2026 MLB Season Thread

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[StillNice$hoes247]

 

[pmatic]

Justin Turner on IKF:

 

[dland24]

What these players who are coming out in defense of IKF are failing to account for, are a few things:

1) Varsho has lined out to the third basemen (aside from a few broken bat flares that would run ZERO risk of doubling off a runner), exactly ONE TIME in his 2,387 career plate appearances. ONE TIME. So protecting against something that happened to the batter 0.04% of the time makes no sense.

2) Literally no one is saying that IKF needed to have a big lead and an aggressive secondary. There is a middle ground that these players defending IKF/TBJs are failing to acknowledge. He had a base lead of 7.8 feet, while Muncy was 15.6 feet off the base. He had a secondary lead of 1.1 feet, still leaving him 6.7 feet closer to third than Muncy was. In no universe is Muncy beating IKF back to the base even if they were exactly the same distance off the base, which they werent even close to.

3) There are more ways to be conservative than to shorten your lead almost 8 feet from what you are normally taught. You could take a secondary lead thats more similar to one at other bases, where you dont turn and walk towards home but keep your shoulders parallel to the base line., thus giving the runner an easier chance to retreat to the base than having to completely turn around. You could take a normal base lead and not take a secondary lead at all.

Little things win close baseball games. And this is a little thing that absolutely should have won the BlueJays the game.

 

[lovehateself]

not like he had anyone on base ahead of him like barger did in game 6

 

[StillNice$hoes247]

What these players who are coming out in defense of IKF are failing to account for, are a few things:

1) Varsho has lined out to the third basemen (aside from a few broken bat flares that would run ZERO risk of doubling off a runner), exactly ONE TIME in his 2,387 plate appearances. ONE TIME. So protecting against something that happened to the batter 0.04% of the time makes no sense.

2) Literally no one is saying that IKF needed to have a big lead and an aggressive secondary. There is a middle ground that these players defending IKF/TBJs are failing to acknowledge. He had a base lead of 7.8 feet, while Muncy was 15.6 feet off the base. He had a secondary lead of 1.1 feet, still leaving him 6.7 feet closer to third than Muncy was. In no universe is Muncy beating IKF back to the base even if they were exactly the same distance off the base.

3) There are more ways to be conservative than to shorten your lead almost 8 feet from what you are normally taught. You could take a secondary lead thats more similar to one at other bases, where you dont turn and walk towards home but keep your shoulders parallel to the base line., thus giving the runner an easier chance to retreat to the base than having to completely turn around. You could take a shorter lead than he did, and have an You could take a normal base lead and not take a secondary lead at all.

Little things win close baseball games. And this is a little thing that absolutely should have won the BlueJays the game.

 

[dland24]

^Good for you.

 

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[Dark Brandon]

This is being extremely frugal on the Cubs’ part. He was 3rd in NL ERA. Declining his option when Snell and Zack Wheeler make $36M and $42M is nasty work.

 

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The only ever TV broadcast to have more viewers in Canada was the 2010 Vancouver Olympics hockey final between Canada and the US

 

[StillNice$hoes247]

The dodgers do numbers .
The hate is greater than the love.

People tuned in to see the dodgers lose .
Saw it in this very thread ,
Folk that didn’t step in here all year
Made sure they did to spread their negativity and hatred.

It’s a nasty world .

 

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[DeadsetAce]

Trevor Story

Now please stay healthy for a second straight year

 

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