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Who's your 2022 MVP?
This poll is closed.
Shohei Ohtani 50 59.52%
Aaron Judge 19 22.62%
Hey, the national league has an MVP too you know! 15 17.86%
Total: 84 votes
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BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

I hate everything

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BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

zoux posted:

Nope. Market is completely unmoored.

https://twitter.com/MLBRandomStats/status/1600551608542064640

Extremely cursed tweet.

Contreras is dead to me now

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
If Contreras wanted to come back and the Cubs didn't cough up 5/87.5 for him, Jed needs to be shot out of catapult into Lake Michigan.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

MrMidnight posted:

Man don't trade away Santa, what kind of monster are you

You should get more than that. Santa is extremely valuable this time of year.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

zoux posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1601346974325751808

Lmao what the gently caress fourteen years four hundred million and he said no? I’ll assume heyman is just wrong

That's less than the AAV he's getting with the Yanks

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
Cool so it's just gonna be Tallion and the corpse of Cody Bellinger. That's loving awesome

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
Who are the best FAs left?

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

Start printing World Series tickets now!!

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

Gorman Thomas posted:

Ohtani signing with the Astros next year would be the biggest heel move in history and I'd be forced to respect it.

Nah, Hogan in 96 was still bigger

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

R.D. Mangles posted:

NO gently caress THIS GUY

More like Fucker Barnhart amirite?

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
Finally, an adequate replacement for Willson Contreras

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

R.D. Mangles posted:

the cubs could have simply extended one of the best hitting catchers in baseball at any time during the last three years

Have they ever answered why they couldn't wait to get rid of Willson? Was he a giant rear end in a top hat?

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
Correa is gonna end up on a one year prove it deal after this lol

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

elentar posted:

while scrounging for AV cables at my in-laws' house, found a mini baseball card album of my brother-in-law's that had this sole card in it

no, he doesn't remember why either



I was in elementary school around that time, and my principal had that same last name.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

Sydin posted:

It doesn't at all, which is why the Hosmer signing was categorically stupid.

No it wasn't. We have him for league minimum and if he's any sort of productive we flip him at the deadline, or if he sucks we cut him for basically nothing. He won't hold Mervis back.

BigBallChunkyTime fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Jan 15, 2023

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

maffew buildings posted:

When you can get the preeminent hard contact ground ball hitter for league minimum you don't pass on that

This guy gets it

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

zoux posted:



These lists are driving me insane. You can't have two of the top ten LF on the same team!

The issue i have with it is thst Schwarber isnt at the top.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/MLBMetrics/status/1615739329577459712

Crazy how the two NL MVP frontrunners fell off a cliff after 2019.

Some guys gradually decline and others just hit a wall.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

BigDumper posted:

Is Nelson Cruz on the roster? I thought he was the manager, it would be awesome if he is doing the player/manager role.

MLB needs player/managers again.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

zoux posted:

Who are some other guys who went from MVP-caliber to dog poo poo in the course of one or two seasons? It's just weird that it happened to the two guys who were vying for the MVP spot and even had Dan and Dave style ads about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKJkfE1M9wA

Of course Dan and Dave also stunk it up in the 92 olympics (one of them missed the games entirely because he couldn't pole vault good) so perhaps we should've seen that as an omen.

Dan and Dave were 30 years ago and drat you for making me feel old.

Also lol Reebok for one of the biggest ad flops of all time.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
Arent ballparks required to have the OF fence at least 400 feet in one spot?

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
Yeah that dude just wants to jerk off to feet

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
I'd put Helton in before Rolen.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

Red posted:

If Harold Baines, Jack Morris, and Andre Dawson are hall of famers, Scott Rolen is a hall of famer

Dude gently caress you Andre belongs there.

I may be biased because he was my favorite player as a kid.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

No Safe Word posted:

Only 270 are players, but there's still easily some that could be removed without making the Hall any worse/less significant.

Rabbit Maranville comes to mind

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

GoutPatrol posted:

wonder what happened to that Munson guy

His career really crashed and burned

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

GPTribefan posted:

That’s just plane awful

I thought it was a very impactful statement

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

GoutPatrol posted:

According to UPI | Number of MLB Players by Nationality:

United States of America - 525
Dominican Republic - 90
Venezuela - 53
Cuba - 20
Puerto Rico - 19
Mexico - 8
Canada - 6
Japan - 6
Curacao - 5
South Korea - 5
Colombia - 4
Germany - 2
Australia, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Aruba, Brazil, Panama - 1

So the MLB players are not really coming from the West Indies cricket countries.

Who's the player from Saudi Arabia?

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

camoseven posted:

Yadier Molina is a future HoFer right? I have been thinking "yes, of course" cause he's the best defensive catcher I've ever seen, but I just looked and he's only got like 40 WAR so idk what'll happen

No, because hes a Cardinal so gently caress him.

But he also took a 102 mph foul tip directly to the nuts and needed surgery and that alone should be cause for induction.

So I'm torn.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
Just wait til Steve Stone is critical of the players and they call up to the booth during the game and get him fired.

Oh wait that was the Cubs and Dusty Baker

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
Gary Varsho. 90s Cubs pinch hitter extraordinare

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

gently caress yes im gonna strike out all the motherfuckers with Satchel Page.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

General Bullshit posted:

Interleague sucks so much. Who wants to watch the Tigers play the Marlins?

Inter conference play happens in all the other leagues. I think it's great to be able to watch players you normally wouldn't be able to.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

Admiral Joeslop posted:

With all the power moves the Padres have been making, fate forces me to agree with you.

The Dads will be the only MLB team without a ring.

Brewers

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
Lets talk about the Cubs instead.

If about 14 things break their way they might finish .500 this year!

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

Kevlar v2.0 posted:

Jeter's greatest crime was convincing the world he was good at defense.

It was two plays. That dive into the crowd, and that little 15 foot relay to the catcher against the A's in the playoffs. And the runner was safe.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
Position players on the mound is one of the few entertaining things in a blowout game. Tell me you didnt like seeing Anthony Rizzo strike out Freddy Freeman.

Baseball needs to get out from up its own rear end. Anyone that ever stopped watching because the backup catcher was on the mound in a 16-1 game was never a fan to begin with.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

zoux posted:

Man I gotta work tomorrow

I meant like "stopped watching mlb altogether because of this egregious offense to the game" which is apparently what MLB is worried about.

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BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

Pungry posted:

Looks like we need a thread to come to a consensus on what the runner on 2nd in extra innings should be called :v:

The Bullshit Baserunner

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