The Red Sox continue to pick up “bargains” in the scratch and dent aisle. This time it’s Michael Fulmer, who they signed despite his being out for all of 2024 while he recovers from Tommy John surgery.
Comically, there are still pundits who think the team continues to look for a significant acquisition to allow them to be marginally competitive this season.
The dodgers could always use a decent pitcher …
Another sign that Ohtani worship has jumped the shark - a headline on ESPN dot com:
“Ohtani homers in his first live BP with Dodgers”
Oooh-wee.
Looking forward to the 2024 baseball season, featuring players wearing crappy uniforms with see-through pants.
https://www.si.com/mlb/2024/02/22/mlb-fans-roast-new-team-jerseys-transparent-pants
Hopefully a lot of teams will embrace their dark-colored alternate unis.
Snell moving north to San Francisco on a 2-year deal.
Damn. I posted that story earlier. I just placed it in the wrong thread. I accidentally put it in the Spring Training thread instead.
I would have liked to have seen Snell go to the Yankees with Cole injured but I understand why. At their luxury tax level he would cost $65 million each year.
Ohtani’s interpreter accused of stealing $4.5 million from him, apparently to fund a gambling addiction. If I was Ohtani, that’s the part I would be most pissed off about. If he’d bought sports cars and mansions and had lobster dinners every night, I could understand that, but he basically just burned it. What an asshole!
I would have said it the other way around: Mizuhara would have been a greedy asshole if he’d stolen simply to fund a lavish lifestyle, but the reality is that he’s an addict struggling with addictive behavior. The problem is that he doesn’t seem to be struggling very hard. No doubt Mizuhara isn’t earning as much as Ohtani, but I he’s a fluent and charismatic interpreter, so I would assume he’s well paid for what he does and should have been able to afford top-notch treatment for his addiction. Instead, he chose to indulge his addiction, to the point of imploding his own career and risking jail time for the theft of millions of dollars.
I wonder what Ohtani is going to do about such a massive betrayal.
I guess I’d just like my thief to have something to show for it, instead of just a pathetic gambling addiction and turned out pockets.
No doubt he’d found himself in a relatively modest hole to begin with, and racked up the millions while chasing a big bailout that he was never going to win.
With a Week to go, Yanks are hitting well, even Stanton found his stroke. Judge, is nursing an injury though and no Cole for at least first month or two. This could easily go longer though.
No Tommy John needed, nerve inflammation and edema instead. Treatment is no throwing for 3-4 weeks & then try to get ready.
LeMahieu’s bruised right foot means he may not be ready for opening day.
Given the changing story, I have my doubts that Ohtani was “betrayed” and didn’t at least have more knowledge then is being admitted.
For the sake of the game, I hope this story doesn’t turn to the interpreter placing bets for Ohtani. That would be a clusterfuck of epic proportion.
I like it. Karmic payback to the Dodgers for breaking my father’s heart in 1958.
MLB did put out a brief press release stating they are looking at Ohtani.
What an insane clusterfuck it would be if the translator was a proxy for Mr. Perfect. Banned from the MLB and I assume that giant contract voided.
(Effectively) former Orioles owner Peter Angelos has passed. He was 94.
Not to speak ill of the recently deceased, so I won’t. He did some good in his life, I suppose. His record as a sports owner was less than stellar is all I’ll say about it right now.
He wasn’t good for baseball, but hey he kept one of the Yankees main rivals crappy for 2 decades, so I guess that was good for us Yankees fans.
Didn’t he stand up for the players and their union a couple of times, arrayed against absolutely all of the other owners? Or am I mixing him up with some other Orioles owner, or somebody else?
Something about refusing to use replacement players, maybe?
My memory is foggy.