2024 MLB Miscellaneous News

[SeaBass]

Daniel Vogelbach? Rowdy Tellez?

[SeaBass]

50 minutes ago, brewerfan82 said:

I will concur, the surprising one was VERY surprising, lol. Never would have guessed him.

Now that I've looked it up I'm catching what you're putting down.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Navarro?

[AKCheesehead]

1 hour ago, SeaBass said:

Now that I've looked it up I'm catching what you're putting down.

I had to look it up, not the guy I would have guessed.  The guy I would have guessed has gotten one off every team besides the team he was with the past 4 years.

[Underachiever]

Thanks for playing. The other two were Hunter Renfroe and...noted slugger Martin Maldonado.

More trivia: Until today, I would have bet Shohei Ohtani's money that Martin's last name was spelled Maldonaldo.

[MrTPlush]

12 hours ago, Playing Catch said:

Makes me wonder if this was essentially a negotiating tactic, and that the O's and Boras are working on a Chourio-like extension. Boras clients don't always go to free-agency at the earliest opportunity. And Boras wants to maximize Holliday's career earnings. A pricey extension now still allows for Holliday to hit free agency in his prime.

His dad made $160mil purely from baseball contracts, Chourio comes from a county where $160 is a monthly salary. They come from dramatically different backgrounds.

Not to say he won’t chase a contract to get his ‘own’ money…but I gotta imagine trying to get a kid to sign when his dad already made multi multi multi generational money playing baseball is a tough sell. Even worse considering his agent is Boras. That sounds like the perfect combination to never consider an early extension.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Saw that Montgomery fired Boras after his last free agent saga that led to basically a 1 year contract.

Particularly for pitchers, Boras' tactics have burned enough mlb teams where I'd think rally hard about going with him as your representative.  Hoping Montgomery stays healthy this year.

[Playing Catch]

14 hours ago, MrTPlush said:

His dad made $160mil purely from baseball contracts, Chourio comes from a county where $160 is a monthly salary. They come from dramatically different backgrounds.

Not to say he won’t chase a contract to get his ‘own’ money…but I gotta imagine trying to get a kid to sign when his dad already made multi multi multi generational money playing baseball is a tough sell. Even worse considering his agent is Boras. That sounds like the perfect combination to never consider an early extension.

I get that Holliday is in a great position to bet on himself, and that he's confident that he'll perform well enough to break the bank at the first opportunity. And certainly, that's the likliest decision for him and Boras. But if the O's offer him big bucks now, in exchange for 1 year of FA, he's young enough that he'll be what... 27 when he reaches FA? Guaranteed money is guaranteed money. Boras ESPECIALLY knows this, as he's always going for longer deals and total dollars.

As you mentioned, he doesn't need the money, but he hired Boras for a reason.

[homer]

 

[RedStickBrew]

Good gracious 

 

[nate82]

1 minute ago, RedStickBrew said:

Good gracious 

 

Those weren't anywhere close to the strike zone. 

[RedStickBrew]

3 minutes ago, nate82 said:

Those weren't anywhere close to the strike zone. 

Such an embarrassment, the Frank Dreben of umpires

[areacodes]

On 4/11/2024 at 9:22 AM, JosephC said:

I'm surprised that Boras quotes are not already pasted all over every sports website.

Assuming Holliday does not get sent back down, the Orioles likely did him a huge favor by calling him up this early.  He will be Super Two eligible.  If he lives up to the hype, this will cost the Orioles tens of millions of dollars down the road.  At 7-4, they certainly have been competitive enough (and had a bright outlook heading into the season as a 101 win team last year), that they could have left Holliday in the minors for a couple more months without anybody really raising an eyebrow.

Why do I have this sneaky suspicion that you’d be singing a different tune if the Brewers would keep a prospect of Holliday’s caliber down in the minors to save a few million down the road?

[markedman5]

Jessie Winker performing like the Brewers hoped he would last season 

 

https://www.mlb.com/stats

 

 

[wiguy94]

5 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

Jessie Winker performing like the Brewers hoped he would last season 

 

https://www.mlb.com/stats

Happy for him. He just looks so much healthier. Also I feel like it shows the Brewers FO weren't wrong acquiring him in hopes for a bounce back. We just were a year early. 

