"536 home runs, three Triple Crowns, seven World Series, you don't get a better baseball career than that."
"When it comes to baseball, it doesn't get much better than Joe DiMaggio."
"If a guy like me can go from where I was at... to where I'm at right now, that's why I love baseball. Baseball's a spiritual game, it's a very unique game."
"Baseball is a symbol of redemption. I can strike out three times, but they still want me in the bottom of the ninth inning because I'm still capable."
"Ricky Henderson could dominate a game by going one for four. That's how great he was."
"If you want to throw a ball as far as possible--people who play baseball know that--you should do it at 45 degrees."
"There's a great story about Ted Williams chasing 400, and they said you can sit, and he said no, I'm going to get like four hits or something."
"Velocity and command should go hand in hand, with neither being more important than the other. They should be taught parallel to each other."
"Welcome to the big leagues, a home run for Dominguez in his first Big League at bat."
"The Texas Rangers win the World Series, Ranger fans you're not dreaming."
"Pete Alonso... as a rookie he hit 53 home runs."
"Juan Soto... for a young guy, to have such incredible plate discipline."
"Fernando Tatis Jr... he makes circus-like plays in the field."
"Didi Gregorius... coming into New York and taking over for Derek Jeter at shortstop, that is no easy feat."
"JD Martinez is operating intellectually about baseball and hitting on a different plane from most other players."
"Nolan Arenado is probably a lot of people's favorite player on the Rockies."
"Jose Abreu... averages like 30 homers and 100 RBIs per season."
"Aaron Judge... he basically throws every ball into the crowd."
"Yadier Molina, future hall-of-famer, I think, I hope."
"Wilson Contreras... he hits like crazy, he's great defensively, has a cannon for an arm."
"Madison Bumgarner... he's kind of another no-nonsense guy, he just does not take crap from anybody."
"Hunter Pence... if he is healthy and plays a full season... he's coming up on 250 home runs career and a thousand RBIs."
"I'm looking for a ballplayer with the guts not to fight back." - Branch Rickey to Jackie Robinson
"The general consensus among baseball fans is that Mike Trout is the best player in the sport right now, and one of the best to ever play it."
"I collect baseball cards, and you play baseball. Well, who was your favorite player growing up? Roberto Clemente for everybody."
"If you're going to say you're the best hitter in the league and yell 'See!' as the ball's in the air, it better be a homer."
"Now part owner of a Major League Baseball team... it was something where I wanted to be a part of something that not only I love in baseball but also a part of the city that has kind of shown me the love."
"Hey, Derek, next at bat, you're gonna hit a home run. I believe in you."
"Babe Ruth started his professional baseball career in 1914 and in his 21 years in the majors, he set all kinds of records."
"Had the Athletics had Mark Mulder when they played the Yankees, they would have beaten the Yankees."
"The farthest one that's gonna be hit is going to be Ohtani, and it's going to be to center, over the trees."
"So today, i'll be asking complete strangers to play catch with me and trying to get them more interested in baseball."
"That's unhittable, that's the best pitch I've ever seen."
"With some well-positioned camera work, the Astros cheated their way to a World Series win back in 2017."
"A great moment to have Cuba participate for the first time in a long-running effort to reunite baseball cultures."
"No better feeling than being king of walk-offs."
"MLB09: The most realistic baseball game ever."
"The natural is one of my favorite movies of all time... it transcends being a baseball movie."
"I'm a traditionalist when it comes to baseball. I'm not generally in favor of the DH rule."
"That's what you think about when it comes to baseball: a father and son moment."
"This is about a father and son moment, and that's what you think about when it comes to baseball."
"Brandon Nimmo's sick... He's like one of the most unreal players in the league."
"Bryce Harper's so freaking good... He's simply one of the 10 best players in the league."
"Carlos Rodon is crazy crazy underrated... He's one of the better pitchers in the league."
"Mike Trout is underrated... He's probably gonna be the best player of all time."
"Nolan Arenado is criminally underrated... I'm so glad that all the haters of Nolan Arenado have to watch him play this well now."
"Shohei Ohtani is properly rated... He's from a different planet, it feels like."
