2021 MLB Regular Season thread

Appel still might make it. He's back in baseball with the Phillies and is killing it at triple-A.

 

I never thought he'd be available for the Angels at No. 9, and they passed him up for Sam Bachman of Miami (Ohio), whom they plan on making a starter long-term. That puzzled me, but then finding out his agent was Scott Boras, not as much -- word is that Moreno does not like dealing with Boras. Still, if Rocker becomes a star with the Mets and Bachman doesn't pan out, then the Angels front office is going to look really bad, as if they don't already.

 

I was wondering why the Angels, who seem to have money, passed on Rocker. Sounds like you have the answer. Boras seems to scare off plenty of teams, but those who are left are willing and able to pay his prices.
For a while there, I was terrified that the Washington Baseball Team, which already has MLB HQ and SCOTUS in its pocket, would luck into Rocker.

 

Anybody know if teams asked prospects at the combine if they were vaccinated? Or would that have been pointless? My guess is that the players, guided by their “advisors” and a general political bond, conspired to keep the silence, Omertà style.

 

The Angels finally make a good move. This guy is awful.

 

Holy crap I was just coming here to post this exact sentiment. My god he never shut up!!!

 

A few years ago, Boras talked the Tigers into taking a client of his in the ninth round who was recovering from Tommy John surgery
LHP Tarik Skubal, who flew under the radar at the University of Seattle, is now one of the building blocks in the Tigers rotation

 

This year is a really interesting one.
On one hand, the scouts say there's no clear No. 1 guy. Unlike when the Washington Baseball Team tanked and got Strasburg and Harper in consecutive years, this draft is considered hard to gauge. On the other hand, it has perhaps the most famous college player in a generation in Rocker, who rose to fame as a freshman with a 19-strikeout game in a Super Regional and then led his team to the precipice of another title in the next opportunity.
So every team that passed on Rocker is going to have its pick compared to him forever.
The Orioles, for example, now have to hope that a guy from the fucking Southland Conference can be better than the busts to whom said pick has been compared: Bradley Zimmer and Brandon Nimmo.
This whole deal proves that tanking in baseball is seldom worth it. Why subject your fan base to 100-120 losses a year for multiple years if you can't or won't use the resulting draft picks on the best available player?

 

I enjoyed "spin rate" and "exit velocity" for, oh, about 2 days. Then it became overbearing and he said it every damn time. Correct that he never shut up and he said the same things over and over and over again. Juan Lagares was a Gold Glove winner with the Mets. There's a fly to center, where Gold Glove winner Lagares makes the catch. Michael Sandoval from Mission Viejo High, is from Mission Viejo High, where he also played on the football team at Mission Viejo High and lives in Mission Viejo.
On nights he didn't work, he said he bought tickets and went to the games and rooted like a fan.

 

I am personally sick of the non-descriptor "parted ways."

That, and "hopefully".

 

A’s trying to fix a mistake: