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luis severino to the mets for 1/13

being reported the giants are targeting BOTH ohtani and yamamoto

also the brewers are reportedly discussing a long term extension with their CF prospect jackson chourio. he is widely regarded as a top 5 prospect in baseball and spent all of this past season in AAA.

guardians hired kai correa to join their staff. role not specified yet. he was the interim giants manager for a few games after gabe kapler was fired.

cubs and braves reportedly trying to get tyler glasnow

also that shitty dubai league started today. 50 year old bartolo colon started.

dbacks trading a backup catcher and flier pitcher to the mariners for eugenio suarez

good pickup for the dbacks who could use some more power. sheds some payroll for the mariners to spend elsewhere. not super sure who their 3B is gonna be tho... ?

mike shildt hired to manage the padres. he was already in their front office. brad ausmus hired to be new yankees bench coach.

cardinals sign lance lynn to 1/10 and kyle gibson to 1/12 deals. lynn's also got a club option. they're both 190 inning 4.5 era chads which i guess is an improvement on adam wainwright and whoever else the cardinals had last season. but certainly not inspiring. both seem like deadline trade bait since there is no way a rotation of those two, mikolas, and whoever else is part of a playoff team. what an incredible fall from grace by the cardinals. jesus.

eugenio suarez would probably strike out way less if the avg fastball was 88mph tbf

nola just had his worst season ever i think but iirc underlying metrics were in line with his typical play

guy is a workhose and at worst a #3 and at best an ace

that payday though suggests snell and yoshi are going to get PAID paid. nola was projected for 6/150 and makes an extra year + 22m. might see yoshi get to 200m.

Kamil posted...

I actually really got into the ol' ball game later in my life whattabout that crazy Cubs hire?! They kicked grandad Ross to the curb to make the Twins manager the most paid coach ever in the league.

brewers*

its hard to judge how good a manager is but it seems like everyone believes he's a top 5 manager in the game so that's cool to have i guess

i dont think cincy signs any SP

more than likely they'll trade some of their young hitters for pitching cuz they dont wanna spend nothin

can't roster all of mclain, elly, steer, india, CES, marte, and so forth

the brewers non tendered brandon woodruff. wow. was gonna make 11m but miss the whole year. fucking savage.

rays did a 40 man clearing move by sending vidal brujan and calvin faucher to miami for erick lara and andrew lindsay

the rockies claimed cal quantrill from the guardians. sucks for him.

also braves traded kyle wright to the royals for jackson kowar

white sox traded aaron bummer to the braves for braden shewmake, nicky lopez, jared shuster, mike soroka, and some dude i forgot. weird trade. four of these guys need to be on the 40 man roster and none of them are good. i guess soroka has a lot of upside but if the braves are bailing, i kind of doubt the white sox will fare much better. lopez/shewmake can be their middle infield next year since idk who tf their 2B/SS are?? shuster was a top 5 braves prospect so there's that i guess.

white sox gm has said "all white sox players are available" too. luis robert and dylan cease i'm sure are attractive to many teams.

tbf pitchers do influence their babip quite a bit. and maybe he just pitches better with guys on. idk. have you ever seen freddie freeman's numbers with risp? he changes his approach

also the hook was smart. its putting nick anderson in that was stupid

MatzoTov posted...

Big city?

oh i forgot to clarify

this is NYC lol

Delirious_Beard posted...

i'm okay with the Cy going to pitchers with unimpressive innings totals if they are well and truly dominant in them (ie Corbin Burnes in '21)

Snell does not meet that qualification at all. he was 20th in SIERA and in general was just very fortunate with runners on base, hence his shiny ERA

Logan Webb was robbed

snell was top 10 in NL IP.... also has a LOB% 7 points higher than webb's for careers. he just walks a lot of ppl its not a big deal

alright tech bro guy remembered a tech bro and hit him up instead

said he's vibing better with him than swiftie bro

kind of annoyed. there is going to be a karmic debt to pay. swiftie bro also gives off sociopath vibes so kinda worried he'll stake us out and kill us

C_Pain posted...

Are apartments so expensive there that you need roommates in your 30s?

i don't know anyone who doesn't have roommates except for people who are married or still live with their parents. there's plenty of listings from ppl in their 40s if you go look around.

a studio in a decent area is going to be like 2000 minimum and the studio life isn't necessarily for everyone, then a 1 bedroom will be more expensive

Delirious_Beard posted...

blake snell did not deserve this cy young lol

he got pretty lucky with the FIP-ERA difference but ultimately ERA is what matters. i'd have voted for him too. if you throw nasty as hell stuff that no one can actually hit to score runs it doesn't matter if you walk a ton of dudes.

i'm 33. have had multiple people bail on me while apartment hunting and this guy has been ultra responsive and has his shit together i guess. kinda weirding me out. had a phonecall w him and he has a lot of stuff going on. finance bro who is a huge swiftie and works for some... problematic... company. very strange personality mix. says he is never home which is a huge plus.

thankfully a 26 y/o tech bro obsessed w sports is also moving in so i can chill with him. we've ben linked up for like a week but our third dropped out this morning. he seems like a normie and i am also kind of a normie.

hopefully i get this apartment CE it is directly across the street from where i used to live. great area. also once i live there i can get a job after having not worked since august lol!

twins are looking to reduce payroll. losing sonny gray is part of that of course.

also being reported that the pitch clock with runners on may be lowered from 20 seconds to 18 seconds... why....

brandon hyde and skip schumaker win managers of the year

jeff passan reporting the padres want to trade juan soto for young major league ready pitching, citing the yankees, mariners, and cubs as teams with the firepower to do that. then saying yankees are in the lead bc cubs and mariners will likely want to keep their arms. why? idk. mariners are great at pitching dev so trading for soto would be smart. however they don't like spending money, which juan soto will want in his upcoming free agency year, so yeah.

pojr posted...

