MLB 2024-25 Hot Stove Thread

Makes sense.

 

My favorite Ohtani stat: In 2022, he played in 157 games and stole 11 bases in 20 attempts. In 2024: 159 games, 59 steals in 63 tries. Highest success rate for any player stealing 50 or more bases.

 

Not gonna lie, the MLB game inside the oval at Bristol is kind of intriguing me. Did learn today the track is on the Tennessee side, not the Virginia side. I could spring for the eight benjamins for the great seats if I had to. The other seats look shit.

 

The A's and Rays might not draw as many fans in 2025 as that one game in Bristol.

 

They call it the Junior Circuit for a reason.

Braves and Reds will create a crap-ton of demand just for the regionality of it. Also locks in the obviousness that future Nashville will be an AL market either via expansion or relocation (Rays?).

 

If you put the Rays in Nashville, do they stay in the east, or do you force or entice the Guardians to move to the East?

 

Detroit was in the East before the Rays were around. Never knew why they were in the East and Cleveland was in the Central.

 

I always half-jokingly wondered if they saw Cleveland was building a powerhouse in the early 1990s and wanted to balance out the divisions. Imagine the AL East in 1995-1999 if Cleveland, New York, Baltimore and Boston had been in the same division. Absolute insanity where teams good enough to win 100 games sat in October.