MLB 2025

[Flex]

Judge currently has 336 homers; Bonds hit 762. Judge is 33. Even if Judge went on an insane run of 60 homers a year for the next seven years—his age 40 season—he'd still be shy. Judge is pretty much a perfect home-run hitter, but it seems doubtful that he'd be able to catch Bonds unless he stays super healthy and can play into his mid-40s. I guess what I'm saying is that I don't know if anyone will ever catch Bonds if Judge can't.

With these counting stats, yeah, I think it'll take some major conditioning improvements (possible, but not really predictable) to allow someone like a future Judge to play at a very high level into his mid 40s.

[Dr. Medulla]

Just finishing up the last of my reading on early baseball for this lecture I'm writing. One of the things that has struck me is the absence of the phrase "Major League Baseball." So I got curious and did some googling. While the the term "the majors" was around since the early 20th c, calling it Major League Baseball didn't become common until the 1980s. Which surprised the hell out of me.

[Dr. Medulla]

All the fans who came to cheer on the umpire got their money's worth the other day.
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/ra ... 36670.html

[tepista]

Dick Fitts? Come on.

[Flex]

Dick Fitts?

Not as well as id hoped.

[Mimi]

Dick Fitts?

Not as well as id hoped.

Rimshot?

[Flex]

Dick Fitts?

Not as well as id hoped.

Rimshot?

That's definitely what the first few inning felt like.

[Flex]

lmao miami

[Dr. Medulla]

lmao miami

MLB should force a banner on them: "Swept by worst team in history."

[Flex]

lmao miami

MLB should force a banner on them: "Swept by worst team in history."

[Dr. Medulla]

lmao miami

MLB should force a banner on them: "Swept by worst team in history."

There should be a curse on the team related to that. They won't merit another one of those until that one is burned in a hibachi.

[Dr. Medulla]

I've got the White Sox-Tigers game on in the background and the White Sox announcer said of the Rockies that they'll be sellers at the deadline, but do they have anything a contender would want? Which is true, but coming from someone covering the White Sox, that kinda stings.

[Dr. Medulla]

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/breaking-n ... 17218.html

What a thin-skinned bozo organization the A's are.

[Dr. Medulla]

Started re-reading Roger Angell's Five Seasons, a collection of his New Yorker baseball pieces from the first half of the 70s. This one, on the baseball itself and pitching from 1976, is striking for what is considered a killer fastball. Now, few guys with fastballs in the 80s can survive in the game.

Most pitchers seem hesitant to say so, but if you press them a little they will admit that the prime ingredient in their intense personal struggle with the batter is probably fear. A few pitchers in the majors have thrived without a real fastball—junk men like Eddie Lopat and Mike Cuellar, superior control artists like Bobby Shantz and Randy Jones, knuckleballers like Hoyt Wilhelm and Charlie Hough—but almost everyone else has had to hump up and throw at least an occasional no-nonsense hard one, which crosses the plate at eighty-five miles per hour, or better, and thus causes the hitter to—well, to think a little. … Great fastballers like Bob Gibson, Jim Bunning, Sandy Koufax, and Nolan Ryan have always run up high strikeout figures because their money pitch was almost untouchable, but their deeper measures of success—twenty-victory seasons and low earned-run averages—were due to the fact that none of the hitters they faced, not even the best of them, was immune to the thought of what a 90-mph missile could do to a man if it struck him.

[Dr. Medulla]

Red Sox super prospect Roman Anthony is 22 years old, but he looks 38.