MLB 2024 Season

[Dish]

This Cubs season is quickly turning into a disaster.

[PGsHeroes32]

Royce Lewis is special



......when he plays.

[Uncle Rico]

This Cubs season is quickly turning into a disaster.

They should have hired Pat Murphy

[MU82]

This Cubs season is quickly turning into a disaster.

They gotta work really hard if they're gonna catch down to the White Sox.

[PGsHeroes32]

Rockies are very bad. Dodgers are elite

So this happened....

9-4 Rockies in the 9th.

Hayward pinch hit grand slame

Hernandez go ahead 3 run homer.

11-9 Dodgers.

[jficke13]

I "get" that WAR doesn't work like this, but sure feels like Frelick should get a whole dang 1.0 added to his WAR for that robbery last night.

[Pakuni]

Rockies are very bad. Dodgers are elite

So this happened....

9-4 Rockies in the 9th.

Hayward pinch hit grand slame

Hernandez go ahead 3 run homer.

11-9 Dodgers.

After a brutal call on what should have been strike three to Hernandez.

[PGsHeroes32]

After a brutal call on what should have been strike three to Hernandez.

Yeah I didn't see that til this morning

Former Twins all time bad trade Jake Cave lost his sh it in RF after the homer

[PGsHeroes32]

I've been vocal about my Correa announce in the past. But holy hell is he on a heater right now.

Even before this insane hot streak, he was having a very quality year(OPS+ of 125 which is his career number prior to his 5 hit game last Thursday).

Free and clear of the plantar fasciitis and he's a whole new player. Will never be fast but runs and moves way better.

Currently slashing .317/.379/.517 with a 155 OPS+

Will be interesting to see if he can stabilize solidly when he inevitably cools off.

[MU82]

Reggie Jackson was asked during last night's pregame show about his memories of Birmingham. His response was gut-wrenching to hear live. And now, reading the transcript, even moreso:

"Coming back here is not easy. The racism when I played here, the difficulty of going through different places where we traveled. Fortunately, I had a manager and I had players on the team that helped me get through it. But I wouldn't wish it on anybody. People said to me today, I spoke, and they said, 'Do you think you're a better person, do you think you won when you played here and conquered?' I said, 'You know, I would never want to do it again.'

"I walked into restaurants, and they would point at me and say, 'The n***** can't eat here.' I would go to a hotel, and they would say, 'The n***** can't stay here.' We went to [Kansas City Athletics owner] Charlie Finley's country club for a welcome home dinner, and they pointed me out with the N-word: 'He can't come in here.' Finley marched the whole team out. Finally, they let me in there. He said, 'We're going to go to the diner and eat hamburgers. We'll go where we're wanted.'"

"Fortunately, I had a manager in Johnny McNamara that, if I couldn't eat in the place, nobody would eat. We'd get food to travel. If I couldn't stay in a hotel, they'd drive to the next hotel and find a place where I could stay. Had it not been for Rollie Fingers, Johnny McNamara, Dave Duncan, Joe and Sharon Rudi, I slept on their couch three, four nights a week for about a month and a half. Finally, they were threatened that they would burn our apartment complex down unless I got out. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

"The year I came here, Bull Connor was the sheriff the year before, and they took minor-league baseball out of here because in 1963, the Klan murdered four Black girls — children 11, 12, 14 years old — at a church here and never got indicted. The Klan — Life Magazine did a story on them like they were being honored.

"I wouldn't wish it on anyone. At the same time, had it not been for my white friends, had it not been for a white manager, and Rudi, Fingers and Duncan, and Lee Meyers, I would never have made it. I was too physically violent. I was ready to physically fight some — I would have got killed here because I would have beat someone's ass, and you would have saw me in an oak tree somewhere."

Wow. That was less than 60 years ago, and there are still plenty of Americans today who think the way those racists did back then. My heart goes out to every person - and not just athletes - who had to go through it. Some didn't make it out alive.

[Uncle Rico]

Reggie Jackson was asked during last night's pregame show about his memories of Birmingham. His response was gut-wrenching to hear live. And now, reading the transcript, even moreso:

"Coming back here is not easy. The racism when I played here, the difficulty of going through different places where we traveled. Fortunately, I had a manager and I had players on the team that helped me get through it. But I wouldn't wish it on anybody. People said to me today, I spoke, and they said, 'Do you think you're a better person, do you think you won when you played here and conquered?' I said, 'You know, I would never want to do it again.'

"I walked into restaurants, and they would point at me and say, 'The n***** can't eat here.' I would go to a hotel, and they would say, 'The n***** can't stay here.' We went to [Kansas City Athletics owner] Charlie Finley's country club for a welcome home dinner, and they pointed me out with the N-word: 'He can't come in here.' Finley marched the whole team out. Finally, they let me in there. He said, 'We're going to go to the diner and eat hamburgers. We'll go where we're wanted.'"

