MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

Who beat?

 

I just don't see a compelling reason to change it. Also, it would make it more difficult to compare records across eras.

 

Pitching has been forever changed with the pitch clock.

 

There is a good argument to give an RBI for a DP, but it has nothing to do with whether or not he did his job. People used to think that RBIs were a good way to measure how often the hitter did his job, and it was a gold star, so it was withheld when he was perceived to have done more harm than good.
These days we (most of us) realize that this is a poor way to evaluate how good a hitter is, but we keep track of them anyway. Partially because of nostalgia, but also because it's not entirely worthless. It's a data point that helps keep track of what occurred. As a limited utility stat, it has one job: count how often the hitter at bat caused the runners (or himself) to score. If that's the job, we shouldn't be making value judgements about which ones we like better than others (remember the GWRBI in the box scores?). Let it measure what it claims to measure as accurately as possible.

 

Old man shakes fist at cloud moment: I miss the old Opening Day. Monday afternoon start, first game in Cincinnati and a bunch of teams play.

I am also aware that will never again be the case.

 

Cincinnati and Washington. Have the Nats ever hosted a presidential opener?

 

Yes and No.

I want a guy with a knack for driving in runs and getting those ribbies. RBIs matter.

Full stop.

We have many metrics to evaluate the whole of a batter. I love many of those metrics.

 

For the better.

 

Maybe the pitch clock changed hitting forever?

 

Trying to imagine a Nomar at-bat during the pitch clock era.

 

Waiting for the snow-outs in Cleveland and Denver.