I don’t understand how the mod functions work, because I hid the post you quoted two days ago and it still shows as hidden, but you were still able to see/quote it.
John Means should probably just retire and live out his days in bubble wrap
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/12/john-means-suffers-achilles-rupture.html
I really think this is the kind of thing you don't worry about until the playoffs. Looks weird on opening day to have Berrios + Lauer in the pen and guys like Fisher and Fluharty in AAA, but these things tend to resolve themselves because pitchers are ticking bombs
I wouldn’t do it, but I don’t think this reaction is fair. The padres just traded a clear top-10 prospect in baseball for him, and he’d return something similar if they move him
Hey guys, I've been doing a lot of thinking about the pen. Do you think Mason Miller could help the team? I hear the Padres are looking for starting pitching so Jose Berrios should be of interest. Maybe we add Nance and Nimmala? I wonder if they'd throw in Ethan Salas if we add Santander. Please let me know your thoughts.
It's going to be telling to see what teams are in on Murakami. Apparently Ohtani had bad numbers against higher velo fastballs too before coming over. I read that there's so little velo over there that a lot of players struggle with 93-95 because they just don't see it very often, but then adjust when they get here and see that kind of velo all the time.
I could see his market being anything between Pittsburgh getting him for like 60M or teams like LA and Boston in a 200M bidding war, depending on whether their respective nerds think they get him to make enough contact for the power to play.
I think Tucker is going to be a better player than Bo in the coming years by a meaningful amount, so I don't really care how different the contract terms look