MLB season 2025

[QUOTE=warriorfan;14989212]The new bats should obviously be banned but it’s more a function of the short porch in right field. All left handed yankees have ate off that real good. If bonds played dh in yankee stadium would be standing at 900+ and that is being conservative. Would probably have over a thousand. Mays would beat the breaks off hank aaron if they counted negro leagues as well. Mays number one goat with barry a close second. If you try to argue against it you do not know baseball.[/QUOTE]

It's hard to compare someone like Babe Ruth or Lou Gerhig to Mays and Bonds but it's a little easier with Ted Williams, as he and May's careers overlapped by 9 years.

I think at his peak you could argue he was the better overall player and he certainly had better longevity, but Williams was absolutely the better hitter so it's really close to me. If he didn't lose 3 years of his peak to the military and didn't struggle with injuries in the middle back portion of his career he'd probably be sitting over 700 as well.

The Reds are the 6th team in MLB history to lose 3 straight games by a score of 1-0, joining:

1960 PHI
1917 PIT
1909 WAS
1909 SLB
1908 BRO

No team has done so in 4 straight

[QUOTE=Meticode;14989191]Do you think this is a product of the torpedo bats they are using?[/QUOTE]

I honestly can’t say. I watched Jimmy Rollins and Pedro speak on it. They explained the advantages and disadvantages. Pedro also said pitchers should adjust to placing pitches where it hits the end of the bat vs the sweet spot. It could’ve been just bad pitching honestly. Opening days, adrenaline flowing and meat balls were sold lol

I am curious what other teams/players are using it. And seeing numbers as the same sizes increase. And bein transparent I don’t follow baseball nowadays much. So I don’t have many strong opinions when it comes MLB. I tend to read what folks who do follow it say. I used to watch it more than any sport. If a million dollars was on the line to name the Phillies starting rotation? No million for me haha

Shohei is undeniably impressive.

Sad time for us Reds fans before today. A combined 36 innings and we scored only two runs with Del La Cruz in our lineup?

And we didn't score those two rungs until the 35th inning of us being scoreless.

MLB record I think is 48 consecutive innings to be scoreless.

[QUOTE=Doomsday Dallas;14989912]The Reds are the 6th team in MLB history to lose 3 straight games by a score of 1-0, joining:

1960 PHI
1917 PIT
1909 WAS
1909 SLB
1908 BRO

No team has done so in 4 straight[/QUOTE]

Innings are more impressive. Longest team scoreless streak is 45 innings. Longest streak ever is the '68 Cubs with 48 innings.

[QUOTE=GOBB;14989940]I honestly can’t say. I watched Jimmy Rollins and Pedro speak on it. They explained the advantages and disadvantages. Pedro also said pitchers should adjust to placing pitches where it hits the end of the bat vs the sweet spot. It could’ve been just bad pitching honestly. Opening days, adrenaline flowing and meat balls were sold lol

I am curious what other teams/players are using it. And seeing numbers as the same sizes increase. And bein transparent I don’t follow baseball nowadays much. So I don’t have many strong opinions when it comes MLB. I tend to read what folks who do follow it say. I used to watch it more than any sport. If a million dollars was on the line to name the Phillies starting rotation? No million for me haha[/QUOTE]

Del La Cruz was using it the day he had 7 RBIs and two homers. Said he loves the torpedo back. I think several Reds are using it, but that speaks about them using them becuase they just had the 4th longest scoreless inning streak in franchise history.

[QUOTE=BurningHammer;14989977]Shohei is undeniably impressive.[/QUOTE]

Yea I’ll never understand the people, although very slight in number, who downplay what he is as a player. If someone doesn’t understand how fvcking insane his skill set is then we don’t have much in common as baseball fans.

first three games brewers got squashed... since then they are motoring thru the league like they should

Judge might compete for the Triple Crown this year. He's leading the league in batting average, second in homers, second in RBIs, also he's tied first for hits.

It's early, but looks like this could be a MVP year for him.

Pete Rose has reinstated to be in the Hall of Fame after 36 years of being banned for betting on baseball. Shoeless Joe Jackson along with his teammates are reinstated. The next time Rose can be voted in according to Tim Kurkjian is in 2027 on a Classic Ballot. I believe he said 8 out of the 12 voters (Tony Perez being one of them) would have to vote Rose in for him to get in. Rose being banned is very polarizing to some former players. A former team-mate of Rose, Frank Robinson said, if Rose was voted in he would have nothing to ever do with the Hall of Fame again.

Source: [url]https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/sport/pete-rose-shoeless-joe-jackson-mlb-decision-spt[/url]

When I heard about this the first person I thought about was Trevor Bauer being blackballed by the MLB owners. Mostly because I knew he'd have something negative to say about the Rose situation linking it to his own situation. Which he just doesn't get it. The MLB isn't blackballing him for his sexual allegations which he seems to be proven innocent of. It's all his past behavior that caused team's headaches.

minny club'ing brewcrew who hassilent bats now in over 10 games

Juan Soto been ice cold lately. Hope the Sox can take advantage this series.

[QUOTE=Wally450;15007145]Juan Soto been ice cold lately. Hope the Sox can take advantage this series.[/QUOTE]

And he's not been hustling. Hits the ball off the Green Monster for only a single. Manager had to address it after the game.

Since my post a month ago Judge is still treading for a Triple Crown.

1st in the MLB in average .401
3rd in the MLB in homeruns 15 (1st in AL)
2nd in the MLB in RBIs 41 (1st in AL)

Unrelated to Triple Crown

1st in the MLB in hits 71
1st in the MLB in WAR
1st in the MLB in OBP
1st in the MLB in Slugging
2nd in the MLB in runs (1st in AL)
1st in the MLB in Total Bases

...as long as he doesn't get injured he'll probably end up being the MVP. Althoug Ohtani has finally started heating up the last few weeks.