Expired Game Threads

would never wish an injury on anyone
but if i were to do so…

https://bleacherreport.com/juan-soto-says-hes-best-mlb-hitter-ever

 

Best hitters ever don't play for four different teams by age 26. Best hitters ever are so coveted by their team, that the team does whatever is necessary to keep them.

 

Ohtani DH
Betts SS
T Hernández RF
Freeman 1B
Edman CF
Smith C
Muncy 3B
Rojas 2B
Pages LF

Snell SP

 

Let's do this!

 

Looking at the 26-man roster...

The only marginal players/surprises are Casparius, Garcia, and Jack Dreyer.

Casparius deserves to be there, until he proves otherwise. Glad to see he made the cut.

Dreyer - who??? I looked up his MILB stats and they're pretty solid. The 26 year-old pitched 14.2 scoreless innings for Tulsa last year, then in OKC (in a hitter-friendly league) he had a 2.95 ERA over 42.2 IP. Let's see if that success holds in the majors. He gave up two hits and a run in his one inning in the Tokyo series.

Luis Garcia. I'll be honest... I have no idea how he's on the team - or in the league for that matter - other than I think Davey always seems to want a charity-case on the roster whose career he thinks he can save (think Yohan Ramirez in '24). The one good thing as I previously noted is that his best seasons come in odd years (ERA in 2013: 3.73, 2015: 3.51, 2017: 2.64, 2019: 4.35, 2021: 3.24, 2023: 4.07). In even years, other than 2022, he's been atrocious (2014: 6.43, 2016: 6.46, 2018: 6.07, 2020: 7.56, 2022: 3.39, 2024: 4.88). However, even if 2025 follows suit and he has a good-by-his-standards year, the fact of the matter is that in twelve previous seasons he's been a fringe-at-best major leaguer. So I'll ask again, on a roster as stacked as this one, how's he on it? Hopefully he'll be used solely as the mop up guy in blowouts, but knowing Roberts, I bet not. Looking forward to Phillips, Kopech, or Graterol - or even Gonsolin - getting healthy and bumping this scrub off the team.

 

dreyer looked pretty good at times this spring iirc
vesia light

 

Good to know. Haven't seen him pitch yet. Sounds like he has the mental makeup.

 

Very cool.

 

Glad that FF is getting this moment, especially with his dad.

 

Kike out now with a stomach issue. So expect to see CTstrike3 later in this one. Woohoo!

 

I get wanting to be aggressive against Skubal, but seriously, can we get a little more than 8 pitches per inning out of him?

 

Not sure if you're joking bz, but over the past few years the Dodgers have been more patient at the plate than any other team. Regardless, like I said I get swinging away tonight. Just didn't want to see Skubal at 60-something pitches after 8.

On a different topic, Pages in the OF reminds me of myself when I used to play slow pitch softball, and that's not a good thing.