The Los Angeles Dodgers fire Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani’s long-time interpreter. Mizuhara was accused by Ohtani’s attorneys of engaging in a “massive theft” of Ohtani’s funds to place bets with an illegal bookmaker, according to the LA Times.
The reigning National League Cy Young Award winner agreed to a two-year, $62 million deal with the San Francisco Giants on Monday, 10 days before his new team opens its regular season against his former one, the San Diego Padres, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The deal includes an opt-out after the first season.
Best case scenario as a Yankees fan. Those Astros rumors were making me nervous. I didn’t want the Yankees to sign him but I sure as hell didn’t want the Astros to land him either.
There’s no way this isn’t a TJ situation right? I mean, I guess Tanaka pitched with a partially torn UCL but I’m not hopeful. My guess is that they’re holding off on announcing for as long as possible so they don’t hurt ticket sales.
Absolutely brutal loss. The Yankees won’t win finish above 3rd place without their ace.
You got it! What do you think of skipping the Pre-Game and Post-Game threads and just having a single Game thread? Just thinking that three posts a game is a little much. It might be good to consolidate until at least there’s more volume.
Just because users don’t have anything to say doesn’t mean the posts are useless.
Thank you for saying that! I feel the same way but it was a long season of defending a whole army of bots that seemingly weren’t being used by anyone.
Reducing bot traffic in order to prevent user-created posts from being drowned out is really my goal here so I think by default I’ll leave the pre and post game threads turned off (unless someone really wants them). I also didn’t really find the play-by-play comments useful for my purposes so I’ll leave those off as well.
Can bots instead change the title of a post, uh, post post?
They certainly could if it was coded that way but I’d have to extend the bot a bit more to do that (and add another config option probably).
Humidors everywhere? The sanctity of the statistics must be preserved
Freely available data and stats! You can do super cool queries on some data and even find archival clips on the MLB Film Room site
Negatives:
Astros sign stealing scandal, both the investigation (news orgs had to bring it to light) and the punishment were really poorly handled
Fucking with the baseballs both juicing (possibly tainting a single season HR record?) and deadening them. You gotta be consistent in-season for the sanctity of the statistics
Humidors everywhere? Isn’t it kind of fun that the ball plays differently in different stadiums because ya know, some places are dry and others are wet. Kind of like how each stadium is a little different
Extra innings ghost runner. This has been said enough times but I’ll just add my voice in here too: it’s awful and must go
Inter-league play
Blackout restrictions
Neutrals
Humidors everywhere
Bigger bases
Universal DH
All in all…I’m torn. I appreciate some rule changes that shorten game time without affecting the all holy numbers. But I don’t really like the standardization he’s brought to the game. Some of my favorite things about baseball are the unique characteristics of each team, city, and stadium. Baseball is a local game, not a national one like the other major sports. I’m intensely invested in my team’s division and, to a lesser extent, those in my league.
Considering I’m both a Yankees fan and a big baseball fan generally, I’m torn. I could see myself hate watching this for sure.
As far as dramatization goes, I think you’d be hard pressed to find a sport that lends itself to drama more than baseball. How can you not be romantic and all. Then again, the season is long and players are always coming up with whacky ways to entertain themselves in the dugouts so IDK how they’ll be able to spin that with a straight face.
All in all it sounds like a good way to attract new fans to the sport which I’m all for!
God help me, I’ve ranked all 142 John Sterling home run calls (www.pinstripealley.com)
[Highlight] Elly hits a 450 foot homerun and an inside-the-park-homerun in the same game (streamable.com)
[Highlight] The Mets win their first game of the season thanks to a game-tying ninth inning homerun by Peter Alonso and a walk-off single by Tyrone Taylor (streamable.com)
[Highlight] Kyle Higashioka's throws out two runners and homers in the same inning (streamable.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13884056...
Bases loaded, 2 outs in the 11th and here comes ... the pitcher?! (www.mlb.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13883332...
Initially, a spokesman for Ohtani told ESPN the slugger had transferred the funds to cover Mizuhara's gambling debt. (www.espn.com)
[Nightengale] The Los Angeles Dodgers fire Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani's long-time interpreter. (x.com)
The Los Angeles Dodgers fire Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani’s long-time interpreter. Mizuhara was accused by Ohtani’s attorneys of engaging in a “massive theft” of Ohtani’s funds to place bets with an illegal bookmaker, according to the LA Times.
Source: Blake Snell agrees to 2-year, $62M deal with Giants (www.espn.com)
The reigning National League Cy Young Award winner agreed to a two-year, $62 million deal with the San Francisco Giants on Monday, 10 days before his new team opens its regular season against his former one, the San Diego Padres, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The deal includes an opt-out after the first season.
MLB Rumors: Yankees' Gerrit Cole out 1-2 Months with Elbow Injury, Will See Surgeon (bleacherreport.com)
Aaron Judge has MRI on abdomen (lemmy.world)
So, the team and Judge lied about it being about getting someone else at bats and this being general pre-season wear and tear?
Yankees' Cole to get MRI for elbow 'discomfort' (www.espn.com)
Baseball Bots in the 2024 Season
Hey all,...
MLB commisioner Rob Manfred has announced that he will retire in 2029. How do you think he has done so far? And what can he do the next five years to further the game of baseball?
Last Wednesday Netflix announced a full-season documentary that will have "unprecedented access to follow the '24 Red Sox from start to finish". How do you guys feel about it?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11822245...
I'm Writing a new Substack about baseball (open.substack.com)
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Bobby Witt Jr., Royals Agree to Reported 11-Year, $288.8M Contract Extension (bleacherreport.com)
Tennessee attorney general sues NCAA over ‘NIL-recruiting ban’ as UT fights back (www.knoxnews.com)
NCAA looks like they may have overplayed their hand. While I’ve been done with the NCAA for a while, this may truly be the beginning of the end.
Welp... (www.espn.com)
Shocked, shocked I tell you. Nusm called it