June MLB News
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Luckily for him, he’s already made $10.5M with that deal he signed his rookie year. But pretty cool story.
Stephen Strasburg's career is likely over.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/06/03/stephen-strasburg-tos-recovery-nationals/
He was just a huge piece of the 2010s Nats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/06/03/stephen-strasburg-tos-recovery-nationals/
He was just a huge piece of the 2010s Nats.
Wasn't Jon Singleton the ex Astro pictured on the cover of SI in 2016 right as the team's tanking started to come to fruition and they started to become good.
Would have liked the former a week ago to have the possibility of seeing him in person.
I’m blacked out of Cincinnati games here in NC (don’t get me started), so I won’t be able to watch him outside of the odd nationally televised game.
It'll be interesting to see what the Jays do with Bowden Francis, the guy they called up in Manoah's place. Francis looked pretty meh the last couple of years, but apparently figured some things out in winter league this offseason that has helped his stuff play up. He was in the running for a bullpen spot in spring training before he got injured, but has been starting in the minors and was up to 70+ pitches so he could conceivably slide into Manoah's spot.
On the bright side, deGrom has survived 29.1 more innings in a Rangers uniform than Corey Kluber did.
The weirdest part of that contract is the mutual option year for his age 40 season.
The weirdest part of that contract is the mutual option year for his age 40 season.
deGrom is ~35 years old but has only thrown 1356 innings. So maybe he pitches into his mid-40's if the TJ goes well?
10 years, 2 CY Youngs but only 84 career wins, too.
10 years, 2 CY Youngs but only 84 career wins, too.
Another defeat for the “injuries are random” crowd. DeGrom getting hurt is like the least shocking news ever. Guys about to turn 35, wonder how much he even has left.
If he's just getting TJS now, he'll be lucky to even pitch next season as well. At best what, 4 or 5 starts down the stretch if everything goes perfectly for him?
The video of deGrom talking about the injury is tough to watch. I know some fans won’t feel too bad because he’s uber rich, but he’s crying and obviously devastated by everything.
He didn't just get sent down, he got sent to the Florida Complex League:
View: https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1666165182287183877?s=20
Justice for Bobby Dalbec. Hope Manoah is stuck chirping at rookie-league hitters for a long time.
View: https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1593222108892786688?s=20
And people here are critical of Chris Sale, a relative bargain of 87.5 million for his 22 starts so far in the same period!
Shades of Roy Halladay circa 2001. Worked out well in the end for Halladay. Can't say I'm rooting for the same results for Manoah though.
4 years and $155M left on the deGrom contract. Lit on fire. Sorry Rangers. Who could have seen it coming.
Bass was supposed to throw first pitch on pride night to atone for a bad tweet, but he’s gone now.
View: https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/1667217605990465550
View: https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/1667217605990465550
Cleveland has released starting catcher Mike Zunino. Bo Naylor is being promoted and expected to get the bulk of the playing time behind the plate for the rest of the year. In the past month, the Guardians have released their oldest position player (Zunino, 32) and oldest pitcher (Zach Plesac, 28). The oldest member of the team is now Josh Bell at 30 years and 10 months. He's one month older than Jose Ramirez. Cam Gallagher is the only other 30-year-old on the team. The oldest pitcher is 28-year-old Cal Quantrill.
In bad news, Triston McKenzie was scratched from his start tonight because of elbow pain and went to get an MRI instead. The team doesn't seem to be giving any hint as to how worrisome this might be. McKenzie has only made two starts this year since returning from a back/shoulder muscle strain.
In bad news, Triston McKenzie was scratched from his start tonight because of elbow pain and went to get an MRI instead. The team doesn't seem to be giving any hint as to how worrisome this might be. McKenzie has only made two starts this year since returning from a back/shoulder muscle strain.
The Braves released Charlie Culberson on Fathers Day. His dad was scheduled to throw out the first pitch.
This is awesome. Love seeing teams like the Pirates try to improve through the year instead of holding him back for next year and the potential RotY draft boons. The Oakland situation sucks, but having teams like Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Miami, Minnesota and Arizona at least in the competition for playoff spots makes the sport better.
He also was with the club for an entire month and didn't get into a single game.
Shout out because Davis is a local boy (two years ahead of my girls in HS). I called them to watch on TV but only one could be bothered to watch, as baseball is not a big sport here.
View: https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1671240203393200128
Text: The Cardinals will host the Giants in a Negro Leagues tribute at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, AL next June, airing on Fox.
Rickwood Field is the oldest professional baseball park in the US, and was home of the Birmingham Barons, and, notably for this event, the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro League. This should be a pretty awesome event.
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Text: The Cardinals will host the Giants in a Negro Leagues tribute at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, AL next June, airing on Fox.
Rickwood Field is the oldest professional baseball park in the US, and was home of the Birmingham Barons, and, notably for this event, the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro League. This should be a pretty awesome event.
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That's going to be much cooler than the Field of Dreams. MLB sent out a survey last year asking about locations to have games and I put Rickwood in as my top choice. I imagine I wasn't alone on that.
They say it's going to be a celebration of Willie Mays. As unlikely as it is to happen, it would be awesome if he could possibly attend.
They say it's going to be a celebration of Willie Mays. As unlikely as it is to happen, it would be awesome if he could possibly attend.
Will former Barons star Michael Jordan attend as a fan, or will he pass so he doesn't take away media attention away?
That’s terrific. Somewhere I have a BBB hat from a Negro League tribute game, I think at Shea.
Wtf if the catcher can't do that, are they going to outlaw the first baseman putting their foot on the bag next? He was as invisible as possible while awaiting the ball: standing up fairly straight, behind the front of the plate, legs apart so the runner could slide to either side of the plate. Seemed textbook to me.
Manfred really is not a talker.
https://theathletic.com/4630312/2023/06/21/rob-manfred-astros-cheating-scandal-immunity/?source=emp_shared_article
https://theathletic.com/4630312/2023/06/21/rob-manfred-astros-cheating-scandal-immunity/?source=emp_shared_article
And Rob Manfred can once again go fuck himself: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37905435/rob-manfred-protest-lags-decade-worth-inaction
Oh gee, why would the fans not be deliriously excited over attending games at a shithole stadium with a bottom 5 payroll every season? Just say the quiet part out loud Rob, 'The fans didn't go for our continued extortion attempts to publicly fund a stadium, so screw 'em.'
I can’t believe that Id be looking at the days of Bud Selig and wish that he was still commissioner. At least he liked baseball.
Once Manfred is out, the amount of shit that he’s done to ruin baseball as a whole is going to be a mile long.
Once Manfred is out, the amount of shit that he’s done to ruin baseball as a whole is going to be a mile long.
What are your feelings about putting a game, top 3 rivalry, in a 1/3 empty stadium in non-baseball market on national tv?