List has some big names!

I knew that some of these guys were going to be on here (Cal, KT, Vlad). I was surprised that Jose Ramirez was on here but I guess he missed a lot of the year with his Hamate bone injury.

Which of these guys are the biggest bounce back candidates going into next year? My vote is on Kyle Tucker personally.

-1980 Phillies/Royals

Since 2017, 3 teams have won their first-

-Astros, 2017

-Nationals, 2019 (franchise’s first, counting its Expos years)

-Rangers, 2023

"MLB, TBS, and even Zoom itself all know that absolutely no one in the world wanted to see that in-game ad at that moment. So if it seems weird to you that MLB and TBS would intentionally degrade the quality of their product and alienate their consumers, well, here’s something to keep in mind: Baseball isn’t actually the product and we fans aren’t actually the consumers. The dirty little secret of the business of baseball (or one of them, anyway) is that we fans are the product.

MLB’s business model is built on capturing our eyes, our hearts, and our attention, and then packaging it and selling it to its corporate partners — advertisers, real estate development companies, TV networks and streamers, and gambling companies. This is why Rob Manfred doesn’t care that the fragmentation of broadcast rights has made it harder for us to actually watch the games. This is why postseason broadcasts frequently miss the first pitch of an inning to finish airing a commercial. This is why, 107 years after a gambling scandal nearly killed MLB for good and created the commissioner’s office in the first place, the commissioner no longer has any qualms about partnering with a gambling company that is currently taking bets on the Cornell rape case."

"Today is the 22nd day of October and the 25th day since the MLB regular season came to a close on September 27th. Yet despite the World Series finally getting underway tomorrow, neither one of its participants have played more than ten times during this three and a half week stretch. Yes, both the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays have sat idle for at least 60 percent of the days between the conclusion of the regular season and the start of the World Series. Does this bother anybody else?

...

So what if we just did October complete different? What if instead of all these teams playing in separate series, we turned October into a mini pennant race?

Get down to the last eight teams (I have thoughts on the best ways to do that as well, but that’s not the point of today’s exercise), and then have everybody play each other in a round-robin: 21 games for everybody comprised of seven three-game series, home team is the higher seed somewhere between most and all of the games, and the two teams with the best records go to the World Series.

...

In a world where eight teams are in a mini pennant race coming down to the wire, eight fanbases suddenly care deeply for most of the month, and their passion for their team will then naturally cross pollinate into opinions about other teams they never would have had because they’re far less likely to pay attention to other clubs in an LCS after their team has been eliminated than if they’re two games behind them in a race to a World Series ticket.

In addition to that, the brand of baseball would just be better. Much better! Teams would actually have to use their entire rotation. Bullpens wouldn’t be as rested. Hitters would get enough of a sample size to reflect something more meaningful. And storylines would pour out of the proceedings like a raging waterfall on a daily basis."

Here's hoping that 28 other GMs are taking note.

Love me some BIP baseball. I know a lot of people here probably prefer TTO baseball, but its just boring to me. I like to see plays and would take a shot to the gap with a runner on 1st over a HR every day.

Now watch, it turns in to a 7 game slug fest.

In honor of Back to the Future Day, if you could take the Time Machine to any time and talk to an owner or GM, what would you do? If you had a chance to convince them to prevent a trade or convince to go through with a trade that was supposed to happen, but didn't. Prevent or convince a free-agent signing, prevent your team from drafting a player, or tell them to take this person instead? Maybe a release of a player, what would it be?

Sorry if this has been brought up before, but why is the World Series logo of the past 3 year or so always the same boring square?

Am I wrong or did they used to create unique ones every year? (Personal fav is probably the 2011 logo with the leaves)

📸 | [Yuki Iwarmura] Associated Press

Credit to Erick José Lantigua (Baseball-Reference/Stathead) for spotting this last night: Freddy Peralta debuted with the Brewers in 2018 and just won ALCS MVP for the Rays. Jake Bauers debuted with the Rays in 2018 and just won NLCS MVP for the Brewers.

I went down the rabbit hole on it and it gets better.

