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On 10/13/2025 at 4:41 PM, Gil Bang said:

Sandy Alomar has passed.  I remember watching him with the Angels.

Crap.  Sandy Alomar was my favorite Austin Senator the year he played there … mainly because he wasn’t that much older.

Somewhere in a box around here, a Texas League baseball with his autograph is waiting to be rediscovered.

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Albert Pujols is no longer a candidate to be the manager of the Los Angeles Angels, sources confirmed to ESPN on Monday.

Pujols, though, is scheduled to interview for the San Diego Padres' managerial vacancy on Wednesday, a source told ESPN. The Baltimore Orioles have also previously reached out with interest, though an interview has not been scheduled, a source said.

The Padres became one of eight teams in search of a new manager after Mike Shildt announced he would retire from his role, joining the Angels, Orioles, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants, Washington Nationals, Colorado Rockies and Minnesota Twins.

Pujols, 45, is held in high regard by the Padres' two most influential players -- Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr.

Pujols is currently a special assistant for the Angels, as part of a 10-year, $10 million contract that was triggered after he retired in 2022. He interviewed with Angels general manager Perry Minasian in St. Louis on Oct. 9, but the two sides are no longer in talks, which was first reported by the New York Post. 

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Trout seems kinda weird

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46674319/trout-testifies-was-alerted-kay-possible-drug-abuse

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Trout testified that he was unaware of players taking illicit drugs or purchasing them from Kay, but he "may have heard" that when a player wanted Viagra, Kay would go to a doctor to handle that.

 

Trout said that when he became aware that Kay might be using drugs, he limited Kay's ability to get autographs from Trout to make sure Kay wasn't "misusing them" -- that is, selling autographed material and using the money to buy drugs.

 

"I made sure when he brought them [autographed items] down, I knew who they were going to," Trout said.

 

Before confronting Kay, Trout said he dared the communications employee to do multiple acts deemed as "horseplay" for varying amounts of money, including taking a 90 mph fastball to the body, eating a bug off the clubhouse floor and another crude act.

 

Trout's descriptions pointed to the desperate extremes Kay was willing to go for money

 

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Given the Rockies’ track record — seven consecutive losing seasons and just five playoff appearances in 33 years — and the challenges and vagaries of playing baseball at a mile above sea level, the job of rebuilding the franchise might seem undesirable for many. Spilborghs, however, believes that leading the offices at 20th and Blake is a highly coveted job.

“I have talked to virtually every organization for the past couple of years,” Spilborghs said. “A lot of executives have asked me about the Rockies. They ask me what’s going on. Then I ask them, in turn, what they think of the situation. I cannot tell you how many of them have told me, ‘That’s my dream job.’ ”

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1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

Fuck Suzuki.  I will forever hate him for 2004.

i watched him hit a ball clear out of rosenblatt during bp that year. shit was sick.

 

but yeah, fuck him tho. 

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A few hours after news of the Orange and Black hiring the former Tennessee baseball coach broke the internet, The San Francisco Standard’s John Shea shared Vitello’s contract details, citing sources, in an article published Wednesday.

“[Vitello] will earn $3.5 million annually on a three-year contract that includes a vesting option for a fourth season, according to sources with knowledge of the negotiations,” Shea wrote.

Last year, Vitello signed the largest contract in college baseball history with Tennessee, which gave him $3.3 million per season through 2029. Vitello now is slated to make more than that in San Francisco.

The Giants also have around $4 million remaining to pay former manager Bob Melvin, whom president of baseball operations Buster Posey fired in late September after exercising Melvin's 2026 option over the summer. San Francisco technically will be paying over $7 million to fill their manager position during the 2025 MLB season.

 

Pretty minimal increase in salary if true, but it would presumably put him in the top half of managers ranked by pay. 

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