The people who like NYC are going to downtown manhatten. Those who dislike living there are most likely not in downtown manhatten.

brooklyn has plenty of stuff going for it

most 20 and 30something transplants are all around williamsburg, bushwick, bed stuy, ridgewood, crown heights, etc

plus dumbo, brooklyn heights, cobble hill, downtown brooklyn are essentially super eastern manhattan

jeff passan reporting the rays are likely to move tyler glasnow

weird move since most of their rotation will miss next year with TJ's (rasmussen, springs, mclanahan)

but also theyre the rays and can manufacture pitching out of nothing so whatever i guess. glasnow *is* an ace though... with the enormous caveat that he is just never healthy.

yeah. sad.

i also saw that yoshi yamamoto hired the same agent that reps kodai senga and edwin diaz :o

lived there for five years and am planning on moving back next month

great city sunhawk you'd love the movie theaters

brewers naming bench coach pat murphy their manager. was counsell's BC for 8 years or whatever it was

someone else should post btw

gunnar henderson and corbin carroll both unanimously win rookies of the year

gunnar adds a year of service time and the o's get a comp pick for it. presumably the dbacks do as well but corbin already got an extension so nothing for him i guess? also why haven't the o's extended gunnar or adley?

braves are apparently in on ohtani. and ohtani reportedly doesn't care about geographic location. he wants to win.

as a former braves fan, atlanta native, and hate of the dodgers, it would be hilarious if ohtani went to them instead of LA

kinda doubt it happens tho

me? no. i would gladly take 75 million and fuck around.

if i were an athlete i would probably try. i wouldn't have become a world class athlete without wanting to become one and having some kind of ultra competitive alpha drive to succeed/win. and you see lots of free agents have plenty of success so yeah

astros hiring joe espada to be manager. he's been their bench coach since 2018.

lots of great romantic comedies out there

definitely cartoons

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2024-top-50-mlb-free-agents/

top 50 free agents per fangraphs

their anonymous reader crowdsourcing predicts...

10/450 for ohtani
7/175 for yoshi
6/144 for bellinger
6/150 for nola
5/125 for snell
5/105 for montgomery
4/80 for chapman
3/63 for sonny
4/76 for e-rod
4/72 for hader

man this FA class is so shitty lmao

earth defense force 5
out of the park baseball 24

apparently there is a stomach bug circulating at the GM meetings. everyone having diarrhea.

in other news, dave dombrowski said the phillies are keeping bryce harper at 1B and hoskins is being let into free agency.

also alex anthopoulos said the braves will be increasing payroll :o

Shishiwakamaru posted...

tbh you don't want a celebrity as your manager

i mean the whole mets thing was they were going to hire david stearns from the brewers and then bring over counsell who is widely regarded as an S tier manager

now theyre hiring a first time guy who worked under aaron boone - a guy hired with no experience managing at all ever - for a team that went through coaching changes mid year and has all sorts of drama around how the team is run and whatnot. i dunno. i would have wanted a veteran presence with front office experience/synergy who can keep things stable like counsell, melvin, etc

none of this will really matter though if the mets reshape their r&d i guess. they really improved the farm and cohen's willingness to spend should keep them competitive once things start rolling.

angels hiring ron washington as manager. was braves base coach past couple years and obv used to manage the rival rangers.

bump

Shohei Ohtani
Aaron Nola
Blake Snell
Cody Bellinger
Josh Hader
Matt Chapman
Sonny Gray

all of these players received a qualifying offer which is a 1 year 20.3m deal. whoever signs them might have to give up a pick and the team that loses them will receive a comp pick. i'm not sure how the compensation works but i expect every single one of these guys is getting paid 100m except for maybe hader which would mean 1st rounder maybe? not going to look this up

Akagami_Shanks posted...

https://youtu.be/qq8d5jvjarA?si=fnRld1uw6lF8mbsN

incredible

maybe i should get around to beating gta 5

MICHALECOLE posted...

Could you guys imagine waking up every day and being this person

*shudders*

alicia vikander is maybe the most beautiful woman in the world so no i could not

i have catalogued the pokemon cards and determined that i can probably make at least $500 off these

epic

MabusIncarnate posted...

Are you really so pretentious that you had 10 poll options and the highest option is a 4?

well the topic is about how bad the movie is going to be so i'm not sure why i would list positive poll options

opened up a plastic container full of cards i've had thinking it was all sports cards but apparently past zithers was smart enough to keep all his pokemon holos and keep them in individual cases

im gonna be rich

avi arad lmaooooo this gonna be dog shit

Tora_Sami posted...

I personally try and keep all of my old games. I have some in storage.

yeah im moving to nyc where space is limited and idk. do i need all this stuff. it'd be cool if i won the lottery this month or something and could just start investing in a retro gaming room and whatnot but idk.

i am probably never getting a ps2 or launch ps3 or ps3 again... but also it'd feel bad to let go of the memories. maybe i'll just be a hoarder... are any of these worth anything?

ps2:
gta 3 (goty)
gta vc
gta sa
jak and daxter precursor legacy (goty)
ico
prince of persia sands of time (goty)
prince of persia warrior within
sly cooper 1 (goty)
sly cooper 2
sly cooper 3
ratchet and clank
ratchet up your arsenal
mgs 2
bully
madden 2005 collectors edition
medal of honor frontline
simpsons road rage
okami
sotc (goty)

ps3:
sly 4
rdr (goty)
arkham asylum (goty)
arkham city (goty)
gta 4
gta 5
uncharted dual pack
last of us
ratchet crack in time (gamestop case)
madden 25
mlb the show 08