2018 MLB Spring Training Running Thread

Until someone gets to 3,500 hits with has a chance to play four or five more seasons at a high level, who cares? There's not a team in MLB that's going to let Altuve or anyone else hang on for five years in his 40s the way the Reds (and others) let Rose hang on.

Twelve hundred hits? Who gives a fuck?

 

He is the most likely player to beat Pete Rose. Who else has a better chance? Mike Trout has 1,040 hits through age 25, but his season high is 190 and that was in 2013. He'd have to pick up the pace to get in range.

Rose's hit record is looking more an more unreachable.

 

Huggy Jr has played against two of the kids from our area that were on the Canadian team. Pretty cool to see those kids get to that point. Great job by young Mr. Halladay too.

 

With all due respect to Trout, Rose had 200+ Hits in 3 of his first 6 seasons. With over 600 ABs 4 tines. He had 757 plate appearances in 1 season.
Trout has yet to have 200 hits on a season. And 600 ABs once.
Rose broke in at age 22.

Not take diminish Trout, he produces more runs than Rose, but Rose was the best at what he did. Get hits and score. Which is pretty much the object of the game.

The hit mark isn’t unreachable but after 7 years Trout isn’t at the 1/4 pole.

 

Mets lefty Vargas has broken right hand

 

Ichiro is going to play until he's 70, so he'll get there eventually.

 

It must be close to the season, because a good young Dominican player just got busted for PEDs:

 

He has no shot because he got to MLB too late, but the Mariners are kind of making Ichiro their Pete Rose. His WAR was negative last season.

 

Replacement level players who aren't Hall of Famers don't sell tickets.

 

So Ichiro will probably hit 248 with 1 HR and 4 doubles, but people will go to M's games because of him?

 

Some will. More than Unknown Guy sells. He's a fucking legend. You bet people will go see him.