OT: MLB Thread 2025

[LeetchisGod]

The Brewers got lit up for 11 runs by the Royals today. Perhaps their pitching just stinks.

 

[Bob Richards]

The Brewers got lit up for 11 runs by the Royals today. Perhaps their pitching just stinks.

I hope we find out the Royals are using some kind of novelty item that helped them do this.

Like every team discovers a new talisman or unique tool but the catch is it only destroys the Milwaukee Brewers.

 

[nyr2k2]

I like that Miami has a coach named Smarslok.

 

[will1066]

 

[Beliveau]

The Brewers got lit up for 11 runs by the Royals today. Perhaps their pitching just stinks.

The Reds are up 14-3 on KC.

No SP has ever struck out at the plate 15 times in 5 consecutive starts. Devers has done it this season in 5 games.

 

[JCProdigy]

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What he says to his wife every night?!?!

 

[will1066]

What he says to his wife every night?!?!

LOL

 

[Beliveau]

Devers has 15 ks in 19 ABs. Once Gwynn had 15 ks in 535 ABs.

 

[Machinehead]

Devers has 15 ks in 19 ABs. Once Gwynn had 15 ks in 585 ABs.

Presenting, a poem:

Torpedo bat
bodega cat
Devers is fat

 

[NickyFotiu]

Carbon Monoxide was found in Brett Gardners family hotel room. Explains why multiple members of the family got sick. What a tragedy.

 

[Beliveau]

Cubs 17 As 3 after 8 innings.

 

[Terrier]

‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ This MIT-educated physicist turned baseball coach may be changing MLB with his ‘torpedo bat.’ - The Boston Globe

The result, which looks something like a bowling pin, is a simple yet remarkable feat of engineering invented by Aaron Leandhardt.

www.bostonglobe.com

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Devers is obviously struggling and was rushed back too soon but Gwynn is a 150 k+ season if he had to face the pitchers that exist today.

Pitchers have gotten so much better in the last decade, let alone in the last 3.

 

[majordomo]

Devers has 15 ks in 19 ABs. Once Gwynn had 15 ks in 585 ABs.

What a bum that Gwynn was!!!!

 

[nyr2k2]

Devers is obviously struggling and was rushed back too soon but Gwynn is a 150 k+ season if he had to face the pitchers that exist today.

Pitchers have gotten so much better in the last decade, let alone in the last 3.

IDK what Gwynn would do today, but I do recall as recently as the 90s when pitchers were routinely throwing in the mid-to-high-80s, and if you had a guy who was in the low-to-mid-90s, he was a flamethrower. And you had a handful of teams who could bring on a reliever who could throw 95+, and that was a sight to behold. Now the average fastball velocity is 94+, and guys are throwing breaking pitches 90+. Basically every team has a couple of guys in the pen that can regularly go 98+. It is undoubtedly a different game.

 

[will1066]

Carbon Monoxide was found in Brett Gardners family hotel room. Explains why multiple members of the family got sick. What a tragedy.

What's going on with this stuff down there? That other group of vacationers suffered CO deaths as well

 

[NickyFotiu]

What's going on with this stuff down there? That other group of vacationers suffered CO deaths as well

No idea. I believe others have been killed in non CO deaths as well. I'd probably think twice before traveling internationally.

 

[NickyFotiu]

IDK what Gwynn would do today, but I do recall as recently as the 90s when pitchers were routinely throwing in the mid-to-high-80s, and if you had a guy who was in the low-to-mid-90s, he was a flamethrower. And you had a handful of teams who could bring on a reliever who could throw 95+, and that was a sight to behold. Now the average fastball velocity is 94+, and guys are throwing breaking pitches 90+. Basically every team has a couple of guys in the pen that can regularly go 98+. It is undoubtedly a different game.

I definitely agree with you about the pitching but guys like Gwynn and Bonds would have done fine imo. They had a very scientific way of approaching the plate. They figured they had the advantage. That the pitcher has to put that ball in a very limited space and they just had to get their bat to that small limited space. Bonds was a interesting case. PEDS aside I think he was striking out less in years 37-42 than he did previously in his career.

 

[JimmyG89]

Presenting, a poem:

Torpedo bat
bodega cat
Devers is fat

Lakers in 5

 

[Raspewtin]

The Reds are up 14-3 on KC.

No SP has ever struck out at the plate 15 times in 5 consecutive starts. Devers has done it this season in 5 games.

love that for him

he misses Cole

 

[will1066]

No idea. I believe others have been killed in non CO deaths as well. I'd probably think twice before traveling internationally.

I read that the Gardners' room was next to a mechanical room. Meanwhile, that group in Belize died from a faulty water kettle.

 

[Bob Richards]

When I was a little kid a pitcher who could throw 98+ was the coolest thing ever.

Now your 6th best reliever throws 98 and you think he sucks because the 5 guys ahead of him can too but better lol

 

[Machinehead]

When I was a little kid a pitcher who could throw 98+ was the coolest thing ever.

Now your 6th best reliever throws 98 and you think he sucks because the 5 guys ahead of him can too but better lol

And it's a slider

 

[NickyFotiu]

I read that the Gardners' room was next to a mechanical room. Meanwhile, that group in Belize died from a faulty water kettle.

Just horribly sad for the families

 

[Irishguy42]

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