Is your baseball team the Number 1 team in your city?

What kind of WAR do you prefer to judge pitchers: bWAR, fWAR or 50/50?

Teoscar Hernandez just posted this on his Instagram story

Who’s a [mediocre] player you watched growing up you had an unbreakable bond with?

[Yakyu Cosmopolitan] Masahiro Tanaka, Yomiuri Giant

Has there been anyone that took up baseball late, like in their teens and then made the majors?

[Foolish] My favorite Rickey Henderson anecdote. Playoff teams get a set postseason bonus pool to distribute “shares” of. A full share for a World Series winning team in the 2020s goes for ~$500k, and Rickey wanted to give that equivalent to every employee who could really use that money.

Will the players’ union ever agree to a salary cap?

Who should be cover athlete for MLB The Show 25?

In MLB history has there been players guaranteed an MLB roster spot because of who he is related to?

MLB study identifies factors for rise in pitching injuries

[Calamis] Ballot #23 is from Kevin Kernan. Rollins picks up his second vote of the cycle & is now net +2, while Beltrán gains again & is +4, tied for the net gain lead with Wagner. Ichiro & CC also get votes, in addition to his holdovers.

Shohei Ohtani at sold out Guaranteed Rate Field - 6/26/2024

[Rodriguez] Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has reportedly rejected an extension exceeding $340 million dollars from the Toronto Blue Jays.

Rewatched Moneyball and was explaining to my wife that they never mentioned Tejada (or big 3 pitchers) who won MVP that year. Which led me to look into the MVP vote that year… how the hell did Tejada win over A-Rod?

[Mets] Signed Soto ✍️

[NightengaleJr] Twins aim to meet with Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki, whose agent suggests a “smaller, midmarket” team might be a good route

Ichiro expected to play a role in Mariners’ recruitment of Roki Sasaki

Today’s New York Post cover

[Heyman] The two New York teams are currently the favorites to acquire Soto now, though all five teams still in the mix. Yankees feel better about their chances now than before. Deal expected tonight or tomorrow.

[Passan] BREAKING: Right-hander Luis Severino and the A’s are in agreement on a three-year, $67 million contract, sources tell ESPN. It is the largest guarantee in the history of the A’s franchise. And even with the qualifying offer attached, Severino got well over market expectations.

Michael Kay rips Howie Rose for criticism of Rob Manfred’s ‘golden at-bat’ idea: ‘Something has to stop the erosion of this game’

Weighing in at over 600 lbs (or approximately two William Howard Tafts), Hawaiian sumo wrestler Konishiki throws out the first pitch at the 1998 Super Dome All-Star Series in Tokyo

The personal life section of Carl Everett's wikipedia page is wild

[Blum] Shohei Ohtani to recover baseball cards seized from former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara