The Official 2024 Major League Baseball Thread

[m0nkey]

One time hypothetical Angel Andy Pages is now 23, hitting .291/.317/.546 for an OPS+ of 141 and has accumulated .6 fWAR in 14 games.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

The Rockies have set an MLB record by trailing at some point in all 31 of their games.

In uniform news, Nike is going to address issues with pants, mismatched uniform pieces, uniform tops excessively collecting sweat, and the size of the lettering on player name plates, which makes the uniforms look like cheap replicas. The changes will take place no later than the beginning of the 2025 season. 

[Blarg]

Or they could dump Nike and go back to what the players liked, looked good and performed well.

Naw. 

[m0nkey]

Nike's been the manufacturer since 2020.  Feel like the uproar only started this year with the noticeable changes they made

[Blarg]

I decided to take a look at what I've noticed but wasn't sure about and that is plate discipline. The eye test says some guys are not so jumpy at the plate, that they can work counts even if the results are not immediately there. 

Last year was a complete disaster and every metric showed it but one stat I decided to do a comparison with is pitches per plate appearence. The Angels were ranked 19th, below league average and not surprising because of the mercenary lineups due to injury.

This year, so far, they are ranked 3rd with a pitch to plate appearence of 4.04. Individually Mike Trout was ranked 2nd at 4.56 for the league.

Trout leds the team but notable was Rendon at 4.36 and  Moniak, that can't seem to buy a hit, is 3rd at 4.33. Sano has been pretty good, 4.17 and right behind him is Jo Adell at 4.15.

League average is 3.89. 

It's early, not much can be concluded from the data, how much is noise but on the surface it looks as though overall the team is approaching their at bats with a little better pitch recognition. Now if they can only put a bat on some of those more often they might just improve on runs scored which is currently below league average.

[mmc]

 

[jsnpritchett]

6 minutes ago, mmc said:

 

I guess Bogaerts would go back to 3B? 

[jsnpritchett]

The A's beat the Marlins 20-4 today: 

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/marlins-vs-athletics/2024/05/04/745666/final/box

 

[m0nkey]

Which means they are now .500 and the Angels are 4.5 games behind them.

[Blarg]

At this point I could not name a single player on the A's roster. 

[Taylor]

2 hours ago, Blarg said:

At this point I could not name a single player on the A's roster. 

With Trout and Rendon out, that's what all non Angel fans say about the Angels.

[m0nkey]

Ohtani is 4-4 with 2 homers (now has 10 on the year) and the Dodgers are about to sweep the Braves who entered the series with the best record in baseball

[jsnpritchett]

19 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

Ohtani is 4-4 with 2 homers (now has 10 on the year) and the Dodgers are about to sweep the Braves who entered the series with the best record in baseball

Yeah, but the Angels won three against the Marlins!

[Angels 1961]

11 hours ago, Blarg said:

At this point I could not name a single player on the A's roster. 

Nevin ex manager son

[jsnpritchett]

Mike Clevinger got called up by the White Sox today, after some time in the minors to get ready since he signed so late.  Gave up 6 hits, 4 BB, and 4 ER in 2 innings before he got pulled.

[m0nkey]

Ohtani now leads the majors with 11 home runs. 
 

Wonder why he didn’t want to keep his talents here 

[Blarg]

1 hour ago, m0nkey said:

Ohtani now leads the majors with 11 home runs. 
 

Wonder why he didn’t want to keep his talents here 

Because the Angels weren't going to pay him $750 million.

[m0nkey]

2 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Because the Angels weren't going to pay him $750 million.

Nor were they going to pay him $700 million

[AngelStew43]

Not even with 680 million deferred?

[Stradling]

8 minutes ago, AngelStew43 said:

Not even with 680 million deferred?

Especially with $680 million deferred. 

[Tank]

3 hours ago, Stradling said:

Especially with $680 million deferred. 

remember how many people here were pissed at albert's contract? imagine this website with this team with this owner being saddled with $680 mil in deferred money owed to ohtani. 

[m0nkey]

The dodgers have to put 40 something million in an escrow account every year starting in 2 years, so it's "only" 40 million per year coming out of their pockets.

[m0nkey]

At least we got those 6 starts from giolito 

 

[Taylor]

5 hours ago, m0nkey said:

At least we got those 6 starts from giolito 

 

Would be nice to have Bush and Quero as part of our rebuild.

[Vlad27Trout27]

5 hours ago, m0nkey said:

At least we got those 6 starts from giolito 

 

Hey, it's a bad trade looking back. But, at least we were not the team that traded Yordan Álvarez for Josh Freaken Fields.