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

i hope you get to see the troll! although i think he just started strength training on the thumb and will still be out for another month xp

Bee OK vs mookieproof

bad bullpen fite

and there was noooooooooooo doubt about it

Doval continuing where he left off last year sadly

There was no way the Giants were going to win this game. They haven't won more than two games in a row, they pushed it to four. No way they were going five.

i have never seen a more impressive way to rationalize blowing a four-run lead in the ninth <3

haha

In a season where everyone is talking about Ohtani & Betts, Kyle Tucker has quietly snuck past them to the top of the fWAR leaderboard (still waiting for BRef to update their data where he might sneak past Betts for the top bWAR spot).

The notorious slow-starter is already hitting .293/.425/.649, leading MLB in both HRs & BBs, his [Removed Illegal Link] is a sea of RED... except for 2 areas which exposes flaws of statcast:

Statcast rates Tucker 9/100 (!) in baserunning value & 30/100 in sprint speed which suggests Tucker is a liability on the basepaths.

Yet the opposite could not be more true. Tucker is #10 among MLB SB leaders with a perfect 100% SB%.

Illegal link: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/kyle-tucker-663656?stats=statcast-r-hitting-mlb

(still waiting for BRef to update their data where he might sneak past Betts for the top bWAR spot)

ok bref finally updated and Tucker is indeed #1 in both sites' WAR calcs.

Incidentally, Tucker already has two HOF'ers--Walker and Stargell--on his through-age-26 Similarity Score list.

the Royals are 31-19 and are looking to win their sixth straight game today, cole ragans has struck out 12 over 6 innings and had a no-hitter going through 5 2/3

I hate baseball

are you sure you don't just hate blake snell

or Scott "skip camp and hold out for more $$$, who cares if you suck until June" Boras?

oh shastapaws

Jared Jones is really special, I’d love to have seen him in person, but I respected mookie’s wishes 🙃

if only user (redacted) had done the same : /

They did come back after that Snell mess but tied going into the 10th. The Giants will find a to lose this.

chin up, the mets have hit 6 home runs in the last two games and still lost both. it could be worse.

I'm usually positive but this years team drives me nuts.

Thank God for Patrick Bailey!

suddenly you are leading

Are the Philthies for real? Or did I see someone post recently that they've had an unusually cush first 2 months schedule? [citation needed]

bad bullpen fite

― mookieproof, Tuesday, May 21, 2024 9:36 PM (yesterday)

Classic

Grand slam surely

Xpsss They certainly looked for real against the rangers last night

xps they've played a bunch of shitty teams, but also they live in the NL East, so that's who they get to play

anyway 15-3 this month is pretty solid

I also think the Phillies are for real, or at least based on the four game sweep of the Giants recently.

this giants win shouldn't count simply because Bee OK gave up on them

Nothing will ever convince me Michael A. Taylor is in his 30s. He must have done a reverse Pujols and lied about being older than he is so he'd be taken seriously

I’m just so happy they’re in this position after Aroldis Chapman was completely unable to get an out

Lol,

Xxpost

This game is just exercising their demons from last night's lose.

Grandslam still on the table

Whytf am I rooting for the giants?????

The world must be ending

Baseball is far more fun (for the neutral) with bad bull pens

Ridiculously handsome reliever alert ⚠️

Ok, same situation as last night except Daval is coming into a fresh inning with a ghost on second.

Doval

poor man's octavio dotel, surely

Well MLB.TV just added NBC post game shows to the lineup. The NBC one's were not here last week.

Ridiculously handsome reliever alert ⚠️

― H.P, Thursday, 23 May 2024 01:54 (one hour ago) link

where?

Pirates reliever Kyle Nicholas. I might have overstated it, more a first impression and camera catching his good side type of thing. After further camera shot, he has been relegated to: "a particular type of very good looking; not for everyone."

wow, harsh

These things can be situational

Look all I'm saying is the first 5 seconds of meeting this man I thought he was God's masterpiece finally complete, but after a minute of watching a realised there was an element of preference at play here. He's still a handsome man!!!

These things can be situational