Beautiful! How old?

Welcome!

Time for a new mascot? Sorry Mr. Met but you can't argue with those numbers.

This dude is fast af

This is where it all turns around!

Hell yeah, Higgy!

Wild and exciting game. Loved the technicality that led to that ending. Very baseball

Baseball's back baaabbbyyyy

100% Ippei's his best friend! That's how you know Ippei's a real one. Only a best friend would fall on his sword like that

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.

Not a good start!

Pre-season stats matter very little for pitchers but I agree, the rotation looks bleak without Cole.

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.

That's ok I'll keep the birds going this year. All it takes is one!

Here's our PR into the original redball repo. The Lemmy version of the bot is still on a fork.

You got it and you're welcome!

@cerevant@lemmy.world runs the Phillies bot and I'm sure he'll have it back and running this year!

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).

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.

Positives:

• Shorten game times and eliminated dead time
• Expanded wild card games
• 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!

Love to see the young guys get signed long time to their home club. I hope the trend continues

I'm here for it! Welcome to America's past time!

Serious question: what value does the NCAA really provide to college football?

I guess he got what he came for. He's go no reason to stick around except to get sanctioned.

Definitely a worthy class. Congrats to them all!

I was looking through some of Todd Helton's stats and noticed something wild (to me at least). In the 2000 season, Helton led the NL in WAR, H, and OBP. He led both leagues in 2B, RBI, AVG, SLG, OPS, and TB. Still somehow, he finished fifth in NL MVP voting! Crazy times.

Can I have a guarantee for https://fanaticus.social please?

I guess the committee knew what they were talking about with FSU, huh

Good for him. I wish him all the best. I don't hate IKF, I hate Cashman for choosing IKF and pretending like he was better than he is.

Incredibly disappointing but not unexpected. The Yankees never had a chance against a West Coast team anyway.

What we need to do is invest in some farm team infrastructure in Kenya or Chad. Build our own Nippon Professional Baseball League in Africa. But alas, Hal is a coward with no vision.

It's worth the trip!

Love Camden Yards. It's a great ballpark and in m a really walkable location. There's lots to do before and after the game and the park itself is beautiful

Ah I forgot Carroll already signed an extension. Still though, would be interesting to know after the new CBA rules.

Does anyone know if this has any impact on arbitration salaries? Someone young like Carroll making it first team already is awesome but I wonder if it affects his pay like a Rookie of the Year award does.

That sucks. Is your game bot open source? Is there anything I can do to help?

IDK how that's possible with their roster but that's wild

That's an insane amount of money!!! I'm happy we'll finally be able to see Ohtani in October. And that he won't be playing for the Blue Jays!

This was brutal to watch. There wasn't a team o wanted to beat more this year than SF.

Just once this year I'd like to watch an easy win.

Could not be more stressful