You can’t spell ‘no big contracts’ without RSN: 2024 regular MLB season thread!

he hit .217/.318/.504 with 3 war in his age 28 season. the homers are lovely, but yeah that's edging into schwarber territory. i'd pay him a fair bit of money on a four-year deal, but i'm sure he'll want 8+

not to be all 'wahh, boras' but boras' clients almost never sign extensions before hitting the market. and considering the deals he's gotten bogaerts and kris bryant and eric hosmer, that seems pretty effective! it only takes one sucker

if being a met means that much to alonso, i'm sure they can get a deal done -- boras works for him, after all. but they're all just posturing now

I was looking at this looking for parks that are friendly to right handed pull hitters who might be looking for a first baseman whose main skill is hitting it out, and I didn’t realise Citi field is actually so unfriendly to Alonso!

Also, now I understand why Alex Cora is always trying to get his left handed hitters to go oppo. Had no idea Fenway was that difficult for lefties.

yeah it’s a vast prairie out there in right for the most part

Unless you’ve got like 70 or 80 power or are lucky enough to reach the pole, I guess? I was surprised that Ted Williams claims he only had four oppo homers there.

Anyway, Alonso could do well in St Louis maybe? Goldy is still good but he’s a free agent at the end of 2024 at the age of 37, and they’d be able to pay Alonso if they want to.

so are they going to fix the uniforms?

word on the street is that of universal concern is the pant

word on the street is that of universal concern is the pant

there is spring training baseball on tv!

New statement on the pants from an MLB official: “The uniform pants have the same material and thickness as the uniform pants used last season. There were changes to the fabric of the jersey, not the pants.”

i.e. design and sizing changed but not the material, per the league. https://t.co/1km20Q3U3E

— Lindsey Adler (@lindseyadler) February 23, 2024

They’re going to be laughing on the other side of their faces when there’s a rainy game at Citi or Fenway and having to see Kenley or Pete Alonso exposed to the eyes of children. Otoh maybe players will finally start wearing cups again?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqEFzxpGQx0

Baseball.
On at Australian prime time.
Only 10 hours away?

We are so back

First AB of the 2024 MLB season ends with a pitch clock violated walk. Didn't have that on my bingo card

atmosphere sucks

Facts

Omg I love Ohtani

Look at his happy mother! Wholesome 🥰

Oof this padres catcher. Not quite the cannon arm is it?

I feel like Manny Machado's ears get even more elvish as the years go on

commentators keep going on about the passion of the fans in korea but all we see on tv are bored millionaires in half-empty leather seats looking at their phones

Tbf, that's the case behind homeplate for most games

maybe in LA lol

exactly the right pitch from darvish there

Well, they're full in la, and the bleachers make up for it.

Hyunjin ryu spotted. King

Wtf is that hat mullet yamamoto?!

Sheeeeeesh lotta spikes tonight on glasnow

And the first great AB and run of the year comes from: Tyler Wade?

Never doubt the -.6bwar guy

Tatis' cannon arm still blows me away

speaking of cannon arms, damn kim

Imagine having a functioning short stop

Okay wtf is this ump?

The duality of man those two tyler wade AB'S

Betts looking good at short so far

mookie betts is extremely good at baseball

how many ex red sox will come up big today?

welp defense doesn’t win ballgames but it can sure lose them

jay jaffe reports that every starting position player for the padres, except the catcher, was once a shortstop prospect

i guess this might be why they moved

tbf i guess it’s not cronenworth’s fault his glove failed

that is true

nice little ad for mlb’s owned and operated equipment mfg

I had to look at the replay after I saw Stats tweet this:

How does your glove break on a soft ground ball on opening day

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) March 20, 2024

Not me going through pictures of him like the Zapruder film trying to identify the glove

Wilson A2000, I apologise for my Rawlings slander

you sure? i thought i saw a rawlings logo

Very sure. 😎 A2000 in saddle tan.
https://i.postimg.cc/W4VVZw0V/IMG-7447.jpg

https://www.wilson.com/custom/gloves/a2000/

ah nm cronenworth REPLACED it with a rawlings.. fair enough

good sleuthing

Lotta weird ones for the first game: multiple pitch clock violations, broken gloves on soft grounders, umpire interfering and calling back an easy steal, no xbh's, a below 1 SO/W ratio, Korean stadium atmosphere, Tyler Wade

vry excited for yamamoto x musgrove tomorrow

Buster Olney got hacked

Shohei Ohtani has been banned for life from the MLB, in connection to charges with gambling. His trial is on August 28th, it is speculated he could get life in prison

— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) June 10, 2024

I Hate METS

— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) June 10, 2024

lol

Who was that kid who was in the tor system with the huge lower half

Oh holy shit… he came over in the halladay trade iirc

I was close. The jays traded Michael Taylor (the other Michael Taylor), whom they had gotten in the halladay deal, to the A’s for him. Brett Wallace.

YES

I feel like I'll enjoy this Braves-Orioles series a lot more if I just switch allegiance now before first pitch.

Hope you listened to your best intentions

How bout these O’s huh

They're pretty good, and the barves are pretty bad.

skenes being v. slightly outdueled . . . by miles mikolas!

The Houston Astros released first baseman José Abreu. He is owed more than $30 million on the free agent deal he signed last year.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) June 14, 2024

oof but he's been so so bad

even (a little) worse than fellow former white sox star tim anderson

That organisation seems deeply cursed

don't worry i might be seeing them at candlestick in june - that'll be the turning point for a long slow slide back below .500

well they didnt need to wait for me it looks like

Braves are just getting one bad break after another. Honest miracle they haven’t gone full-on Mets yet.

I feel like that team generally has a horseshoe up their ass

This is cute af, however
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GQNj0HzbQAAXhyL?format=jpg&name=large

Craig’s son

After yesterday's start, Skenes has a K/BB ratio of 53/7. How often do you see that with a 22-year-old starter? Going back to Jose Fernandez, his was 4.21 for his four seasons, and that was really impressive; Skenes is at 7.57.

Do we have the ILB equivalent of the "the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive" thread, except "still playing"? Had no idea Dallas Keuchel was pitching for a Triple-A team right now (or that he pitched for the Twins last year).