/mlb/ general - LORD OF THE RINGS edition

COL: Holland gets qualifying offer from Rockies
CHC: Closer Wade Davis extended qualifying offer
CHC: Arrieta receives qualifying offer from Cubs
STL: Cardinals release Trevor Rosenthal (elbow)
STL: Lance Lynn extended qualifying offer by Cards
CLE: Carlos Santana gets qualifying offer from CLE
TB: Alex Cobb gets qualifying offer from Rays
TEX: Rangers decline Mike Napoli's '18 option
BAL: Welington Castillo declines option, hits FA
CIN: Cozart won't get qualifying offer from Reds
SF: Giants exercise option on Madison Bumgarner
KC: Royals extend qualifying offer to OF Cain

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

Wait, so does this mean Ohtani is officially coming to the MLB now?

Royals

Yeah, it was reported awhile ago that he was ignoring the potential pay day if he waited and wants to play in the MLB ASAP

At this point it feels like there is just Goldschmidt fatigue like with Peyton and Lebron, where common sense says it should go to them but they have so many already you find any excuse to give it to literally anybody else
The problem is he has 0

Man

So I assume the issue with his team wanting a $20 million posting fee that they'e been talking about all week has been solved? I know that was the only thing keeping him back.

Nats desu senpai

Nigger you are high if you believe Goldschmidt deserves it more than Stanton or Votto

Is it true that the Texas Rangers own the state of Texas?

Yes its in their name.

Good thing they put the player with objectively the best season on the cover this time

no, they only have statewide jurisdiction to act as an independent police force

>the player with objectively the best season
Bullshit. Jose Ramirez had more triples.

Votto is the NL MVP this year, but doubt he wins cuz the Deds sucked. But when you dive into his numbers his season was historically amazing.

208 strikeouts
37 consecutive games with a strikeout
.178/.337/.370. during the streak
>best season

>If I point out these stats from an arbitrary timeframe, that'll sure prove that he didn't have a good season.

Irrelevant. Jose Ramirez was ranked 11th in triples. The voting's already over.

And yet Fishman got it last year despite the Angelels being shit

When will Kershaw get his first ring?

>Stroman
>Happ
>Estrada
>Otani
>Andersen/Biagini

who stop???????

Yeah, but he was clearly better than Dookie Butts, while Stanton and Votto had comparable seasons production wise

i h8 2 brake it 2 u m8 but ur not getting shohei

That's "Future Yankee Legend Shohei Otani" to you

actually i have a buddy who lives in japan and hangs out with him sometimes...he says he "refuses to join the 'colonialist' american league east"

Big if true.

My boy Trout got robbed of 3rd place in MVP voting desu

Pansy ass BBWAA needs to learn to show some respect to GOATs

>GOAT
>Has patchy facial hair
pick one.

tfw World Series Co-Winner

Otani coming to the Rangers.

>In terms of top talent, the Royals are last. In terms of supporting talent, the Royals are last. In terms of depth, the Royals are last.

fangraphs.com/blogs/i-have-learned-something-bad-about-the-royals/

...

They should've sold at the deadline, but their retarded asses ACTUALLY and UNIRONICALLY thought they had a chance to compete.

How does the weeb league work? No DH, all DH, or split up like NL/AL?

The three compensatory draft picks they're getting before the second round will be more valuable than anyone they would have gotten for the three players in question.

Highly unlikely, but I don't want you to lose any sleep over something you had no control over.

split like NL/AL

Meant for

Look at how long the legs are on this guy lol
Can you imagine

MARINERS!

>implying Ken Griffey Jr. didn't objectively have the best season of 2017.

fastest baserunner?

has anyone checked in on kyle

He got out right?

a few months ago, i think

We had a thread when he was released
He's still a dumbass

It wasn't so much that as sentimentality I think. All those guys were basically raised in the organization. They didn't want to break up the family if they didn't have to. Top brass forgot that it's a business not a daycare. Still, all those guys are basically deities in KC. That being said, they have made some terrible decisions ever since they won, so I'm not really sure about what they should do.