[markedman5]

Hader brought in down 2-1 to pitch the 9th……walk…..wild pitch……single, single, single, single…….all hit pretty hard………

[TURBO]

11 hours ago, markedman5 said:

Hader brought in down 2-1 to pitch the 9th……walk…..wild pitch……single, single, single, single…….all hit pretty hard………

He's been very bad all season...  Wondering if the Astros are second guessing their decision to pay him like a king?

[Fear The Chorizo]

20 hours ago, wiguy94 said:

Happy for him. He just looks so much healthier. Also I feel like it shows the Brewers FO weren't wrong acquiring him in hopes for a bounce back. We just were a year early. 

Nats have to be hoping he stays healthy and productive for another couple months before flipping him at the trade deadline.  Good for him if he's fully recovered, although his type of chronic injury could just as easily flare up again once the season starts grinding and turn him right back into the 0.600 OPS hitter with no athleticism he was last year.

[Underachiever]

1 hour ago, TURBO said:

He's been very bad all season...  Wondering if the Astros are second guessing their decision to pay him like a king?

Such a shame. Astros are such a likeable group, wired for success. I'd hate to see their season go into the trash can with a thud, instead of a bang. Hader's struggles are such a bad sign--stealing a lot of their joy.

I hope they lose 100 games. If it takes Hader imploding to make it happen, so be it.

[MrTPlush]

Jackson Chourio isn’t lighting the world on fire by any means, but Jackson Holliday….YIKES.

[Team Canada]

48 minutes ago, MrTPlush said:

Jackson Chourio isn’t lighting the world on fire by any means, but Jackson Holliday….YIKES.

30 AB 1H 16SO - Yikes indeed. I almost felt bad for him in the Brewers series.

Almost.

[Underachiever]

50 minutes ago, MrTPlush said:

Jackson Chourio isn’t lighting the world on fire by any means, but Jackson Holliday….YIKES.

If we play the pace game, Chourio is on pace for a 30hr/100 rbi season with 30 sb. I'll take that. Hell, I'll take Corbin Carroll's 25/86 (with a much higher BA and OPS, I'll admit) results and call it a huge success.

But your point about Holliday holds, for sure.

[MrTPlush]

3 hours ago, Underachiever said:

If we play the pace game, Chourio is on pace for a 30hr/100 rbi season with 30 sb. I'll take that. Hell, I'll take Corbin Carroll's 25/86 (with a much higher BA and OPS, I'll admit) results and call it a huge success.

But your point about Holliday holds, for sure.

He is producing like rookie Trout (or pre-rookie year Trout) if you really want to look at it optimistically. Haha

Though his K% over 30% is a bit concerning. I’d like to see that get much closer to 25%. Using that pacing logic he is then in store for nearly 200 Ks and 8 doubles, not great attributes.

That wasn’t really to insult Chourio, he simply isn’t lighting the world on fire. 

 

[Fear The Chorizo]

44 minutes ago, MrTPlush said:

He is producing like rookie Trout (or pre-rookie year Trout) if you really want to look at it optimistically. Haha

Though his K% over 30% is a bit concerning. I’d like to see that get much closer to 25%. Using that pacing logic he is then in store for nearly 200 Ks and 8 doubles, not great attributes.

That wasn’t really to insult Chourio, he simply isn’t lighting the world on fire. 

 

I don't think even the most optimistic Brewer fans would expect a guy who just turned 20 before this season started to be vying for any MLB triple crown offensive categories....one thing Chourio has done is proven he belongs at the MLB level.

[KeithStone53151]

Because it's the Yankees, I find this hilarious. But even still, umpires need their power truly nerfed and/or in general need some level of accountability for a wide variety of reasons. I mean, Angel Hernandez is still employed. You see star players get thrown out of games early for slightly less stupid reasons(you really can't top this one, he did literally nothing), and all the paying fans wanting to see said player don't get to see him because the ump can arbitrarily throw anyone out for any reason. Institute a true warning system(technical fouls, yellow/red card as examples).