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 (two years 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 (two years 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
Dude won a Cy young - never made an all star game.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 04:23 (one year ago) link
Melky Cabrera!
https://www.mlb.com/news/melky-cabrera-retires-from-mlb#:~:text=Melky%20Cabrera%2C%20an%20outfielder%20in,'09%2C%20when%20he%20hit%20.
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 January 2023 02:34 (one year ago) link
He was damn good his one full season in Toronto.
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 January 2023 02:35 (one year ago) link
His second full season, I should say--and great for the 2012 Giants WS team.
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 January 2023 02:37 (one year ago) link
David Phelps!!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 19 January 2023 02:45 (one year ago) link
One of Cabrera's associates purchased a website for $10,000 and falsified its contents in a way that would have allowed Cabrera to challenge his suspension by claiming that the positive test was caused by a substance sold through that website, but MLB officials and federal investigators used forensics to trace the website back to Cabrera.
― can you still hit dinngers (gyac), Thursday, 19 January 2023 07:05 (one year ago) link
Forgot all about the PEDs...Now I remember all the raised eyebrows at Melky Cabrera suddenly hitting .350.
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
I will never forget. The jays got a great deal on him for two seasons and he wasn’t bad!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 19 January 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/5ydj20Hz/6-B70-A601-90-E5-4603-825-A-19-B8-C086-B01-C.jpg
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 18:23 (one year ago) link
aw i liked him on the cubs, he was a good leadoff guy. i remember after 2015 everyone thought he was going to the orioles but then he came back to the cubs on a surprise one-year contract, which ended up being a good move for him and the team
― na (NA), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
i didn't realize how much of a surprise that was, when he returned to the cubs for 2016! here's footage:
A little more footage from #Cubs SURPRISE this morning at camp. pic.twitter.com/7X1skZmOSD— Kelly Crull (@Kelly_Crull) February 25, 2016
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 18:50 (one year ago) link
his surprise signing/spring training appearance was very crucial, like he had to come back for A Reason. v symbolic of that whole 2016 for me. after 2015 being a shockingly good year, it felt like a stepping-it-up moment.
― omar little, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
darren o'day announced his retirement. pretty solid career, great run w/ the o's on their early-mid teens playoff teams (6th in career appearances). loved that sidearm motion.
― j.q higgins, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 01:07 (one year ago) link
last active player drafted by the expos . . . tom brady
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
jason kipnis
― na (NA), Monday, 20 February 2023 20:52 (one year ago) link
neither is unexpected, but lorenzo cain and mitch moreland are retiring. moreland more of a confirmation after not playing last year, and cain will retire this summer in kansas city, despite starting and ending his career in milkwaukee.
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link
i always liked cain - fun player
― na (NA), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link
considering how solid and well rounded a player he was at his peak, I'm surprised he was only an all star twice. great combo of hit/on-base, speed, glove with a dash of power.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
The classic Amos Otis/Bernie Williams does-everything-well (but-nothing-spectacular) player who's underrated as a result. Ends his career with over 5.0 bWAR/162 games.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
should have probably should have won some more gold gloves. he had a bunch of fielding bible awards.
― j.q higgins, Thursday, 9 March 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link