MLB 2024-25 Hot Stove Thread

[outofplace]

So Topps put out a 1 of 1 Skenes card. The Pirates offered all kinds of booty to whoever pulled it. Topps says an 11-year-old kid in California wound up with it and rejected the Pirates offer. It's going up for auction and expected to fetch a million bucks.

11-year-old rejects big haul for rare Skenes card

Except there is no picture of the kid or his family with the card, no names attached, only pics of an alleged journal entry written by the kid about opening the card from a box he got for Christmas.

Now ... is this all a scam? Did an 11-year-old kid really pull this and write a three-page journal entry about it? Did Topps (or an employee) hold the card back, generate boatloads of sales for the cards, and then reveal this with a good story attached?

There are still questions to be answered.

Maybe we will get some of those answers when the auction happens, but why am I not surprised that the monetary value of the Pirates' offer was nowhere near what the owner of the card is expected to get elsewhere?

 

[jr/shotglass]

Pirates offered 30 years of season tickets behind home plate? Why do they want to torture the kid?

Second prize was 45 years of season tickets behind home plate!

 

[Della9250]

Pirates offered 30 years of season tickets behind home plate? Why do they want to torture the kid?

either way, it's a terrible offer to a kid from California. Like how does that even make sense

 

[Songbird]

Future MLB players played at this park in North Long Beach.

Went for a long walk around the park today, ended by taking a few photos of cerveza leaguers.

Bases loaded, 1 out, grounder to short ...

... what happened next?

A) 6-4-3
B) 6-4-threw it over the right field fence
C) E-6, 2 runs scored
D) 6 egg tossed to 4 who dropped it then got in a fight with the runner after getting taken out

Last time on this field was to cover a playoff game in '91 because they rarely made the playoffs and their stud pitcher was going to be drafted in the 1st round.

Panthers won that day.



"But here you are in the ninth/Two men out and three men on ... "

 

[micropolitan guy]

The thing is, there's just as much chance for Skenes to be the next Gary Nolan, Mark Pryor, Kerry Wood or Wayne Simpson as there is to him being the next Tom Seaver, Fergie Jenkins, Nolan Ryan or Verlander. Nothing is guaranteed when it comes to the elbow and shoulder.

Of course I hope he stays healthy. But baseball is full of hard-luck phenom stories.

Karl Spooner was expected to be the next great lefty for the Brooklyn/LA Dodgers, not Sandy Koufax.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I guess all this says is that the hardest hitters hit the ball hard. Still, it's intriguing ... and how about that Oneil Cruz?

EDIT: Can that be accurate without an appearance by Schwarber or Harper?

 

[bigpern23]

I guess all this says is that the hardest hitters hit the ball hard. Still, it's intriguing ... and how about that Oneil Cruz?

EDIT: Can that be accurate without an appearance by Schwarber or Harper?

I think what it really says is that Giancarlo Stanton hits the ball harder than anyone in baseball.

 

[Hermes]

The one good thing about watching Giancarlo Stanton crush my hopes in October is at least I didn't have to wait to see if the ball would stay in the ballpark. The execution was quick and painless.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I guess all this says is that the hardest hitters hit the ball hard. Still, it's intriguing ... and how about that Oneil Cruz?

EDIT: Can that be accurate without an appearance by Schwarber or Harper?

Gary Sanchez: "What the heck am I doing here?"

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

An overpay?

 

[tapintoamerica]

I guess all this says is that the hardest hitters hit the ball hard. Still, it's intriguing ... and how about that Oneil Cruz?

EDIT: Can that be accurate without an appearance by Schwarber or Harper?

If it's designed to show the players who delivered the 50 highest single-event exit velocities rather than averages, I suppose it's possible.

 

[FileNotFound]

An overpay?

I think it's reasonable. Solid defensive player who will generate some offense. Definitely indicates that things aren't going well for Wander Franco.