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

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

Not great, Yamamoto

9 pitches, 2 hits, 1 hbp, 2ER, no outs

omg

Not a great 24hrs for the Dodgers billion dollars

Yamamoto’s probably going to be fine but MLB hitters are much better than NPB and used to his pitch mix more I guess. Yoshida hit like Tony Gwynn for like half the year last year and then trailed off for a while when the schedule and travel got to him. Japanese players usually take a while to adjust. There was so much hype around this signing and nobody ever says the second part though it remains true: it takes time to adjust!

https://i.postimg.cc/Xv8RWYxb/IMG-1381.jpg

Is the love affair with Jared Jones.... over?

What do his analytics say?

That he’s a 23 year old with great stuff who’s two months into his big league career?

this skenes guy is a problem

Sorry he’s actually 22

absolute skenes

on his 22nd birthday no less

lmaoooo

Jorge López after today’s game pic.twitter.com/XNqXS6Lnhv

— The Mike Francesa Podcast (@FrancesaPodcast) May 30, 2024

Lol

I was at that game. glasnow was doing his light calisthenics in thin workout wear before the game and let me tell you that dude is fucking HUGE and extraordinary to watch move

Extraordinary, you say 😏

Pat Burrell being the instigator for actual context is very, very funny

Funniest part about this whole thing is everyone just stared at each other until Pat Burrell started shoving for no reasonpic.twitter.com/oS7GD2vjA6

— Dan Wilson (@dan_wilson4) May 29, 2024

Contact my God autocorrect

I said what i said! Professional athletes are wild!

I mean that I assumed you meant he was astoundingly hot

it looks like the nats may have made out really well in the soto trade in the end

mackenzie gore has been awesome as of late and is now just putting up a great season -- both his ERA and FIP are under 3.00 and he's eighth among qualified SP in K/9 after mowing down the braves line up last night

cj abrams is on pace to put up a 3-4 WAR season after being a 2+ WAR player last year

and james wood is one of the 5 or 10 best prospects in the game

prospect guys think robert hassell looks like a bust now, but still even abrams and gore if they keep progressing at this rate would prob put them over the median return for this kinda trade let alone w/ wood waiting in the wings

Yep Abrams still needs work with the glove but he’s looking every bit like the kind of core piece you build a team around. Gore great as you said.

I like Bobby Witt Jr. but why does he have the same haircut as Butthead