2021 MLB Regular Season thread

I know an NL East team with a big hole at third because the top prospect may be a bust, and Soto hasn’t had an RBI this spring ...

 

Incredible stats.



I miss Tony very much. Had the pleasure to talk baseball with him a few times. My experience dealing with him has always been great.

 

I guess he isn't even good enough for them. He re-signed, but it is a minor-league deal.

 

Even with a good team, Padres have to bribe their fans not to sell their tickets to Dodgers fans

Padres: Don’t sell tickets to Dodgers fans, get a ‘special surprise’ instead By BILL SHAIKIN
It happens every year: The Dodgers play in Petco Park, and their fans overrun the ballpark.
This year, the San Diego Padres boast one of the best teams in baseball, and they would like to try something new when the Dodgers come to town.
A home-field advantage. And an incentive for fans to keep their tickets off the resale market.
With Petco Park operating at limited capacity to start the season, the Padres have decided not to sell single-game tickets for now. The Dodgers play at Petco Park on April 16-18.
“We really, really want our season-ticket members to hold on to their tickets,” Padres Chief Executive Erik Greupner said Tuesday during a media tour of Petco Park, “because our hope is they’re going to want to be here, dressed in brown and gold, cheering for this team, and we can get 100% Padres fans in the ballpark for those games.”
Padres fans could put their tickets for that weekend on the resale market and recoup much of the cost of the season ticket. As of Tuesday afternoon, StubHub tickets for this weekend’s series against the Arizona Diamondbacks started at $35, while tickets for the weekend series against the Dodgers started at $320.
“We’re going to be announcing … a special surprise for that weekend,” Greupner said, “for our season-ticket members that keep their tickets and come to the game. We’re going to have a number of really neat things for them that weekend.”
He did not reference the Dodgers by name, instead calling the Padres’ opponent that weekend “a team from a little ways up north.

 

LOL Padres hate capitalism.

 

Brown and Gold is THE WORST color scheme.

Unless ... they can find a tone of brown that works best with gold.

But the Padres' color scheme is the worst in all of sports. (Same can be said for Long Beach State sports.)

 

They'll still find a way in.

Signed,
Milwaukee Brewers

 

They got rid of that a decade plus ago

 

Yeah, the Beach has been black and gold for a while now.

 

Spring training homers are up:

The New Baseball Still Seems Juiced

 

For my fellow members of the tribe

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