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MLB 2025 Season Official Thread
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: HighEyeCue on April 12, 2025, 06:40:18 AM ---the question is why are they tanking?
the MLB draft is much more of a wildcard than the NBA or NFL draft
unless there is a sure thing prospect coming out of college like a Paul Skenes you are taking your chances with a kid coming out of high school who might not amount to anything
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Thank God the Royals have Bobby Witt and aren’t tanking anymore. The theory goes that they supposedly have a 5 year window now to try to win the championship because that’s the length of Bobby Witt’s contract.
Still though, the local Sports Talk show was already clamoring to start looking at possible trading away Seth Lugo just because the Royals had a rough road trip last week. We since swept the Rockies and are back in it. Latest news and notes on the Royals:
—Witt is back to playing MVP caliber baseball again since slumping at the end of the year and in last years playoffs
—Vinnie Paz is still struggling since his injury at the end of last season but is managing to lead the team in RBI’s
—Salvy finally got it going turning his season around with a great hitting performance against the leagues worst pitching Colorado Rockies
—Royals have worst outfield in baseball ⚾️ they finally gave up and started sending guys down to give their Triple AAA performers a chance. And it’s worked out so far, Drew Waters has been a big improvement (called up) over MJ Melendez (sent down)
—Kris Bubic and Mikel Garcia are the surprising stars of the Royals this year. Both hugely talented players who have underperformed in the past now reaching their potential !!
Royals are hanging in there. That’s all that’s needed this early in the season.
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: HighEyeCue on April 17, 2025, 06:44:58 AM ---the Mets can't hit :snoop:
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But homie I’m really excited about what Pete Alonso and Francisco Lendour have done so far this year. I’m a big fan of Moneyball, I love the movie and am reading the book, and it’s the reason I got back into baseball in 2007 after giving up on the sport after I quit playing in 98’
(I can’t imagine now, looking back as a 43 year old and thinking of my Coach calling up in the spring to ask me if I was on board for the summer and telling him “no”—it reminds me of that Kevin Costner line in Field of Dreams where he says, “what kind of American boy would deny his father for a game of catch”. Makes it worse that that coach gave me my first job as an umpire and was a great guy, who believed in me as a player, and died of a heart attack a year later)
Sorry, got off track there but that’s why we love baseball, it’s like the eternal fountain of youth makes us feel like kids again..
But back to the subject at hand, I also like Sean Manea and Luis Savvarino on the pitching side because they are also undervalued guys that the Mets were able to make use of because the Mets are a Sabermetrics organization.
So I’m rooting for you guys (go Mets!). The offense will be alright with Alonso, Lendour, and Soto
HighEyeCue:
--- Quote from: TraceOneInfinite on April 25, 2025, 02:43:58 AM ---But homie I’m really excited about what Pete Alonso and Francisco Lendour have done so far this year. I’m a big fan of Moneyball, I love the movie and am reading the book, and it’s the reason I got back into baseball in 2007 after giving up on the sport after I quit playing in 98’
(I can’t imagine now, looking back as a 43 year old and thinking of my Coach calling up in the spring to ask me if I was on board for the summer and telling him “no”—it reminds me of that Kevin Costner line in Field of Dreams where he says, “what kind of American boy would deny his father for a game of catch”. Makes it worse that that coach gave me my first job as an umpire and was a great guy, who believed in me as a player, and died of a heart attack a year later)
Sorry, got off track there but that’s why we love baseball, it’s like the eternal fountain of youth makes us feel like kids again..
But back to the subject at hand, I also like Sean Manea and Luis Savvarino on the pitching side because they are also undervalued guys that the Mets were able to make use of because the Mets are a Sabermetrics organization.
So I’m rooting for you guys (go Mets!). The offense will be alright with Alonso, Lendour, and Soto
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yeah I like what I see so far...the thing is we are doing it with no name pitchers who have to go up against Glasnow, Yamamoto, Sasaki and possibly Ohtani in the playoffs...its a pretty tall order
but as far as the division I think its ours to lose...I don't think the Phillies or Braves have got what it takes
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: HighEyeCue on April 27, 2025, 08:44:54 AM ---yeah I like what I see so far...the thing is we are doing it with no name pitchers who have to go up against Glasnow, Yamamoto, Sasaki and possibly Ohtani in the playoffs...its a pretty tall order
but as far as the division I think its ours to lose...I don't think the Phillies or Braves have got what it takes
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Yeah I agree homie, I got the Mets pegged as a team that can go deep in the playoffs but not to the World Series. But even that makes for a fun year because the beauty of baseball is the 162 games and when you got a team that’s competing day in and day out for 162 that makes for a great summer.
There’s also always the trade deadline. The Mets could fill those holes in a big way once teams are out of it and ready to cut bait. In 2015 when the Royals won the World Series can you imagine we got Ben Zobrist and Johnny Ceuto! I mean you could argue we got our best hitter and our best pitcher at the trade deadline. So that dramatically transforms a team it’s almost not even fair—we had Omar Infante at 2nd base at the Mendoza line hitting like .200 and then suddenly overnight we replace him at second with Ben Zobrist. Then Cueto jumps right into the #1 spot in the rotation and the guys girating and twisting and turning in the middle of his throwing motion and pitching gems 💎 in big games.
So there’s always the trade deadline to put the Mets over
HighEyeCue:
--- Quote from: TraceOneInfinite on April 27, 2025, 01:23:09 PM ---Yeah I agree homie, I got the Mets pegged as a team that can go deep in the playoffs but not to the World Series. But even that makes for a fun year because the beauty of baseball is the 162 games and when you got a team that’s competing day in and day out for 162 that makes for a great summer.
There’s also always the trade deadline. The Mets could fill those holes in a big way once teams are out of it and ready to cut bait. In 2015 when the Royals won the World Series can you imagine we got Ben Zobrist and Johnny Ceuto! I mean you could argue we got our best hitter and our best pitcher at the trade deadline. So that dramatically transforms a team it’s almost not even fair—we had Omar Infante at 2nd base at the Mendoza line hitting like .200 and then suddenly overnight we replace him at second with Ben Zobrist. Then Cueto jumps right into the #1 spot in the rotation and the guys girating and twisting and turning in the middle of his throwing motion and pitching gems 💎 in big games.
So there’s always the trade deadline to put the Mets over
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Man I still have nightmares about that 2015 series. I find solace in the fact that the Royals were the better team being there the year before against the Giants. And we had such a weird year, we started off the 1st half with a pretty bad record before the trade deadline acquiring Yoenis Cespedes. So you are right about that, hopefully we can acquire some stud pitcher that becomes available because his team is out of the race
back to that 2015 team the Royals had the uncanny skill of putting the bat on the ball despite us having some of the hardest throwing starting pitchers in the game. That game 2 that Cueto pitched against us we had our best pitcher that year Jacob Degrom and he could not solve Escobar, Hosmer, Moustakas etc. I knew after going down 0-2 it was pretty much a wrap for us
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