MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

[Songbird]

Welcome to a new season.

Dodgers and Padres playing in Seoul. Watching on ESPN on the laptop.

Darvish opened the season with a pitch clock violation walk to Betts but got Ohtani on a fielder's choice (beat it out to avoid a 6-4-3), Freeman (strikeout looking), and Will Smith (F7).

Glasnow just retired the Padres 1-2-3.

And here we go into a new season.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I don't know who's screaming over the PA, but that person needs to quaff a tall frosty mug of STFU.

 

[Della9250]

Mike Shildt looks like a live-version of Hank Hill's cousin

 

[Songbird]

You should get an RBI if a run scores on your double play.

 

[Songbird]

Routine grounder busted through Cronenworth's glove, run scored.

 

[MTM]

Dodgers must have thought they were still in the postseason, 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position until they used an error to stack some runs in the eighth.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I didn't have Jake Cronenworth's glove on my bingo card as the Game 1 MVP.

They have clubhouse guys who can tighten that up for you, bud.

 

[JC]

You should get an RBI if a run scores on your double play.

That would make the stat even more useless.

 

[Songbird]

No, it wouldn't. Batter hit the ball, runner scored, RBI.

How funny that that it's an RBI if the batter beats it out at first for a force only.

It's a facacta rule. Batter did his job, to plate a run, which is the name of the game.

 

[qtlaw]

No, it wouldn't. Batter hit the ball, runner scored, RBI.

How funny that that it's an RBI if the batter beats it out at first for a force only.

It's a facacta rule. Batter did his job, to plate a run, which is the name of the game.

Is Songbird Jim Rice??

 

[JC]

No, it wouldn't. Batter hit the ball, runner scored, RBI.

How funny that that it's an RBI if the batter beats it out at first for a force only.

It's a facacta rule. Batter did his job, to plate a run, which is the name of the game.

And produced 2 outs, hell of an at bat.

 

[Songbird]

Indeed it is. He drove in a runner.

 

[swingline]

Who beat?

 

[outofplace]

Indeed it is. He drove in a runner.

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

 

[Songbird]

Pitching has been forever changed with the pitch clock.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

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.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

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.

 

[HanSenSE]

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?

 

[Songbird]

These days we (most of us) realize that this is a poor way to evaluate how good a hitter is,

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.

 

[Junkie]

Pitching has been forever changed with the pitch clock.

For the better.