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

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

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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.

Now that these available new statistics validate Gibson’s greatness, Sean Gibson is hoping that the Baseball Writers Association names the league’s Most Valuable Player Awards in Gibson’s honor.

The MVP award used to be named after former MLB commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, but his name was stripped off the plaque in 2020 after former MVP winners Barry Larkin, Terry Pendleton and Mike Schmidt voiced their discomfort. Landis was MLB’s first commissioner from 1920 to 1944 and baseball was not integrated until three years after his death.

That's a great idea. (Sean is Josh's great-grandson.) I grew up thinking Landis was a hero because of the White Sox scandal and didn't know anything about his mission to keep the game segrated. (Should have been able to figure that out myself past the age of about 15.) His role in coming down hard on gambling--which was in danger of killing the sport--was huge and shouldn't be forgotten. But the other is unforgiveable.

segrated = segregated

worst umpire of all time retiring!

https://x.com/MLB/status/1795827293937389738

how long to Angel H.'s podcast?

tbh i'm not sure mlb *can* force angel out, due to the umpires union (and the fact that, as defector recently pointed out, he's not actually the worst umpire). they could maybe deny him plum assignments, but given his seniority that would probably just end up in court again

if mlb approached him, it was probably to point out 'you're 62, you've been in the majors for 25 years, and everybody hates you. how long do you really want to keep doing this?'

also probably nagl to be seen as "forcing out" someone who sued you for racial discrimination

While Angel may not have been consistently the worst, he possessed this sort of high-leverage shittiness where the more was at-stake, the higher propensity he'd make the wrong call.

the timing of this is the oddest thing. why not wait til the season is over? makes me feel like mlb had something on angel

There were a lot of recent videos about how bad he was this season, maybe it put some pressure on them

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

I wonder if it's still possible to win an MVP on narrative and the hoariest of old-school stats, RBI? Jose Ramirez is leading the Guardians in WAR with 2.3, but he's not anywhere near Tucker or Witt or Henderson or the other leaders--he's not in the Top 10. But he's got the other two covered: respected team leader on a semi-surprising division leader, possible (edging towards probable) HOF'er who's a Top 10 MVP perennial (six out of seven years and counting) who's never won one, and, with 57 RBI in 58 games, he's got a decent chance to knock in 150. If this were 1977, he might be the favourite; probably headed for another 4th- or 5th-place finish.

https://www.freep.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/05/19/PDTF/73763315007-usa-202405019-jca-aa-9-013-jpg.jpg?width=1320&height=882&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp

already knew tommy pham was a psycho but i did *not* know that the new white sox play-by-play guy was this deeply embarrassing

“We ain’t taking that.”

Tommy Pham was fuming after this play at the plate pic.twitter.com/2BIF0wwVuQ

— Sox On 35th (@SoxOn35th) June 2, 2024

Will Smith calling JProfar "irrelevant" is gonna come back to haunt him (WS) imho.

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, April 14, 2024 8:56 AM (one month ago)

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San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano is facing a potential lifetime ban for betting on baseball, sources tell ESPN.

While Major League Baseball's investigation into Marcano is not complete, a penalty, as @lindseyadler and @jareddiamond reported, could be imminent.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) June 3, 2024

Who's your LOOGY?

― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, May 23, 2024 5:19 AM bookmarkflaglink

Delayed reaction: I tried very hard to cast my mind back to the days of this endangered species, even reading this article on the LOOGY Hall of Fame and came up with little more than Mike Remlinger.

On May 25, 2005, Mike Remlinger was placed on the 15-day Disabled List by the Chicago Cubs after breaking his left pinkie by getting it caught in a chair. At the time Remlinger was pitching quite poorly and many speculated the injury was a way of clearing roster space without putting Remlinger on waivers. Steve Stone, a baseball analyst and former Cubs broadcaster, often refers to having players "sit in the Remlinger chair" when they are playing badly during a season.

So put me in the Remlinger chair if you don't like it.