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

How bout these O’s huh

They're pretty good, and the barves are pretty bad.

skenes being v. slightly outdueled . . . by miles mikolas!

The Houston Astros released first baseman José Abreu. He is owed more than $30 million on the free agent deal he signed last year.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) June 14, 2024

oof but he's been so so bad

even (a little) worse than fellow former white sox star tim anderson

That organisation seems deeply cursed

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

well they didnt need to wait for me it looks like

Braves are just getting one bad break after another. Honest miracle they haven’t gone full-on Mets yet.

I feel like that team generally has a horseshoe up their ass

This is cute af, however
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GQNj0HzbQAAXhyL?format=jpg&name=large

Craig’s son

After yesterday's start, Skenes has a K/BB ratio of 53/7. How often do you see that with a 22-year-old starter? Going back to Jose Fernandez, his was 4.21 for his four seasons, and that was really impressive; Skenes is at 7.57.

Do we have the ILB equivalent of the "the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive" thread, except "still playing"? Had no idea Dallas Keuchel was pitching for a Triple-A team right now (or that he pitched for the Twins last year).

What's the combined dad WAR

Willie Mays RIP

:(

Rockies - Dodgers. Absolutely BONKERS 9th inning. Score line doesn't do it justice.

oh man did they get hosed

I'm sure I'll surprise no one here by stating..... I actually thought the check swing was borderline. In a perfect world, probably should have gone to the Rockies, but calling it in the moment I don't think it was egregious by the umpire (RF Jake cave would disagree with me here). The call on Smith beforehand kinda balanced it out anyways.

The luckier element of that inning was the JayHey grandie staying fair. Off the foul pole to keep the dodgers in the game. That hit still only took the dodgers from .5% to a 8.7% chance of winning (which went back to 7.8% after the questionable Smith strike out). Absolute monster inning, prime television.

Brewers/Angels had an insane finish too, Angels nearly came back down 6 in the 9th but Sal Frelick caught what would've been the game tying homerun

We were at our local microbrewery for trivia night and the place exploded with that Jason Heyward grand slam. Then again utter pandemonium with Teoscar's homerun. I am so not a Dodger homer but it's fun seeing a game in that setting.

Xp wow just watched. Centimetre from tieing it.

Does sound fun. It was utter pandemonium, alone, at my place. Scared the cat off the couch. The grin didn't leave my face after the Hayward homer; just knew how it was going to end from that moment.

Kelenic’s having a nice season

Bring 👏 back 👏 Max 👏 Scherzer 👏

Max Scherzer will make his 2024 debut on Saturday starting for the #Rangers

— Jim Bowden⚾️🏈 (@JimBowdenGM) June 18, 2024

The Giants and Cardinals will get an extra position player for Thursday’s game at Rickwood, and like a doubleheader, they can call up a player without burning an option. The Giants appealed to the league to let them activate LaMonte Wade Jr. from the IL for a day and were denied.

— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) June 18, 2024

Cavan Biggio 4th lowest swing percentage (min 100 PA) and I am genuinely surprised it's not lower. Soto 2nd lowest, just a thing of beauty.

Reggie Jackson talking about the Negro Leagues and the racism he and others faced:

Full clip, about a minute and a half longer: pic.twitter.com/yaIcJwIC7K

— Ben Porter (@Ben13Porter) June 20, 2024

Reggie goes very in-depth into all that in the Prime documentary from a couple of years ago--really turned my head around as to how I viewed him specifically.

Bonds’s reaction here is too funny

Derek Jeter: Tell me right now on the spot, what would you do against Satchel Paige??

Barry Bonds: Me?! GONE. You lost your mind Jeter. Gone!

😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/CbKycyDyM3

— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) June 20, 2024

St. Louis @Cardinals SS @MasynWinn joined @Ken_Rosenthal before today's game at Rickwood Field to discuss his emotions playing at the historic park, and talked on what it was like meeting former players of the Negro Leagues. pic.twitter.com/c0wqE5ENmb

— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) June 20, 2024

I see Imanaga was just saving all his runs for one game

i’m supporting mookie and the pirates in their sheetz era

Watching cle/tor and my goodness the cleveland booth stinks

happy 31st to tim anderson and his .496 OPS

what a collapse

Former batting champs and their collapses, ts: Jeff McNeil v Tim Anderson

checking the score of mets/cubs and saw that diekman saved the game. huh that’s funny i thought. found out later that diaz had been tossed before throwing a single pitch for sticky stuff. wtf? makes no sense.

10 games is rough for a starter but trebly rough for a closer. then again we’ve been without him due to il/rehab for a while so…

You know what though

OH MY 😲

451 feet off the bat of Mark Vientos. pic.twitter.com/A35EFRigRN

— MLB (@MLB) June 24, 2024

he has been mashing! having him and iglesias in has been really helpful

you want to know how many times steven kwan has swung and missed at a fastball this year? 3. 3 times.

Had no idea he was up to .390 (which also tells you how much I've been paying attention to the Jays, who he just finished playing).

KWAN-WATCH!

i didn't know either - i suppose because he only has 49 games, 222 PAs - will he qualify for the batting title if he stays healthy?

probably - you need 502 PAs i think

I'm just in awe at this guy's ability to make contact. freaky shit.

You need 500 ABs to qualify for the batting title and he’s got 222. He hits leadoff so you’d expect him to get to 500 if healthy.

Sorry, plate appearances, not ABs!

Just to get annoyingly technical (unless this has changed), it was always 3.1 PA per team game played--so if your team lost a couple of games to weather, your floor would drop accordingly. And if they add an 0-for-however-many-PA-you're-short and you still have the highest BA, you win.

"You're right--that's annoyingly technical."

“You won’t believe how annoyingly technical this ILB gets, and that’s ok.”

In a strange coincidence, not one of these guys is on my fantasy team:

https://i.postimg.cc/z3Zt47xh/ballot.jpg

Probably my least defensible pick: Mountcastle over Josh Naylor. Not a big Naylor fan, even though he is Canadian.

AL first base is not a great position right now--there was a time when that was filled with MVP candidates.

Naylor for me in the absence of better (but less healthy) candidates. Though his season hasn’t lived up to his 2023 yet. Kyle Tucker is injured btw.