By "the best player to ever play the game", Stockstill means Wieters, right?

Wieters is so humble, Jesus wrote a testament about him.

Have you guys seen Wieters' PECOTA projection? It would make his mother blush.

Have you guys seen Wieters' PECOTA projection? It would make his mother blush.

And it makes all other mothers seem like they smoked during pregnancy.

Wieters' PECOTA is so good they are trying to figure out a new WIETERS projection system.

I wonder if he reads this site...

Saying Wieters' name makes blind men see.

Wieters is so humble, Jesus wrote a testament about him.

Primey.

Wieters is so humble, Jesus wrote a testament about him.

The Wieters Testament was declared to be heretical by the Catholic Church, due to its conflict with the doctrine that only God is perfect.

Dear MacPhail,

You're ####### up my Scoresheet team. Let him play already.

David Nieporent welcomes a Wieters-headed government.

The Wieters Testament was declared to be heretical by the Catholic Church, due to its conflict with the doctrine that only God is perfect.

But then, replace 'Catholic Church' with 'Jewish Synagogues' and you have the same thing that happened to Jesus.

There used to be a regular parade of letters to like the Sporting News (not to mention columns in the like the Sporting News) which would regularly decry how many players were being "rushed" to the majors. You don't see that much anymore because the argument has been taken away by cautious/pragmatic* GMs who make just about every prospect now play at least half-a-season at every single level, even if doing so is pointless and even possibly counterproductive. Wieters needs to learn how to handle major-league pitching, and the sooner he does that the better.

*One rationale I've seen for putting the breaks on a hot prospect is to ensure that he plays a goodly portion of his prime years in his pre-arb seasons. If Player A is rushed up at age 21, and plays somewhere between replacement/average as a rookie, well most teams would rather have him wait in AAA and be a rookie the next year at around an average/somewhat above average level, thus getting an extra prime season (hopefully significantly above average) several years down the line, for cheap. My take is that a young (less than 23) prospect will show an increased growth profile if he is put in the majors just as soon as he can play above replacement. So if you rush him a bit he may be at say 160 OPS+ by his prime, rather than 140 if he is held back. But I know of no study which has examined this (hint hint lurking BBPro/THT types).

Saying Wieters' name makes blind men see.

i initially read this as "seeing Wieters' name makes blind men see." which i was ready to agree with in a very real sense.

after noticing the difference, i still agree with it, of course.

The Wieters Testament was declared to be heretical by the Catholic Church, due to its conflict with the doctrine that only God is perfect.

Wieters just declared himself pope and made all Yankee fans celibate.

Have you guys seen Wieters' PECOTA projection? It would make his mother blush.

I loved the top comps: Alex Gordon and Ben Grieve.

I mean, imagine the nerve of someone to compare Alex Gordon and Ben Grieve to the greatest ballplayer of our generation.

Q: What's the difference between Matt Wieters and Superman?

A: Kryptonite can stop Superman.

There are no sports curses, only teams that Matt Wieters doesn't like.

Wieters game calling ability is so advanced he can make the Orioles staff overcome the rest of the AL East. </most ridiculous claim yet>

If the Orioles got Joe Beimel and brought up Wieters right away they would be runaway favorites for the AL pennant.

O’s Wieters humble about the hype

Well, Jesus was a carpenter.

When a pitcher plunks Matt Wieters, the ball is awarded first base for enduring the pain.

According to Matt Wieters' calender, there are actually TWO Octobers.

I wonder if he reads this site...

How you dare questioning Matt Wieters' almighty powers? You're going to burn.

Starting in 2009, Matt Wieters will have homefield advantage in the World Series.

Matt Wieters is accepted by the U.N. as a sovereign nation and will participate in the 2013 WBC.

Seriously though, Zips projects Wieters for .291 .361 .467 which is very solid for a catcher but nothing unseen before. The way you guys talk about him, it's like he's Ted Williams as a gold glove catcher.

it's like he's Ted Williams as a gold glove catcher.

On steroids, greenies, without the humidor, and with his head better preserved.

#25 is one of the best yet.

#25 is one of the best yet.

#25 is one of the best yet.

Is that His jersey number?

#25 is so good you had to say it twice.

The Orioles asked Lloyds of London to insure Wieters, Lloyds agreed to write the policy, unfortunately only Bernard Madoff could afford the premiums. Out of the blue, he agreed to pay.

The way you guys talk about him, it's like he's Ted Williams as a gold glove catcher.

What Ted Williams didn't realize when he asked to be frozen was that when he is revived he'll have to look at Matt Wieters' stats and say "There goes the best hitter that ever lived." He probably would've asked for cremation if he had considered that.

The way you guys talk about him, it's like he's Ted Williams as a gold glove catcher.

