/mlb/ general - Offseason Edition

ARZ:D'Backs officially name Lovullo new skipper
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CLE:Brantley (shoulder) resuming activity in Dec.
KC:Royals, Danny Duffy talk contract extension
HOU:Astros pick up Gattis' $5.2 million option
CLE:Tribe likely to make Napoli qualifying offer
CHC:Dexter Fowler to decline 2017 mutual option
CLE:Indians exercise Tito's 2019 and 2020 options
DET:Tigers exercise option on Francisco Rodriguez
LAA:Angels acquire OF Maybin, exercise '17 option
HOU:Astros claim OF Aoki off waivers from M's
SEA:Mariners exercise option on OF Seth Smith

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Royals

Daily reminder that being the Dodgers is equivalent to winning the WS for Giants fans

3rd for Yankees

So, which team is the least overshadowed secondary team now?

White Sox, A's, Angels, or Mets?

I dunno if Washington/Baltimore are one market

jays

EE pls ;_;

Angels

They're gonna be lit this season

>now that the cubs drought is over the hipsters, edgelords, contrarians that were cubs fans because of the losing and curse will now flock to the white sox on the other side of town for the same thing

good

I'd say either Jays will keep EE or Bautista, but not both since we are talking about Rogers here

>Flock to the White Sox
>Actually going to the South-side

Would those people actually be mad enough to do that?

Daily reminder that the Cleveland Indians are responsible for allowing the Cubs to win the world series

So are the Giants' bullpen and the Doyers batting

They were mad enough to root for a team with a 108 year drought

What would happen to the hipsters that flood chicago if both teams were good?

Probably the Mets for now. We'll see how long that lasts though

now that the cubs have won there really is no more point to the league anymore.

>Cubs WS celebration in Chicago is the 7th largest gathering in human history (5mil)

What are larger?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_peaceful_gatherings_in_history

over 30 million people took a bath together in 2013

>people with White Sox jackets wearing brand new Cubs hats

I'm dying inside

and that is exactly why cities shouldn't have more than one team

it breeds bandwagoners and casuals like no tomorrow.

I met a person like that, they say they're "fans of the city" and also have Bears plates with Blackhawks head and Bulls head stickers on their tailgate. It's not like it's a rare sight to see in a city this big.

>Spain's WC championship parade got 2.5 million people
>Germany's and Italy's got 500 thousand

You'd expect whole country victories in the only sport they care about to do draw a lot more people than a single city's.

Congrats Cusb fans

>Bears plates
hawks plates are so much more stylish

Why do the whos even exist? No one at all cares about them.

no jerry doesn't care about them

This is true, hes all about his precious bulls and leaves us to rot

But the bulls arent looking good either

The fuck is this old man doing

>nearly double the cities population showed up
>more than half the population of the entire metropolitan area showed up
>and I had to fucking work
God dammit.

...

>the largest gathering of bandwagoners in human history
ebin

Phil Nevin is leaving the D-backs organization as a Triple-A manager to be a 3rd base coach, reportedly

Welcome senpai

>being the dodgers
>being

you choked on the top of the thread m8, the most important area of the thread

>when kershaw tries to post on Sup Forums
>mfw

Hey, we got 1.75 million in 2005. It's not the Cubs but it's not nothing.

>(((2005)))
>Living this much in the past

>be me
>be in the gulf war
>i'm an actual top gun fighter pilot
>josh donaldson is my wingman
>"i got your back, you trust me?" he asks me
>mfw

That's not a typo though. Gnatsfags love LARPing as dodgers fans and samefagging.

What do you want? Woe is me posting?

I see Dodgers fans LARP as Giants fans too

You guys should just fuck already

C U B S
U
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LARPing it up is for fans of losing teams m8

its like the LA fans who LARP as Lebron James fans

Do players like jason hammel or tommy la stella get a ring? who desides?

Is it just the 25 man roster for the series? that kinda sucks for the 5th starter of winning teams unless they were used in the bullpen.

>taking a bath with 30 million poo in loos in the same river

>its like the LA fans who LARP as Lebron James fans

wat?

youtube.com/watch?v=rSZh7DivvYU

Nicaragua vs Mexico

How different do you think Game 7 would have been if they hadn't had a career .197 hitter as their last batter?

Francona's biggest mistake was taking out Coco

honestly these sort of hypothetical questions are so useless to think about.

So what?

what if hendricks strikes out santana in the 5th on the pitch in the zone called a ball. that's the third out and lester doesn't come in and those 2 runs never score anyway.

So many things you can point at and say 'what if it went this way'. but what's the point?

terrible managed game all together

maddon literally tried to give the indians a world series victory

>w-wat are you talking a-about?

Is Otani a hittuh or is he a stahting pitchuh?

I went ahead and updated the regular season TV ratings using the following: www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2016/09/28/here-are-the-2016-mlb-prime-time-television-ratings-for-each-team/ (>forbes)

Not an expert on TV stats, but the yaxis here has something to do with the performance of the average baseball broadcast relative to the rest of the city's media market.

