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Post by gotonemos on Nov 6, 2022 12:41:38 GMT -5
I am all about the Dusty Baker. He has got to be the last remaining link to those halcyon days of summer in the late 70s, going to the quik mart with my mom to pickup buns for Sunday burgers and scrounging a dime from the carseat cushions so that I could buy a pack of baseball cards.
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Post by nowhereman on Nov 6, 2022 20:14:54 GMT -5
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Post by nowhereman on Nov 8, 2022 15:15:20 GMT -5
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Post by nowhereman on Nov 11, 2022 15:33:28 GMT -5
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Post by nowhereman on Nov 15, 2022 14:12:47 GMT -5
Julio Rodriguez of the Mariners and Michael Harris of Atlanta won their respective rookie of the year awards.
Only one current major league franchise has never had a rookie of the year. Can you name it?
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Post by nowhereman on Nov 16, 2022 14:22:51 GMT -5
Julio Rodriguez of the Mariners and Michael Harris of Atlanta won their respective rookie of the year awards. Only one current major league franchise has never had a rookie of the year. Can you name it? Answer: Arizona. The Diamondbacks have never had a rookie of the year.
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Post by nowhereman on Nov 16, 2022 14:51:08 GMT -5
Julio Rodriguez of the Mariners and Michael Harris of Atlanta won their respective rookie of the year awards. Only one current major league franchise has never had a rookie of the year. Can you name it? Answer: Arizona. The Diamondbacks have never had a rookie of the year. And the P.S. to this is that the Houston Astros and Milwaukee Brewers have had ROYs in both AL and NL. Brewers of course were originally in the AL, the Astros in the NL before they changed leagues.
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Post by nowhereman on Dec 1, 2022 13:52:24 GMT -5
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Post by nowhereman on Dec 5, 2022 11:52:47 GMT -5
fred mcgriff voted into hall of fame by contemporary baseball era committee.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2022 12:15:26 GMT -5
fred mcgriff voted into hall of fame by contemporary baseball era committee. Unanimously, too. No way Bonds/Clemens/Schilling get in with the current committee members. There are several on the committee who are hardcore anti-steroids.
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Post by nowhereman on Dec 5, 2022 14:44:08 GMT -5
jacob degrom goes from the mets to texas and verlander from houston to the mets.
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Post by bbg95 on Dec 5, 2022 15:36:56 GMT -5
fred mcgriff voted into hall of fame by contemporary baseball era committee. Unanimously, too. No way Bonds/Clemens/Schilling get in with the current committee members. There are several on the committee who are hardcore anti-steroids. Schilling has never really been a suspected steroids user. No real surprise on Bonds and Clemens, at least for now. I do think it's untenable to keep those guys out forever, though. The hall of fame looks like a joke when the best player of the last 50 years can't get in. I thought Jeff Kent would get consideration, but I didn't realize that he's actually still on the main ballot. He's got one more year with the writers before moving on to the veterans. Edit: The sanctimonious stance on Bonds and Clemens is even more ridiculous now that David Ortiz (he of a failed PED test) is now in the hall of fame.
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Post by mikegarrison on Dec 5, 2022 17:22:35 GMT -5
Unanimously, too. No way Bonds/Clemens/Schilling get in with the current committee members. There are several on the committee who are hardcore anti-steroids. Schilling has never really been a suspected steroids user. No real surprise on Bonds and Clemens, at least for now. I do think it's untenable to keep those guys out forever, though. The hall of fame looks like a joke when the best player of the last 50 years can't get in. I thought Jeff Kent would get consideration, but I didn't realize that he's actually still on the main ballot. He's got one more year with the writers before moving on to the veterans. Edit: The sanctimonious stance on Bonds and Clemens is even more ridiculous now that David Ortiz (he of a failed PED test) is now in the hall of fame. The strikes against Schilling are not related to PEDs. 1) It's not really clear that he was really good enough to meet HOF standards. 2) He doesn't seem to be well-liked either in the media or inside of baseball. 3) He kind of stole a lot of money from Rhode Island when he got a big loan from them to fund a game studio that them went out of business.
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Post by bbg95 on Dec 5, 2022 23:52:45 GMT -5
Schilling has never really been a suspected steroids user. No real surprise on Bonds and Clemens, at least for now. I do think it's untenable to keep those guys out forever, though. The hall of fame looks like a joke when the best player of the last 50 years can't get in. I thought Jeff Kent would get consideration, but I didn't realize that he's actually still on the main ballot. He's got one more year with the writers before moving on to the veterans. Edit: The sanctimonious stance on Bonds and Clemens is even more ridiculous now that David Ortiz (he of a failed PED test) is now in the hall of fame. The strikes against Schilling are not related to PEDs. 1) It's not really clear that he was really good enough to meet HOF standards. 2) He doesn't seem to be well-liked either in the media or inside of baseball. 3) He kind of stole a lot of money from Rhode Island when he got a big loan from them to fund a game studio that them went out of business. Schilling was definitely good enough (he's 26th in career WAR for pitchers, plus his postseason heroics). The other factors are why he's not in. Edit: Every single pitcher with at least 80 WAR is in the Hall of Fame except Schilling and Clemens. Likability and off-field issues really should have no bearing. For example, OJ Simpson is almost certainly a double murderer. But he's also one of the best running backs ever and is thus a Hall of Famer.
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Post by nowhereman on Dec 5, 2022 23:55:56 GMT -5
Phillies sign Trea Turner to an 11 year contract.
I like the quote - you win with star players. Some organizations don't believe in that.
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