More like Ted Williams as a gold glove catcher who could be the best closer in the league if closers weren't overrated.

Matt Wieters took batting practice this morning. There were no survivors.

Matt Wieters taught Sparky Lyle how to throw a slider, Hoyt Wilhelm how to grip a screwball, and revived Charlie Hough's minor league career by showing him a pitch he had invented just moments prior called the knuckleball. All "knuckleballs" thrown prior to that moment were actually figments of collective imagination. While filling in the gaps in the space/time continuum by creating false memories of 1940s knuckleballs, Wieters accidentally revealed the curveball to Candy Cummings in a dream. And from that moment on, the Law of Unintended Consequences became The Law of Whatever the Hell Matt Wieters Says Will ############# Happen.

Its going to be funny if Matt Winter hovers around .200 BA for the first couple of months.

Honestly, with all this BTF hype I'm beginning to agree with Tripon: the best possible outcome would be for him to fail miserably.

Because Stephen Strasburg? THERE's your godlike can't-miss prospect right now. And he's gonna play for the NATIONALS.

The so-called Large Hadron Collider?

Just Matt Wieters facing off against Stephen Strasburg.

Its going to be funny if Matt Winter hovers around .200 BA for the first couple of months.

His Will be done. So sayeth the Gospel of Matt.

I heard Matt Wieters beat up Chuck Norris and made him cry for his mother.

Matt Wieters took batting practice this morning. There were no survivors.

Oh, that's excellent.

Ford Prefect "read of one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards." He should just be glad he's never had to witness a Wieters family Wiffleball game. The last one decimated 30 galaxies worth of planets. Matt fouled off 13 consecutive pitches at one point, not because he really hated that solar system, just to get a better pitch to hit.

I believe PECOTA projects Wieters to be better than The Alex Rodriguez Himself. Seems about right to me.

Scientists now in consensus, Global Warming is not man-made, it is being caused by Matt Weiters.

In the Big Inning, Matt Wieters created the heavens and the Earth.

Its going to be funny if Matt Winter hovers around .200 BA for the first couple of months.

City of Baltimore department of sewage unsure what to do in case Weiters a bust.

Said the venerable Jim Kilroy, Baltimore DPW Director, "I've got no idea if our city sewer system can take that large of a load, in case it happens. I know one thing, including all my years in WWII, I don't think I've seen as big of a turd as what were are about to see."

Matt Wieters can count to the highest number there is.

I am going to be very disappointed if Wieters doesn't hit .600 with 200 bombs.

Edit: woops, wrong thread

Matt Wieters took batting practice this morning. There were no survivors.

This might be the Matt Wieters of Matt Wieters jokes - a dead set primey if there ever was one.

Its going to be funny if Matt Winter hovers around .200 BA for the first couple of months.

On May 28th, 2006 Nick Markakis' slash stats were .209/.297/.302/.599 in 145 PAs.
I'm more than happy to be patient for Matt.

[52] That is a crazy slugging percentage. Did he have a homerun for every hit?

Edit: I just realized that the last slash was for OPS, not slugging. Doh!

Every love song ever written has been about Matt Wieters.

Every love song ever written has been about Matt Wieters.

Good thing he's a switch-hitter then.

Good thing he's a switch-hitter then.

Matt Wieters swings both ways?

Naturally, this is the greatest thread in Baseball Primer / BBTF history, not to mention the history of the internet.

I want to start a Church of Wieters now.

Matt Wieters is so ####### good that even his intangibles are tangible.

Once, when his team was losing by four runs in the bottom of the ninth, Matt Wieters hit a six-run homer to win the game. He didn't think anyone would believe a five-run homer.

Matt Wieters can't have a roommate on the road, because his snoring generates the universal chord, which turns people into pure energy.

Edit: woops, wrong thread

No thread mentioning Matt Weiters can ever be a wrong thread. Ever.

Matt Wieters swings both ways?

No. Both ways swing Matt Wieters. Matt Wieters swings a redwood tree trunk with three different endangered species of owl living on what would be the barrel of a normal bat.

Matt Wieters is so good that no adjective can adequately describe him. He's the most Wieters diety in the history of the universe.

But as always, the question remains: Could Matt Wieters microwave a burrito so hot that He couldn't eat it?

Matt Wieters can make an omelette without breaking any eggs.

Matt Wieters would gladly eat an Thousand Year Old egg.

Some years, Matt Wieters fills in for Santa Claus.

Matt Wieters Matt Wieters Matt Wieters Matt Wieters. Matt Wieters, Matt Wieters Matt Wieters - Matt Wieters.

Matt Wieters Matt Wieters: 1.) Matt Wieters, 2.) Matt Wieters, 3.) Matt Wieters, 4.) Matt Wieters.

