The boys of summer! (Baseball Thread)

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This team is losing respect. But that’s what happens when you hire a moron as a manager.

These played need to be fined 100k everytime.
 
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Man, wtf happened to the Cubs? 9 straight losses. That Sox series seems to have exposed their issues.
 
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Crazy Balki said:
Man, wtf happened to the Cubs? 9 straight losses. That Sox series seems to have exposed their issues.
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Pitching staff is decimated with injuries and suddenly they can't hit for shit. They had the best record in baseball two weeks ago. What a crazy ass season so far.
 
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I just looked up unassisted triple plays.
There has been 14 in MLB history, so I looked up what youtube has and there is a compilation of 5 or 6 different occurrences on film and what is remarkable to me is on at least 3 of them the fielder throws the ball away. The unassisted triple play ball would be worth a small fortune. Anyone seen one, or even just a triple play, live?
 
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The MLBPA released a statement on the owners’ pushing for a salary cap. Let the debate begin between Pirates fans & Yanks/Mets/Dodgers fans as they argue over a cap. Meanwhile, this could be quite the showdown as the MLBPA is arguably the strongest union in the country & the owners feel they’ll have public sentiment on their side.
 
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The main point of the salary cap seems to be to ensure clubs do not spend themselves into bankruptcy. At least that’s the point of the salary caps in the sports I follow in Australia.
In terms of spreading the talent there has been many different World Series champs over the last 20 years so it doesn’t seem necessary.
I am against it.
 
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Irish#1 said:
Boo!
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MacIrish75 said:
Still a lot of AAAA players on the roster. Losing Murakami definitely took some punch out of the lineup.
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First sentence, agree. A lot of these guys are in their mid 20s and have just come up on 200+PA. The pitching analytics and tape could catch up to them soon.

83 home runs as a team and relevant in the first week of June? Yeah, we take that.

Second sentence, they are 2-2 without him and have scored 10 runs combined in the two games they lost. Let's see a bigger sample size without him. I am going to guess you're probably right, but we're not going to know by the time he comes back.
 
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Irishdawg said:
July 1st, Happy Bobby Bonilla day. $1.19M from the Mets and hasn’t played for them since 1999!
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Still an all time classic. 16 years now. Incredible.

This runs until 2035. Bobby Bo is 63 years old. Dude is going to keep on keeping on and unless he's gone Curt Schilling with his money, he should be set forever.
 
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Irishdawg said:
July 1st, Happy Bobby Bonilla day. $1.19M from the Mets and hasn’t played for them since 1999!
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Manny Ramirez received his last $2M deferred payment this year. Ohtani’s dwarfs them all, but there are tons of deferrals out there that I didn’t realize. Hell, the 2001 D’backs WS Championship team was made possible by over half the team agreeing to deferred salaries.
 
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My Braves suck. They can’t stay healthy and ole Walt was still has some learning to do.

The O’s are bad. They most likely hired the wrong manger and their president/GM sucks.
 
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irishff1014 said:
My Braves suck. They can’t stay healthy and ole Walt was still has some learning to do.

The O’s are bad. They most likely hired the wrong manger and their president/GM sucks.
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The NL is basically a Dodger and Brew world and we're all just living in it.
 
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