MLB 2022 Regular Season Thread

[HarleyQuinn]

Yeah man and how long does someone have to work to make 388 bucks? The current rate of society and pricing for family outings is totally unsustainable.

Depending on the pay rate a person has...

Let's say they make a relatively solid $35/Hour = 11 Hours
More typical $22/Hour = 18 Hours
Slightly below average $17/Hour = 23 Hours
Low End $13/Hour = 30 Hours

The folks making $13/Hour probably aren't attending many sporting events and it's even arguable for a $17/Hour worker. Even the $22/Hour is almost half a 40 hour full-time work week.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I really think baseball has lost sight of its roots. It used to be a working class sport but as HQ alluded to, it's getting really hard for a poor person to attend a game. And I feel like baseball is pretty low on the totem pole of sports that interest the wealthy.

 

[Broward83]

Houston is the 4th Most Expensive MLB outing. That is just fucking crazy to hear.

 

[909]

It's also close to 100 dollars to take a family of four to the movies and get popcorn and drinks. Madness is what this is.

 

[Broward83]

It's also close to 100 dollars to take a family of four to the movies and get popcorn and drinks. Madness is what this is.

I totally agree, it just floors me that Houston is only behind the Cubs, Sawks, and Yanks for how expensive it is to attend. I would have figured one of the Cali teams or even Mets would be above us.

My fiancée keeps wanting to see a game before we go back to teach this Fall but just for the two of us, decent tickets are close to 100 a pop.

 

[909]

I believe the Dodgers average is pulled down by how many outfield seats there are and by the top deck which is probably the worst seat in the majors. But any decent seat is way too expensive.

 

[alkeiper]

The trouble is people are paying those prices. The Phillies sell cheesesteaks at $12 a pop and you’ll miss three innings waiting in line for them.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Just looking at the Blue Jays website it is $20 (Canadian, so about $15 USD) for the 500 level behind homeplate (and despite being the upper deck, I do like those seats). I definitely wouldn't pay for the 100 Level seats anymore. First base sidelines where I used to sit back in those days are now $81. That's double what they were 10-15 years ago.

 

[Krankor]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1551379869614972930

 

[Hawk 34]

He’s the spiritual successor to Bartolo Colon that the METS have been waiting for.

 

[alkeiper]

Miguel Cabrera at 39 years old is hitting .284/.330/.351. Eight doubles, four home runs in 324 plate appearances. He's third on the team in OPS+.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Phillies to include Pete Rose as part of celebration for 1980 World Series championship team

Rose had a 2017 outing canceled after a woman testified she had a sexual relationship with him while underage

www.cbssports.com

Now that sports betting is legal nationwide, we have to be mad at Pete Rose for having sex with teenagers in the '70s, I guess.

He's never going to make it into the Baseball Hall of Fame, huh?

 

[HarleyQuinn]

IIRC he gambled on baseball games... radically different than just generic sports betting and I don't get why people don't understand that. To me, an MLB manager betting on games is no different than it coming out that NBA players were point shaving and betting on games and point shaving in basketball is considered awful.

 

[Hawk 34]

IIRC he gambled on baseball games... radically different than just generic sports betting and I don't get why people don't understand that. To me, an MLB manager betting on games is no different than it coming out that NBA players were point shaving and betting on games and point shaving in basketball is considered awful.

It’s true and I’ve always been anti Rose as a whole but you can’t as a league continue to admonish him for his actions and now do business with multiple gambling businesses.

He shouldn’t be in the hall of fame for his actions but he certainly shouldn’t need special permission to attend team functions and events if invited.

 

[strummer]

Andrew Benintendi traded to the Yankees

 

[alkeiper]

The further the gambling allegations fade into the past the more I think, "man, what are we even mad about anymore?" But Rose is such a slimy character that even without the statutory rape you figure there must be some other reason you shouldn't be honoring him.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I think that's sticking point for me. Any time he appears to be contrite, it seems very slimy and disingenuous. I certainly don't care if he gets in the Hall of Fame since Ty Cobb's in there but I'm not pissed at his exclusion like a lot of the steroid guys.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

For me, it's Rose not only betting on the game, but then lying about it. He only came clean about it when he wrote his biography, and could make money on it. Then he did that commercial making fun of not being allowed in the Hall showing he really had no real remorse. He also sign a deal to be banned for life. Not for 20 years, not for 30 years, for life. If he wanted to get in eventually, don't sign the deal. I don't feel bad for him at all. His numbers and accomplishments are in the Hall, he just doesn't have a plaque.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

There's very few athletes that have been so willing to sacrifice their dignity like Rose has and even those who have, usually can blame it on substance or behavioral health issues. Rose is just a goof. Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds might never make it to the Hall of Fame but you're not going to see them, hanging out and signing autographs in sports memorabilia stores in Vegas or taking tombstone piledrivers.

 

[strummer]

Reds trade Luis Castillo to the Mariners

 

[strummer]

Frankie Montas to the Yankees.

Trey Mancini to the Astros

Josh Hader to the Padres

 

[snuffbox]

I'm not super happy about this first place team being a seller at the deadline thing.

 

[alkeiper]

I'm not super happy about this first place team being a seller at the deadline thing.

I don't think they did badly as far as a trade but the optics of moving the most dominant pitcher in your franchise's history when you're in first place really isn't great.

 

[alkeiper]

Once upon a time Montreal had a baseball team. At their peak they produced great players but they perpetually traded away those players when they could not afford them in free agency. To rectify that problem the team moved to Washington D.C. Now whenever the Washington Nationals have a great player they trade them or lose them to free agency...

 

[Aero]

I don't think they did badly as far as a trade but the optics of moving the most dominant pitcher in your franchise's history when you're in first place really isn't great.

Different circumstances, but how do you feel about Baltimore trading Trey Mancini yesterday? The team is winning for the first time in years, they're only 3 games out of a wild card spot at time of trade, and he's beloved by fans and teammates. Realistically, Baltimore's probably not going far if they even make it to the playoffs, but that's a tough look, and probably a gut punch to the locker room.

 

[alkeiper]

Different circumstances, but how do you feel about Baltimore trading Trey Mancini yesterday? The team is winning for the first time in years, they're only 3 games out of a wild card spot at time of trade, and he's beloved by fans and teammates. Realistically, Baltimore's probably not going far if they even make it to the playoffs, but that's a tough look, and probably a gut punch to the locker room.

It's been five years since the Orioles weren't a horror show. In a sane world they would at least stand pat unless they got back an elite prospect. But now they've dealt their closer for a package of prospects of whom the best was rated 22nd in the other team's organization. But so much of an organization's revenues are outside of day-to-day attendance that it just doesn't matter to their bottom line. I will say though that trading a DH with a 114 OPS+ and a pitcher with 48 innings pitched probably does not make the team that much worse. So far. Day is not over yet.

Unrelated, TIL the Twins have a minor league pitcher named Sean Mooney.

 

[strummer]

Juan Soto and Josh Bell to the Padres

 

[alkeiper]

The Nationals got minor league talent back but took on Eric Hosmer's contract (through 2025) to do it.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

The Nationals got minor league talent back but took on Eric Hosmer's contract (through 2025) to do it.

Apparently there is a hold-up. The Nationals are one of 10 teams on Hosmer's list of teams he has to approve a trade to, and he hasn't done so yet. He probably will, but it would be hilarious if he didn't.

 

[Hawk 34]

He was sent to Boston instead.