Around Baseball 2026

[jaysblue]

12 hours ago, hanton said:

... I wonder if Carrol was on the table at all when Atkins called looking for an outfielder?  dbacks were pretty rich in that position

Probably not unfortunately. 

[jaysblue]

9 hours ago, Brownie19 said:

I think most people have.  Verlander is living the dream man.  Monster HOF career in the mound.  One of the last starting pitcher warriors who gave you 200+ innings and shoved during the playoffs.  

And he lands Kate Upton, who was essentially the hottest woman on the planet when they start dating.  He woos her at a baseball game. 

He's literally living every baseball guys dream life.  Kudos to the legend!

I'm actually a bit sad. I thought the Tigers would be great this year and Verlander could get one more shot at the title, while giving them #4/#5 innings.  This was a close as we could get to a Billy Chapel day.  I'll take it.

Going to give For Love of the Game a watch later this week. 

[jaysblue]

17 hours ago, SpencerBateman said:

What teams will you be tracking this playoffs?

Would be nice to see a Rays-Brewers World Series. 

Also, would also be cool to see the Rays/Dodgers at the end and hope that David beats Goliath. 

[jaysblue]

18 hours ago, hanton said:

Justin Verlander

Let's hope Mad Max could go out the same way this afternoon. Would love to see 5+ innings from him with 7-8 K's. I think he needs 11 more to surpass Verlander career wise. 

[Laika]

13 hours ago, hanton said:

... I wonder if Carrol was on the table at all when Atkins called looking for an outfielder?  dbacks were pretty rich in that position

Nope 

I think it was only Varsho and Alek Thomas 

[jaysblue]

So for playoff implications, we're following the Rangers/Astros and Phillies/D'Backs today. Should be interesting. 

Phillies having to burn Wheeler the final day of the season hurts, but they have no choice. 

[Brownie19]

13 hours ago, hanton said:

... I wonder if Carrol was on the table at all when Atkins called looking for an outfielder?  dbacks were pretty rich in that position

No chance.

[max silver]

11 minutes ago, Brownie19 said:

No chance.

Yeah Moreno was never in the same league as Carrol in terms of prospect value. The fact that it took Gurriel as a sweetener tells you everything you need to know. I am interested which players were offered up for the Blue Jays catchers in trade at the time as I do recall it was reported the Blue Jays front office valued their catchers more than opposition GM's.

[hanton]

1 hour ago, Laika said:

Nope 

I think it was only Varsho and Alek Thomas 

plus Jake McCarthy

[BTS]

Just saw that Gabriel Moreno is 0.001 ahead of Arraez for the NL batting title 

[Brownie19]

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[Stangstag]

2 hours ago, BTS said:

Just saw that Gabriel Moreno is 0.001 ahead of Arraez for the NL batting title 

Wow didn’t realize at all that Moreno was having such a monster season. 

[Brownie19]

15 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

Wow didn’t realize at all that Moreno was having such a monster season. 

He is. We should probably discuss the Moreno/Varsho trade for the 8463rd time!

[SpencerBateman]

We maybe should have kept Moreno