2025 MLB Thread

[Cobra Mgr]

How do you miss one this badly?

[low]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

How do you miss one this badly?

I have no words.

[Pelican]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

Ohtani interpreter reports to federal prison

Ohtani to pitch today

"Jackson and Rose cleared, but still not in the HOF"

Yeah, something ain't right here.

[Pelican]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Thanks to the commentary on the game that I am watching, I am just getting caught up to the latest chapter of the Rafael Devers story. (If somebody mentioned this earlier in the thread, I apologize.)

Recall that Devers, who really is not a good third baseman, was asked to move to DH when the Red Sox acquired Alex Bregman. Initially, he refused and made a public fuss about it. Some deal was made, because he later relented.

Well, last month, Triston Casas ruptured his tendon and was pronounced out for the season. The club, in the person of chief baseball officer Craig Breslow, came to Devers and asked him to fill in at first base.

Now, you would think that Devers would be anxious to get back on the field if it was so important to him, yes? Uh, no. Devers refused and, incredibly, was angry that Breslow asked him the question at all.

In the first place, Devers is not a great player. In the second place, even if he was Babe Ruth, Grover Cleveland Alexander, and Shohei Ohtani combined, I wouldn't want him on my team. Talk about selfish. I wonder what his "teammates" think of him.

Devers tells Red Sox he won't play first, upset they asked him to move

But you see? That's why I couldn't work in baseball ops. For, I would release that bag of stuff. Whereupon, some other team that cares not for such matters would sign him immediately, acquiesce to his demand to play third base badly, and he would be rewarded with a doubled salary.

Moreover, there would be hundreds of Facebook pages demanding my firing, if not my execution, for letting Devers go, no matter how bad he was for the team. Only if I won the World Series that same year would I keep my job for a while.

Most takes combine the two issues (Bregman and Casas), but they are different. Bregman was self-inflicted and could have been avoided, or at least ameliorated. Modern players with fragile egos need to be "consulted" on changes, and "asked" to change position, for the good of the team. [Cue Joe McCarthy spinning in his grave.] The Crimson Hose should have seen that and done that in advance of the Bregman deal. But the Casas injury could not have been predicted. The GM and Manager were stuck with bad choices, through no fault of their own (unless you want to argue they should have had a "long bench" of 1B waiting, which is not fair). Boston had to make do with what they had. Devers was a natural choice. He played 3B. He can play 1B. Not well; but adequate. For him to link the two situations ("you're asking me again") was wrong. For him to whine was wrong. For the Red Sox to trade him was sweet.

[Déjà Bru]

So now, Devers is saying, "I am here to play wherever they (the Giants) want me to play" which will include first base when the time comes.

I roll my eyeballs but actually, this makes me feel a bit better about him. This all goes back to the Red Sox signing Bregman without clearing it with Devers first. Everything else after that was a snit which anybody can have. You can still make a case for a professional putting his teammates ahead of his pride, but at least this is more understandable.

[Déjà Bru]

The American League East is officially up for grabs. The Yankees have lost five in a row, the last three by consecutive shutouts, and in their last six games have scored only five runs. That's with three in one game in Boston.

[Amazin69]

First time the Pinstripers have eaten three straight doughnuts since September, 2016, I'm informed.

I plead ignorance of that one, though. What with Terry Collins's classic "In Las Vegas, there's a roomful of players…" speech and the ensuing 27-13 finishing kick, the Bronx could have been on fire that month, and I wouldn't have noticed. Condolences, Bru.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

Condolences, Bru.

Backatcha. Combined, New York pro baseball teams are currently 0 for 9.

Say, what the, uh, heck? Is this even legal? I mean, here these nuns are at the stadium while the Yankees are playing the Angels. ()

[Cobra Mgr]

What are you saying to yourself as a hitter after this AB?

[kq76]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

What are you saying to yourself as a hitter after this AB?

I looked at the first pitch so many times and I still have no clue how that ball took the path it did. It looks for sure like it hit him, but no one reacts like it did. I even slowed it down to .25x speed and it still looks to me like it hit him. "What happened there?" is right!

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by kq76

I looked at the first pitch so many times and I still have no clue how that ball took the path it did. It looks for sure like it hit him, but no one reacts like it did. I even slowed it down to .25x speed and it still looks to me like it hit him. "What happened there?" is right!

The batter was like deer in headlights.

[Westheim]

C.J. Abrams has the baserunning instincts of a blind badger. In the Rockies-Gnats game, he's been doubled off first base twice, 9-3 and 3-U. And neither one was anywhere close to inevitable.

