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Watching the Cards game. Albert Pujols was a much better player than he is colour commentator.

You not going going on 90-Day Fiancé is very disappointing

Being a journeyman hurts his reputation with the baseball writers. If he had played his entire career with the Cards and Yadi moved around every 4 years or whatever Martin would be looked at as the first ballot HoFer.

Well, I think Martin and McCann should be in. Piazza and Pudge are the only two modern-day catchers in the hall - there should be more. "Voting shall be based upon the player's record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team(s) on which the player played." My perception is that voters actually do like longevity with the same team when voting. And I don't have a problem with that - it seems defensible under the BBWA rules.

I'm pretty open to the idea that pitchers know what they're talking about when they say they love throwing to Perez. He's going to end up starting like 1500 games at C for the same team, while winning a world series and being a league average bat. He probably also does a lot of things that don't show up in the WAR, but that his pitchers appreciate. I don't really have a problem with him eventually making the HoF. By those standards though, a glaring HoF omission would be Jorge Posada.

Weathers and Grove are basically waiver fodder. I'd take the Hendriks side, but I could see liking Ortiz enough to prefer him.

Man, the first week of Spring Training was absurd. People losing their minds over every violation, acting like the game was being irreparably damaged.

"Hey @Anthony_Recker my job isn’t to please you," the 26-year-old said on his Twitter page. "You are an outsider you don’t know me or my work ethic. What I do in the gym has clearly worked check the numbers, sucks you can’t say the same for yourself." OOPS

That and their focus on proximity to MLB. The seem to prioritize MLB-readiness over upside. Only the mid-20s guys they've acquired all suck and the team might have the worst season in history.

I was looking again at the trades Oakland made in 2022, as part of their rebuild. It might actually be the worst year of trades in history. Traded Sean Murphy Matt Olson Matt Chapman Chris Bassitt Sean Manaea Frankie Montas Lou Trivino Christian Bethancourt Received Adam Oller (-1.6 fWAR) Christian Pache (-1.0 fWAR, waived and traded for Billy Sullivan, a bad AAA reliever) Luis Medina (-0.6 fWAR) Zack Logue (-0.4 fWAR) Ken Waldichuk (-0.4 fWAR) Kirby Snead (-0.3 fWAR) Kevin Smith (-0.3 fWAR) Adrian Martinez (-0.3 fWAR) Kyle Muller (-0.3 fWAR) Cal Stevenson (-0.1 fWAR, lost on waivers) Shea Langeliers (0.0 fWAR) Manny Pina (injured and hasn't played a game) Freddy Tarnok (injured and hasn't played a game) J.P. Sears (0.7 fWAR) Esteury Ruiz (0.9 fWAR) J.T. Ginn (24, getting nuked in AA) Joey Estes (21, struggling at AA) Ryan Cusick (23, struggling at AA) Gunnar Hoglund (23, has thrown 3 innings since the trade because of arm injuries) Erubiel Angeles (21, wRC+ of 56 at A+) Cooper Bowman (23, wRC+ of 97 at AA) Royber Salina (22, struggling at AA) They gutted a playoff team, selling multiple stars and 8 quality MLB players. And somehow they've received -3.7 fWAR in return, on aggregate. Every prospect that hasn't played in the majors looks like an org guy at best. Every player who has played in the majors has bombed except for Sears and Ruiz. You could make the argument that they nuked their entire team and the only actual assets they have to show for it are Esteury Ruiz, JP Sears, and Gunnar Hoglund if his arm holds up.

Second in his last 106 games. Slashing 264/324/328 over that stretch. I hope he has something left in the tank, because he's one of the most likeable guys in the game.

Dude is going to have nightmares about screaming helplessly to stop a disaster and nobody listening to him

I’m panicking watching the 2B, who knew exactly what was happening

They need to make a decision before is next start: IL or AAA. He's not an MLB pitcher right now and it's hurting the team.

You spent all offseason pumping the tires of the Mets, Phillies, and Padres along with Texas.

Everyone praising Baltimore needs to stop. Doing nothing to improve that good young team in the offseason was absurd. And that's more apparent now that they look like a possible playoff team. Loser mentality to see the core in place and supplement it with Jordan Lyles, Adam Frazier, and Kyle Gibson.

Japan is ruthless. No mlb team would have demoted him to the minors that fast.

lol @ the Mets rotation

Welcome to Ottawa, Kyle

Harrison Bader's mouth guard is stupid

That's wild

I wonder how concerned they are about Machado. 2 months into a 350M deal and his bat has completely fallen off a cliff. And now he has a broken bone in his hand.

The Padres are the drizzling shits