MLB 2025 - July

[Raziel]

Lopez is the same problem, playing someone out of position.  Candelario is a flyer as really, how bad do you have to be playing for Cincinnati to cut you?

[RIPPA]

I said they WOULD be playing not that they SHOULD be playing

[hammerva]

I don't know if this is going to be the best home run derby ever but it will definitely be the tallest and biggest.   Not sure what the MLB version of a Hoss fight is but we are definitely getting it.  

 

[paragon11]

Orioles have traded Bryan Baker to the Rays for a 2025 Competitive Balance (Round A) draft pick, #37 overall

[Dolfan in NYC]

Road winning streak ended last night for the Fish.

Also...

All hail, King Booker, indeed. 

[Hamhock]

Lee Elia has passed away at 87. Here's to one of the greatest manager rants ever:

 

[Craig H]

AND PRINT IT

I used to have a shirt with that screenprinted on it. I miss that shit. RIP Lee.

[RIPPA]

Cody Bellinger sure seems excited to play the Cubs

[RIPPA]

We have hit the stage where all the All Star pitchers are being replaced (namely because they are pitching this weekend so wouldn't be able to pitch in the ASG)

The note worthy one is that the Brewers Jacob Misiorowski has been named to the NL team

Misiorowski has played in 5 career games, throwing a grand total of 25.2 innings

It is the fewest games ever played by someone named to an All Star team beating the record set by... Paul Skenes last year

[RIPPA]

The Pirates lost today meaning that their all time franchise record dropped to .500 (10877-10877)

The last time their all time record wasn’t above .500 was 1903

[RIPPA]

Aaron Judge is the quickest player to hit 350 HR (in terms of number of games)

He hit it in his 1088th game. Mark McGwire had previously had the record at 1280

The next active player who will reach 350 will be Bryce Harper who has played in 1720 games so far

[odessasteps]

Cal Raleigh well on his way …

[Tabe]

15 hours ago, RIPPA said:

The Pirates lost today meaning that their all time franchise record dropped to .500 (10877-10877)

The last time their all time record wasn’t above .500 was 1903

I'm honestly surprised they weren't well under .500 already. 

[odessasteps]

That does make we want to see what the others are. Other than the Yankees and Cardinals  and probably Oddgers all being well over .500, I don’t know I’d solidly bet on any of the others. Maybe Minnesota being under thanks to all the bad Senators teams. 
 

for the curious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_all-time_Major_League_Baseball_win–loss_records

Edited July 13, 2025 by odessasteps

[RIPPA]

6 minutes ago, odessasteps said:

That does make we want to see what the others are. Other than the Yankees and Cardinals  and probably Oddgers all being well over .500, I don’t know I’d solidly bet on any of the others. Maybe Minnesota being under thanks to all the bad Senators teams. 

The Twins are approximately 700 games under .500

The Yankees are over 2600 games over .500. The Dodgers are closing in on being 1400 over .500 (they enter today 1382 games over)

I haven't found a list that is updated daily so I just look at BR's franchise pages (maybe they have the full list behind their paywall)

[RIPPA]

Specific to the Pirates - they have a 3 year run every 20 years where they make the playoffs consistently and bank about 15-20 wins

That staved things off for awhile

[odessasteps]

The Cubs are higher than expected, given their longstanding gimmick.

baltimore being so low is presumably due to decades of the St Louis Browns.

[Cobra Commander]

Reggie Willits has a son who went #1 overall in the draft. What a world

[RIPPA]

As per usual - the draft is littered with the kids of players that will make your bones ache

However - the Yanks drafted one who doesn't as they took one of Jeff Kent's kids and I was like "Jesus is the kid 32?"

[RIPPA]

Terry Francona got his 2000 career managerial win

13th person to reach that mark (2nd active - Bruce Bochy is the other)

[supremebve]

19 hours ago, Tabe said:

I'm honestly surprised they weren't well under .500 already. 

The Cleveland Browns are over .500 all-time.  Being great for a long time before any of us were born gives a great head start.

[RIPPA]

Per the Athletic - the sale of the Rays is happening

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A report from Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic says that a sale has been agreed to in principle which would see the club be sold from current owner Stuart Sternberg to a group led by Patrick Zalupski. The deal is worth about $1.7 billion and expected to be completed by as soon as September. The report adds that Zalupski plans to keep the club in the Tampa area, with a preference for Tampa proper over St. Petersburg.

 

[BobbyWhioux]

the whack-a-mole mallet of selling continues to miss John Fisher

Edited July 14, 2025 by BobbyWhioux

[Contentious C]

The last sentence in the ESPN article made me wonder how large the non-zero number is of people that call the Tampa Tarpons the Tampa Tampons.

[hammerva]

Can we have police stop bothering minorities and go after the people who made these All Star jerseys .  Jesus