[Cobra Mgr]

Pirates' Dennis Santana tried to hit a fan. He refuses to say what was said.

[Cobra Mgr]

Ah.......the humanness of the game..............

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

Pirates' Dennis Santana tried to hit a fan. He refuses to say what was said.

Some people need a little beating from time to time.

Of course it's best to do so away from the cameras.

Maybe the guard is tired of their **** as well.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

Ah.......the humanness of the game..............

Did you know that:

• An immaculate inning occurs in baseball when a pitcher strikes out all three batters he faces in one inning using the minimum possible number of pitches: nine.

• This has happened 118 times in Major League history and has been accomplished by 107 pitchers (80 right-handed and 25 left-handed).

• Major League Baseball's first immaculate inning was accomplished by John Clarkson of the Boston Beaneaters against the Philadelphia Quakers on June 4, 1889; and the most recent by Cal Quantrill of the Miami Marlins on May 18, 2025.

• Six pitchers have accomplished the feat more than once: Hall of Famers Lefty Grove, Sandy Koufax, and Nolan Ryan, and active pitchers Chris Sale, Max Scherzer, and Kevin Gausman. Koufax, Sale, and Scherzer are the only pitchers to achieve an immaculate inning three times.

• Danny Jackson is the sole pitcher to have thrown an immaculate inning in the postseason, doing so in the seventh inning of Game 5 of the 1985 World Series.

• While an immaculate inning typically occurs with the bases empty, a nine-pitch, three-strikeout performance can also be accomplished by a relief pitcher who enters the game with one or more runners on base. On May 8, 2014, Brad Boxberger of the Tampa Bay Rays entered a game against the Baltimore Orioles with the bases loaded and proceeded to strike out the side with nine pitches.

• No pitcher has thrown more than one immaculate inning in a game. Jesús Sánchez of the Florida Marlins came within one pitch of that feat on September 13, 1998. Facing the Atlanta Braves, Sánchez struck out the side in the bottom of the second inning on 10 pitches and threw an immaculate inning in the bottom of the third inning: six consecutive strikeouts on 19 pitches.

• Just one game has seen two pitchers throw immaculate innings: on June 15, 2022, Phil Maton and Luis Garcia of the Houston Astros struck out the same three Texas Rangers batters (Nathaniel Lowe, Ezequiel Durán, and Brad Miller) in the second and seventh innings respectively.

• No player has ever struck out four batters on 12 pitches in an inning, with one of those batters reaching base on an uncaught third strike.

I knew all of this stuff off the top of my head! It's not like I copied and pasted it from some Wikipedia article that I refuse to link to in some sort of a cover-up.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Westheim

Of course it's best to do so away from the cameras.

Right. As if everybody and his brother and sister don't have their phones at the ready at all times, cranking out the videos. This morning, while I filled my gas tank, I looked around to see if I was being filmed.

[Westheim]

With the pitch clock, what do they call it when you get three strikeouts on eight pitches and a violation called on the batter?

[Cobra Mgr]

Great play or self preservation?

[dsvitak]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Thanks to the commentary on the game that I am watching, I am just getting caught up to the latest chapter of the Rafael Devers story. (If somebody mentioned this earlier in the thread, I apologize.)

Recall that Devers, who really is not a good third baseman, was asked to move to DH when the Red Sox acquired Alex Bregman. Initially, he refused and made a public fuss about it. Some deal was made, because he later relented.

Well, last month, Triston Casas ruptured his tendon and was pronounced out for the season. The club, in the person of chief baseball officer Craig Breslow, came to Devers and asked him to fill in at first base.

Now, you would think that Devers would be anxious to get back on the field if it was so important to him, yes? Uh, no. Devers refused and, incredibly, was angry that Breslow asked him the question at all.

In the first place, Devers is not a great player. In the second place, even if he was Babe Ruth, Grover Cleveland Alexander, and Shohei Ohtani combined, I wouldn't want him on my team. Talk about selfish. I wonder what his "teammates" think of him.

Devers tells Red Sox he won't play first, upset they asked him to move

But you see? That's why I couldn't work in baseball ops. For, I would release that bag of stuff. Whereupon, some other team that cares not for such matters would sign him immediately, acquiesce to his demand to play third base badly, and he would be rewarded with a doubled salary.

Moreover, there would be hundreds of Facebook pages demanding my firing, if not my execution, for letting Devers go, no matter how bad he was for the team. Only if I won the World Series that same year would I keep my job for a while.

I see some Manny (Ramirez) being Manny here. Kind of a headcase, but he sure can hit.