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

https://www.mlb.com/news/lucky-summer-sausage-keys-twins-seven-game-win-streak

Fwiw before I looked it up I had never heard the term “summer sausage”.

Always shocked to find the power relationship between MLB and BEES(!) leans towards the bees.

Now that I think of it, there’s not many human institutions that can’t be overpowered with a swarm of bees. Need to get my bee guy to congress, stat

Dodgers commentators speculating perhaps the Dbacks planted the bees to shake up their losing streak. I’m buying it

Nice finds 龜

xps to 龜!

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— MLB (@MLB) May 1, 2024

Yamamoto got his ERA to a number starting with 2 as of today, and without that disaster in Korea it's a number starting with 1. That $325 mil starting to look a little less foolish. The dark void I used to feel in my stomach whenever he gave up a hit has gone. Man is looking far more locked in and like a real ace. Now rocking 4 shutouts in 7 starts

Soler power

Jorge Soler annihilated his bat after hitting a laser right at Rafael Devers 😬 pic.twitter.com/1gsRruvMZC

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) May 2, 2024

Lawrence pitched a perfect ninth for the Rockies, then strikes out the first batter he faces in the 10th and is pulled. But there's an automatic runner on second, and so Lawrence gets the loss after the next reliever blows it. Such a bizarre rule!

i hate it

No time for that Kyle Farnsworth is a bodybuilder now

his title is Professor; show some respect

Brent Rooker - Oakland (sic) Athletics DH - 2 HRs in the 3rd inning.

the a's are about to be .500 after they finish murdering the phish today. I didn't think they'd be this competitive.

Fisher said win a ring and MAYBE I'll turn this car around

if the a's won, fisher would give them old-school pop-can tabs for rings

He’d probably ship all the players out for making him look bad

Noted #1 star of the Dodgers and epitome of the Baseball Body, Max Muncy with a 3hr night

DO IT MUNCE

Also for those unaware, Andy Pages has been the most entertaining player on the Dodgers since he was called up a week or so ago. He has a .338 average in 65 PA but with 0 walks, and an absolute disgust for balls thrown of the plate. Last night he walked off the braves in a 4 hit game after winning the award for “ball fouled off furthest from the plate in a game H.P. has watched”. Man absolutely REFUSES to be walked.

https://i.postimg.cc/52gDh90c/IMG-0497.jpg

Like look at pitch 7? Just disgusting

Probably only a couple of pitchers currently in the league I ever wish an actual shelling on (Chapman, Germán) and one of them (Clevinger) has given up 3 runs to Tampa after two innings and 46 pitches. Hoping for more of the same till he gets pulled.

Only 4 ER in two innings cos the White Sox pulled him out after he gave up three successive hits and a walk, the reliever they put in got out of the inning unscathed and neither inherited runner scored :(

Also, Jhoan Duran’s closer entrance rules.

Jhoan Duran's entrance, just like I always wanted to see on the #MNTwins broadcast. Awesome. pic.twitter.com/ieBzKe1pNo

— Chris Hanel, Baseball Enthusiast (@GoTwinkiesGo) May 4, 2024

That’s so stupid i love it

Oh huh - they do something similar for Romano too

cubs got too cute leaving imanaga in the game late

guess it doesn't matter tho lol

Braves won but they still look very bad. Acuña's head is on another planet.

also absolutely brutal shot to the arm that contreras took from jdm. oooooouuuuuuccccchhhhhh

I can’t bring myself to watch that video. Poor Contreras :(

Max Muncy continues to be Max Muncy, hitting an oppo granny in the 1st

20 strikes in a row from Yama as well to start the game, 18 off Bartolo’s silly record which I want to see broken

goldschmidt may never get a hit again the way he’s looked the past two games against the mets

Paul Skenes is pitching on Saturday!

Please stay off the pulled pork thread Skenes

He’s only twelve years old, he’s got lots of time before he hits the sandwich shop

I heard he got rizzed up by lizzy

Steele(!!!! He’s back!!!!) vs Skenes has the potential to be the most interesting pitchers duel of the day.

I've been reading about Skenes--mlb.com has no fewer than five links up:

Skenes arrives ready to go: 'Just want to put us in a position to win'

Get to know MLB No. 1 pitching prospect Paul Skenes

Is Skenes the best pitching prospect ever? Let's take a look...

Paul Skenes has 5 (!) pitches -- and here's his take on all of them

Are MLB's top two pitching prospects in the same org?

Dylan Crews(Skenes’ teammate at LSU) is now the most high ranked prospect still to debut. The Nationals drafted him 2nd overall last year. He’s still in double A but his ETA says 2024. September I guess?

https://www.mlb.com/prospects/top100/

mlb has been going HARD on skenes it's kind of amazing. never seen this sort of thing before even from like Baseball America. i've having all these articles pushed up to the top of my app i'm like, did i press the wrong button?? wha happen

I saw people compare it to the hype around Stephen Strasburg’s debut?

I did search and Strasburg had a thread on here over a year before his debut!

Post by Andy K from Stephen Strasburg, pitcher and Scott Boras client on ILX - Stephen Strasburg, pitcher and Scott Boras client

My gf hardly ever talks about the NL, but was talking about Skenes weeks ago. Dude is def getting a lot of hype

My mlb.com login still works, so I think I'll make an effort to watch (free today).

lol same except with my husband

https://i.postimg.cc/MH59DQJx/IMG-0614.jpg

meanwhile today mets prospect christian scott is pitching his second game ever against... the braves. that'll be a litmus test

These commenters are a trip. “You saw it, just minutes before he left the dugout the sun came out”

Retire now!

Lol