"Barry Bonds is the greatest player to ever play."
"Baseball players are so freaking superstitious."
"Don't ever lose that magic, that irrational New York Yankees magic."
"Mike Trout's autographed rookie card sold for $900,000, a record which was the highest price for a modern-day baseball card."
"Craig Council is one of the best managers in the game. S tier, no doubt."
"Tony La Russa is B tier for me. I understand he's a legend, he's a Hall of Famer, but he doesn't shift. You have to shift in baseball."
"I was at a Mets game with Joe and I said I have this idea for a story..."
"Jose Iglesias had a really good year in 2020 by far the best offensively in his career."
"Trey Turner, he's just so good, this guy got left off of both All-MLB teams."
"Trevor Story, trevor Story is nasty no matter where he plays."
"Francisco Lindor, I'll admit it, the 60 games that Francisco Lindor had in 2020 was not the kind of season you expected."
"JT Realmuto... the best catcher in baseball without a doubt."
"Got that bat, got that defense, you're a top 10 catcher major league baseball, James McCann number six."
"James McCann has looked really good the last two seasons combined."
"This is actually pretty decent. I think you've got a pretty good idea of what's going on in Major League Baseball."
"Nelson Cruz... arguably had the best season of his career."
"Ronald Acuna Jr... another super young phenom."
"Gerrit Cole... the Yankees got a great pitcher in Gerrit Cole."
"Francisco Lindor... he's the best guy that you can put at that position in baseball right now."
"Christian Yelich... at the plate, there's only probably one guy better in baseball."
"I'm alright with the DH2 in the NL, I don't care dude."
"Either way, it will be fascinating to see whether Francisco Rodriguez can break that five percent barrier and continue to be on this ballot for years to come."
"Bob Gibson pitched the greatest season in the history of baseball."
"Gibson’s ‘68 was one of the most remarkable athletic achievements of all time."
"Bases Loaded: TV style behind the pitcher perspective."
"San Diego Padres who had the best trade deadline of all A plus."
"Baseball to me is so beautiful and so intricate and I love it to death."
"I still remember it was Carlton Fisk, George Scott, Jerry Remy, Rick Burleson, Butch Hobson, Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, and Dwight Evans."
"We open a lot of baseball cards, reliving our past and enjoying the hobby."
"The blue jays, a team that had only existed for a decade and change, had somehow become baseball's model franchise."
"Dave steve got one of the most enthusiastic ovations that day from blue jays fans."
"The slam dunk of all slam dunks the guy who everyone knows is one of the best baseball players of all time."
"This is ultimately on a much larger scale the problem Dave Steve has always had the ball is now out of his hands."
"I wanted to be a professional baseball player and that's the next step that I took in my life."
"I'm in a great mood because the Phillies won last night."
"If you're up to bat, you should be trying to drive the ball as hard and as far as you possibly can."
"This new regime has done basically every single thing but win a World Series at this point."
"Baseball may have started as America's pastime, but as its popularity plateaus domestically, it's becoming more and more clear that the future of the game will be shaped abroad."
"The globalization of baseball has brought plenty of opportunities to players from all over the world."
"Why is America not throwing the ball back over quicker?"
"He won the Golden Spikes Award, had more home runs and RBIs than anyone in college while using a wooden bat..."
"Harper dominated the minors and quickly moved up to the majors at 19 years old..."
"In his first at-bat, he hit an easy ground ball to the pitcher then sprinted to first base in less than five seconds."
"Harper played with a tenacity people weren't used to, and a lot of them hated him for it."
"In only his eighth game in the major leagues, Cole Hamels nailed him with a 93 mile per hour fastball."
"Strickland threw a first pitch fastball at Bryce Harper; Harper charged the mound and almost nailed him with a helmet."
"Baseball owns, this is the greatest sport of all time."
"Good pitching beats good hitting and vice versa."
"Doesn't the idea of standing in the box and watching the ball just seem ridiculous?"
"Vladdy senior and junior father-and-son dual autograph."
"Aaron Judge and Glaber Torres double autograph."
"Steve Carlton, Hall of Famer, big ol' lefty from the Phillies."
