I'm 4+ years late, but I'm reading The Only Rule is it Has to Work, and it's fantastic. Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller take over a the Sonoma Stompers, and the book is about their year running the team.
I have nothing to add to this other than that I despise Keith Law. He's a sniveling little weasel who takes himself far too seriously to ever admit he was wrong about anything.
I know I just traded for Yarbrough in another league, but he's a guy I'm pretty comfortable plugging in as a 5th starter or whatever. I think the contact management is real, and the ERA doesn't look like a mirage to me. I also like guys who can be relied on not to blow up your K/BB even when they're not at their best.
Here we go again. Just getting the season underway is going to be another long circus, with months of negotiating in bad faith through he media:
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/12/mlbpa-planning-on-162-game-season-in-2021.html
Are the positional minimums in Fantrax what we're going with for 2021? Hitter minimums for previous season are set to 10, which IIRC is what we usually go with. Should we cut it down to 4 to reflect the short 2020 season?
Could probably also drop previous season's games to qualify as SP to 2 from 3.
Yeah, it's weird. And it was likely an actual good defensive season and not a mirage shoddy defensive metrics good defensive season, because TB bought in on him, and I trust their defensive evaluations more than pretty much any team in the league.
Is anyone else surprised every time they look at his FG page that Renfroe is actually a pretty good defender? I always perceive him as being Mark Trumbo.
I hope that's not the plan. Effective fastball that sits 96 in relief, and likely less as a starter. Very good changeup. Slider that's a work in progress. Spotty command.
Seems like his value will be as a fastball/changeup multi-inning guy out of the pen. I don't think he has the talent to be a starter that a contending team is content with.