FullCountTommy

Ummmm... How can one win player of the year but not win at his own individual position?

chop this

Me: “This edible ain’t shit.” Me, three innings later:

you should wear a bike helmet

You should sometimes be allowed to hand out the MVP Award in August.

100 years from now, some brash young player is going to jokingly deny the existence of PCA and people will lose their god damn minds about it.

“And then I said I didn’t think Babe Ruth was real and everybody went apeshit.”

Tell me you know literally nothing about PCA without telling me you know literally nothing about PCA

1) Stop comparing professional sports to every day jobs 2) These agreements are collectively bargained 3) Keep in mind players EARN those contracts by having to work at significantly below market rates for upwards of 10 years before they get to choose their employer.

Smooth-brained morons discovering how food works is maybe the single most annoying thing about social media

This fan is all of us

For a guy looking to pull and lift, I’d view the green circle as the happy zone. Alex Bregman needs to be crushing the ball middle-in. Well… 2023: .397 wOBA 2024: .454 wOBA 2025: .451 wOBA 2026: .308 wOBA Just completely unable to punish mistakes this year.

Nobody breaks this stuff down better than Lu

Clearly Rob has never seen the Cubs

Wow so weird that the guy I was told was terrible is now the most valuable position player in the National League

Gavin Lux, Dustin May, Michael Busch and Matt Beatty

The absolute funniest irony of the Bears stadium situation is the same people who bitch about taxes in Illinois are the ones bitching that JB isn’t raising our taxes so a football franchise worth billions can build a new stadium

There's still 6+ weeks to go, and I think on the whole Jed Hoyer is a perfectly cromulent baseball executive, but if this doesn't turn around he should be gone. You can't be allowed to be THIS wrong and still keep your job.

Weird answer but what in the world kind of question is this? Nick has played in both Philly and Chicago

The march to 3,000 hits continues...

Feels more like a slump than a guy getting "figured out" after *checks notes* 2,400+ big league plate appearances

Just such a good, thoughtful dude. PCA clapping back was fun and good. What he said was very much not. And for him to acknowledge not just that it was wrong but WHY it was wrong just shows the type of human he is.

The man spent like hundreds of millions of dollars to trick lower and middle class Illinois voters into raising their own taxes and even after he succeeded he fled to Florida. One of the worst humans in the world.

Redcard

Ride a roller coaster

Very Important Update: With his homer in the 8th, Cubs first baseman Michael Busch is now batting .304/.412/.589 with three homers, five doubles, a triple, nine walks and 15 RBI in 68 PAs since a goose landed in shallow left while he was batting on April 20.

A friendly reminder that since August 1st, 2023, which is 1,500+ PAs for Seiya, he has been the 11th best hitter in all of baseball with a 139 wRC+. Absolute star hitter.

I'm not saying Craig Breslow has been perfect or even good, but this narrative that Alex Cora didn't get a fair shake is so wild to me. The guy managed under three different regimes. Post-COVID he had just one 90-win season and hadn't won a playoff series since 2021. The guy got plenty of chances.

Definitely the GOAT baseball player. Terrible gambler, though.

May 1st is a standard opt out for a lot of veteran minor league free agents. Could see some movement here in the next couple days around the league. Just a few names to keep an eye out for Cubs: Lou Trivino (Phillies) Trevor Richards (Phillies) Michael Fulmer (Giants) Tommy Kahnle (Red Sox)

I don’t know who in the Cubs front office finally convinced Jed to sign a multiyear reliever, but he’s never going to let them hear the end of it.

Baseball in 2026 is absolutely wild. It's April 27th and the Cubs are down to like their 20th reliever option already. Oh and by the way that guy throws 99mph.

External bullpen name I'd keep an eye on. Lou Trivino. Velo not all the way back but getting bunch of whiffs in AAA for the Phillies. Has a May 1st opt out. Obviously Phillies can just add him to their roster, but Cubs should pressure them into doing so.

I gotta say... The Mets losing this game to extend their losing streak to 11 after getting crapping your pants mad over Mo running over like 6 inches of mound is incredibly funny

Entirely possible this one turns out looking bad, but also some Alfonsin Rosario post-trade vibes here as well

New addition to the bedtime rotation, courtesy of @michael-cerami.bsky.social

Do fans of NBA teams lose their fucking minds when their favorite team starts 3-5? Or is this uniquely baseball?

I’ve had mini marshmallows on pizza and it was life-changing in all the best ways

Honestly? My bad. Should have known better.

I am so fucking sick of the Brewers bullshit

One of the things that always surprises me is the fan reaction to how bad the 12th and 13th position players on MLB rosters are. MLB teams just do not care about those roster spots and fans just can't help but overreact to those guys on the roster.

Matt Shaw plays RF like he’s competing with his teammates to see who gets the most steps in while covering the least amount of ground