The guy was an absolute beast in the minor. Vlad-like stats and then totally crumbled in the majors. Probably the biggest bust in jays history?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 15 January 2022 00:17 (two years ago) link
People sometimes ask me.. What is it like to play "Pro Baseball"?Retirement has brought up a lot of different emotions and memories for me. It's given space to think. 16 seasons in professional baseball. Here is a thread on where it has taken me..— Travis Snider (@Lunchboxhero45) January 15, 2022
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 15 January 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
I have felt on top of the world. I have felt all alone.
This fucking sport, amirite?
― Andy K, Sunday, 16 January 2022 02:13 (two years ago) link
francisco liriano, 38
at three years and $39m, he was the recipient of what is still the pittsburgh pirates’ largest-ever free agent deal; a year and a half into it they had to give the blue jays two prospects just to take him off their hands
― mookieproof, Monday, 17 January 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
One of those prospects, Reese McGuire, was pretty great his first two seasons/150 AB; nothing since, although still with the Jays.
― clemenza, Monday, 17 January 2022 23:26 (two years ago) link
and better known for something else
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
Parking lot? I'd forgotten!
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 03:55 (two years ago) link
Longtime big-league first baseman Adrián González, who played for the Rangers, Padres, Red Sox, Dodgers, and Mets across 15 MLB seasons, officially announced his retirement today on his personal Instagram.Gonzalez last played in the majors in 2018, but he was active as recently as this past season, playing 43 games with the Mexican League’s Mariachis de Guadalajara and posting a .340/.412/.531 batting line in 187 trips to the plate. He also represented Mexico in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), where he collected three hits and a walk in 12 plate appearances.
Gonzalez last played in the majors in 2018, but he was active as recently as this past season, playing 43 games with the Mexican League’s Mariachis de Guadalajara and posting a .340/.412/.531 batting line in 187 trips to the plate. He also represented Mexico in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), where he collected three hits and a walk in 12 plate appearances.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 6 February 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
ryan zimmerman
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 20:26 (two years ago) link
dude had himself a career. all time Nationals leader in at bats, Runs, RBIs, Hits, doubles, home runs, total bases, xbh and GIDP!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 21:26 (two years ago) link
interesting list
All-time walk-off HR:13 - Jim Thome12 - Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Albert Pujols, Frank Robinson, Babe Ruth11 – David Ortiz, Tony Perez, Ryan Zimmerman That's 10 Hall of Famers, plus Zim. And if his shoulder troubles of 2012-14 don't force him to move to 1B ...— Mark Zuckerman (@MarkZuckerman) February 15, 2022
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
...he still wouldn't have been a hall of famer
― ✖, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:26 (two years ago) link
haha, yeah. plus there are quite a few players who might have been hall of famers if it wasn't for those few years and that one injury that derailed the career...
zimmerman was good, though, and it is an interesting list.
― snarl self own (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
dwight gooden stands out. even WITH all of his troubles he has a case for HOF
― snarl self own (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link
as an aside, i think players that were suspended for recreational drug use should get bonus points for the hall of fame. that's like playing on Nightmare difficulty in doom
― snarl self own (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
LHP and union man andrew miller
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 March 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
Fun player for a guy who’s super square
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 24 March 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
when he was good, his arm release was 16 feet to the side of the mound, a slider would miss a leftie's hip by a quarter inch and then catch the very opposite edge of the strike zone as they weren't sure whether to get out of the way, swing, or take
― Karl Malone, Friday, 25 March 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
todd frazier
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link
jake arrieta
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 03:52 (two years ago) link
most famous guy born in my hometown (even as an infant, he had the instincts to move far away a few months later)
his 2014-15 run was amazing, and of course being part of the 2016 cubs team
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
his career arch was a weird one...BAL (4 yrs): hot garbageCHC (6 yrs): absolute godPHI (3 yrs): averageSD (1 yr): disaster
i guess it follows a typical trend – but that bad-to-good-to-bad line was so incredibly extreme
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 16:29 (two years ago) link
he was tapering off his last couple of seasons in chicago. but yeah he was amazing in the mid-2010s.
i was trying to find when he tweeted the picture of himself naked wearing an apron (?) but all my searches are dominated by when he was naked in the ESPN body issue.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 16:33 (two years ago) link
Yeah when i think of jake arietta i think of sam miller sheepishly describing him as “built”
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
when i think of jake arrieta -- perhaps even more so than when i think of anthony recker -- i think of dr morbius
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 21:18 (two years ago) link
David Wright was the ultimate Morbs player
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 22:27 (two years ago) link
joe panik
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 May 2022 14:19 (two years ago) link
Hang the DJ.
