2025 Misc MLB News Thread

[Jopal78]

1 hour ago, Frisbee Slider said:

Not sure if I remember any preabitration player forcing themselves out via trade. Seems like a bad faith collective bargaining action to me.

He can’t the Pirates hold all the financial cards until he’s out of minor league options. If Skenes demands a trade now, the Pirates could option him to the minors and his service clock stops. 

[Brian]

Sorry, Cubs fans:  Newly Elected Pope Leo roots for the White Sox his brother says.  Before he became pope, Chicago-born Robert Prevost was raised in a household of Cubs and Cardinals fans. Yet his alliances were always to the White Sox. 

[Frisbee Slider]

24 minutes ago, Brian said:

Yet his alliances were always to the White Sox. 

Supporting the poor and disenfranchised, makes sense 🙂

[dlk9s]

 

[markedman5]

 

[folly412]

Bud Black is the big winner in this situation.

[yfinn6]

Good to see Jackson Holliday heating up. Can't say the same for Rutschman or Kjerstad. 

[markedman5]

 

[Frisbee Slider]

26 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

 

Is this all the evidence we needed to confirm he should not have been on our roster?

[duewizard]

33 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

 

Good for him. Hopefully he figures it out

[Underachiever]

41 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

Is this all the evidence we needed to confirm he should not have been on our roster?

Yup, just like Shane Smith. **ducks**

[sveumrules]

49 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

Is this all the evidence we needed to confirm he should not have been on our roster?

I dunno, believe White Sox had second shot at him on the waiver wire so may have been a hot commodity

[TURBO]

White Sox probably figured that Smith worked out, so why not assume Brewers brass made another mistake...

This one won't be working out the same I'm afraid.

[Underachiever]

Capra gets hot, Sox flip him to the Orioles for Mayo straight up at the deadline. Book it.

[Brian]

Jake Bauers type pitcher. Position player strikes out Ohtani.

 

[Samurai Bucky]

Hyde out as manager of the Orioles:

 

 

[sveumrules]

6 minutes ago, Samurai Bucky said:

Hyde out as manager of the Orioles:

 

 

Orioles are a good case of careful what you wish for when it comes to wanting a new owner.

Angelos family had clearly run their course, they finally get a wave of young talent, a new owner, and their big moves are trading for a year of Burnes, then signing Tyler O’Neill and a some ancient SPs.

Still haven’t won a playoff game since 2014 either.

[Frisbee Slider]

23 minutes ago, sveumrules said:

Orioles are a good case of careful what you wish for when it comes to wanting a new owner

Is it that they simply didn’t trade for enough needle movers? They didn’t go big enough?

Blue because I’m skeptical about all in going for it campaigns. 

[zurch1818]

I was so confused as that tweet is dated 8/6/24. When parody becomes reality less that a year later. Here is a more official tweet from a more reliable source that Fax Parody.

 

 

[Samurai Bucky]

21 hours ago, zurch1818 said:

I was so confused as that tweet is dated 8/6/24. When parody becomes reality less that a year later. Here is a more official tweet from a more reliable source that Fax Parody.

 

 

My bad.  I went to the MLB site and posted that link and since it didn’t show up as embedded, so I found the first thing on Twitter.  My mistake. 

[HarryDoyle]

José Alvarado suspended 80 games

[markedman5]

Kolton Wong has retired 

[JosephC]

On 5/18/2025 at 2:05 PM, HarryDoyle said:

José Alvarado suspended 80 games

Should have hired Braun's lawyers, proven performers at finding technicalities to get testosterone abusers out of trouble (at least until the distributor gets busted)!

[nate82]

52 minutes ago, JosephC said:

Should have hired Braun's lawyers, proven performers at finding technicalities to get testosterone abusers out of trouble (at least until the distributor gets busted)!

Braun’s lawyers really didn’t have to do anything in his first case.  MLB didn’t follow the rules that were setup at the time.  The chain of custody for the sample was broken when the tester wasn’t able to transfer the chain of custody of the samples and then placed it in his refrigerator.  Regardless if it was normal SOP for doing this it broke the chain of custody that MLB and MLBPA agreed to.  The samples should have been discarded based on the CBA that was written up and new samples should have been attained.

The second one though Braun wasn’t able to beat.

What I have always found weird is that MLB threw out the others that tested positive but only kept Braun’s results.  His was elevated more in the testing than the others but that still doesn’t make sense that the others were discarded.  I believe it was Pujols and Freese that tested positive and MLB didn’t want to have that hanging over the WS winners and having to explain that.  

[JosephC]

35 minutes ago, nate82 said:

Braun’s lawyers really didn’t have to do anything in his first case.  MLB didn’t follow the rules that were setup at the time.  The chain of custody for the sample was broken when the tester wasn’t able to transfer the chain of custody of the samples and then placed it in his refrigerator.  Regardless if it was normal SOP for doing this it broke the chain of custody that MLB and MLBPA agreed to.  The samples should have been discarded based on the CBA that was written up and new samples should have been attained.

The second one though Braun wasn’t able to beat.

What I have always found weird is that MLB threw out the others that tested positive but only kept Braun’s results.  His was elevated more in the testing than the others but that still doesn’t make sense that the others were discarded.  I believe it was Pujols and Freese that tested positive and MLB didn’t want to have that hanging over the WS winners and having to explain that.  

The chain of custody was never broken.  A chain of custody is only a record of who had it and where it was from collection to testing.  If it sits in a guy's refrigerator over the weekend, and the guy has it documented that it sat in his refrigerator over the weekend, then the chain of custody is intact.

The technicality was a violation of MLB's protocol, which wasn't a violation of the protocol of the collection agency.  MLB's protocol indicated the sample must be shipped immediately, the collection agency's protocol indicated it could be held over the weekend if stored properly.  It was MLB's responsibility to verify that their protocol matched the protocol of the collection agency, and instruct the collection agency to change their policy, which MLB failed to do.  MLB admitted this was their oversight and the collection agency or the sample collector were not at fault.

There was no "second one."  When he was suspended, it was the result of the Biogenesis investigation, where the documents uncovered in 2013 linked him to his PED usage in 2011.