[cestuneblague]

Guess it's time to have a main baseball thread, I know there are like four baseball fans on here but it's nice to have a centeralized thread for general baseball discussion. Basically on any topic or season update, whatever y'all think about Torpedo bats, possible re-location/expansion, Paul Skenes perhaps being traded with less than a year service time, what the hell happened to Juan Soto, your favorite team to root for (or moreso the ones to root against) and all the dumb new rules that the MLB executives are implanting in a hopeless attempt to get non-baseball fans with miniscule attention spans interested in the game.

[Romanelli]

[CA Dreamin]

Whatever people may say about rule changes, reports indicate attendance is up and TV ratings are up. And I see nothing wrong with that. The rule changes are helping make the game more interesting, and more exciting for casual fans.

Clayton Kershaw will likely get his 3,000th K tonight. That's a pretty big milestone.

[Repo]

<sadness noises...>

I remember the days when my Red Sox used to compete!

[EyeKanFly]

I'm a Nats fan and tbh I don't see a Montreal team happening again. Nashville seems to really want it, and the Orioles owner(s) considered a move at one point. Baltimore residents would hate that more than Oakland I'd imagine though...

Could definitely see Tampa or Miami relocating, I also wouldn't be too surprised if Salt Lake City springs a team somehow.

Anyway, baseball has been good this year aside from my team sucking. But at least they don't suck as much as the Rockies, woof. At least Coors Field is a delight.


Torpedo bats seemed like a cheat code when the Yankees crushed the first couple series of the season, but now it's basically a moot point. They're legal and I think good hitting can make the game more interesting.


Regarding Skenes... Bob Nutting already seems to hate the team he owns and the Pittsburgh fans, but he also loves money, and Skenes puts butts in seats. I don't see him getting traded.

Soto's salary is hilarious, pretty much anyone could've guessed that he'd underperform. But he's still a top player and as much as it pains me to see him on the Mets, I think he's a good fit for Queens.


Not seeing too much of a difference as a result of the rules this season, maybe a couple hiccups with the extended baserunning review early in the season, but it seems smooth now? The bigger changes were last season with the pitch clock, which was a great change for the sport IMO.
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51 Washington, D.C. albums!

[Romanelli]

[CA Dreamin]

Unless the Rockies play worse than they did in April and May (2-26 to finish the season), they will not break the record. They're still pretty bad but they've managed to recover enough to stop being the talk of the sport. But who really is the talk of the sport? The Brewers were, for sure, when they went on that run of 28-4 over 32 games, but they've cooled off. As of right now, no team is standing out of the pack. Milwaukee, thanks to their amazing run, is the only team on pace to win 95+, which is unusual. It will make the playoffs interesting and unpredictable.

[Romanelli]