MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

Giants and A's are off Friday and play at the Coliseum Saturday and Sunday.

 

What they ought to do (but will never happen) is rotate the rivalries over a 15 year period. I'd rather see a home and home with the Cardinals or Cubs once in a while. Anyone, to be honest.

 

Biggest Sunday crowd all season.

 

Singer:
5 IP
6 runs (all earned-all with 2 outs in 2nd)
8 hits
2 BB
9 K

 

This will happen, except in an NFL 4x8 matrix, once they expand to 32 after the next "awww we're broke" lockout.

 

Just to make BYH bust into a primal scream, here's how those divisions could lay out based on various expansion scenarios that assume the whole A's thing could end up in FILL IN THE BLANK RANDOM WESTERN CITY! (Including Portland, but fuck it, I included them anyway.)

Roll that beautiful bean footage!

Nashville-Portland

NYY, NYM, BOS, TOR

BAL, WAS, PHI, PIT

ATL, NSH, MIA, TB

MIL, MIN, DET, CLE

CHC, CHW, STL, CIN

HOU, TEX, KC, COL

ARI, SD, LA, ANA

SF, LV/SAC/UTAH, POR, SEA

Nashville-Montreal

NYY, NYM, BOS, PHI

BAL, WAS, PIT, CIN

ATL, NSH, MIA, TB

MTL, TOR, CLE, DET

CHC, CHW, STL, MIL

HOU, TEX, KC, MIN,

ARI, SD, LA, ANA

SF, LV/SAC/UTAH, SEA, COL

Nashville-Carolinas

NYY, NYM, BOS, TOR

BAL, WAS, CAR, PHI

ATL, NSH, MIA, TB

CLE, DET, PIT, CIN

CHC, CHW, STL, MIL

HOU, TEX, KC, MIN

ARI, SD, LA, ANA

SF, LV/SAC/UTAH, SEA, COL

Nashville-Austin/San Antonio

NYY, NYM, BOS, TOR

BAL, WAS, PIT, PHI

ATL, NSH, MIA, TB

CLE, DET, MIL, MIN

CHC, CHW, STL, CIN

HOU, TEX, KC, AUS/SA

ARI, SD, LA, ANA

SF, LV/SAC/UTAH, SEA, COL

Portland-Montreal

NYY, NYM, BOS, PHI

BAL, WAS, PIT, ATL

MIA, TB, HOU, TEX

CLE, DET, TOR, MTL

CHC, CHW, STL, CIN

KC, MIN, COL, MIL

SD, LA, ANA, ARI

SF, SEA, POR, LV/SAC/UTAH

Portland-Carolinas

NYY, NYM, BOS, TOR

BAL, WAS, PIT, PHI

MIA, TB, ATL, CAR

CLE, DET, MIL, MIN

CHC, CHW, STL, CIN

KC, MIN, TEX, HOU

SD, LA, ANA, ARI

SF, SEA, POR, LV/SAC/UTAH

Portland-Austin/San Antonio

NYY, NYM, BOS, TOR

BAL, WAS, PIT, PHI

MIA, TB, ATL, CIN

CLE, DET, MIL, MIN

CHC, CHW, STL, KC

TEX, HOU, AUS/SA, COL

SD, LA, ANA, ARI

SF, SEA, POR, LV/SAC/UTAH

Montreal-Carolinas

NYY, NYM, BOS, PHI

BAL, WAS, PIT, CIN

ATL, CAR, MIA, TB

MTL, TOR, CLE, DET

CHC, CHW, STL, MIL

HOU, TEX, KC, MIN

ARI, SD, LA, ANA

SF, LV/SAC/UTAH, SEA, COL

Montreal-Austin/San Antonio

NYY, NYM, BOS, PHI

BAL, WAS, PIT, CLE

ATL, CIN, MIA, TB

MIN, DET, MTL, TOR

CHC, CHW, STL, MIL

HOU, TEX, AUS/SA, KC

ARI, SD, LA, ANA

SF, LV/SAC/UTAH, SEA, COL

Carolinas-Austin/San Antonio

NYY, NYM, BOS, TOR

BAL, WAS, PIT, PHI

ATL, CAR, MIA, TB

MIN, DET, CLE, MIL

CHC, CHW, STL, CIN

HOU, TEX, KC, AUS/SA

ARI, SD, LA, ANA

SF, LV/SAC/UTAH, SEA, COL

 

So under the plan above, you're preserving Yankees-Red Sox and Cubs-Cardinals but not Giants-Dodgers?

 

I’m gonna throw up.
Oh….and Montreal will be the next team sans Vegas that gets a team.

 

Yep! I don't give a flying fuck about the West Coast!

Honestly, San Francisco can easily be exchanged with Anaheim, San Diego or Arizona in all of those scenarios.

 

Witt Jr.

4th in OPS
1st in avg
In top 20 in league in HR
4th in RBI
1st in Runs scored
1st in total hits
3rd in doubles
2nd in triples
12th in stolen bases
5th in OBP
3rd in slugging

And won’t sniff the MVP because they’re not on ESPN 3 times/week.