2024-25 MLB off-season news and notes discussion thread

[GKJ]

One of baseball’s truly absurd contracts

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1852037093905547633

Finally rid of that bum and no longer have to be reminded of the absurd one sided traded that brought him to Chicago

 

[SoupNazi]

Cole opts out.

Bellinger opts in.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1852760943442174380

Yankees are kind of faced with a Sophie's choice here. That's a scary term to give a 34 year old but how exactly do you replace him?

 

[Terry Yake]

was cole wearing a boras corp hat immediately after the WS loss again?

 

[PANARIN BREAD FAN]

spencer turnbull and max fried would be a nice start.

 

[SnS]

spencer turnbull and max fried would be a nice start.

I’d like the Phillies to bring back Turnbull.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1852760943442174380

Yankees are kind of faced with a Sophie's choice here. That's a scary term to give a 34 year old but how exactly do you replace him?

Call up White Sox and offer useless crap for Crochett

Worked for Padres

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1853561471550038492

 

[John Price]

 

[SoupNazi]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1854266733198266483

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1854266733198266483

I don't hate it. He could bounce between there and DH with Burleson or Baker platooning in. Herrera and Pages both kinda needed to be up full time. They're saying he won't play C at all next year but we'll see if that sticks if one of the other guys get hurt.

 

[John Price]

Cleveland Guardians (@cleguardians.bsky.social)

Look good, play good. ✨ Introducing our newly refined uniforms for 2025. #ForTheLand

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[Unholy Diver]

Cleveland Guardians (@cleguardians.bsky.social)

Look good, play good. ✨ Introducing our newly refined uniforms for 2025. #ForTheLand

bsky.app

those look pretty solid, kept a clean classic style look

 

[Ben Grimm]

Largest salaries on the Rays’ payroll for next season: 1. New York Yankees ($15M)
T-2. Brandon Lowe ($10.5M)T-2. Jeffrey Springs ($10.5M)4. Yandy Díaz ($10M)
5. Pete Fairbanks ($3.817M)

 

[Unholy Diver]

Rent usually doesn't come from the same funding bucket as payroll

 

[John Price]

those look pretty solid, kept a clean classic style look

They look identical to last year's

 

[Unholy Diver]

They look identical to last year's

Then I guess last year's were pretty solid too

 

[SoupNazi]

Cleveland Guardians (@cleguardians.bsky.social)

Look good, play good. ✨ Introducing our newly refined uniforms for 2025. #ForTheLand

bsky.app

Changes are detailed here:

Cleveland Guardians (@cleguardians.bsky.social)

Adding a little spice while honoring our tradition. 👨‍🍳💋 Just another reason to look forward to the 2025 season. #ForTheLand

bsky.app

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

Cleveland Guardians (@cleguardians.bsky.social)

Look good, play good. ✨ Introducing our newly refined uniforms for 2025. #ForTheLand

bsky.app

The lettering font is terrible.

 

[TheTotalPackage]

The lettering font is terrible.

The biggest takeaway is that if the back of the jerseys are as shown with the Bibee jersey, meaning they are going back to the bigger fonts for the names and numbers on the back, then that is a huge win in and of itself.

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

The biggest takeaway is that if the back of the jerseys are as shown with the Bibee jersey, meaning they are going back to the bigger fonts for the names and numbers on the back, then that is a huge win in and of itself.

This is what I mean. Awful.

The "Cleveland" font is better, but still bad.

 

[John Price]

I'm surprised Vogt was AL Manager of the Year. His job was too easy, to steady the ship after Francona retired. He had a stacked roster given to him. Cleveland was never seriously threatened for the AL Central and routinely wins the division.

Meanwhile the Tigers had a single digit chance of making the postseason midway throughout the regular season and got so hot they snuck into the ALDS and even won a wild card round. AJ Hinsch should have been AL Manager of the Year by a mile over any other candidate.

 

[SoupNazi]

I'm surprised Vogt was AL Manager of the Year. His job was too easy, to steady the ship after Francona retired. He had a stacked roster given to him. Cleveland was never seriously threatened for the AL Central and routinely wins the division.

Meanwhile the Tigers had a single digit chance of making the postseason midway throughout the regular season and got so hot they snuck into the ALDS and even won a wild card round. AJ Hinsch should have been AL Manager of the Year by a mile over any other candidate.

Cleveland had a stacked roster? In what world? Most everyone expected them to be a barely .500 team. Our Opening Day lineup featured world-beater Ramon Laureano in RF and Tyler Freeman in CF. Our other right field and center field options on Opening Day included Estevan Florial, Will Brennan, and Gabriel Arias. Exactly one of them (Brennan) was on the roster at the end of the season.

We lost our ace (Bieber) to TJ surgery after two starts. Two other members of our OD rotation ended the season in the minors due to struggles (McKenzie and Logan Allen).

But please, tell me more about this stacked roster. This post is a perfect example of box score and Twitter watching and nothing else.

 

[John Price]