2024 MLB Season [ARCHIVED] Baseball • Page 904

Rickey Henderson passed

 

damn

what a player. on base legend, stolen base king, inner circle all time great

 

Omg no. Ugh.

 

Well fuck

 

Probably my first favorite player ever.

 

I think >55% chance he's cooked but clearly I'm too close to the situation to trust. I hope with 100% of my heart that I'm wrong and I think I am all in on Yankees 2025 WS champs now if he can stay rostered all season.

the reasons I could be wrong: the guy is literally just two seasons removed from putting up 7.7 WAR and winning mvp. he's 37 now but guys have had great seasons at that age before. last couple years his fielding has been neutral at worst. he's only missed more than 11 games once in his entire career and that was 2014 and he still played 100+. like zosh said, he still hits the ball hard and statcast thinks he would've picked up a few extra HRs per year the last couple seasons if Yankee Stadium was his home park--Busch has gotten aggressively offense-suppressing in the last few yrs (and was never a hitters park to begin with). they built this monstrous apartment building behind CF and it changed the wind patterns in a way that keeps the ball in the park way more in the summer months.

 

I would like to be optimistic Ruben

 

My favorite Rickey story is how his alias when he was traveling on the road staying at hotels was James Brown.

 

Father a time is undefeated. Votto came in 2nd in MVP by a hair in 2017 and then had a 30+ HR power surge as recent as 2021 as a 37 year old but was immediately cooked from then on. At some point, the most recent bump is your last bump ever and not a harbinger of the next one around the corner.

 

More like Paul Goldshit

 

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Okay but Goldschmidt is also 37 and this is a one year deal. And Votto was fine in 2018, then bad and hurt in 2019-20, before that 2021 comeback/last hurrah

I also think Votto isn’t a great comp for Goldy skills wise. Vottos value prior to 2021 had always come much more from plate discipline than from power. The opposite is true of Goldy, although both did both well at their peak. Plate discipline generally ages much worse than power does because so much of it is reflex and twitch, which inevitably starts to drop off around 29ish for most people—whereas power is largely about strength which can more easily be maintained throughout your 30s. And Votto said he basically redid his approach to focus on power in 2021.

tl;dr if you’re saying Goldschmidt is out of the league in 2026 or 2027 you’re almost certainly correct. If you’re saying there’s no shot he’s an above average hitter this year I think that’s wrong

 

Slade has come a long way from shitposting I see

 

It doesn't get any more baseball than Rickey Henderson

 

I hate the stupid ass Marlins

 

sad

 

Sorry, took me a while but I did finally like it

 

wonder what kinda contract Pete Alonso gets if Nathaniel Lowe is traded for peanuts and Christian Walker didn’t get a whole ton

Walker’s caveat is age, Lowe’s is that there are simply a plethora of ok first basemen

 

Lowe

 

4 yrs 80 mil

 

All meat no chedda.

 

Being Rickey

The final story here is so good.