MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

There are some guys you watch a couple at-bats and instantly know they can hit. I’m just a drive-by Cleveland fan, but just watching him in one game and that guy can hit.

 

Maybe the Orioles will play him consistently this time rather than giving him four or five at-bats per week.

 

Was working a 14-hour day at our Amateur so I couldn't watch last night ... I don't think they bring Hjerstad back up to sit him. Cowser has fallen off hard after a great start. Hjerstad will have opportunities. First four-game skid in some time for Baltimore. Every team goes through adversity at some point, so no real panic here. Plus Cleveland is good.

 

I thought they would play Hjersted when they called him up in April, but he only appeared in seven of 16 games from April 23 through May 11. Three of those were as a pinch hitter. He didn't do much, but it was a lot to ask a rookie to produce while playing so sparingly.

 

And the longest hitting streak of the season goes to ... Bryan Reynolds, 21 games.

 

Loss or not, I was just so glad to see that Kjerstad at-bat in the eighth. More than either one of his hits. Masterful at-bat. He wasted pitches in every quadrant of the zone.

It was the type of at-bat we might remember as a turning point a few months from now.

 

As soon as I read "forearm tightness" Friday night, I knew where this was headed.

 

He's actually in a tie with Anthony Volpe and Ketel Marte. Typical fucking SJ/media bullshit, allowing a Pirates player to overshadow a player from the Yankees and a player from the defending NL champs!

 

Finally, a pitcher worse than Patrick Corbin joins the NL:

Brewers acquire veteran lefty Keuchel from Seattle (source)

 

Anyone else confuse Nick Castellanos with JD Martinez? I don't confuse them physically, just their abilities. They seem like twinsies but I think Martinez is a bit better hitter and a bit older right?

 

They're two guys the Tigers dumped for less than nothing in order to put together nine consecutive losing seasons (about to be 10). They kept moving Castellanos all over the diamond -- he's actually become a decent RF -- and then traded him to the Cubs in his walk year instead of keeping him as a veteran they could have possibly built a team around.

He's making $20M a year with the Phillies, or $5M less than the Tigers are paying the carcass of "stick a fork in him" Javy Baez.

Then there's Candelario, another 3B guy they let walk.