― clemenza, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:53 (two years ago) link
That double pay in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series will live for infinity for us Giant fans. Good luck in life Joe.
― Bee OK, Friday, 20 May 2022 22:32 (two years ago) link
Panik on the street's of London...
I was a pretty big Smiths fan and even saw them three times but always hated that song. Yes, they were bonkers live, an experience of a lifetime.
― Bee OK, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:24 (two years ago) link
this remains one of the better fielding plays i've ever seen
ICYMI, this is what Joe Panik did last night in Sacramento. #SFGiants pic.twitter.com/ZtIonPMvUP— Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) September 4, 2015
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:27 (two years ago) link
That was an outstanding play, I have never seen that before. He's was a great second baseman but his bat only lasted like rwo seasons. The Giants had to move on.
― Bee OK, Friday, 20 May 2022 23:48 (two years ago) link
The only Smiths song I love!
― clemenza, Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:54 (two years ago) link
(I believe he played in Toronto for six or seven minutes.)
Ya they got a decent return for him too iirc - Dickerson and Cimber
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 21 May 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
i've been watching a dickerson this year. he got yepez'd
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link
Tastes, huh. To me it was the first song where it was the Smiths by the numbers. No originality to it and he is being a huge dick (with those lyrics). This was the same band that did brilliant songs like "Still Ill" and "The Queen is Dead?" No wonder they broke up, garbage.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 21 May 2022 01:25 (two years ago) link
retire, morrissey
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 01:28 (two years ago) link
he played about 20 miles away from me last weekend in Pasadena for two nights via Cruel World. Yes, he needs to go away.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 21 May 2022 01:32 (two years ago) link
he got yepez'd
I do not know what this means.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 21 May 2022 02:11 (two years ago) link
yeah, as soon as i posted that i felt dumb, because why would you! there's just some rookie on the cardinals, juan yepez, whose performance so far means that dickerson loses his DH platoon spot with Pujols (who has been alright so far this season but is going to play often no matter what, because march to 700)
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 02:14 (two years ago) link
russell martin, officially
really good player; put up 5.7 bWAR in just 111 games with the pirates in 2014 and has to be among the best free agent signings they ever made (which is admittedly a low bar to clear)
fourth all-time in bWAR by a canadian
― mookieproof, Sunday, 29 May 2022 02:52 (two years ago) link
I’m like 99% sure I know who the top three are.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 29 May 2022 06:36 (two years ago) link
j.a. (pronounced ‘jay’) happ
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
Martin caught 30 out of Happ's 33 starts the year he went 20-4.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 22:45 (two years ago) link
have to assume that rick porcello is done; he hasn’t pitched since being garbage for the mets in 2020. still only 33!
has to be among the least impressive guys to win 150 games and a cy young
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 August 2022 14:41 (two years ago) link
edwin jackson, officially
14 teams in 17 seasons , 4.78 ERA, 88 ERA+, 8.9 bWAR, $79 million in salary!
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 September 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
A’s C Stephen Vogt will retire after 10 big league seasons, leaving a lasting mark from Tampa Bay to the Bay Area, beyond. Grateful to cover him for a decade and to share his story. On Tuesday it was Vogt w/emotional message to team after beating Mariners.https://t.co/aFoyr5VgQG— Janie McCauley (@JanieMcCAP) September 22, 2022
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 22 September 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
This is really for an un-retiree thread, but none exists:
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35220178/lhp-cole-hamels-feels-healthy-surgeries-eyes-comeback
He pitched pretty well in 2019, but this sounds a little sketchy.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 02:29 (one year ago) link
rick porcello has, in fact, announced his retirement
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 03:15 (one year ago) link