"All those wins put us in a really really good position we're now three games up or two games up on the Mets which is absolutely huge."
"Byron Buxton of the Minnesota Twins... just missing out on the number one spot."
"Luis Robert is elite... he's a MVP in the making."
"Barry Bonds deserves to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame."
"Javi Baez did something similar and it actually it worked he started running backwards to avoid the tag."
"How about that for Rafe Rhymes, inside the park home run!"
"It's over... Muncie, a walk-off home run to win game three!"
"This is possibly one of the biggest things that has happened in a very, very long time in Major League Baseball."
"The end of the day the cheating in baseball needs to stop."
"The fastest game in banana ball history, an hour and 34 minutes to get nine innings in."
"Garlobo's untimely death marks a significant loss for the world of baseball, particularly within his home nation of Cuba; his impressive career and significant contributions to Cuban baseball will long be remembered and celebrated."
"Compact power in the vlad guerrero swing... way to be fair polar bear is one of those guys that's going to be aiming for that scoreboard as well."
"I like winning. I thought the Yankees gave me the best chance out of the four teams to win."
"The baseball season teaches you so much about life. You see the highs and lows."
"I really hope that we have baseball coming our way."
"One of one Jacob deGrom, hopefully you love the Mets or maybe you love Jacob deGrom or maybe you just love one of ones."
"To get to this level, you have to learn how to fail."
"If you fail seven out of ten times, you're a great hitter."
"That's the everyday earbuds from Raycon. They also work well when discussing the 30 teams in baseball."
"Last year was merely a taste of what the new age Blue Jays can do. They've returned to Canada full time, and now they will return to prominence."
"The final ride for Pujols, Yadia Molina, and Adam Wainwright, Cardinals legends bowing out with what will probably be a World Series run."
"Find out for yourself, there's even a Steven Matz for the rotation to help out."
"Pitching is a question mark but they'll find enough to somehow be really good."
"It's a walk-off folks, it's a walk-off. I can't believe what I just saw."
"Fernando Tati's jr. has two home runs in the same game and is accounting for a lot of our offense."
"Jacob deGrom is the best pitcher in baseball."
"Undisputed champion of the world best pitcher in baseball."
"July 8th, 2011: Mike Trout made his major league debut."
"On the Ballfield in the Batters box nothing was beyond or beneath his notice."
"Bonds was still an All-Star, if not quite MVP caliber, but the team around him disappointed."
"Kent started his Giants career absolutely raking."
"Man, it's just in me, I miss this, and I'm like, I don't know what you have, but man, I miss baseball."
"The essence of the beauty of baseball: hitting a home run."
"All the way from Nashville, Tennessee: 29th home run of the season!"
"Greg Maddox had a career that's easy to paint in broad strokes. He didn't throw hard, he didn't strike guys out, but he used pinpoint accuracy to generate weak contact."
"I just feel like a guy like Max Clark coming along is what baseball needs."
"The seventh game of the 1971 World Series... unlike anything else in sports."
"One away one swipe of the bat by Roberto Clemente is the difference right now in his game."
"1996 World Series... Yankees lost the first two games at home, against Maddox, Smoltz, and Glavin. But finally, they beat Maddox. Gmach!"
"The dream of a true baseball sim has become reality."
"Those home run sessions are the most fun part of it all."
"Baseball can be boring you wake up every day it's the same thing over and over and over but it also helps if you have those really good routines in place."
"Petco Park is where the Padres play and it's a great baseball stadium in the middle of San Diego."
"The move is warning track power, you know what I mean, like it looks like it's out of the park but it's just right on the line."
"I'm not sure there's ever been a more exciting baseball player."
"The best baseball moment was the worst first pitch ever."
"Massachusetts, Fenway Park, everything about it is unique."
"Joe Buck pops on my TV, I got confused, was this baseball?"
"Barry Bonds was basically perfect at hitting baseballs."
"Bonds wielded jaw-dropping coordination and bat speed."
"Bonds earned 14 All-Star selections and a record seven NL MVP awards."
"Even the best baseball players make like an error a season."
