sports_Freak]

3 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

7 days, but he is appealing.  I acquired him for my fantasy team shortly before he charged the mound. 

7 games for a position player is much worse than 7 days for a starting pitcher. That's 7 games he'll miss...about the same as a SP getting 35 games. He would miss around 7 starts.

[monkeytargets39]

Baseball fights don’t excite me like they used to.  Nothing really makes me laugh as hard as the Kyle Farnsworth perfect technique tackle or the classic Rod Allen video.

[Tiger337]

8 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Baseball fights don’t excite me like they used to.  Nothing really makes me laugh as hard as the Kyle Farnsworth perfect technique tackle or the classic Rod Allen video.

You growed up.  

[Sports_Freak]

11 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Baseball fights don’t excite me like they used to.  Nothing really makes me laugh as hard as the Kyle Farnsworth perfect technique tackle or the classic Rod Allen video.

But it's good to look back and show the younger generation the aggressive way the game used to be played;

 

[tiger2022]

Good thing he didn't try that on Odor.  McRae would have been carted off on a stretcher. 

Plus McRae probably would have been hit with the ball straight in the face by the throw to 1st by a modern 2nd baseman.

[NorthWoods]

9 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

he won't get that kind of suspension when it was Soler that charged him.

EDIt: He got seven and it was reduced to 5. Which for  a pitcher might not even be one start.

And TBH, the way Soler hangs over the plate, the pitch that hit him in the hands wasn't even that far inside.

The whole "baseball as a weapon" thing seemed like overblown clickbait to me anyway.   I don't think you could punch someone as hard WITH a baseball in your hand.   If anything I think it minimized the blow.

[tiger2022]

21 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

The whole "baseball as a weapon" thing seemed like overblown clickbait to me anyway.   I don't think you could punch someone as hard WITH a baseball in your hand.   If anything I think it minimized the blow.

You'd have to have a massive hand to wrap completely around the baseball for it to be used as a weapon ala roll of quarters.