2024 MLB Season Thread

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by stevew

It’s pretty amazing how much Edwin Diaz has had his career derail since the “spiking of the football” Timmy Trumpet entrance. Mets fall apart in 2022. Diaz tears ACL and misses 2023. Earlier this season, he hast to step back from the closer roll due to ineffectiveness. Then the Mets get that Grimace bounce. And now he’s missing 10 games for having funky ass sticky hands.

Welcome to life as a Mets fan.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Swaggs

It is hard seeing Paul Skenes come up and deal this way, have him and Jared Jones on minimum salaries for the next few years and not see the front office add a couple of even league average bats to the lineup. The NL Central and NL, in general, is down this year - if the Pirates don't act now, I don't know when they ever will.

They are sitting with the second lowest payroll in MLB (behind the A's) at $85.5M, with their three most established players under contract now for at least the next 4 years (Reynolds, Hayes, and Keller) and still fielding a team that has negative WAR at catcher, 1B, and corner OF. So hard to be a fan.

Yeah, I’m hoping they can piece together enough relief pitching. They also have some starters that might be able to contribute here in a few months. Is going to be back soon, so maybe you can get rid of that bullpen game once a week. Mike Burrows is ramping up and might be able to give them something later on. He was really well regarded but had TJ. Falter is decent most of the time.


Hitting wise you have no prospects. Looking at needing an upgrade at 1b/c/RF/CF on offense.

Shoutout to Bryan Reynolds right now. He’s killing it in June.

[Swaggs]

The Pirates' announcers have been going nuts about how hot Bryan Reynolds has been in the month of June and he has been. He has like a 23 game hit streak and has hit in every single game to this point, which is cool. He has a slash of .360/.418/.663 (1.081 OPS) which is fantastic.

I looked up Barry Bonds for comparison and his career OPS is 1.051 and he had six entire seasons that were better than Reynolds' June and his career OPS was 1.051 (and 1.143 in his 15 years with the Giants). His OPS in his 7 years with the Pirates was only .883, which dragged down his career total. And he won two MVPs with Pittsburgh and finished 2nd in another. It is just insane how good Bonds' was and I still think ridiculous that he is not in the Hall of Fame.

[stevew]

In the past 100 years, Reynolds has the 23rd highest career batting average in June

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Swaggs

The Pirates' announcers have been going nuts about how hot Bryan Reynolds has been in the month of June and he has been. He has like a 23 game hit streak and has hit in every single game to this point, which is cool. He has a slash of .360/.418/.663 (1.081 OPS) which is fantastic.

I looked up Barry Bonds for comparison and his career OPS is 1.051 and he had six entire seasons that were better than Reynolds' June and his career OPS was 1.051 (and 1.143 in his 15 years with the Giants). His OPS in his 7 years with the Pirates was only .883, which dragged down his career total. And he won two MVPs with Pittsburgh and finished 2nd in another. It is just insane how good Bonds' was and I still think ridiculous that he is not in the Hall of Fame.

Think what Reynolds might hit if he was the sleazebag that Bonds was.

The only HOF that Bonds belongs in is "People Who Should Only Be Mentioned Again When They Do The World A Favor and Fucking Die"

[sovereignstar v2]

Lol I knew that was coming

[stevew]

Looking thru offensive guys who teams might be selling is depressing. The list of (maybe)available 100 OPS+ guys is pathetic. It’s like Brent Rooker, Taylor Ward, Gavin Sheets, Pham?, like I guess Luis Robert and uhhhh. Nobody can hit and it sucks.

In the next 30 or so days there has to be some sort of WC separation in the NL especially.

[Ksyrup]

Today's MLB looks like when I create a fictional OOTP league and let it change modifiers on its own, then in like 2045 the league is hitting .223 and I'm in the settings adding zeros to everything trying to right the ship.