The 2018 MLB Random Thoughts Thread

[the next guy]

can it be argued that what's happening with no major players being signed is essentially collusion by the owners...so that they can completely control the market value??

or is it the players/agents' fault for trying to continue getting those wild deals?

i know the current free agents aren't harper, trout, machado-level...but still.

They can tell me the money is up and everything is good but there’s no way there’s the same interest in baseball now as there was in the early 2000s

You have the young players producing making less than a million but 30 year olds getting 5-10 year deals over 25 million a year... almost every time those deals end very badly, so hard to blame the owners and GMs for not wanting to pay that outrageous money anymore

Look at Arod, teixera, pujols, Hamilton, Sabathia, Pablo, Crawford, Gonzalez... list goes on and on, if they are trying to reset the values in free agency, they ain’t wrong

I think they want baseball to be a younger mans game and the PA is not having it.

 

[Remote]

This is gonna be a weird year it's gonna be very top heavy and you have a bunch of teams basically rebuilding

I wouldn't be surprised to see the top teams win all over a 100 games and have most of the playoff teams from last year back

In the nl I don't see how the Dodgers Nats and Cubs don't win their divisions again

In the AL I don't see how the Yankees Red Sox Astros and Indians aren't in the playoffs again

Cleveland might not.
Kluber is the only reliable pitcher in the rotation. It’s a big question mark whether Carrasco can repeat what he did last year. Clevinger also. Neither one has a very good fastball.

The saving grace for Cleveland is that the division is awful. But Chicago could be on the rise. Maybe not this year. The White Sox would need a little lightning in a bottle. But the next 2-4 years look promising for them.

 

[Frump]

Cleveland might not.
Kluber is the only reliable pitcher in the rotation. It’s a big question mark whether Carrasco can repeat what he did last year. Clevinger also. Neither one has a very good fastball.

The saving grace for Cleveland is that the division is awful. But Chicago could be on the rise. Maybe not this year. The White Sox would need a little lightning in a bottle. But the next 2-4 years look promising for them.

White Sox are a year or two away. No way they contend this year

I picked the Indians because of how bad the rest of the division is more then anything else

 

[Frump]

If you're looking for the next face of baseball the lil homies in 8th grade

 

[FaTaL]

We got games today

 

[WaveMolecules]

If you're looking for the next face of baseball the lil homies in 8th grade

what a swing

 

[WhatsGoodTy]

We back

 

[SmoothOperator88]

It's good to have actual baseball games back brehs

 

[THASTUNNA]

If you're looking for the next face of baseball the lil homies in 8th grade

jesus christ

 

[tremonthustler1]

 

[Regular_P]

If you're looking for the next face of baseball the lil homies in 8th grade

What the fukk?

 

[3rdLetter]

MLB network started the Yanks-Phils game and blacked it out in the middle of an at bat in the first inning (I'm in NYC). Twitter goes apeshyt so after 20 minutes they put it on again

 

[THEREALBRAND]

Bo Jackson would be proud of that AB

 

[lotteryplaya]

He is a future superstar.

 

[Spence]

He is a future superstar.

Glad we don’t have to face him

Nga Yasiel Puig rocks the same facial hair