***2024 MLB Regular Season Thread***

Originally posted by SoCold:

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

Originally posted by Zachary:

Originally posted by GoreGoreGore:

Originally posted by Zachary:

Originally posted by SoCold:

Originally posted by JustinMT:

BREAKING: Negro Leagues statistics will officially be integrated into MLB database on Wednesday. Negro Leagues legend Josh Gibson will become MLB record holder in multiple categories.

Story to come for @YahooSports on a monumental day in baseball's history.

— Russell Dorsey (@Russ_Dorsey1) May 28, 2024

Good!

Now they just need to change the stupid blackout rules for mlbtv. Oh and give Armando Galarraga his perfect game!

I'm not a fan of this. Because it's MLB records. I get that the Negro Leagues had some of the best players coming from there, but it wasn't the MLB. Just creates a grey area for what will be counted and whatnot. Ichiro's hits in Asia, etc

Agree. But this is the only way those guys will get some recognition.

I know, it's just that every MLB player was facing MLB players... Josh Gibson was not always facing MLB level pitching, which 100% of mlb batters faced.

Statistics are useful tools, but stats should always be coupled with context. Yeah, Gibson's stats were incredible and many consider him one of the best ever. But as you said, he wasnt facing MLB level players 100% of the time. Most people will understand that when discussing his statistics.

Steve Phillips brought up an excellent point the other day. Maybe if the white mlb players had to face the better black players they wouldn't have been as good.

Ever think of that?

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

Originally posted by SoCold:

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

Originally posted by Zachary:

Originally posted by GoreGoreGore:

Originally posted by Zachary:

Originally posted by SoCold:

Originally posted by JustinMT:

BREAKING: Negro Leagues statistics will officially be integrated into MLB database on Wednesday. Negro Leagues legend Josh Gibson will become MLB record holder in multiple categories.

Story to come for @YahooSports on a monumental day in baseball's history.

— Russell Dorsey (@Russ_Dorsey1) May 28, 2024

Good!

Now they just need to change the stupid blackout rules for mlbtv. Oh and give Armando Galarraga his perfect game!

I'm not a fan of this. Because it's MLB records. I get that the Negro Leagues had some of the best players coming from there, but it wasn't the MLB. Just creates a grey area for what will be counted and whatnot. Ichiro's hits in Asia, etc

Agree. But this is the only way those guys will get some recognition.

I know, it's just that every MLB player was facing MLB players... Josh Gibson was not always facing MLB level pitching, which 100% of mlb batters faced.

Statistics are useful tools, but stats should always be coupled with context. Yeah, Gibson's stats were incredible and many consider him one of the best ever. But as you said, he wasnt facing MLB level players 100% of the time. Most people will understand that when discussing his statistics.

Steve Phillips brought up an excellent point the other day. Maybe if the white mlb players had to face the better black players they wouldn't have been as good.

Ever think of that?

I have thought of that and not for one second have I dismissed that possibility/probability.

Originally posted by SoCold:
In 1921 some dude led the mlb in SB with 49 and played like 150 games. Some NL player had 35 in only like 65 games played. Could have had 70 or 80 if he played a full mlb season.

Lol

Originally posted by JustinMT:

MLB announces Tucupita Marcano has been banned from baseball

He bet on 25 Pittsburgh Pirates games while he was assigned to the team, but he was injured during all of them and lost all those bets

He gambled more than $150K on baseball and won just 4.3 percent of his MLB bets pic.twitter.com/Gkn2HFVRWb

— Talkin' Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) June 4, 2024

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:

Originally posted by JustinMT:

MLB announces Tucupita Marcano has been banned from baseball

He bet on 25 Pittsburgh Pirates games while he was assigned to the team, but he was injured during all of them and lost all those bets

He gambled more than $150K on baseball and won just 4.3 percent of his MLB bets pic.twitter.com/Gkn2HFVRWb

— Talkin' Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) June 4, 2024

you bet 25 times and lose all those bets? was he betting on them scoring 30 runs?

MLB's investigation found that Marcano didn't just bet on baseball frequently -- he's claimed to have gambled more than $150,000 across nearly 400 baseball bets, including on MLB and international contests -- but that he even bet on his own team, then the Pirates. "[Almost] all of Marcano's Pirates bets were on which club (the Pirates or their opponent) would win the game or whether there would be more or less than a certain number of runs scored in the game," MLB said in a press release.

It's notable that Marcano did not appear in any of the games that he bet on because of his injury. He also denied having inside information that influenced his bets. MLB estimates that he won just 4.3% of his MLB-related gambles.

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
Statistics are useful tools, but stats should always be coupled with context. Yeah, Gibson's stats were incredible and many consider him one of the best ever. But as you said, he wasnt facing MLB level players 100% of the time. Most people will understand that when discussing his statistics.

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
predictably, mlb says investigation closed into Ohtani, nothing to see here

do you believe this sentence, from ESPN? : Mizuhara placed somewhere in the neighborhood of 19,000 wagers from December 2021 to January 2024 without Ohtani's knowledge

Originally posted by JustinMT:

MLB has disciplined umpire Pat Hoberg for violating the league's gambling rules, per @Ken_Rosenthal & @EvanDrellich pic.twitter.com/KSgbMb5fKo

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) June 14, 2024