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

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.

the mets have hit three home runs in each of their last three games

that's good, right?

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

You’ll never guess who isn’t playing third for the Braves today

you'll never guess what diaz and the mets just did

Giants fans should be thanking me for writing them off after last week's series, the SF front office must be lurking here.

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

I was at Candlestick recently and there is ~still~ grass there, it's kind of nuts!

Even shows up on satimg:

https://i.imgur.com/lT9a6OJ.jpeg

Braves following an 18-6 month with an 11-14 month is fucking with my head and making me see things that may not be there, including "something is bad wrong with Acuña." I need to back off from following them day to day and just watch more movies or something...

Yeah something is up. Of course, losing your SP1 Strider for the year (and some of next), and then Murphy and Riley getting hurt is not optimal, but Acuna, Harris, Albies & Olson have all had lukewarm to ice cold starts to the year. Ozuna is the only one who really seems to be showing up and clocking in. Sale is pitching as well/better than he ever has and Fried seems to have turned a corner.

I thought Murphy might be a big factor (he's on my fantasy team and taking forever to return), but d'Arnaud's actually playing very well.

idg why the league didn't just extend this weekend's series to monday

lotta teams having to travel tonight then play day games tomorrow, most notably the giants, who have to fly home from new york

oh no acuna

I accept the blame for jinxing his knee.

Big ouch. Maybe they can activate Riley in a corresponding move...

What's the probability* this Sunday night game is gonna get played?

*#freeippei

oh my... play ball!

Goldschmidt vs. Happ - who will win?

RIP acuna's knees

Didn't realize what a brutal season Corbin Carroll is having:

.188/.274/.284, 62 OPS+, -0.1 bWAR

Lots of ROYs take a step or two back their sophmore year, but that's got to be historic. Obviously lots of time left to climb back to at least an okay season.

Trying to search that, but all I can find are 10 worst ROY seasons or 10 worst careers for ROYs, nothing about follow-up seasons.

Found at least one without too much trouble--unlike Carroll, I don't think anybody thought he had an especially brilliant career in store (and he won in a strike season): Bob Hamelin's 1995 season, .168/.278/.313.

he has a BABIP of .229 which is pretty brutal but he's only hit 2 HRs so maybe he's just not hitting the ball hard much at all, could be some sort of nagging injury maybe

13 year old article, but fairly comprehensive:

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/936415-2011-mlb-roy-awards-power-ranking-the-biggest-sophomore-slumps-of-all-time

Perfect, thanks...Don't think any of those guys were as highly regarded as Carroll; a lot of one-dimensional sluggers, singles-hitters, and glove guys. (I put pitchers in a separate category altogether.)

SI piece from three days ago:

https://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/arizona-diamondbacks-analysis/corbin-carroll-s-fastball-problem-leads-to-a-sophomore-slump-01hynbpj3zax

Willie McCovey won NL ROTY in 1959 & spent part of the second season in triple A. He still managed an OPS+ of 128, though!

Possible Carroll is injured, but the team isn’t exactly setting the world alight by rubbing him out atm if he is. He’s 23, he’s got a lot of time and he’s so toolsy he’s got a decent floor.

Yeah him struggling with fastballs this season (per Hazen in that article) seems to be the main culprit. He’s got great bat speed and he’s got decent plate discipline so it’s probably just a case of adjusting again.
https://i.postimg.cc/cC3ksFkm/IMG-1262.jpg

Being the manager of Corbin Carroll in the ilb fantasy league this season has been extremely disappointing. Last year I was aiming for Gunnar Henderson and he was snatched up one pick before me but ultimately last season CC was a really incredible consolation prize. However I should know by now, whenever prognosticators are enthusing about players guaranteed to escalate to yet another level like many were suggesting re: him, it's basically a curse. I also saw more than one guy writing about Acuna being the first 50/50 guy in 2024...

Angel Hernandez retired. :)

omg

truly one of the worst to ever do it

Angel Hernandez retired. :)

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, May 27, 2024

Probably the best news ever for baseball. MLB needed him out of the game.

Will he go on one final farewell circuit of all the parks and get lots of gifts?

30 sets of spectacles

and a bunch of flak jackets

https://i.postimg.cc/43rX5K7K/Screenshot-2024-05-28-at-7-27-11-AM.png

my “i was NOT forced out by MLB” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

RIP big man, baseball heaven needed a fella to call a ball at the ankles a strike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzE0LGb6xLw

ContrOp: That Hader slider didn't miss by much, that's maybe <1" off the corner?

#freeAngel

Steve Shasta does your webmail work?

I would wager* not if pressed.

My preferred channels are via smoke signal, telegraph or fax.

I'm trying to think if we have any IRL mutuals... hrmmm.

I burnt my bridges with the London ILXgentsia sadly.

can you webmail me your email, that’s probably the best way? If that’s ok?

I’m going on trust here and same applies ofc ofc

done!

Ken Rosenthal says that the Dodgers may trade for Kenley and all I can say to this is PLEASE

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2024/05/28/negro-leagues-statistics-officially-incorporated-into-major-league-record-book/73882293007/

(Josh) Gibson is MLB’s new all-time career leader in batting average (.372, moving ahead of Ty Cobb), slugging percentage (.718, moving ahead of Ruth), OPS (1.177, ahead of Ruth), and holds the all-time single season records in each of those categories.