2024 MLB Season Thread
Nobody wants these games to start more than Mannfred.
Shohei just spoke to the media for the first time. In a prepared statement, he said:
-He never bet on baseball, or any other sport,
-He didn't know that Ippei lied to him, and that Ippei took the money from Shohei's account to pay his gambling debts
-He'll continue to cooperate with the investigation, and play as the investigation plays out.
If all that's true, then this is probably the best possible outcome for his reputation going forward. He's a naive star athlete who trusted the wrong person. It happens.
In any event, these games are about start! Last year, just like we all predicted, "Someone Else" came on strong in the playoffs, as the Texas Rangers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks for the World Series. Can that happen again?
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I just think it’s funny that you grow up playing baseball, work your whole life to get to the Show, then after a couple months on the Mets, be like “I just can’t take this **** anymore!” …And talk your way out of a job
I just think it’s funny that you grow up playing baseball, work your whole life to get to the Show, then after a couple months on the Mets, be like “I just can’t take this **** anymore!” …And talk your way out of a job
To be fair, most of us wouldn't be too sad to talk themselves out of their job if that meant they'd get paid another $1.5mil or so to chill for the rest of the year. (Unless the Mets find someone who wants to trade for him or someone picks him up from waivers and he's interested in playing for them).
Judge is a good power hitter and he's heating up. 14 dingers and 12 doubles in the calendar month of May. There aren't a whole lot of those in history. Slugged over .900 and OPS over 1.400.
26 extra base hits in a month is nuts.
He basically barrelled everything for a month straight and very rarely didn't smash a ball in the strike zone.
Ohtani has been slumping a bit lately.
That means #1 and #2 in OPS now are Aaron Judge and Juan Soto.
the good news for the mets is that they didn't have to use edwin diaz in the 9th inning when they were leading today
the bad news:
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they blew the game anyways
No guys the Epic Jinx McMuffin wasn’t at the game tonight.
It seems almost impossible that there are only 4 teams in the NL over .500.
Until now I wasn't aware that players got paid individually for doing the in-game interviews. How do teams agree to something like that in the CBA?
If the dodgers lose that game 1-0 because of the error during the interview we have a totally different conversation.
Bryce Harper, using a Philly Fanatic dressed as a royal guard custom bat, just homered and did a soccer style celebration near the dugout.
Aaron Judge is now the active leader in career OPS.
He surpassed Mike Trout after homering twice yesterday.
I will hate Aaron judge until the day I die. With that said, he is good at the baseballs
To be fair that’s precisely why I will hate him til the day I die
Scorching hot Aaron Judge had 3 more hits, bringing him to .305/.436/.703 for the season. He's actually having a better season than his 2022 season.
This is some peak Barry Bonds ****.
Judge was hitting .197 on May 2nd.
Bryce Harper, using a Philly Fanatic dressed as a royal guard custom bat, just homered and did a soccer style celebration near the dugout.
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Scorching hot Aaron Judge had 3 more hits, bringing him to .305/.436/.703 for the season. He's actually having a better season than his 2022 season.
This is some peak Barry Bonds ****.
Judge was hitting .197 on May 2nd.
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Scorching hot Aaron Judge had 3 more hits, bringing him to .305/.436/.703 for the season. He's actually having a better season than his 2022 season.
This is some peak Barry Bonds ****.
Judge was hitting .197 on May 2nd.
Peak Bonds slugged .809 for a full 4 year stretch. Not to mention an OBP of .559 for that 4 year stretch.
So no, it's nowhere even close to peak Bonds.
It's actually a lot closer than you think.
For one, it's much harder to hit now. Pitchers throw significantly harder than they did 20+ years ago. Average batting average and SLG are down roughly 30 points since Bonds was at his peak.
Adjusting 2024 Judge to 2001 numbers would look something like .342/.473/.768. All I did was take his current slash line of .305/.436/.703 and adjust it to 2001 league averages. Now .342/.473/.768 looks quite a bit closer to peak Bonds.
Secondly, Judge is younger and a much better defender than that version of Bonds, so that pretty much covers the rest of the difference in their batting value.
Aaron Judge has played every game so far this year, and is on pace for 11.8 fWAR. That is completely in line with what peak Bonds was putting up.
So when I say that Judge is doing some peak Bonds ****, I am literally not exaggerating. He is as valuable right now as peak Bonds was, towards winning baseball games.
If we adjust numbers we might end up with Babe Ruth not making it out of single A.
That's not what I did.
I didn't make any assumptions based on the quality of play.
I simply kept Judge's OPS+ the same and calculated his numbers to account for the higher run-scoring environment of 2001, when Bonds began peaking.
Raw OBP and SLG don't mean much without context. We are in a dead-ball era right now, the league is hitting .238 as a whole.
Therefore Judge hitting .305 today is the same as hitting .342 in 2001. The difference is the same!
Fred Dunlap slashed .412/.448/.621 in 101 games for the St. Louis Maroons in 1884. Adjusted to 2001 that's like .500/.600/.850. What a guy!
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it all makes sense now
Bros, you don't get it. If you filter out all of the bad months and missed games he's almost as good as someone who you doesn't need a filter over a years longer stretch.