I've heard that. I hope you are right.

>le roided ball dinger meme man MVP finalist
kek I thought that joke died when they lost their last like 30 games

...

Was there anything more annoying than Yankees fans pretending they were the underdog this postseason?

Yankees fans excusing their failure in the ALCS as a "rebuilding" season

Dodgers fans doing everything they do

the fucking tmobile commercial baseball fan guy

Our Heel-Face turn was genuine. Yankees players have personalities now; we're not the faceless win machine anymore.

...

>Yankees players have personalities now;
who? dingers isnt a personality

didi is pretty fuckin' based, friend

Todd "Joisey" Frazier, dats who.

That's true if you trust the talent evaluation in the organization.

The only reason Judge is on the cover is because he was available while Altuve couldn't make the photo shoot since his team's season wasn't over yet.

The Los Angeles ____ have the best regular season record in the 2010s

no one cares

REMINDER:

THE ASTROS ARE WS CHAMPIONS AND YOUR SHIT TEAM ISN'T

please kill yourself you pathetic faggot

REMINDER: THE ASTROS STILL COULDN'T BEAT THE YANKEES AT HOME

2015: Dodgers lose in NLDS
2016: Dodgers lose in NLCS
2017: Dodgers lose in WS
2018: ?????

Doyers lose in WC, have to complete the set.

ummm no sweeties i have it on deep beisbol berd web news that based lucky guy Munenori Kawasaki is personally seeing to it that Otani becomes a blue jay for life. hugs and kisses xo

>implying they didn't throw those games purposefully so they could win the series in front of their fans in houston and not in front of a bunch of stupid, obese retards in poo york

STAY MAD STANKEES DUMB ASS. THE ASTROS ARE WS CHAMPS AND YOUR PACK OF SHITTERS AREN'T. LMFAO.

then the yankees couldnt beat the astros at home...?

2018: Dodgers don't even make it out of spring training.

lose in the wild card

t. angry stankees idiot with erectile dysfunction

hey mlb, remember when the dodgers won a world series?

i sure do, it was two years before the much less bankrolled reds won their most recent ring

Remember when the Chicago Cubs was supposed to be a dynasty?

That's not Joey Votto though

Yeah, that was breddy funny

Remember when the Dodgers were supposed to be the best team ever?

he won't because nigcarlo hit muh dingers

good for the barves keeping him away from 60

>The only reason Judge is on the cover is because he was available while Altuve couldn't make the photo shoot
San Diego Studios employee here- this is true. We were just going to photoshop Altuve on the cover anyways, but as you can see, we realized there were graphical constraints we couldn't overcome.

Judge was objectively much better than Votto this year

2018: Kershaw chokes even harder than ever before, throwing down his glove and running out of the ballpark with tears streaming down his face as he blubbers incomprehensibly

>better

>not white

pick one

Smart move. Manlets simply aren't marketable.

...what?

Um, his name's actually Joe E. Votto? Nobody calls him Joey, he's an adult.

kek

this is the real reason probably, judge better fits a marketable aesthetic, even though altuve is actually the better player. the only way they can let him play is by putting him in the outfield so he doesnt fuck up any double plays with his lack of agility and speed.

Only thing this pattern tells me is that the Dodgers will lose in the postseason again

this is really funny and you should get more credit for being clever

LMAO STAY MAD STANKEEKEK

>judge better fits a marketable aesthetic
but what about his weird face?

Reminder that the Cubs are fraudulent and the drug results WILL be released

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Everyone is invited to the r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶choker ceremony on March 29.

Dodgers choke in the postseason

Wait what

I thought he wasn't eligible for parole at all because of the terroristic threats part.

he got early release, there's no question he's on hardcore parole

>terroristic
this retarded made up word rustles my jimmies. it's "terrific"

Is he shedding?

The dodgers congratulating the Astros in the paper is the biggest cuck move I have ever seen. No true fan would support this bullshit