MLB 2024-25 Hot Stove Thread

[qtlaw]

Verlander or Scherzer? In 2025…..

 

[swingline]

Scherzer is the best pitcher from Missouri with one blue eye and one brown eye.

 

[HanSenSE]

For those scoring at home.

And just because we're a journalism board sometimes, SF Chronicle and other Hearst papers tell Fisher to eff off, will use SAC designation in agate, ect., and even call them the Sacramento A's.

(may be paywalled)

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Good. fork 'em.

 

[swingline]

As a paper, did you ever use "The Allstate"
Sugar Bowl instead of just Sugar Bowl? I cut the advertising name every time in copy. We're not required to be an advertising vehicle for sponsors; they get plenty of ball washing from TV people.

All of which is to say, fork the A's.

 

[Songbird]

Dodgers are going hard at the Padres on the socials.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

And just because we're a journalism board sometimes, SF Chronicle and other Hearst papers tell Fisher to eff off, will use SAC designation in agate, ect., and even call them the Sacramento A's.

(may be paywalled)

How nice, there are actually some media with a backbone. Maybe the White House Press Corps should take a few notes.

 

[maumann]

Jack Flaherty reunites with the Tigers. Two years, $35M with an opt-out after one. Still only 29 even though it seems like he's been in the bigs forever.

Wondering if GM Scott Harris has one more big move (Bregman?) or if he'll stick with what he's got and patch up the other holes with cheap spring training castoffs.

 

[MileHigh]

As a paper, did you ever use "The Allstate"
Sugar Bowl instead of just Sugar Bowl? I cut the advertising name every time in copy. We're not required to be an advertising vehicle for sponsors; they get plenty of ball washing from TV people.

All of which is to say, fork the A's.

Back when I was doing it years ago, yes, I would cut the sponsor name if I could.

 

[SixToe]

Is "West Sacramento" really the name of the city? Or is that a trendy/silly/semi-region-area name akin to SoHo, or The Gulch in Nashville, or "North Dallas."

 

[dixiehack]

No, it is a separate city.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Pete Alonso back to the Mets. Two-year deal, opt-out after first year. $30 million for 2025.

That's a very good lineup. And they'll need it in the NL East.