Matt Wieters Matt Wieters Matt Wieters; Matt Wieters, Matt Wieters & Matt Wieters.
Matt Wieters Matt Wieters, Matt Wieters.

I wonder if and when it will be possible to have a rational conversation about Matt Wieters and his qualities here again.

I wonder if and when it will be possible to have a rational conversation about Matt Wieters and his qualities here again.

Of course, as soon as reason is replaced by the science and sayings of Matt Wieters.

The so-called Large Hadron Collider?

Just Matt Wieters facing off against Stephen Strasburg.

Wieters is a lock for Rookie of the Year, MVP and Nobel Prize for Physics.

Bob Gibson admits that the inside of the plate belongs to Matt Weiters.

Doc Gooden snorted coke in fear on the day of His birth.

Wieters is a lock for Rookie of the Year, MVP and Nobel Prize for Physics.


Only one Nobel Prize would be a disappointment. I wouldn't want to be the Nobel Prize committee explaining to Matt Wieters why some chump got the Peace Prize, especially considering that Wieters' tears bring plants sprouting from salted earth. Or they would, if Matt Wieters ever cried.

The presence of Wieters has Bob Feller saying that baseball is better now than back when he played.

The presence of Wieters has Bob Feller saying that baseball is better now than back when he played.

Wow, I hope this thread never ends.

Matt Wieters knows how he affects Frank Tanana.

In Soviet Russia Matt Wieters is Matt Wieters

Matt Wieters was once drafted #2 in a fantasy league. The team drafting #1 was immediately kicked out of the league for collusion.

Matt Wieters is the straw that stirred the camel's drink.

Matt Wieters once hit a 400-foot HR... in a T-ball game.

Matt Wieters chopped down a cherry tree then made a bat out of it.

Matt Wieters cannot tell a lie, because He just changes reality to fit what he says.

Matt Wieters is the man behind the curtain.

The end of The Natural (the movie, not the book) is based loosely on a game Wieters had in High School.

Matt Wieters is so great that Curt Schilling was rendered speechless.

Reggie Jackson just admitted on ESPN that Matt Wieters was, in fact, the straw that stirred the drink.

Sidney Lumet just announced plans to follow up on "The Wiz" with "The Wonderful Wieters of Oz". Matt will be performing the roles of Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, over 90% of the Lollipop Guild, and Flying Monkey #2. Because he said so, Madeline Albright will play the Good Witch. Don Fehr will play the Cowardly Lion, because as good an actor as Matt Wieters is, he doesn't even know how to *act* afraid of anything.

Jim Rice fears Matt Wieters.

Matt Wieters drank Daniel Day-Lewis' milkshake.

Matt Wieters exhaling breath is what demolished Shea Stadium and Yankee Stadium.

"Matt Wieters is hell." — Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

Matt Wieters framed Roger Rabbit, and then framed someone else for framing Roger Rabbit.

Matt Wieters knows who Karim Garcia is.

Matt Wieters has enough money to buy fear to put in Pedro Martinez's heart.

Voldemort won't say M* W* name.

In response to #90:

Matt Wieters is Pedro's Daddy.

If you have Matt Wieters, Stephen Strasburg, Yu Darvish and Cole Hamels on your Fantasy Team, you win. Actually, just having Matt Wieters means you win. But if you have all 4, you win awesomely.

Matt Wieters is so great that Curt Schilling was rendered speechless

ok NOW, you're just being silly....

Matt Wieters has found both Carmen Sandiego and Waldo.

After two months of starting, Matt Wieters will be 1 for 5. With three hundred walks.



My favorites:

When a pitcher plunks Matt Wieters, the ball is awarded first base for enduring the pain.

and

Matt Wieters took batting practice this morning. There were no survivors.

and

Matt Wieters swings both ways?

No. Both ways swing Matt Wieters.

Matt Wieters knows when today's WBC Game Chatter will go up. I'd ask him, but I'm so shy around Omnipotent beings.


Matt Wieters don't need no stinking badges.


The Baseball Gods are trying to figure out how Matt Wieters was able to beat up the Baseball Devil (who looks strangely like Ty Cobb) for his abilities.

Matt Wieters will be revealed as Indiana Jones' second son in Indy V.

Matt Wieters can talk to the animals, so don't piss him off, he'll get some Killer Bees on your ass.

Matt Wieters is a loose cannon. And he's off the force.

Matt Wieters has found both Carmen Sandiego and Waldo.

And killed them.

Matt Wieters knows who Karim Garcia is.

Does he know who Benjamin Stove is? Because that #### is still driving me nuts 3 years later.

Also: Matt Wieters remembers all the names of Rickey Henderson's teammates, including the two guys who wear helmets in the field.