MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

Baseball players are driven by analytics now. It's a fact of baseball life. I don't like it any more than you do.
You don't need to create an argument where none exists. This isn't the Steelers thread.

 

You're both right, to a degree, but pitch selection can fall under the umbrella of either analytics or scouting. Either way, if guys are starting at dick-high fastballs down the middle for strike 3, either the scouting report or the analytics suggested -- loudly -- that a particular pitcher was going to throw any other pitch in his repertoire at that moment. What was the count? 0-2? Most times that means some kind of breaking ball away is coming. 2-2? Probably not gonna get a fastball down the middle, but a fastball is likely. 3-2? Guys no longer just give in to hitters. Batters are still just guessing in many situations. Analysts are trying to deprogram scouting reports. All the analytics in the world might suggest a breaking ball is coming. So if that's what their belief is, they're not going to "expect fastball, adjust to the curveball." It's why they don't even swing. They have no chance. The other guy just won the chess match. Tip your hat and move on. Also, hitting is hard.

 

I was coming here to post as of this morning, the Tigers have a 1-in-5 chance of making the playoffs and a 0.6 percent chance of winning the World Series, according to Fangraphs.

But I seem to be in an alternate thread. My bad.

 

I don’t believe for a second that anyone is telling them not to swing at belt high fastballs down the middle with 2 strikes.

and hitting is damn hard.

 

As stated before, these Tigers' and Padres' teams remind me of the 2014 Royals.
They get in, watch out. Extremely dangerous.

 

Beating all of you O's fans to this. Mazel tov

Orioles Designate Craig Kimbrel For Assignment - MLB Trade Rumors

 

Foxx is still an all-time great.

He got beaned on a barnstorming tour, caused lifelong sinus and other head-related health problems that made him turn to alcohol. By all accounts he was well-liked and a very good person.

 

Simply couldn't get the ball again after last night. Had to be done. He's cooked.

 

Gotta hope no horses got out before that gate was closed.

 

I don't like somebody being described as "turning to alcohol." It's a choice and it ruins peoples lives. Their is no excuse for it. You can make up, but it all be done.

 

The MASH episode where they trace the life of the unit through the 1951 NL season has some brutal continuity errors (Winchester already in Korea by spring of 51? Listening to The Shot Heard Round the World in broad daylight, 13 hours ahead of New York?) But in the abstract, it captured the pacing of the seasons of the year as they relate to baseball well.

 

Fair enough.

Unfortunately for him and many others, the medical technology to repair his sinus/head problems was not available at the time.