All things Major League Baseball and Goldeyes.

 

Edited October 24, 20196 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

Lots of headlines leading into the pre-season:

Unsigned Free Agents are talking about holding their own spring training. MLBPA sued the MLB in the early 90s due to collusion over FA signings. I wonder if there's anything to this delay in the signings?

Pitchers and Catchers report in just about two weeks.

Reigning NL MVP and perennial All-Star, Giancarlo Stanton, will be in pinstripes this year. Woohoo!

Marlins have cleaned house and sold off their best and most expensive assets.

Blue Jays are struggling to fill holes and might struggle to compete in the East.

And many, many more.

I'm getting excited about this season.

I think the lack of movement on the FA market is a result of next years huge class teams don't won't to tie up big money this year and not have flexibility for next year.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Theme-Nights-for-the-Upcoming-Season-478260743.html

 

First pitch of the regular season goes deep, deep, deep over the wall! 

Welcome back baseball! 

Go Yankees!

11 hours ago, JCon said:

First pitch of the regular season goes deep, deep, deep over the wall! 

Welcome back baseball! 

Go Yankees!

Actual first pitch of the year was a HR by Ian Happ going to be a good year on the north side go Cubs go. Will be a long year in Toronto. Rogers Centre will have crowds of 25,000 by June.

10 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

Actual first pitch of the year was a HR by Ian Happ going to be a good year on the north side go Cubs go. Will be a long year in Toronto. Rogers Centre will have crowds of 25,000 by June.

Blue Jays have lost 35% of their season tickets from last year, the season ticket count for this year is 13k so a bad start and those small crowds will happen sooner than later, my take away from today's opener .................Giancarlo.

https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2018/03/29/jays-get-a-cut-from-online-scalpers.html

 

17 hours ago, Jpan85 said:

Actual first pitch of the year was a HR by Ian Happ going to be a good year on the north side go Cubs go. Will be a long year in Toronto. Rogers Centre will have crowds of 25,000 by June.

When I posted this, I didn't know the Yanks had done it too. I was referring to the Cubs game. 

its a good year for us jays fans... the watch some minor league ball.  /waits 

https://www.airlineratings.com/news/mh370-search-heads-us70m-territory/

https://www.tsn.ca/montreal-mayor-to-meet-with-investors-hoping-to-bring-back-baseball-1.1047844

https://www.boston.com/sports/extra-bases/2009/07/30/report_ortiz_ra

Ortiz confirms he tested positive in 2003; Ramirez also on the list

 

Edited July 30, 20187 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

Jays have traded Osuna to the Astros for Rosenthal

for Ken Giles David Paulino and Hector Perez actually

1 hour ago, iHeart said:

Jays have traded Osuna to the Astros for Rosenthal

Rosenthal lol. Hes a reporter. 

I must have read that wrong

Jays take pennies on the dollar for Osuna, about the best they could do considering the scenario 

The Jays fire sale continues's as Loup and Axford both gone, Shapiro gonna strip this team down and rebuild.with the players he wants and thinks will get them to the top, 

Edited July 31, 20187 yr by bustamente

Sold a year too late

 

5 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

 

Good. But screw the Astros for trying to justify this and lie. 

 

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-bans-two-women-after-they-flashed-gerrit-cole-at-world-series-182719679.html

Former Expos now Nationals force a game 7 against Houston. 

 

And in a weird coincidence Part 1 -  WASH lost to HOUS 159-158 in the NBA in the 3rd highest scoring game ever.

And in a weird coincidence Part 2 - For the first time in history, out of the four major professional leagues, Kawhi Leonard and Stephen Strasburg are the first players from the same university to be named postseason MVP in the same season.

FYI = For the first time in World Series history, the road team won the first six games. According to ESPN Stats and Information, the road team had never won the first six games of a postseason series in the history of M.LB., the N.B.A. or the N.H.L. — until now. There's never been a World Series in which the road team won every game — until now.

Edited October 31, 20196 yr by FrostyWinnipeg