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

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

These things can be situational

― felicity, Wednesday, May 22, 2024 10:05 PM (yesterday)

Who's your LOOGY?

(RIP LOOGYs)

What’s a LOOGY

They once roamed this Earth

left-handed one out guy

Oh like Javier Lopez

Soooo.... something weird is happening with Atlanta and *people* are starting to whisper... even conspiracy theories concerning the SHOHEI OHTANI & Ippei Mizuhara scandal are being brought back in the fold.

On May 12th (Mothers Day), Braves 3B Austin Riley exited the game with left side tightness after a routine swinging strikeout on some outside heat in his 2nd AB of the game:

https://www.mlb.com/braves/video/austin-riley-exits-with-apparent-injury

The injury was determined to be intercostal muscle inflammation and Riley hasn't participated in any live batting or fielding exercises since the injury.

Former-LAA David Fletcher was supposed to be the recipient of playing item in the event of Riley's inury.

Normally the team would determine if Riley's recovery timeline would be <10 days or 10 days or greater and make a roster move to send Riley to the IL and call up Fletcher from AAA... which hasn't happened.

Here we are 11 days post-injury and Riley is still taking up a valuable spot on the Braves active roster, making progress as of 5/21 by taking dry swings and some tee-ball swings, but still no live pitching ABs nor fielding drills.

So where is Fletcher? Welp remember illegal bookmaker Matthew Bowyer...

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/40184970/mlb-investigation-david-fletcher-angels

Fletcher was Ohtani's "best friend in MLB" [src: r/Angels] and also very close with Ippei. Fletcher allegedly introduced Ippei to Bowyer.

But there are more serious allegations that Fletcher and his friend/associate may have bet on Angels games which would take this to into Pete Rose territory.

Is MLB forcing ATL's hand or just genuine lousy roster management?

~YOU DECIDE~

...but seriously why are Ohtani's 2 best friends degenerate gamblers?

(lol that reads like bill plaschke, sorry for the formatting)

i'm guessing degen gamblers tend to also be charismatic and crossers of culture barriers, which is a good match for naturally reserved private guy shohei

Interestingly the Braves picked up DFAed utility guy Zack Short from the Red Sox on the 8th May, activated him on the 9th May, and he’s been playing 3B since then. This was a guy who got DFAed off the Mets and Braves and who had a career OPS+ of 58 compared to David Fletcher’s 86!

https://i.imgur.com/Ie9ts5a.jpeg

Also, the conspiracy theory on this account? Which major league team did it originate with?

From inside info from an Braves employee

— TimmySmokes (@timmy_smokes) March 22, 2024

dang that’s right

I've been wondering why Riley wasn't IL'ed, interesting.

One run game

Wow, this Pirates bullpen is something.

The lesson for the Pirates, don't hit grand slams. These last two games they hit one and lost both games.

Can you blame the phillies for o ly playing >.500 teams when they are the ones consistently sending teams under .500????

i can blame the phillies for almost anything

Regretable. Their ethos makes them truly Australia's team

The lesson for the Pirates, don't hit grand slams. These last two games they hit one and lost both games.

otm

or let players hit against their former teams (bart, mccutchen and reynolds all homered to no avail today)

User Mookieproof: how likely is this to happen

If the Pirates DFA Rowdy the Red Sox need to sign him and cut every other 1B option immediately. Don’t care he has a .483 OPS. Put him in Fenway and MVP votes will follow. https://t.co/wCLcVPU4Dk

— Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) May 23, 2024

every generation gets the mo vaughn they deserve

Wasn’t he actually good though

A lefty named Pomeranz is listed in the Giants bullpen on the lineup card today. Ummm.....

— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) May 24, 2024

Ok? He hasn’t pitched in like three years

OK, Giants announced it: Drew Pomeranz, who was released by Dodgers earlier today, has signed a one-year contract. Mason Black optioned, Jakson Reetz DFAd.

— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) May 24, 2024

As per my earlier c0n5p1r@cy t430ry: Riley will miss his 11th straight game today but took BP and fielding drills.

don’t worry the atlanta ex-mets signed joey wendle today

xps i have no insight into the pirates and rowdy, apart from having seen fans complain about his suckiness

if someone needs a 1B, however, it is a complete mystery why brandon belt (.254/.369/.490, 19 HR, 138 wRC+ last year) remains unsigned

^° he's streaky but it makes no sense that he's unemployed.