Brian McRae

"Which pain do you want? The pain on the road to success or the pain of being haunted by regret?"

@the1stMikeC @Eric_Erins Yes it did!!

@Eric_Erins Yum Yum Donuts had better food

The things that used to go down here…

@SasquatchVinnie And in the summer time get to swim in the fountains (allegedly)?

@SasquatchVinnie I've done it before....you get good sleep....don't wake up 10x thinking you missed the game and the clubhouse is full of TV's and food!!

Sources are saying that Carter Jensen actually slept in the clubhouse last night so he wouldn’t miss an alarm

@JakeEisenberg_ @danielleRoyalKC Players always take care of the support staff (clubhouse, security, ushers ect).

Chatted with Trevor Vance. He said last night Jac Caglianone asked one of the grounds crew members how many were on the crew (~20). This morning, Cags brought in three-dozen donuts + coffee for them as a thank you for their hard work. First class.

@Decker6 @NiseiLounge CB....stands for "Cluessless Brother" I was told when I was playing.

I got called out on strikes in my first MLB start by CB Buckner. AJ Ellis got to 1B later in the game and congratulated me for officially becoming a big leaguer cause I got “CB’d”… also never got another big league start 😂

@reycoti1 @Enrique_Rojas1 In the history of Major League Baseball roughly 1,300 players have reached 10 yrs of service time.

@Enrique_Rojas1 a cuantos se le paga esa pension total (10+ años de servicio) en la actualidad?

MLB y MLBPA tienen acordado un fondo de pensiones. El jugador paga una cuota casi insignificante por día de juego a su sindicato. Los equipos aportan la mayor parte del dinero de la pensión del pelotero. Por eso es tan importante trabajar en empresas con fondo de pensiones.

@JoseMontas1 @Enrique_Rojas1 All depends on service time and when they start collecting pension? Players can start early (45) with reduced payments.

@Enrique_Rojas1 Y que reciben entonces esos que se retiraron en los 80-90.

Un jugador de MLB es elegible para recibir pensión después de 43 días de servicio. Lo que reciba de pensión dependerá del tiempo de servicio y del momento que solicite la pensión (como todos los planes de pensión). Si un jugador acumula 10+ años de servicio y espera a los 62 de edad para reclamar pensión, obtiene lo máximo, que actualmente ronda los $275 mil anuales. El monto ha cambiado en el tiempo. Jugadores que se retiraron en los 80-90, etc, no reciben dinero actual.

@fernandojedi83 @TheJacobTurner Players can start taking their payments at age 45 (reduced monthly amounts).....but if you wait and don't reach age 62 you get nothing.

@TheJacobTurner Your videos are so insightful. What if you take your pension early and don’t wait until 62? How much does a retired player get a year ?

There’s a long-term reward in baseball most people never talk about

@TomOggie2 @OldYungDale @BNightengale

@OldYungDale @BNightengale I believe when a guy is on the IL a portion of his salary is covered by insurance. I could be wrong

Spring training starts, and Rockies 1B Kris Bryant goes on the 60-day IL where he'll be out for at least the first 57 games of the season. Bryant, who played only 11 games last season, has played in 170 games in the first four years of his 7-year, $182 million contract.

@GreggOlson30 LHP changeups to LHH?

Only 315? There are so many myths of what not to do. Benching is one. RHP changeups to RHH. I just no habla where some of this starts.

@baseballinpix He "borrowed" that hat from my locker!!

Bobby Valentine wears a disguise in the dugout after being thrown out of a game, 1999. Valentine was ejected in the 12th inning, rules prohibit ejected managers or players from remaining in the dugout or having any contact with their team during the game. But Valentine returned to the dugout two innings later wearing sunglasses, a cap pulled low, and a fake mustache. The disguise fooled no one, Valentine later claimed he just came back to tell a joke to lift the team's spirits, but MLB was not amused. He was fined $5,000 and suspended for two games. Though the image lives on.

heraldtribune.com/picture-galler… IYKYK!!

@baseballinpix Always felt comfortable at the plate there! My favorite place to hit as a visiting players.

Milwaukee County Stadium. It was the home for the Milwaukee Braves (1953-1965) and Milwaukee Brewers (1970-2000). It opened in 1953 and was notable as the first Major League ballpark in the United States financed entirely with public funds. Construction began in 1950 on the site of a former landfill, with a cost of about $5.9 million. The ballpark hosted three World Series (1957, 1958, 1982) and was also used part-time by the Green Bay Packers. Did you ever see a game at Milwaukee County Stadium?

@Jimfrombaseball In 1982 the minimum salary was:

"Prior to the 1982 season, Rickey Henderson was earning the league minimum $185,000. Thanks to his impressive performance up to that point, the A's showered Rickey with a huge contract. In the next season his salary would jump to $535,000, followed by $950,000. Best of all, the contract came with a big fat signing bonus. To reward his performance over those first few years, just before the start of the 1982 season the Oakland A's gave Rickey a $1 million signing bonus. A few months after the ink was dry on the contract and the $1million check, someone in the Oakland A's accounting office came across an unusual error in their books. No matter how many times he ran the math, that frustrated Oakland accountant could not figure out why the team's books were off by one million dollars. The discovery of this discrepancy set off a massive investigation until someone finally figured out that the $1 million was related to a single check. A check that had been written to Rickey Henderson four months earlier. So, someone from the accounting office called up Rickey and asked him if he still had the check. Rickey responded: "Ya I have it! I'm staring at right now. It's still in the frame."

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@JesseRogersESPN I’m really interested in how they clean the carpet …please share

Now thats a party

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@HughJupside @JeffPassan @kcsluggers

It’s not even October yet and it feels like playoff baseball. Noelvi Marte — a third baseman until the middle of this season — with a game-saving home run robbery and the Reds get back to within a half-game of the Mets.

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@HowieRose Terrible!!

Seriously?

nypost.com/2025/08/09/spo… This is not a good feeling but almost everyone that has played has thought this!!

@TheWARmonger_ Also...manager can yell your name or number to let you know pitch. Bobby Valentine would do that when I was with the Mets. Sounds like you are shouting encouraging words but really calling out pitches or location.

Some have protested, and I'll admit I don't know this is exactly what signaling happened here. But Cora clearly sees changeup. The runner on 2nd or just the batter may have seen it on their own as well. I'll stand by the rest of the post, which is really just that tipping is a big part of the modern game, and orgs are dedicating a lot of time, energy, and technology to it.

We've discussed pitch tipping a few times this season, and here's some good video. The coach/analyst gives the pitch to the manager, who sends the pitch to the runner on 2nd base, who sends the pitch to the batter, who hits a grand slam. Pitch tipping is a big part of the modern game. We're all comfortable with a player on base noticing something and relaying to the batter, that's been part of baseball forever. But it's so much more than that now. Advanced scouting, serious technology, and analysts (one player told me their team has three people dedicated to it). Notes: - Pitch tipping has never been considered cheating, and I'm not saying it is - It's NOT just any one team, it's many or all of them. I've been looking for it since last season, and I have at least 6-7 teams who seem to be very good at it - "Just don't tip your pitches" has gotten a lot more difficult in the past handful of years with the technology used to identify tips