MLB 2018-19 Offseason Thread

Sure. They just have to get into Bob Nutting's wallet.

 

A day late, however, I just saw this now. Incredible how many great players missed MLB time due to war. Here’s one of the best to hold a baseball bat.

 

In the Giants organization alone, there was Christy Mathewson, who never recovered from inhaling mustard gas, and Eddue Grant, the player whose name was on the monument in center field at the Polo Grounds, from World War I.

 

I believe Mathewson had already retired as an active player by that time, however.

 

Ronald Acuna wins NL Rookie of the Year in a landslide:



Kind of surprised it was that lopsided.

 

Uh oh. Mariners fire trainer. She says it's basically cuz Jerry DiPoto is a racist and she called them on it.

 

Correct. Mathewson enlisted in 1918, and last pitched in 1916.

 

I guess Ohtani was able to overcome management's refusal to provide him proper seasoning in the minors.

 

Was there an annoying member here at one time that said that he should have started in the minors? I misremember.

 

Actually, no. There wasn't.