2024 MLB Thread - Jersey Watch

have we considered if Aaron Boone is a skilled ventriloquist?

 

I haven’t considered Aaron Boone is a skilled anything

 

I just turned the Yankees game on and apparently I missed what will almost definitely be the best part.

 

is judge still hurt or something...man, he's been scuffling

 

I think it's just a bad 20 game stretch. Well, I hope at least.

 

The best hitter in the game doesn’t have 20 game skids like this

 

I don’t think Ohtani ever has tbf

 

You right.

 

Really kind of sucks for the Yankees that Judge had that absurd season when he did. Never going to be worth that contract on the field.

Seems to be a good captain and representative of the game though.

 

Aaron judge is Chris Davis

 

He probably earned his $40m last year even missing 50 games tbh. iirc he was still top 20 in WAR at like 105 games. Obviously he's not going to have another 11 win season, but he doesn't have to to be worth that contract. He was a top 10~ WAR guy the year before the monster season. He was already going to get a huge deal, that season probably got him $10m a season more though. He's been an elite hitter for a while now, only issue has been health. 2h of the contract will suck but that's almost always the case. Fuck it, not my money.

 

Erceg for the A's is flithy.

 

They might have the best late inning collection of relievers in baseball. Mason Miller is amazing

 

He was throwing 100mph sinker, 98 4 seams, 92 chageup... and then gave Gelyber 3 straight sliders at 88 and he whiffed at all 3 lol. That's an MLB The Show arsenal.

 

Hope Miller can stay healthy and get traded to a team that doesn’t suck ass

 

i hope he gets to start again at some point

 

He’d be the only pitcher that could give Skenes a run for his money with his fastball

 

Nice hustle Soto

 

He was a high pick in 2016 as a 3B and converted to pitcher in 2021 #cool

 

watching soto play right is a treat

 

Rude

 

Good lord he just gassed Soto

 

lol he gassed Judge too. Gracious. Sucks it's against my team but he's fun to watch.

 

If your fav team losing to the A’s after 7 innings you can just do something else

 

He made judge look like javy baez in the box

 

Mason Miller in the bullpen is organizational malpractice.

 

not much different than what Pittsburgh is doing with skenes tbh

 

Miller throws 2 innings occasionally

 

The biggest hindsight pitching malpractice this year is Jordan Hicks previously being in the pen for a team with no starting pitching

 

I disagree from a health standpoint.

Don’t think any pitcher can handle velo like that with a starter’s load over a long period.

 

I’d say the same for Crochet and Hicks.

 

Same could be said for Skenes then

 

Most young TORP pitchers will throw 100ish from now on. Do you leave them all in pen when they’re drafted?

 

Not necessarily, but if teams commit to an opener approach it’s probably going to be a more optimal approach moving forward if you have a number of fireballers and want to avoid TJs.

 

Speaking of struggling hitters, does Acuna realize he's allowed to hit the ball over the fence for HR's?

 

Braves should have pitched Strider out of the pen maybe he would still be healthy.

 

Ryan Weathers becoming good was not supposed to happen

 

I know you’re messing around, but in his particular case, I do think he’s going to have to do some thinking on how he’ll pitch moving forward. This is his second major ligament issue and he doesn’t have the body type to keep that velo forever anyways; once he gets older and he can’t keep those tree-trunk legs, his velo is going to tick down regardless.

 

adjusting your velo and lowering your usage 100+ innings are two very different discussions.

nobody is saying Miller would throw every pitch 100 MPH as a starter.