April 25, 2025Apr 25 Author https://www.mlb.com/news/reasons-cubs-look-like-postseason-lock-2025 Ate the Cubs the best team in the NL now? Edited April 25, 2025Apr 25 by caulfield12
April 25, 2025Apr 25 Author As reported by Kevin Acee of the San Diego Tribune, "Merrill has a partial no-trade clause that excludes the Padres from sending him to eight teams, all of them in the American League Central and National League Central. According to two people close to him, he said he did not need full protection. He wanted to get a deal done." One would have to assume the Cubs and Cardinals are the ONLY exceptions...
April 26, 2025Apr 26 Author https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/04/logan-gilbert-exits-start-with-forearm-tightness.html Another TJS on the way? https://www.mlb.com/news/james-wood-hits-walk-off-rbi-single-in-nationals-win CJ Abrams scores winning run from FIRST on a single up the middle by James Wood... Edited April 26, 2025Apr 26 by caulfield12
April 27, 2025Apr 27 Author Gavin Lux out OPSing Shohei Ohtani for now... 288 .795 Sheets dealing with first big slump Edited April 27, 2025Apr 27 by caulfield12
April 27, 2025Apr 27 Padres have been held scoreless for 28 innings and counting. Over 3 games worth... Also, Cease starting to look like an every other year player? Edited April 27, 2025Apr 27 by Autumn Dreamin
April 27, 2025Apr 27 Author 46 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said: Padres have been held scoreless for 28 innings and counting. Over 3 games worth... Also, Cease starting to look like an every other year player? Now without Arraez Merrill and Cronenworth...not to mention Darvish (aging/hurt) and Musgrove (tjs), Tatis and Manny can't carry the team by themselves...and FG all along has maintained SD was third or fourth team in the NL West. Just returning to the mean...especially with 25-30% of production on the shelf. Bogaerts hasn't been close to the 800/825 ops guy he was with Boston either.
April 27, 2025Apr 27 Author Eugenio Suarez has three homers tonight and counting for DBacks but hitting under .200 overall. Kelenic at .167 oops. Make that four. 19th time in mlb history. Edited April 27, 2025Apr 27 by caulfield12
April 27, 2025Apr 27 Author 1 hour ago, Autumn Dreamin said: O's currently trailing Detroit so it could be 10-17 soon... They're unlikely to overpay for Alcantara and not sure Mariners are actively trying to trade Luis Castillo still right now. Stuck in a holding pattern.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 Author https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/team-average-with-runners-in-scoring-position AL West with 3 of Top 6 team homer totals. Angels way more than the Rangers, who have struggled offensively. White Sox last in OPS SLG 28th in obp. Think they're 27th in homers. Royals last with just 13 taters, but still winning games recently.
April 28, 2025Apr 28 7 hours ago, Autumn Dreamin said: O's currently trailing Detroit so it could be 10-17 soon... 15 months ago I speculated the Orioles rebuild could emulate the recent Sox rebuild. Those over at Orioles Hangout as well as most here laughed at the idea. Well, here we are…
April 28, 2025Apr 28 Author 25 minutes ago, JUSTgottaBELIEVE said: 15 months ago I speculated the Orioles rebuild could emulate the recent Sox rebuild. Those over at Orioles Hangout as well as most here laughed at the idea. Well, here we are… There's simply no reason to believe that Henderson, Kjerstad, O'Neill, Westburg and Cowser are suddenly below average OPS+ hitters, and that Rutschman will remain at 102. Actually, Mullins Urias and O'Hearn have been their three best hitters...all experienced vets. The problems are 75-80% related to the current starting rotation of Povich, Kremer, Brandon Young and especially Charlie Morton (his shelf life has clearly expired)...and current being without Grayson Rodriguez (that was more predictable, based on career history), Zach Eflin, Kyle Gibson, Tr.Rogers, Kyle Bradish and Wells. Sugano has been about as expected, a back-end 4-5 guy (which is realistically what many expected of Imanaga last season in Chicago).
April 28, 2025Apr 28 Author One of the key benefits of a young, talented core of position players like Baltimore’s is that the organization has very little money tied up in the payroll. The majority of the Orioles’ position players are pre-arbitration, meaning they don’t come with major financial commitments. That should provide the organization the flexibility to add higher-salary veterans without exceeding its financial limits. Yet the Orioles have simply chosen not to do that. Even with a new billionaire owner in David Rubenstein, the Orioles have chosen — not once, but twice — to avoid spending at the top of the free-agent pitching market, and now the team is dealing with the consequences. But what’s more, the inability to get their rotation right has a snowball effect. Starting pitching might be the most expensive commodity in baseball, especially when it comes to a midseason acquisition. Come July, there’s going to be steep competition for the top arms on the trade market, a list likely led by Miami’s Sandy Alcantara. And after playing it cool the past two winters, the Orioles will likely have to pay well above market value if they want to acquire a solid starter this summer. https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/can-the-baltimore-orioles-figure-out-their-starting-rotation-before-its-too-late-210337492.html
April 28, 2025Apr 28 Author HaysDH 2 0 0 0 0 1 .373 1.154 LuxLF 2 1 2 0 0 0 .348 .898 Marte, N3B 2 0 1 1 0 0 .370 1.104
April 29, 2025Apr 29 Author https://www.mlb.com/news/tyler-glasnow-injured-list-shoulder-inflammation First Snell out...now Glasnow, how predictable was this? VERY!!! That leave the Dodgers with their two Japanese pitchers (not named Ohtani), Dustin May, Gonsolin, Sauer, Casparius (opener/reliever). Still waiting on Ohtani and Kershaw. https://www.mlb.com/dodgers/roster/depth-chart 7 starting pitchers on the IL right now, which doesn't even include Ohtani (who's already behind schedule to return in May)
April 30, 2025Apr 30 Author Rockies on pace for 22-140 at 4-25. White Sox were 6-24 at end of April, 2024. YIKES.
April 30, 2025Apr 30 Author https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/what-has-made-jose-quintana-the-steal-of-the-offseason-for-milwaukee-brewers-r3305/
April 30, 2025Apr 30 8 hours ago, Autumn Dreamin said: It is amazing to see them do almost the EXACT same thing the White Sox did. Just half ass the portion after the rebuild, and completely waste on spending, while not fixing their most obvious problems. How great would Jackson Holliday for Garrett Crochet look right now for the O's for example?
May 2, 2025May 2 Author Biggest positive surprise Jung Hoo Lee (9 votes) Carson Kelly (3 votes) Pete Crow-Armstrong (1 vote) Rhys Hoskins (1 vote) Gavin Lux (1 vote) Geraldo Perdomo (1 vote) Jorge Polanco (1 vote) Eugenio Suárez (1 vote) Spencer Torkelson (1 vote) Luis Robert Jr. had one vote for Biggest Disappointment...Willie Adames won the voting there https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-executives-on-early-surprises-disappointments-2025 Edited May 2, 2025May 2 by caulfield12
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