The baseball thread

[Rewind]

On opening day of the 2022 Major League Baseball season, the average salary was $4,410,000, a 5.9% increase over the previous year. That works out to $27,222 per game. Twenty-eight players will make $25,000,000 or more this season. Mets pitcher Max Scherzer will make $43,333,333. Angels leftfielder Mike Trout will make $37,116,666. Can salaries get any more outrageous? Sadly, yes.

Nationals superstar Juan Soto rejects 15-year, $440 million offer; team could entertain trade offers

https://www.aol.com/sports/nationals...163354065.html

[Rewind]

MLB changes 2023 game rules, adopting pitch clock, bigger bases

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb...es/ar-AA11EOdE

Bigger bases, a.k.a. "tripping hazards." But the pitch timer will speed up the game.

[Rewind]

Pujols, 42, will retire at the end of this season.

Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols becomes fourth MLB player to hit 700 career home runs

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb...ns/ar-AA12bosA

[Rewind]

The Astros and the Phillies will face each other in the 2022 World Series. Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball’s Brightest Minds Created Sports’ Biggest Mess, Evan Drellich's book about the 2017 Astros cheating scandal, will be released February 14, 2023. Surely the Astros won't cheat this year, will they? "I don't know – and don't call me Shirley."

[Rewind]

In the 2022 World Series – which includes only two teams and both are in the United States – the Phillies now lead the Astros two games to one. In tonight's game, which the Phillies won 7-0, the Phillies tied the record for hitting the most home runs – five – in a World Series game. Astros pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. set a record for giving up the most homers in a World Series game. Go, Phillies!

[Rewind]

The 2022 World Series is now tied, 2-2. Four Astros pitchers combined tonight to pitch a no-hitter against the Phillies. Houston won, 5-0. It is only the second no-hitter in World Series history. The first was on October 8, 1956, when the Yankees' Don Larsen pitched a perfect game against the Dodgers.

[Rewind]

The 2022 World Series – the first since 1950 to have no U.S.-born black players – is over.

Houston Astros top Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 in Game 6 to win World Series

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ries-rcna55728

[Rewind]

In tribute to Gaylord Perry, his pallbearers will coat the handles of his coffin with Vaseline.

Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young Award winner Gaylord Perry dead at 84

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/sport...ntl/index.html

[Rewind]

The A's hope to be playing in their new Las Vegas stadium in 2027 – but team president Dave Kaval told The New York Times that the A's might be in Las Vegas sooner than that. Their Oakland Coliseum lease expires following the 2024 season and they might play their 2025 and 2026 home games at Las Vegas Ballpark, the home of their triple-A affiliate the Aviators.

Oakland A's agree to purchase land for $1.5 billion Las Vegas ballpark

https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports...lpark-2764701/

[Listener]

The A's could also extend their Oakland Coliseum lease for two more years. But they may not want to do that because their attendance is so low.