"Babe Ruth was America's first sports superstar, an athlete everyone admired."
"Ruth's called shot, where he not just chose the pitches and with which he was going to hit out of the park, but where he pointed to the spot where he was going to hit it, this was clearly a story destined for immortality."
"If you love sports, give Diamond no Ace a shot."
"Barry bonds will forever be one of baseball's greatest legends."
"Passed Hank Aaron for the all-time home run King."
"Baseball bats have a 40 chance to critically hit and if they do that multiplies their damage to double the original."
"They beat Korea went to the final and defeated Cuba to win the first ever WBC."
"These players were unknown to the rest of the world and stuck in NPB but many of them would go on to come to America and have amazing MLB careers."
"This is the Blake Snell the Padres signed up for."
"In the twilight of a 6-0 game, Kansas City tacks on a meaningless run, but Toronto cruises to a 1-0 ALCS lead thanks to the eight-inning, eight-strikeout, three-hit, zero-run masterpiece pitched by Stieb in his -- and his team's -- playoff debut."
"Why did I choose 42? My dad was a huge old Negro League Baseball fan. Up until the Jackie Robinson days, he just said, 'What about Jackie?'"
"He's got the most pop in baseball even though he's only 6 feet tall."
"Anything over 440 is kind of that magic range."
"When he's hot, there's nobody better in baseball."
"Two hundred and twenty one home runs tonight the most home run total in any derby."
"If you're having success with a starting pitcher, please stick with him."
"The Cat 9 Connect is definitely going to be a bit more of a true power hitter bat. Pretty dang unloaded, packs a punch, big sweet spot."
"Before he was blowing away hitters at San Diego State, he had an unheard of 102 mile-per-hour fastball."
"Strasburg improved his stats in every category and was awarded the Dick Howser trophy."
"Strasburg has his first career big league strikeout to end the inning."
"Strasburg already has a pitch mix that most veterans would kill for."
"Major League Baseball players being cowards."
"And the world is sports but especially in baseball the name Ripken is royalty."
"When Heaven showered good luck onto the Earth Violet Ripkin must have been standing there front and center."
"Accept nothing less than the best, especially when you have to see the Yankees take your shine."
"The hitting core disappointing is all hell. Rhys Askins probably not on the baseball field."
"I think probably the best team in the American League, the New York Yankees."
"The Padres arguably won the offseason this year."
"The offense is still there. They brought back LeMahieu. Gary Sanchez can't possibly have a worse season than he had last year. Gonna get Judge for a full season healthy. Maybe even Giancarlo Stanton. The AL East makes sense for Pakoda."
"I think they could finish 10 games better than the Nationals, but not to win the division. Now obviously, on the pitching side, the Mets, great. deGrom, Carrasco, Stroman, Peterson, Lucasy, Syndergaard's coming back at some point, strong rotation."
"The Twins offense is just crazy high power. You go around to every position in the infield and they're great."
"The Rays always play the Yankees well the last few years, so I think the Tampa Bay Rays at second is fine. They're going to be pesky, they're going to be annoying."
"Dodgers should win this game 100, but the Cardinals are one of the hottest teams in baseball."
"The Astros are just miles better than everyone else right now."
"A chance to clinch the world championship for his ballclub."
"He has always been a very good lowball hitter."
"The Mariners are a team that thrives on pitching and defense."
"Congratulations Mariners, you have successfully wasted the career of King Felix."
"His is, you know, probably the most dominant game ever pitched."
"That's one of the beauties of baseball. Sometimes a magical event will come out of nowhere."
"Here comes the hook. Got him, 20 strikeouts. He ties the Major League record."
"Shohei Ohtani, his brilliance that many dreamed about when brought over from Japan is finally being realized."
"Welcome Jared Walsh into the fray, an unsung 39th round pick out of Georgia."
"A new fever has infected Arlington, El Bombi Adolis García."
"Dennis Martinez with a perfect no-hit no-run ballgame."
"Here's your perfect ballgame Dennis Martinez."
"The Tampa Bay Rays are my 2020 World Series picks."
"He's Max Scherzer right now. Don't freaking touch him."