"Fortunately, I had a manager in Johnny McNamara that, if I couldn't eat in the place, nobody would eat. We'd get food to travel. If I couldn't stay in a hotel, they'd drive to the next hotel and find a place where I could stay. Had it not been for Rollie Fingers, Johnny McNamara, Dave Duncan, Joe and Sharon Rudi, I slept on their couch three, four nights a week for about a month and a half. Finally, they were threatened that they would burn our apartment complex down unless I got out. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

"The year I came here, Bull Connor was the sheriff the year before, and they took minor-league baseball out of here because in 1963, the Klan murdered four Black girls — children 11, 12, 14 years old — at a church here and never got indicted. The Klan — Life Magazine did a story on them like they were being honored.

"I wouldn't wish it on anyone. At the same time, had it not been for my white friends, had it not been for a white manager, and Rudi, Fingers and Duncan, and Lee Meyers, I would never have made it. I was too physically violent. I was ready to physically fight some — I would have got killed here because I would have beat someone's ass, and you would have saw me in an oak tree somewhere."

Wow. That was less than 60 years ago, and there are still plenty of Americans today who think the way those racists did back then. My heart goes out to every person - and not just athletes - who had to go through it. Some didn't make it out alive.

I'd like to see Reggie spend a day in Caitlin Clark's shoes

[The Sultan]

I'd like to see Reggie spend a day in Caitlin Clark's shoes

Well, he's heterosexual. So he knows part of her pain.

[MU82]

Shota Imanaga's ERA went from 1.89 to 2.96 in a span of about an hour today, as he gave up 10 runs in 3 innings to the Mets.

The Mets were the first team to have faced Imanaga twice this season; the first time, he shut them out on 3 hits over 7 innings.

NY players felt Imanaga's fastball lacked the same pop as the first time, and Counsell said "we're continuing to take a look at that" ... suggesting it's an ongoing concern?

[MU82]

Nationals lose to the Rockies on a walk-off pitch-clock violation.

https://sports.yahoo.com/rockies-win-on-unprecedented-walk-off-pitch-clock-violation-042341966.html?.tsrc=1317

[WhiteTrash]

Nationals lose to the Rockies on a walk-off pitch-clock violation.

https://sports.yahoo.com/rockies-win-on-unprecedented-walk-off-pitch-clock-violation-042341966.html?.tsrc=1317

Wasn't even close. It looks like the ump even gave him a good extra second. I suppose that's why the pitcher didn't complain.

[PGsHeroes32]

Willi Castro has a OPS+ of 128 with 6 position defensive versatility

Luis Arraez has a OPS+ of 108 as a slap hitting 1B who runs and plays D like one of mugs fat sea creatures on land.

It'd be nice if Pablo López can balance his era with his FIP at some point. But boy was that a good trade.

[WhiteTrash]

Ok, 81 games into the season, the Sox are 21-60 and they will be trading the few decent players they have; I am going to say that the Sox are on pace to and project to be 120 loss team. Fair?

[The Sultan]

Ok, 81 games into the season, the Sox are 21-60 and they will be trading the few decent players they have; I am going to say that the Sox are on pace to and project to be 120 loss team. Fair?

They literally are on pace for a 120 loss season.

[MUBurrow]

Ok, 81 games into the season, the Sox are 21-60 and they will be trading the few decent players they have; I am going to say that the Sox are on pace to and project to be 120 loss team. Fair?

Like Sultan said, that is mathematically their current pace, but I would take the under on 120 losses (over on 42 wins).  Fanduel currently has their number at 49.5.

[WhiteTrash]

Like Sultan said, that is mathematically their current pace, but I would take the under on 120 losses (over on 42 wins).  Fanduel currently has their number at 49.5.

I get it. I was accurately corrected earlier in the season on pace vs projected. At some point the pace and projection will line up. After 81 games I think we are getting close to the intersection of both. But maybe we have to wait till game 160ish?

If the don't move players, I think they should get to 50 wins. But if they don't move players, the apathy will only grow. JR named Getz the GM to speed up the turnaround.  and poor Getz was getting crushed 2 minutes after he got the job and now this. The guy had no business getting a MLB GM job, but it's not his fault he was offered the job.

[MU82]

They actually could get better if they DO move players, who would be replaced by, theoretically, younger and hungrier players.

I mean, would they actually get worse?

[The Sultan]

Compounding matters is the White Sox farm system isn't all that great.

[PGsHeroes32]

I respect determination

But at some point Dallas Keuchel has to have the self respect to realize his career as a MLB pitcher has been done for years

[StillAWarrior]

I respect determination

But at some point Dallas Keuchel has to have the self respect to realize his career as a MLB pitcher has been done for years

He'll gain that level of self respect at about the same time that GMs stop throwing him $700k every year. Those two things often go hand-in-hand.

[BM1090]

I respect determination

But at some point Dallas Keuchel has to have the self respect to realize his career as a MLB pitcher has been done for years

I think the brewers are just hoping he can eat some innings over the next 3-4 weeks and if he happens to catch lightning in a bottle, great.