MLB 2018 regular season thread

Watch the home run that Harper just hit.

 

I remarked the other day to a friend that this is one of the most desperate marketing ploys I’ve seen from a team—perhaps setting side when the Nets would give away reversible jerseys WITH A PLAYER FROM THE OTHER TEAM when in purgatory before their move to Brooklyn.

 

Sorry, couldn't resist:

 

Then drug-test him.
Twitter going bananas for future Cubs CF Bryce Harper.

 

Not really them being cheap, but more like they didn't want to go 10 years with Cano.

 

That's a fine line. If it was a small market team, you would call that cheap.

 

The one free agent they wanted to keep that they lost in the last 20 years? Maybe ever? One stacked against decades of keeping every player they want and buying big-money talent through trades or free agency. I think it's fair to give them one time they thought it was just too much.

 

See my response to pern. It is the one example you can find in decades of spending money like it was water.

 

Even for big markets nowadays, 10 years is a major investment, especially giving one to a 31-year-old.

 

Crowds are smaller in the minors.

The Angels have asked Shohei Ohtani fans to quiet down during his at-bats