r/baseballisdead

Social media/reddit tends to skew negative, and I’ve been critical of things about the pod in the past. Just wanted to drop some positivity cuz this week was great. Loved the Monday recap so every team gets mentioned once a week, the Wednesday show carried on perfect even without Jared, and the Feud to end the week was fun. Good mix of deep dives, and all around league topics. Fun week, just ordered my BID hat and hope it gets to my city before Dallas comes to visit 👍

No more please

I love Jared & everything he brings to the pod…

But the Dallas, Jay Hay, Tyler combo was an absolute delight to listen to. So fucking clean & tight, & Tyler is really a great compliment to Jay Hay.

Welcome to BID Family Feud Tyler! A respectable first showing today (no spoilers!) Tyler has officially been added to the Family Feud leaderboards, if only there were some questions about bees Dallas may be able to catch him in the rankings....

https://www.bid-stats.com/#feud

https://preview.redd.it/f9dzbxjadl2h1.png?width=481&format=png&auto=webp&s=ae75c93d769881ba447e6a7eb587a023371f0321

Might catch some heat for this and i dont care.
Every once in a while I see the A’s are on and get excited to tune in and listen to DB. Then I immediately hear his partner on the call and have to switch games. Do people actually enjoy this? Genuine question

What do

Jose Ramirez
Luis Arraez
Freddie Freeman
Ozzie Albies
Julio Rodriguez

Have in common?

Coming into tonight, they were looking up at Ceddanne Rafaela on the OPS leaderboard.

He’s so far produced 33% more bWAR than Soto (1.8 vs 1.2).

Speaking of Soto…for AAV purposes, he will be paid more than the entirety of Ceddanne’s 8 year extension every year for the next 13 years.

For context, that’s as far into the future as the 2013 bearded brother, marathon bombing Red Sox World Series is in the past.

In 1326 career at bats, he’s produced 9.3 WAR.

In this year and the four years prior, Trevor Story posted 8 WAR for the Red Sox, while being paid basically twice the value of Rafaela’s 8 year extension. He also is still owed AFTER this season….the equivalent of Rafaela’s 8 year extension over the next two years.

At a rate of $10M / WAR, he almost produced the entire value of the extension last year alone, and he’s on pace to have a higher WAR this year.

All this includes a dropped fly ball in the sun a week into the year, that tanked his defensive value for a month.

Might have one of the highest trade values in the sport by the end of this year.

https://preview.redd.it/7ho2dhnwp72h1.png?width=1179&format=png&auto=webp&s=c7d63f5ccc96d3a52919e723a8b7b3f45224f2e1

Petition to have Jose add chapters to all episodes. I love the pod but I can’t listen to the entire thing, I’d love to see the topics prior.

Happy Miz Day everyone

Section 10 guy as well as BID but honestly such a great fit on here too. So glad this came through after all this time, great ep for 420

What a terrible representation of the current state of the Mets and the weekend they had. They lost 12 games in a row and were 11 games under .500. I get it. But that was 2.5 weeks ago. Mets had a 5-1 homestand, to make them 10-5 in May (now 11-5) and the Tyrone Taylor HR was the best subway series moment in recent memory. Maybe the subway series means nothing on a national scale that's fair. But it's definitely a huge deal in NY. Especially when you consider names like Clay Holmes, Juan Soto, Luke Weaver, and Devin Williams being big headlines this weekend. And Yankee replacement relievers blowing both games.

Mets currently playing their best ball of the season, and you went with

- Subway Series nobody cares

- Holmes out who cares they won the next 2

- Bo is dead maybe they can pay his contract for prospects

- Trade Freddy Peralta they're mathematically out (6.5 back of WC)

- Wasting Soto (1 year and 2 months into a 15 year deal)

No mention of

- Benge .892 OPS in May and leading off

- AJ Ewing .467 OBP .989 OPS

- Tong, Wenninger, Thornton - 3 AAA SPs close to big league ready joining Christian Scott

- Top 5 minor league system being tapped into

What a shame. If you're not watching the games just say that. No point in diving into their team if you don't know what's going on. They have a really good pitching staff, pen included. Nolan and Freddy can carry a rotation. Scott Thornton Wenninger Tong are all going to make starts. They're 3 games back of the Phillies and you're talking about the 2 teams like they're on different planets. Phillies are fully healthy right now, Mets are gonna get Lindor Polanco Robert back. Along with adding AAA pieces that the Phillies simply don't have as depth. Your whole rant would have made sense on April 30th. But Mets literally just had their 1st series sweep since Aug 2025, followed by their best individual win and best series win of the season (snapped a streak going back to postseason Alonso HR off Devin). Totally tone deaf reaction, and huge missed opportunity to shit on the Yanks and their bullpen. Have Clem on after they sweep the Nats......

June 2nd, 2024 they were 24-35, finished with a 89 win season and a trip to the NLCS. They're far from dead, and currently red hot. LGM