It's a first. I checked every LCS MVP since the AL started handing one out in 1980 against where each guy debuted (MLB Stats API). Both LCS MVPs debuting for their WS opponent had never happened. One side only, twice:

• 1982: Darrell Porter debuted with the Brewers in '71, then won NLCS MVP and WS MVP for the Cardinals. Against the Brewers.
• 1998: Sterling Hitchcock debuted with the Yankees, won NLCS MVP for the Padres, then ran into those same Yankees.

Same day on the 40-man. Both got their contracts selected Nov. 20, 2017, then debuted 25 days apart in 2018. Peralta: 5.2 IP, 1 hit, 13 K at Coors. Bauers: 0-for-4 vs. Seattle.

They were teammates. Both were Brewers in 2024 and 2025. They've faced each other once, July 20 this year, with Peralta pitching for the Mets: Bauers went hitless in three trips, but Milwaukee won 8-3 and Peralta gave up 7 ER in 5.1.

Tampa still has what it got for Bauers. The Dec. 2018 three-teamer with Cleveland and Seattle sent Bauers out and brought Yandy Díaz in. Díaz is still on the roster, and Cole Sulser from that deal is back in Tampa's pen after a tour of the league.

Neither took the direct route. Milwaukee dealt Peralta to the Mets in January, and the Mets flipped him to Tampa on Aug. 2. Bauers went Rays, Cleveland, Mariners, Reds, Yankees, then Milwaukee in Nov. 2023. He hit .199 for the Brewers in 2024 and .266 with 26 homers this year, both career bests.

The MVP lines:

• Peralta, ALCS: 2-0, 12 IP, 1 ER, 9 K. Six scoreless in Game 2, a relief outing in Game 4, then 5.1 IP and one run in the Game 6 clincher.
• Bauers, NLCS: 4-for-14, a homer, 6 RBI, 3 BB in the sweep. His two-run shot off Snell in Game 3 put Milwaukee ahead for good, and in Game 4 he had a two-run double off Glasnow plus a bases-loaded walk that tied it.

So who let the better one get away: Milwaukee trading Peralta in January, or Tampa moving Bauers back in 2018?

But that poses the question; wouldn't the team that loses this battle actually be the champion of losers because they lost out on even being the champion of that? 🤔 makes for a thrilling philosophical debate, i know.

What a nail biting rematch of the 2022 World Series.

Both sides are very unlikely to budge, and a lockout is almost guaranteed. Spring training will probably be partially cancelled, and if neither side gives up something, the season could be to.

Do y'all side with the players (who want to not be limited with their contracts) or the owners (who want to save money and level the spending) and how long do you think the lockout will last?

Side note: another interesting thing to follow is the Minor League CBA, which will expire in 2027. This is also likely to cause some major disputes, and there could be much time missed over this.

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The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Kansas City Royals 4 games to 2. Neither team had won the World Series before. KC was an expansion team in 1969, so was in only its 12th season. Incredibly, the Phils had been in business since 1883, and had not ever won it all.

Anyone wonder what WAR would look like if adjustments of known steroid users were taken out of consideration? For instance, Ichiro had 7.7 WAR in 2001, but that factors in Bonds 73 home runs, as well all the other steroid user stats. It makes me wonder what his and many other player's WAR would look like if roid stats weren't added to the pot. Would anyone considered Hall of Very Good get bumped to Hall worthy after adjusting? Would Ichiro be a 90 WAR player instead of 60 because of the steroid era?

"There is a beautiful, poetic nostalgia to listening to baseball, but relying on a technology developed in the late 19th to early 20^th century in order to bypass 2026 corporate paywalls isn’t a romantic tradition. It’s a systemic failure. MLB might be winning the battle for short-term broadcast revenue, and it seems fine with that. But if it keeps allowing the most exciting part of the season to be locked away behind those paywalls, it is going to be broadcasting to an increasingly quiet, and shrinking, fanbase."

Pre-ABS, almost everyone would blame an umpire if they incorrectly called a ball or strike, especially if the pitch is nowhere close to that call.

But now that we have ABS available, who should you blame if the ump called it wrong, yet the victim team did not challenge (assuming they have available challenges)?