MLB Off-season Thread

The new player jerseys look like the stadium giveaway jerseys of years past. Just awful.

He looks like he’s wearing a Halloween costume https://t.co/irauMAe7G1 pic.twitter.com/gpwqC9bwhU

— Sarah Anne 💕 (@sarahanne1212) February 21, 2024

Good gawd… looks like he’s wearing diapers over his Nike compression shorts. https://t.co/pnaSdXxMeX

— Fanatics Sucks (@FanaticsSucks) February 22, 2024

MLB broadcasts in 2024 pic.twitter.com/l6nY0Y1HJi

— Phillies Muse (@Phillies_Muse) February 23, 2024

Cooked 'em.

We got you covered. pic.twitter.com/8auaV1cSZA

— Under Armour (@UnderArmour) February 23, 2024

Josh Hader and Jose Altuve getting some work in, at Spring Training. pic.twitter.com/4WgeEX3c05

— Dan Clark (@DanClarkSports) February 24, 2024

#Astros Justin Verlander was in the league with Julio Franco, who was intentionally walked by Jim Kaat, who allowed a pair of hits to Ted Williams, who made his big league debut against Lou Gehrig, who hit four home runs off Walter Johnson, who once beaned Cy Young, who debuted…

— Ryan M. Spaeder (@theaceofspaeder) February 28, 2024

Yeah…I love those

This is insane 

What do you think?

this would cure all that ails modern society pic.twitter.com/Jtx4ZYhWtd

— ℳatt (@matttomic) March 5, 2024

What is that?

Realignment with 2 expansion teams and 4 equal divisions of 8 teams.

Id rather go 6 divisions of 5 teams. 

You don't want expansion?

posted by justincredible

You don't want expansion?

No. MLB is too watered down as is. Most teams cannot even field 4 starting caliber pitchers, let alone 5-7 you need for a full season. 

But I do want to get rid of the current divisions and realign them.

Got it.

I'm indifferent I guess. I'd love to see a rebirth of the Expos just because they have the GOAT baseball uniforms. But I guess I generally agree that pitching is hard and adding two more teams makes it even harder. 

Yeah not enough pitchers to expand. Every team has to have 20 relievers to use throughout the year.

posted by Ironman92

Yeah not enough pitchers to expand. Every team has to have 20 relievers to use throughout the year.

Gotta give teams credit. When confronted with the "pitchers have to face three batters" rule, they just said, "Yeah, well what if we give 13 different guys three batters each in a game?" And now we live in a world where lasting 5 innings is the new 7 innings and 7 innings is the new complete game. 

Kind of like how, once upon a time, a guy hitting 100 on his fastball was a crazy superhuman thing and that guy was gonna be a total stud. Now tons of guys hit 100 and a high percentage of them suck ass because all they can do is throw hard with no real ability to locate pitches, allowing us all to see just how far a baseball can fly when a hitter utterly blasts a 101-mph pitch that's right down the middle.

I love baseball, but some of the ways the game has been altered over time do kind of suck.

I don’t know why they haven’t moved the mound back or lowered it. 

Didn’t Theo Epstein say it would take a 99MPH pitch down to a 96MPH pitch just by moving the mound 1’ back or something? The actual MPH remains, but the reaction time given would be that of a current 95-96. 

posted by Laley23

I don’t know why they haven’t moved the mound back or lowered it. 

Didn’t Theo Epstein say it would take a 99MPH pitch down to a 96MPH pitch just by moving the mound 1’ back or something? The actual MPH remains, but the reaction time given would be that of a current 95-96. 

As a former pitcher…I’d love to see big league pitchers actually pitching.