2024 MLB Thread

[IdahoBert]

The guy who broke into her apartment realized who she was and robbed her anyway. He was already in trouble for having broken into a church on Christmas Day. 
 

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-03-mn-34270-story.html

[IdahoBert]

https://6abc.com/little-caesars-mike-ilitch-rosa-parks-paid-rent/1759779/
 

another article about this. 

[gehringer_2]

9 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

The guy who broke into her apartment realized who she was and robbed her anyway. He was already in trouble for having broken into a church on Christmas Day. 
 

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-03-mn-34270-story.html

This guy is like a 6 time loser at this point. Went to jail after the Parks robbery, after he got out he was busted again (2009), got out and busted again for a crime on the same MO in 2020.

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2020/03/man-who-attacked-rosa-parks-accused-of-similar-crime-in-grand-rapids.html

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[Motor City Sonics]

8 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

This guy is like a 6 time loser at this point. Went to jail after the Parks robbery, after he got out he was busted again (2009), got out and busted again for a crime on the same MO in 2020.

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2020/03/man-who-attacked-rosa-parks-accused-of-similar-crime-in-grand-rapids.html

I am no fan of police brutality, but someone who robs and physically assaults a weaker elderly person - it wouldn't bother me to see them get an errant elbow to the chin by the cops.     You know, an "oopsie". 

[papalawrence]

Dodgers reach tentative agreement with Yates. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/01/dodgers-sign-kirby-yates.html

[Dan Gilmore]

Really? As G2 said, All your…

 

[gehringer_2]

Per the link above,  the Dodgers are expected to owe something like $400M in luxury tax. If there are 15 teams getting equity payments, that $26.6M per team just in luxury tax revenue, just from the Dodgers.

Edited 5 hours ago by gehringer_2

[monkeytargets39]

The one voter who didn’t vote for Ichiro needs his credentials revoked

[4hzglory]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

Per the link above,  the Dodgers are expected to owe something like $400M in luxury tax. If there are 15 teams getting equity payments, that $26.6M per team just in luxury tax revenue, just from the Dodger.

 

i read their CBT number would be close to $400 and their tax payment would be $120 mil. 

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, monkeytargets39 said:

The one voter who didn’t vote for Ichiro needs his credentials revoked

Only Rivera and Jeter have gone in unanimously, so Suzuki is in good company.  

[Motor City Sonics]

1 hour ago, monkeytargets39 said:

The one voter who didn’t vote for Ichiro needs his credentials revoked

I agree.  I want to know the reason. 

Is it gonna be one of these "I have to protect the integrity of baseball and nobody can be allowed to be perfect" a-holes. 

 

 Maybe this is like the Pedo who didn't vote for Nolan Ryan.  

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, 4hzglory said:

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Per the link above,  the Dodgers are expected to owe something like $400M in luxury tax. If there are 15 teams getting equity payments, that $26.6M per team just in luxury tax revenue, just from the Dodger.

 

i read their CBT number would be close to $400 and their tax payment would be $120 mil. 

OK - thanks - I misread it - thought at the 4th tier they had to pay multiples of the overage.....so still about $8M per team just from the Dodgers.

Phillies, Dodgers, Mets and Yankees all over $275M AAV but the penalties depend on how many years they have been over and by how much so the total tax isn't a straightforward % of this year's overages. At any rate, it's interesting that the luxury tax payments are getting to where they are not trivial to the receiving teams.

[monkeytargets39]

9 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

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[monkeytargets39]

9 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

If 

That was a Randy Smith signing and Randy Smith talked this guy up like he was the greatest.     And flubbing the flyball in Weaver's no-hit attempt.  That was on the manager.  That was late in the game and Paquette had very little experience in RF, he should have never been out there in a no-hitter.   You put your best glove you can.   But of course, whatever ex-Padres Randy Smith had on that roster, they probably didn't even have a good RF'er.     Laziest GM ever.   Seems like all he did was deal with the Padres and his dad's team in Houston.   He drafted them, so by golly he's gonna prove he was right in Detroit by bringing all the stiffs here.     Oh don't get me started on Randy Smith.    The Matt Millen of baseball. 

Wasn’t the big selling point for Paquette was that he was Mark McGwires backup—so he must be good by the commutative property of talent.

[Tiger337]

Suzuki was a unique talent who spent a chunk of his prime in Japan.  He definitely belongs in the HoF, but he is a bit overrated.  He was the best contact hitter of his era, but he was also corner outfielder (a very good one) with a 107 lifetime OPS+.  

[gehringer_2]

6 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Suzuki was a unique talent who spent a chunk of his prime in Japan.  He definitely belongs in the HoF, but he is a bit overrated.  He was the best contact hitter of his era, but he was also corner outfielder (a very good one) with a 107 lifetime OPS+.  

We all know that the people that were close to him say he was capable of hitting for more OPS but he wouldn't - He was a man with an idea of what a proper ball player was and he stuck to it whether it was right or wrong!

[Tiger337]

11 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

We all know that the people that were close to him say he was capable of hitting for more OPS but he wouldn't - He was a man with an idea of what a proper ball player was and he stuck to it whether it was right or wrong!

He was probably capable of hitting for more power, but would that have lowered is OBP?  We'll never know. They used to say the same thing about Wade Boggs.  

[monkeytargets39]

Don’t ignore his elite defense/arm and baserunning.

[Tiger337]

36 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Don’t ignore his elite defense/arm and baserunning.

Right, he was a tremendous athlete, but it doesn't add up to elite value due to his position and lack of power.  I love variety in the game though.  I wish there were more players like him to make the game more interesting.