All-Purpose MLB Thread! (2019-2021)
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macadocious
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He's a professional hitter. Mediocre fielder. Can play 3rd in a pinch as well.
SLAB
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Giants trade for Zack Cozart and Will Wilson for a PTBNL. Essentially took on Cozart’s bad contract to buy Wilson who was the #15 pick of last year’s draft and the Angels #4 prospect.
Signed Kevin Gausman, which seems like a Pomeranz-like deal. Upside arm that fell on hard times, sighed for one year and can be dealt if he finds himself.
Signed Kevin Gausman, which seems like a Pomeranz-like deal. Upside arm that fell on hard times, sighed for one year and can be dealt if he finds himself.
LoungeLizard
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Yeah, never in my life have I been so disinterested in the Giants.
Just won’t be the same without MadBum on the bump.
SLAB
Hall of Famer
Cueto/Samardzija/Uhh..../that other guy/Gooseman
That is depressing. Lol, The Giants are going to lose 100 games next year, and I’m all for it. I hope the stadium is completely empty every step of the way.
Can’t wait to hear what “baseball reasons” the powers in charge have for letting MadBum walk.
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Fun Fact; Jeff freakin’ Samardzija is getting paid more than 30 million more by the Giants than they offered MadBum,
LoungeLizard
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That is just sad.
I feel bad for Kruk and Kuip, they’re gonna have to broadcast this garbage.
SLAB
Hall of Famer
How about this cheating scandal, eh?
And with Altuve potentially wearing a buzzer on his person to tip incoming pitches; This really puts my “Barry Bonds isn’t in the Hall of Fame because he was a jerk to the writers” take to the test here. Because Altuve is the anti-Bonds. He’s universally beloved. We’ll see what the writers have to say many years down the line.
All I know is Bonds had some help; but he did what he did without a damn buzzer on his body.
And with Altuve potentially wearing a buzzer on his person to tip incoming pitches; This really puts my “Barry Bonds isn’t in the Hall of Fame because he was a jerk to the writers” take to the test here. Because Altuve is the anti-Bonds. He’s universally beloved. We’ll see what the writers have to say many years down the line.
All I know is Bonds had some help; but he did what he did without a damn buzzer on his body.
That is a doozy of a hot take. He didn't even spill the beans while he was on the team but rather while he was on a division rival that lost the division to the Astros the last two seasons... a team he knew was cheating. And he did it to protect his fellow pitchers from losing their jobs because of it. What's disgraceful about that?
macadocious
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Not just some, Jessica Mendoza went off about it yesterday.
I also came here to post this...
Kyler Murray still wants to play professional baseball
If Kyler Murray ends up playing for the Oakland A's after already helping the Niners score ROY Nick Bosa in the draft with the #2 pick he may be my new favorite professional athlete! Think he knows how to coach basketball too?
Kyler Murray still wants to play professional baseball
If Kyler Murray ends up playing for the Oakland A's after already helping the Niners score ROY Nick Bosa in the draft with the #2 pick he may be my new favorite professional athlete! Think he knows how to coach basketball too?
LoungeLizard
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Robby Thompson and Kirt Manwaring weren’t available?
SLAB
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“Yeah, we let MadBum walk to a division rival for relative peanuts, so here’s Panda and Pence. Enjoy your 100 loss season!”
-Giants management
(Won’t lie while I completely disagree with not resigning Bum, I’m actually 100% up for a complete and total rebuild... so this offseason has been okay with me)
-Giants management
(Won’t lie while I completely disagree with not resigning Bum, I’m actually 100% up for a complete and total rebuild... so this offseason has been okay with me)
NME
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Not sure Pence would still be a favorite in the Bay Area this time around.
NME
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Oh never mind, it was Aubrey Huff I was thinking of. Duh.
SLAB
Hall of Famer
They also signed Billy Hamilton. Won’t lie. I’m all in on a Pence - Hamilton - Puig outfield.
As nice a story Yaz was, he won’t repeat it. 30 year old breakout rookies usually don’t maintain their breakout. Dickerson will stub his toe and be out all season. And Duggar is also always injured and just as bad as Hamilton at the plate.
As nice a story Yaz was, he won’t repeat it. 30 year old breakout rookies usually don’t maintain their breakout. Dickerson will stub his toe and be out all season. And Duggar is also always injured and just as bad as Hamilton at the plate.
Oh, are those baby Astros upset that other players are saying mean things about them now? Cry me a river. Give back your tainted World Series rings then. They've cost the A's a division win two yeaes in a row by demolishing the rest of the league with 100+ win seasons fueled by elaborate sign stealing schemes. Everybody knows you cheated last year bud, regardless of what's written in that report. If you're so much more talented than everyone else why did you feel the need to cheat in the first place?
General sports fans who treat any news as an opportunity to confirm their existing biases will probably see this as further evidence of the A's being cheap, but I think they're just embracing the reality of where media has shifted and is continuing to shift -- off terrestrial broadcasting streams and on to online platforms. The A's last long-term radio partner was basically a Giants-centric station that treated the A's as the red-headed step child of the Bay Area despite ostensibly paying to broadcast their games. There was very little content that was of interest to actual Oakland A's fans before or after the games. What they've built instead, is actually a substantial improvement.
From the A's press release:
Once again the A's are just ahead of the curve in seeing where the future is headed and getting there first. Don't be surprised if every team in MLB is devoting most of their resources to online media 10 years from now and radio is a complete after-thought. The only time I ever listened to A's games on the radio was when I was traveling between Sacramento and LA and the signal would cut out somewhere around Fresno anyway. Cell coverage eclipses the operating range of radio a million times over. TV broadcasts (delivered via cable or satellite) will take a little longer but they're going away too.
kb02
All-Star
Sorry, losing a major distribution channel in your own market is NEVER a good thing.
It’s not like they’re saving millions by not having a bay area radio carrier. They’re losing millions. This is pure A’s PR spin.
Congrats to them on being a first mover in pods and online streaming, but it’ll only be a matter of time before the other teams do the same (those with tv, radio, n online/pods).
On another note: Manfred is done as commissioner. The Kings FO looks like geniuses compared to the way the Astros n Manfred have handled this cheating fiasco.
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