MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

Payrolls are DOWN 5 percent while MLB revenues are continuing to climb.

 

No wonder they’re turning to parlay cards to make ends meet!

 

Your prediction is getting closer. 15-11 in the top of the ninth with 33 hits so far. And the Dodgers still have last licks.

 

Yamamoto gave up five runs in one inning and Ohtani is involved in a gambling scandal. That's a hell of a start for the Dodgers.

 

The A's have always gone in cycles, it seems, and they'll be back.

They remind me of the Orioles in recent years.

Code:

                                             
Year                  Tm   W   L   Finish   GB
2024   Baltimore Orioles   0   0 1st of 5   --
2023   Baltimore Orioles 101  61 1st of 5   --
2022   Baltimore Orioles  83  79 4th of 5 16.0
2021   Baltimore Orioles  52 110 5th of 5 48.0
2020   Baltimore Orioles  25  35 4th of 5 15.0
2019   Baltimore Orioles  54 108 5th of 5 49.0
2018   Baltimore Orioles  47 115 5th of 5 61.0
2017   Baltimore Orioles  75  87 5th of 5 18.0
2016   Baltimore Orioles  89  73 2nd of 5  4.0
2015   Baltimore Orioles  81  81 3rd of 5 12.0
2014   Baltimore Orioles  96  66 1st of 5   --

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 3/21/2024.

 

I don't know about that - they seem to trade away their best players for second-tier prospects. Other teams know the A's gameplan and play it better than they do now. And the owner is a turd.

The A's 2024 payroll is $20m LESS than it was 10 YEARS AGO! Lower than it was 20 years ago.

With inflation - their payroll should be at least $80m. It isn't like they're selling beer and ad time with 2003 prices.

 

Fixed

 

Dreadful, how nobody had the sense to pull the plug on it earlier than they did is beyond me.

 

The lockout for December 2026 was a stone-cold lock even before the union mutiny/coup.

 

Donger need food!