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.