MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

One year, $25 mil with vesting and opt out. Not exactly what he was asking but a good get for Arizona.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/03/diamondbacks-to-sign-jordan-montgomery.html

 

I may be snowblind, is that Bill James posting that on Twitter?

Edit: Sign Bauer

 

It's five million more than he's made in his career.

I assume he and Snell were playing off each other to get in similar ranges and it feels like the clubs called their bluffs.

Considering what could be available, it's not a great market next year either:

Starting pitcher: Gerrit Cole (opt-out), Blake Snell (opt-out), Justin Verlander (vesting option), Max Scherzer, Corbin Burnes, Clayton Kershaw (player option), Max Fried, Shane Bieber, Walker Buehler, Nathan Eovaldi (vesting option), Robbie Ray (opt-out), Alex Cobb, Kyle Hendricks, Charlie Morton, Freddy Peralta (club option), Merrill Kelly (club option), Lucas Giolito (player option), Sean Manaea (opt-out), Michael Wacha (player option), Wade Miley (mutual option), Michael Lorenzen, Lance Lynn (club option), Kyle Gibson (club option), Luis Severino, Frankie Montas (mutual option), James Paxton, Jack Flaherty, Yusei Kikuchi, Patrick Corbin, Anthony DeSclafani, Nick Pivetta, Martín Pérez, Domingo Germán, Marco Gonzales (club option), Andrew Heaney, Eric Lauer, John Means, Zach Plesac, José Quintana, Michael Soroka, Ross Stripling, Spencer Turnbull, Luke Weaver, Alex Wood

 

Mets home opener already rained out.

 

Smart. Looks awful tomorrow and great on Friday. No reason to leave fans in the lurch with the built-in extra day.

(Also, it personally benefits my viewing so I might be biased).

 

Mets get to enjoy one extra day at .500!

 

They always win on Opening Day! It's the other 161 that tend to be the problem.

Also, I find your Mets commentary intentionally hurtful.

 

Phillies rained out as well.

 

A few interesting names from the past in this group. And Michele Kang is the majority owner of the NWSL's Washington Spirit.

 

Incredible how MLB pisses away momentum every Opening Day by scheduling so many games in the north and northeast. It's even worse this year b/c they started the season six weeks ago (approx) in South Korea.

 

Stop talking shit about the Dodgers.

 

April weather has been messing with baseball schedules since the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings. You look back at pre-expansion, pre-jet travel when teams only made two trips West or East, and they'd pile up doubleheaders in the summer because rain/snow/poor field conditions would play havoc with the first month.

To be brutually honest, I've always thought a 140- or 144-game schedule starting on May 1 would make the most sense, but no owner is giving up revenue from those 11 or 12 March-April home games, no matter how awful the weather might be for the fans in the cheap seats.

The schedule-makers have a tough task. You can open with as many games in warm weather sites as you can, but you can't make the Rockies, Red Sox and Twins (let alone Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and New York) play the entire month of April on the road. And the last weekend of March may be no worse than the first two weeks of April. It's going to be 52 in Detroit tomorrow, but Miguel Cabrera hit a homer in a driving snowstorm on Opening Day in 2021. Always loved this Ty Cobb vs. the White Sox shot from Easter 1911.



Despite problems in New York, Philly and Baltimore tomorrow, the Padres, Dodgers and A's are home. The Mariners, Diamondbacks, Rangers, Astros, Rays and Marlins have roofs. And the other games are mostly intra-division with the ability to reschedule as doubleheaders later on. And MLB builds open dates for exactly these scenarios.