The Official 2025 MLB Season Thread

[Regular_P]

Not even looking forward to the trade deadline.whoever the cubs acquire they’re gonna overpay like a mf to get them

That’s all they do lopsided trades

At least your team will make a trade.

 

[VegetasHairline]

I miss my mom brehs.

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

kwan might come to the land

 

[ineedsleep212]

I was thinking of posting this earlier but didn't cuz i thought the tweet saying the distance was absurd but thats what it's being reported as. Back from the minors too I believe.

 

[Trips]

I was thinking of posting this earlier but didn't cuz i thought the tweet saying the distance was absurd but thats what it's being reported as. Back from the minors too I believe.

Trevor Bauer is the best pitcher in the world

 

[Remote]

I was thinking of posting this earlier but didn't cuz i thought the tweet saying the distance was absurd but thats what it's being reported as. Back from the minors too I believe.

594?


This is definitely a typo.

 

[tremonthustler1]

I was thinking of posting this earlier but didn't cuz i thought the tweet saying the distance was absurd but thats what it's being reported as. Back from the minors too I believe.

オオバコの力

Ōbako no chikara

 

[Da_Eggman]

I was thinking of posting this earlier but didn't cuz i thought the tweet saying the distance was absurd but thats what it's being reported as. Back from the minors too I believe.

He’s gonna make a 30 min YouTube video on this

 

[god shamgod]

Mr met mascot a goofy first can’t catch then falls clean off the stage

 

[Remote]

I'm not sure how real it is, but Jo Adell is on a heater right now.

If you want a guy to stash on your bench or play at utility....

So the above comment was from June 13.

Here are some numbers for Jo Adell ...

Since May 20, 2025

49 games
14 HR
25 Runs
36 RBI
.277/.364/.566
.930 OPS
.288 BABIP
21.1% strikeout rate
8.0% walk rate

How is no one talking about this?

 

[Remote]

I really shouldn't care too much about the LA Angels but this team is just interesting to me.

They actually have a decent nucleus offensively to be a contender in the division.
Trout, Ward, Neto and Adell are solid players.

I'm probably not a believer in Nolan Schanuel as an everyday 1B. You just need more offensive production at that position and I don't think he's ever going to deliver it. Still, he's young and cheap so I get it.

Second base is kind of a disaster because Kyren Paris is not the answer, and Christian Moore still has a lot to prove. I'm not sure Moore can even stay at 2B. He might eventually move to OF but he's a solid prospect.

Rengifo is awful at 3B and they desperately need to move on from Jorge Soler. Good grief that's a bad contract to have on the books. MAYBE someone can fix Soler because his underlying metrics aren't completely dog crap. But it's bleak.

Maybe the biggest issue for LAA is that they don't have any real farm system. Even if they wanted to trade for a bat or a pitcher, they don't have anyone teams would want.

I'm convinced if they could add like...Eugenio Suarez, Ryan O'Hearn and maybe some veteran pitcher like Brady Singer...they could be really competitive. But that's just not realistic.

 

[VegetasHairline]

So the above comment was from June 13.

Here are some numbers for Jo Adell ...

Since May 20, 2025

49 games
14 HR
25 Runs
36 RBI
.277/.364/.566
.930 OPS
.288 BABIP
21.1% strikeout rate
8.0% walk rate

How is no one talking about this?

You know exactly why. Nobody cares about or follows the Angels unless it involves Mike Trout or Anthony Rendon fukkery.

 

[K-Apps]

 

[Remote]

I have an NYT subscription. I’ll post the full text later.

 

[K-Apps]

I have an NYT subscription. I’ll post the full text later.

TORONTO — The year is 2032. Late October. Your baseball watching mostly consists of social media highlights these days, but your friends texted you that tonight is Game 7 of the World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays. Stars sell sports and tonight is 38-year-old Shohei Ohtani, the six-time Most Valuable Player, against Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who just passed the 400 career home run mark this season.

“Game 7” remains the two best words in sports, so you tell your friends to swing by your crib before first pitch. Given the reach of the broadcaster, Game 7 of the 2032 World Series should have a big tune-in from around the globe. Your friends have arrived. Time to turn on Netflix. Or maybe it’s Amazon Prime Video, YouTube or Apple TV +.

“As a baseball person, I’m not ready to emotionally cross that bridge yet,” said Blue Jays announcer Dan Shulman, when told of this futuristic scenario of the World Series on a streaming platform. “I’m 58 years old and I would say I’m average in technology. Sometimes I can find stuff, sometimes I gotta call my son and say, how can I get the Maple Leafs game tonight and he tells me. There are a lot of people watching the World Series who are a little bit older than me who are not as comfortable with technology. But I totally get it. We’re on our way to being dinosaurs. I’m just not ready to go through that portal yet for the World Series.”

“It would be tragic, not right, incorrect,” said Dave Sims, the 72-year-old Yankees radio play-by-play broadcaster, when told of the same scenario. “I mean, I grew up hearing the Gillette theme song and Mel Allen saying, ‘This is Mel Allen, and welcome to the World Series.’ If it’s still going to be one of the great pastimes in the country, you can’t hold a gun to someone’s head and make them pay. I hope it doesn’t happen. I mean, I can see it happening, but I hope not.”

This column is a thought experiment, but it’s a thought experiment that seems destined to happen.

Streaming reached a historic milestone in May, as its share of total television usage outpaced the combined share of broadcast and cable for the first time, according to Nielsen. Then, in June, broadcast dipped below 20 percent of TV viewership for the first time — less than YouTube and Netflix’s combined viewership (see chart below). Just look among your own sports community. How many people do you know who pay for a streaming service to watch sports? Bet it’s a lot.

Once upon a time, the thought of a major sports championship airing on cable seemed preposterous. And yet:

• Last month, the Stanley Cup Final aired on TNT, a cable network.
• The college basketball men’s and women’s Final Fours have already done so.
• The college football title game does so annually.
• You probably did not imagine sports airing on Netflix five years ago. This year, Netflix will air NFL games on Christmas and wants to add more games in the future.
• Netflix also secured the exclusive broadcast rights in the United States for the 2027 and 2031 editions of the Women’s World Cup.
• Amazon Prime Video has its own Thursday night NFL package.
• ESPN+ and Peacock have exclusive NFL broadcasts.
• The NFL’s Week 1 schedule includes the Chiefs and Chargers streaming live on YouTube, a first for the league.
• Amazon Prime Video will also broadcast an NBA conference final in 2027.

So the World Series on streaming? The industry experts I spoke with think it’s inevitable.