2016 MLB thread. THE CUBS HAVE BROKEN THE CURSE! Chicago Cubs are your 2016 World Series champions

[kingfoamnyc]

Cueto rejected a 6 year/$120M deal from the Diamondbacks.

He's drunk

 

[johnnyredstorm]

Can't blame him for not wanting to play there

 

[paradise50]

Word, He'll get either that or more from another franchise

 

[proshares]

He might. Cueto's agents can't be happy with what Zimmerman got though. I'm not a big of the guy with one "ace" year but I thought he'd get at least $120mm.

 

[jewbacca2]

You know you're a ****** organization when someone says no to your $120 million

 

[nomnom]

chris young (of) to red sox

 

[kingfoamnyc]

chris young (of) to red sox

Noooo

 

[nomnom]

I forget that the Diamondbacks, Brewers, Marlins, and Rockies even exist sometimes

 

[EddieDoyers]

Arizona has a bunch of racists anyway

 

[nick.]

@TheCUTCH22: When your waiter does this... https://t.co/eune92wbka

 

[johnnyredstorm]

My deGrom jersey came in. So clean

 

[DeadsetAce]

chris young (of) to red sox

ok, ok...





that DeGrom jersey looks dope, JRS. always liked the Mets colors

 

[johnnyredstorm]

Thanks fam. Love the blue alternates. They did a great job with them.

 

[madj55]

Barry Bonds might be the Marlins new hitting coach.

 

[scalabrine]

Barry Bonds might be the Marlins new hitting coach.

Bonds working with Giancarlo.

 

[nick.]

Bonds + Giancarlo = :x

 

[celticspride34]

Bonds + Giancarlo = :x

Plus "the cream"...

 

[paradise50]

 

Barry Bonds might be the Marlins new hitting coach.

Bonds working with Giancarlo.

 

[T0INE]

 

Bonds + Giancarlo =

Plus "the cream"...

Can't forget the clear.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

I need that dump of Bonds stats celticspride34 I can't find where I saved it.

 

[macbk]

at Young going to Boston. Damn. But Cashman said it straight up -

“We love Chris Young,” Yankees GM Brian Cashman said. “He did a great job for us. Once we acquired [Aaron] Hicks, that was it [for trying to re-sign Young].”

JA Happ finessed those few months with Pittsburgh into a 3/36M deal with the Blue Jays. 

He was awesome down the stretch. Played right into that deal.

 

[nick.]

Young's a solid 4th outfielder behind JBJ, Betts, & Castillo

hate he had to go to Boston tho

 

[celticspride34]

I need that dump of Bonds stats celticspride34 I can't find where I saved it.

Google Bonds Alien God...

 

[nick.]

—Bonds drew 688 intentional walks in his career. There are 49 Hall of Fame position players who drew fewer walks of any kind in their entire careers.

—If Bonds had retired after the 1998 season, he would have done so with 99.6 career rWAR. This would rank him No. 32 all-time.

—If Bonds had retired after his age-27 season rather than signing with the San Francisco Giants, he would have done so with 50.1 career rWAR, more than 42 Hall of Fame position players.

—Bonds had a career line of .393/.967/1.054 on 3-0 counts.

—Bonds was once intentionally walked with the bases loaded.

—Bonds was intentionally walked with the bases empty 41 times.

—In the 2002 postseason, Bonds hit .356/.581/.978 with eight home runs in 17 games.

—Between 2002 and 2004, Bonds hit 136 home runs and struck out 146 times.

—If you turned every home run Bonds ever hit into an out, his career on base percentage would be .384, the same as Alex Rodriguez's.

—Between 1990 and 2004, Bonds was never lower than third in OPS, and he was third only three times.

—Bonds stole 340 bases through age 30; Derek Jeter has stolen 355 in his career.

—Bonds reached base just 330 fewer times than all-time leader Pete Rose, in 3,284 fewer plate appearances.

—Bonds opened the 2004 season with a stretch in which he reached base 45 times in 64 plate appearances, with nine home runs and four strikeouts.

—Bonds's slugging percentage in 2001 was .863. If that were his OPS, it would have ranked 27th in the National League, just behind teammate and defending MVP Jeff Kent's .877 mark.

—From 2002 to 2007, the only seasons for which data is available, Bonds made contact with 90.5 percent of strikes he swung at, varying from a seasonal low of 89.2 percent to a high of 93.7 percent.


—Bonds made 85 fewer outs than Ken Griffey Jr. did in 1,302 more plate appearances.

—Bonds had four sacrifice hits in his career. (Ted Williams had five; Hank Aaron had 21.)

—Through age 26, Bonds had 10.8 defensive WAR, more than any other outfielder in major league history other than Andruw Jones through that age.

—Bonds hit .333/.488/.576 against Pedro Martínez in 43 plate appearances; only Luis Gonzalez (of all people) hit him better.

—Bonds hit Randy Johnson for a 1.003 OPS in 62 plate appearances; no other left-handed hitter with 50 PAs did better than .888, and left-handers overall hit .199/.278/.294.

—After the San Francisco Giants moved to what is now known as AT&T Park, Bonds slugged .753 there in 1996 plate appearances, which is what Mark McGwire did in 1998, the year he hit 70 home runs.

—From 2001 to 2004, Bonds's on base percentage was .559; that would have been the 11th-highest slugging average in the National League during this period.

—Bonds's career rWAR of 162.4 is higher than those of Pete Rose and Nolan Ryan combined.

—Bonds took the extra base—advancing more than one base on a single, or more than two on a double—43 percent of the time, more often than Ichiro Suzuki.

—In his career, after going to a 3-0 count Bonds hit 30 home runs and struck out 25 times.

—In his 16 recorded bunt attempts, Bonds laid down two for sacrifices and picked up eight hits on the others, for a .571 batting average.

—Bonds hit 227 career home runs just off left-handers—more than 91 Hall of Fame position players hit in total.

—If Bonds were to return to the major leagues tomorrow, he would have to make 1,412 straight outs to drop his on base percentage below .400.

 

[nomnom]

Bonds Hall of Fame PLS