MLB Thread - Praise be to the greatness of Ohtani

[soldiersooie]

I just watched "One of a kind", a documentary on Greg Maddux. I would highly recommend.

I saw a clip where he let a guy hit a meaningless home run in the regular season to set him up in the playoffs.

Truly, one of a kind mind.

[Boarat]

I want a doc on Wade "Chickenman" Boggs.

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I saw a clip where he let a guy hit a meaningless home run in the regular season to set him up in the playoffs.

Truly, one of a kind mind.

That was Bagwell.  I'm watching the documentary instead of being productive.  "You can't go fishing without bait." is an awesome quote from Greg.  In a world where everyone wants more velocity and more spin, I wish there was more of his mentality and focus on changing speed. 

Unless when facing that fucker Tony Gwynn.

[Thin Red Swine]

Batting leadoff and not even sniffing the Mendoza line as a DH. He's a shell of his former self. The White Sox have fully broken him.

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https://x.com/cubsfan_esq/status/2045348006010995202?s=46&t=DTGVKlgNTKh5Nq29PdZsdg

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Mason Miller's walkout hasn't gotten old yet. I think if I was the batter on deck I'd just go back to the dugout when that first note dropped.

https://x.com/brianheadwelch/status/2039345118713425920?s=46&t=DTGVKlgNTKh5Nq29PdZsdg

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Hope they keep this kind of run going all season, without Arkansas'ing the whole thing in the first round of the Playoffs.

https://x.com/OptaSTATS/status/2047150027932311867?s=20

[DirkPiggler]

Hope they keep this kind of run going all season, without Arkansas'ing the whole thing in the first round of the Playoffs.

https://x.com/OptaSTATS/status/2047150027932311867?s=20

Weiss has pleasantly surprised me so far.  Three of Snitker's biggest flaws - bullpen management, never resting starters, and complete lack of give a shit over the last couple of years - seem to be in a much better place under Walt.  I generally don't like promoting from within after a bad year gets the other guy "retired", but so far so good.

[Ray Zorback]

Weiss has pleasantly surprised me so far.  Three of Snitker's biggest flaws - bullpen management, never resting starters, and complete lack of give a shit over the last couple of years - seem to be in a much better place under Walt.  I generally don't like promoting from within after a bad year gets the other guy "retired", but so far so good.

plus, he has good open field tackling skills

[DirkPiggler]

plus, he has good open field tackling skills

Yeah even back in his playing days I never would have pictured Weiss as a black belt and a bad ass. 

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Skenes retired the first 20 batters last night and now has a WHIP of 0.93 through 349 innings.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/whip_career.shtml

[Thin Red Swine]

I just read an article today that Ohtani is now one of just two players all time in what the authored christened as the 50-50-50 club, with homers, stolen bases and an on-base game streak.

Bonds was the other.

Ohtani also has thrown 9,100 more pitches than Bonds ever did.

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I take it all back the MLB.TV subscription is the greatest thing ever.  Kind of a pain to sign up for since I had to go through ESPN but, still... I don't care about the Angels or the White Sox but it's cool having games on in the office while I try to be somewhat productive.

Slight exaggerations.

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As soon as it left Jansen's hand... I knew it, the crowd knew it, Olson knew it, and even Jansen knew it.... That ball was bout to be gone. Best start since 1997.

https://x.com/talkinbaseball_/status/2049665342901747967?s=46&t=DTGVKlgNTKh5Nq29PdZsdg