2023 MLB Thread - Season Is Over

If true then see ya. No way Crane matches that.

 

McGriff go in with an MLB hat? Atlanta? Toronto?

 

Cubs

 

Square Grouper is going to be lit with both the pro baseball and golf scenes

 

Baseball World

Spoiler

 

Nice, beat me to it ;)

 

I just made my yearly hot stove Jon Heyman follow on Twitter. 50/50 on if I can make it through the week before unfollowing again.

 

Literally no one cares about baseball

 

I care about baseball. But my team is also a dynasty so there’s that.

 

Here for all the rumors of the marlins checking in on every highly sought after player only to be quickly eliminated because they are cheap as fuck.

 

honestly think the Mets did well with this "trade" You know Verlander will actually pitch

 

Uncle Steve creating an off season dynasty

 

Pitchers are allowed to make 28 starts? Wow

 

Good for Verlander and the Mets. Doubt the Astros were seriously interested

 

Bagwell is targeting Roy Oswalt

 

You doubt the Astros were seriously interested in retaining the CY winner?

 

Letting bagwell have the amount of influence he has is dumb as f but the Astros have an insane amount of starting pitching.

Framber
McCullers
Javier
Garcia
Urquidy
Brown

is a dece top 6

 

Yeah I think the money could be better allocated to elsewhere like Jose abreu

 

None of them are close to Verlander. Stop it.

 

You'd rather have Jose Abreu than Justin Verlander? I've seen some weird posts when people were coping with this but this is up there.

 

I know we lost Judge but that money was better spent on Rizzo anyways.

- Me in 2 weeks, apparently

 

I mean you have the analyze the rest of the roster

 

The one that just won the World Series? Yea, definitely needed to lose it's ace to upgrade 1b.

 

Lmbo ok I guess there is no nuance to this argument so have a good one. Just know that you’re wrong as usual

 

Tampa ja willing

 

Mets collecting a nice rotation for a nursing home league lmbo

 

None of them are also over 40 and making over 40. You’re being weird again and I hate the Astros.

 

To be fair Verlander is a beast in the post season and I doubt the Astros make the playoffs without him

 

"We weren't going to pay him that." is much different than "We were never seriously interested."

 

You think the Astros had no interest in keeping Justin Verlander? That's your stance, right?

 

I guess I won't doubt Carlos Baerga next time

 

i'm sure they had interest if he was willing to take a 40% hometown discount. my brother in law has a friend who got really close with kate upton and was over at their house all the time and she said they were going to take the highest offer period. i'm sure that was conveyed to the astros and they did not actively pursue him.

but yes it does not make sense to pay $1m per start to verlander.

this is their 2023 top 6 starting pitchers and their salaries

Framber $7.4m (MLBTR arb estimate)
McCullers $15.2m
Javier pre-arb
Garcia pre-arb
Urquidy $3.2m (MLBTR arb estimate)
Brown pre-arb

so their top six pitchers cost cumulatively less than verlander would. so they could sign verlander and i guess send javier to the bullpen which would be a huge waste or they could allocate that $ to other parts of their roster like trying to extend kyle tucker or jose pena or whoever.

 

I was furiously tagged because they didn't want to give a guy that pitches 10 times a year a 5 year deal and days later he is replaced with the Cy Young winner

 

degrom going to texas is hilarious. they're spending so much money to win like 72 games.

 

GK making his yearly posting today I see

 

why would you want to replace your negative war first baseman with jose abreu please make it make sense to me

 

i watch like 100 astros games a year but yeah i don't post about them v much

 

Cabrerra was having a pretty good year, then he fell off a cliff. Now we know why

 

Heyman is chirping that NYY is in constant discussion with Rodon so that means we definitely aren't getting him.

 

Is this Astros rotation without Verlander supposed to be considered some strength? Short on depth and injury history.

 

And length

 

You're conveniently leaving off you gave up the CY winner to do that. I'll take Verlander and Gurriel over Abreu and Urquidy.

 

we are gearing up to finally win that 2015 world series

 

he's 40 years old. we are replacing him with mccullers. they will be fine and probably eliminate the yankees in 2023 as usual. maybe you can win a game next time who knows.