(1/3)

(2/3)

This is just the raw number of households watching the average game, hence the domination of Yankees/Mets

elbow/bone spurs/Tommy John/shoulder
elbow/arm fatigue/strep throat
elbow/shoulder/bone spurs
elbow/Tommy John/forearm soreness/ulnar nerve
knee
shoulder/labrum tear
old/fat

>being under 2

(3/3)

Change in the ratings from last year. In case it's hard to tell, the line between gain/loss is between WAS and SF

Las Vegas or wherever Athletics when.

>old/fat

Don't worry James Shields, now that you are back in AL you will be saved from the humiliation of giving up a home run to a 40 year old pitcher only to get shelled by well ... everyone

>the whos actually GAINED viewers
Toppest keks

>cards resign Matheny

I finally know what it feels like to have no hope. This is fine.

lost 1995 nlds to the reds
lost 1996 nlds to the braves
lost 2004 nlds to the cardinals
lost 2006 nlds to the mets
lost 2008 nlcs to the phillies
lost 2009 nlcs to the phillies
lost 2013 nlcs to the cardinals
lost 2014 nlds to the cardinals
lost 2015 nlds to the mets
lost 2016 nlds to the cubs

>Rockies almost 40% viewer jump for a shit team

So this is the power of Trevor story

>A's

blame me, I have MLB.tv

That has to be front loaded as hell. No reason to watch the team after June/July.

>STL has one slightly disappointing season that other fanbases would be happy with.
>-20% viewers.

Best fanbase my ass.

>whos

there really is nothing cookie cutter about the white sox
very abstract

Did that lawsuit to end mlbtv blackouts ever go through so I can finally watch literally any relevant team in Illinois? At least I'm not in Iowa I guess.

Not sure, I live outside the A's market.

>Iowa
>Southern Nevada

...

>4th to last in attendance
>2nd to last in TV ratings

I tried to watch as many games as I could this past season especially with Benetti taking the helm and doing a decent job. Even after they collapse I was still watching and going to games because I just love baseball and most importantly my Sox

But I'm only one man...

Jerry and Kenny need to burn for this. God I hope they burn

Uhhh the Dodgers raped the 2013 Braves and 2016 Nats

And the 2008 Cubs and 2009 Cardinals

Some """"losers"""""

Is it a coincidence that the bottom 3 are all secondary teams?

apex kek, vasgersian is so based

youtube.com/watch?v=xXfIPB4RdKg

Are the Dodgers the new Barves?

Only if they win at least one World Series

>10 straight playoff appearances without a pennant

name one other team on that kind of streak
no one is worse than the doydoys

No, Braves were amazing and actually made it World Series. The Dodgers are just a consistently good team. Not great

The Dodgers are bottom feeders in a weak division

Ooooh the braves have 1 (one) WS win

The Dodgers have 5 (five) WS wins

Ok so raping teams like the Braves and Nats doesn't count? Name other teams that raped the Braves and Nats

That must make the Jints really bad.

>Name other teams that raped the Braves and Nats

the giants
the cardinals
the diamondbacks
the astros

etc.

Talking about the 90's braves you fucking idiot

And the Dodgers have 6. Don't sell yourself short fuckface

What? Jerry cares a lot more about the Sox

>montero gets a ring

good on him, part of that diamond back team that the doyers disrespected. he got to beat the doyers on his way to a ring. as a giants fan im actually kinda happy for him

The Cubs raped your shit team even harder though, cuck

You have to at least get to the World Series to earn some respect.

except most people put the Dodgers in the same class as the Yankees, Red Sox and Cardinals

um, you need to add the Angels to that class

Keep in mind that despite it all, the whos just had their best season since like 2012. That combined with the strong start probably explains most of it. Or maybe Chicago just likes art.

Probably not a coincidence for a couple of reasons. Bandwagoners will go to the better team, yeah, but having a secondary team is a sign of a big market so bad ratings look that much worse. Although I think LA has some weird shit with cable coverage that explains why at least the Dodgers are so low

Matt Wieters will be a Washington National next season.

ehhh, that's not how I look at it anger-pants. our pen wasn't going to get us anywhere regardless. we put up a decent fight, at the end of the day, put themselves in a position to have a game 5 in chi. good fight is all i was askin for.

good on montero tho man, thats awesome.

The angels aren't a secondary team

SANTA MARIA

Angels fan here btw

Vasgersian pls

'No'

Well, maybe not, but he sure won't be an Oreo.

youtube.com/watch?v=DJdDFadRinc

Japan vs Panama

Might be a preview of the gold medal game

keep telling yourself that and maybe, just maybe, someday it will come true.

He deserves a chance to catch one of the big names.
As long as he's out of the div, if he ain't staying. Barves have been getting our guys a lot lately, and just got our pitching coach.

This is the game thread now