Ken
Rosenthal Ken_Rosenthal
Right-hander
Justin Jarvis has signed a minor-league deal
with the Dodgers, source tells The Athletic. Jarvis, a fifth-round pick of the
Brewers in 2018, was traded to the Mets for Mark Canha in 2023. He split last
season between AA and AAA, working as a starter and reliever.
Mike
Mayer @mikemayer22
The Mets
have signed outfielder Rafael Ortega to a minor
league deal. He gets an invite to major league camp.
Ortega
played in 47 games for the 2023 Mets.
Mike
Mayer @mikemayer22
Betting
odds to land Corbin Burnes via DraftKings:
+450 Mets
+500 Red
Sox
+550 Cubs
+600
Orioles
+750
Padres
+750 Any
other team
+800
Dodgers
+850
Giants
+900
Tigers
+1000 Yankees
+1100
D-backs
+1500
Astros
New York
Porch Sports @nyporchsport
The
Savannah Bananas requested a meeting with Juan Soto.
“They’re
real players in this,” Jon Herman reported on his podcast.
Spotrac @spotrac
Per an AP
MLB report, the Yankees will gain about $15M in additional revenue this coming
season per their agreement to allow the #Rays to play their home games at
Steinbrenner Field.
Matt Weyrich @ByMattWeyrich
Largest salaries on the Rays’ payroll for next season:
1. New York
Yankees ($15M)
T-2. Brandon Lowe ($10.5M)
T-2. Jeffrey Springs ($10.5M)
4. Yandy Díaz ($10M)
5. Pete Fairbanks ($3.817M)
National
Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum @baseballhall
The Year
of the Pitcher was the year of Bob Gibson, who
was named NL MVP OTD in 1968.
Over his last 25 starts of the season, he logged 23 complete games
with 13 shutouts. In that stretch, he never worked fewer than eight innings per
start.
Jim
Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball
"How
can a guy win a game if you don't give
him any runs?"
"Philadelphia
fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets, and
the Liberty Bell."
“Right
now I feel that I’ve got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned.”
Bo Belinsky
"No
one hit the ball harder than Frank Howard. He
was the strongest I ever saw. I saw him hit a line drive off Whitey Ford at the
stadium that Whitey actually jumped for, it was hit that low. It ended up hitting the speakers behind the monuments in
dead center. I told Whitey, later that it was lucky he didn't catch it because
it would have drug him to death."
Mickey Mantle
As Hank Aaron came to the plate in the 1957 WS, Yogi
tried to distract him by saying: “Henry, you’re holding your bat wrong. You’re
supposed to hold it so you can read the trademark. You're gonna break that bat.
You've got to to be able to read the label."
23 year
old Hank Aaron calmly replied.
"Didn't
come up here to read"
Aaron hit
.322 that season
"There
are some guys you go hitless against and it doesn’t bother you. What you tell
yourself is, 'Well, I got a piece of him', or at least 'I fouled one off'. But
this guy makes you go 0-for-4 & you feel humiliated. He doesn’t give you a
single thing. He strips you naked right there in public. Trying to hit that
thing he throws is like trying to hit dead weight"
Orioles
Paul Blair on Vida Blue, 1971
39
starts, 24-8 record, 1.82 ERA, 24 complete games, eight shutouts, 301
strikeouts, 88 walks in 312 innings pitched.
“We have
trouble because we have so many Negro & Spanish-speaking players on this team. They are just not able
to perform up to the white ball player,
when it comes to mental alertness. You can’t make most Negro & Spanish
players have the pride in their team that you can get from white players.”
Mgr. Alvin Dark to Stan Isaacs of "Newsday",`64
12 comments:
Frank Howard was a mountain.
Hank Aaron had those wrists.
Vida Blue or Doc Gooden - who do you pick?
Let's get Corbin Burnes. George Burns is too old.
Savannah has a real shot at Soto. Greg Soto, that is.
Amazing new revenue source for the Bronx Bombers. Also amazing it will take Tampa so long to fix that hurricane damage.
I wonder what Alvin Dark would have to say about today's Japanese players?
The pitchers back then. Number of starts . innings pitched. Mostly in a four man rotation. What would Blue, Gibson, Seaver, Catfish and others get in today's market?
Both Gooden and Blue put up great numbers in the beginning. I think if you could have kept Gooden "healthy", I think I would have taken Gooden. Different eras but both great pitchers.
Doc
A lot of disasters down there
Not Asians for sure
I lived thru those days and I can't come up with one reason why it can't be duplicated now
I remember a Howard HR in the 63' WS sweep of the Yanks and loved it. On Alvin he was "Dark" and maybe he was related to Al Campanis.
In no specific order:
1. There used to be pitchers, that would pace themselves and whose job was to get outs. Now there are throwers that are expected to throw as hard as they can on every pitch and not worry about how many outs they get.
2. That stunt will backfire on the Rays. Yes, it’s a nicer park but now they aren’t getting the funds they need and the 2028 project is in jeopardy. What happened was that Tampa stadium is in Hillsborough County but the new stadium would be in Pinellas County. It seems that the County asked the Rays to play in Clearwater, home of the Phillies spring park. But, due to better facilities and more seating, the Rays went out of the county to the Yankees’ park. Now, Pinellas County has canceled the vote concerning the new stadium due to “other priorities” and they aren’t sure when they’ll get back to it. Seems the timeframe to be ready for 2028 was pretty thin and if the vote isn’t soon, the stadium won’t be ready. The County doesn’t care, and the Rays owner is talking relocation.
3. Today is D-Day regarding who to add on the 40 man. After thinking about it all day yesterday and this morning, I agree with Mack: don’t add anyone. If the AAA ball is really the major league ball, and these guys have this walk rate with it, there’s no sense of worrying who will take them and hang onto them all year.
I saw Al Campanis’ actual statement several years ago. His crime was that he was honest. In the interview, he was asked why minorities don’t get more managerial positions, and he said that in baseball, they are considered less prepared mentally. That’s exactly what Alvin Dark said, that’s how black quarterbacks in football were viewed, and he was stating the general consensus. Well, had he not been so honest and said, “I don’t know”, he may never have been the fall guy for baseball’s shame.
Gus
I saw that interview live by Ted Koeppel (sp?)
Ted sat there stunned and asked again, giving the dumbshit an opportunity to alter his statement
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