2025 MLB Thread

[Motor City Sonics]

On 4/2/2025 at 9:30 AM, chasfh said:

I have just taken what I think is actually a pretty good survey by MLB about my fandom, and I have provided my most salient opinion.

I can't listen to 97.1 anymore because of all the sports gambling ads.   Enough already.    I know I am not as into sports as I once was because I am older and have other things going on, but the sports betting aspect is ruining everything.   Just like the money is just destroying any good parts of college sports now.   I don't want USC and UCLA in the Big Ten.  And yes, while the schools make a fortune, the guys risking their bodies deserve to get paid, but it went from nothing to completely out of hand with no adjustment to it and it just doesn't feel legit anymore. 

[casimir]

17 hours ago, lordstanley said:

I really hope the Dodgers don’t match or beat 35-5.

They still have to go 27-5.  27-5 is a helluva month.  And they’ve already got 8-0 in the bag.  That 35-5 is just incredible.

[casimir]

10 hours ago, 1776 said:

I don’t even open those survey links anymore. One of the first questions that they ask is your age. Being a realist, I know they don’t give a **** what a 70 year old fan thinks. 
 

The whippersnappers in the league office probably refer to your generation as “the complete gamers”.

[monkeytargets39]

And just like that, the Twins are back in the cellar where they belong

[IdahoBert]

1 hour ago, casimir said:

They still have to go 27-5.  27-5 is a helluva month.  And they’ve already got 8-0 in the bag.  That 35-5 is just incredible.

The Dodgers don’t even have to play the Padres until June. 

[Motor City Sonics]

50 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

The Dodgers don’t even have to play the Padres until June. 

Horrible scheduling overall.    Tigers are lucky they got out of it at 2-4. 

[IdahoBert]

Freeman (ankle) lands on 10-day injured list

[Tenacious D]

14 hours ago, chasfh said:

The first question I usually see in these surveys are, “How much would you recommend [Our Product] to a friend?” It’s the most useless question they could ask when it comes to true product feedback, but the most valuable to marketing efforts.

NPS, baby!

[Tiger337]

8 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Horrible scheduling overall.    Tigers are lucky they got out of it at 2-4. 

I'm not sure what that means.  The way the league is set up, they have to play the Dodgers and have to play west coast games.  They got some of that out of the way early and the good parts of their schedule are yet to come.  .  

[Motor City Sonics]

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I'm not sure what that means.  The way the league is set up, they have to play the Dodgers and have to play west coast games.  They got some of that out of the way early and the good parts of their schedule are yet to come.  .  

Not just the Tigers, but not having the Dodgers and Padres play until June?     That's ridiculous.      

[chasfh]

14 hours ago, casimir said:

They still have to go 27-5.  27-5 is a helluva month.  And they’ve already got 8-0 in the bag.  That 35-5 is just incredible.

And to me, the most baseball aspect of that 35-5 start is how the Tigers went to Seattle and promptly got swept.

[chasfh]

9 hours ago, Tenacious D said:

NPS, baby!

I’ve been out of the game for a long time now so I was not aware of NPS. But I am now.

https://zapier.com/blog/nps-net-promoter-score/

[Klondike]

The Alex Bregman trade hasn't help Devers out any. 0-19 with 15 k's. I can see this not working out.

[TigerNation]

For anyone interested in learning more about the torpedo bats, and more so just the science in optimizing bat making for performance, the Rates& Barrels podcast had a good podcast discussing it.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4sqvvURplhWc4UMIMqWorB?si=ZNJ9scsBStCRTFBJfigTWQ

[lordstanley]

19 minutes ago, TigerNation said:

For anyone interested in learning more about the torpedo bats, and more so just the science in optimizing bat making for performance, the Rates& Barrels podcast had a good podcast discussing it.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4sqvvURplhWc4UMIMqWorB?si=ZNJ9scsBStCRTFBJfigTWQ

And a Wall Street Journal article about the MIT scientist behind it.

https://www.wsj.com/sports/baseball/mit-scientist-torpedo-bats-new-york-yankees-bfdeacd9?st=LhGSSx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

[Tiger337]

8 hours ago, Klondike said:

The Alex Bregman trade hasn't help Devers out any. 0-19 with 15 k's. I can see this not working out.

Should OF picked the Tigers!  No position conflict at all.  

[Hongbit]

The Cincinnati Reds have not scored a run in the last 33 innings. 

[1776]

The Dodgers lost to the Phillies. Need more of this.

[1776]

11 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

The Cincinnati Reds have not scored a run in the last 33 innings. 

That’s what they get for firing Sparky. 

[chasfh]

Look what arrived in my inbox from the good people at MLB Marketing:

 

This is ostensibly a daily newsletter. That’s how they promote it, anyway.

[Hongbit]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Look what arrived in my inbox from the good people at MLB Marketing:

 

This is ostensibly a daily newsletter. That’s how they promote it, anyway.

They are so out of touch with today’s MLB.    The subject should’ve read:

Phils deal Dodgers first loss. FanDuel now has the Dodgers +300000 to go 161-1

[1776]

The MLB website is nonstop hyperbole about nothing. 

[chasfh]

It’s no accident their “news” letter comes from the email address info@marketing.mlbemail.com. It’s completely out in the open that their focus is to privilege those teams and players they perceive as superior revenue generators over all others. They’re not even trying to hide that they favor and even root for the Big Six teams and their temporary honorary members (currently the Braves, Orioles, and Phillies) over nobody teams like the Tigers. Maybe Scott Harris can succeed in achieving honorary membership for us in a few years and make it last for a while. But we’ll almost certainly never be a Big Six team. This is the state of the MLB business model, and if you love baseball played at the highest level, you’ll accept it or you’ll find another sport to follow instead. 

[casimir]

On 4/4/2025 at 8:41 AM, chasfh said:

And to me, the most baseball aspect of that 35-5 start is how the Tigers went to Seattle and promptly got swept.

I want to say I remember watching that final game, a Sunday game, and a Mariners fan jumped onto the top of the Tiger dugout with a broom and started joyfully sweeping.

[Hongbit]

The Astros entered the day 3-4 despite their 2 - 6 hitters batting .125/.120/.179/.111/.130 with 3HR and 10 RBI

Edited 19 hours ago by Hongbit