***2023-24 MLB Off-Season Thread***
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A complete game game pitched by Yank's Gerrit Cole. These days that is a once in a given week occurrence. Old school, he always wants to stay in the game, and they let him today after a bullpen blow the other day and an injury depleted and already worn out bullpen.
Edit: As to how much baseball has changed with respect to CG's, this is only his 6th career CG and he is considered a top ace. My favorite NYY pitcher as a kid was Mel Stottlemyre. He started 356 games in his career and 152 of them were complete games.
Edit: As to how much baseball has changed with respect to CG's, this is only his 6th career CG and he is considered a top ace. My favorite NYY pitcher as a kid was Mel Stottlemyre. He started 356 games in his career and 152 of them were complete games.
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Many people (including myself) thought they might regret that contract. Still early, but not a good start.
FINALLY!
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A’s purchase land in Las Vegas for new ballpark
The A’s have signed a binding agreement to purchase 49 acres of land in Las Vegas, which they plan to utilize as the site of their future new ballpark. Looking to finalize a stadium deal by the January 2024 deadline imposed by Major League Baseball, A’s team president Dave Kaval
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KidSilverhair
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This makes Jake Taylor’s apologetic admission to Rene Russo’s snooty friends that he makes league minimum in Major League a bit less … populist.
(Even more mind-blowing, in 1989 MLB minimum salary was $68,000, which would be $165,000 in 2023 … over four times less that today’s $720,000)
Never gonna celebrate a city losing a team, but at least Oakland folks are a quick trip away from seeing MLB games in San Francisco, and I am enjoying the idea of planning a Vegas trip around a Cardinals-A's series in the future.
It's a shame about the A's leaving Oakland. First the Raiders, then Golden State, now the Athletics. While I'll always be a Giants fan first, I grew to love the A's and went to quite a few games there over the years. The best single baseball game I ever saw in person was a 2013 playoff game vs Detroit in the Coliseum. A's ownership did not keep their word in negotiating with the city. There was to be a join news conference tomorrow announcing to the public exactly where things stood at this point. But ownership decided to buy this land with the intent to move behind the back of Oakland. So, Oakland's mayor literally said, "Good luck." End of story. <shrug> Guess I will only have one MLB team to call my own now. And lots of A's jerseys as reminders of how much fun that franchise used to be.
He’s gonna appeal it and it wont be upheld. There’s been 3 cases of pitchers being ejected for sticky substances since last year and it’s all been by Phil Cuzzi. He used rosin and sweat and when asked he washed it off in front of a MLB official. Totally legal. Cuzzi tossed him because he’s an idiot and thinks he’s the judge and executioner.
MLB has told the Braves to stop doing their big hat home run celebration after New Era complained. So they're upset that players wear an oversized hat for a few seconds after hitting a homerun because the hat wasn't made by them. What a joke.
