They also picked up Seranthony Dominguez's 8M option and gave Gary Sanchez 8.5M. Last offseason, they brought the following guys in, for a combined 2025 tax hit of $76M:
Oneil
Morton
Sugano
Kittredge
Sanchez
Dominguez
Gibson
For their 81.5M, they have received -1.7 fWAR. That's NEGATIVE 1.7 fWAR. from the 76M they spent THIS PAST OFFSEASON.
It might be the worst offseason in the history of baseball.
There are a small handful of posters who seem to think you shouldn't update your opinion of players as new information comes in. Maybe, like, 20% of the league is consistently good, year after year.
Came in here to clown on the Orioles after a busy weekend, and happy to see the Terminator has been doing the needful. This might be the biggest ego check in MLB history - imaging thinking your brain was so much bigger than everyone else's that you just didn't need a rotation.
The weirdest thing about Sasaki is how bad his stuff his, at least per Stuff+. That's not what we expected. Everyone thought he had MLB ready stuff and command. It wouldn't have been surprising at all if the stuff was great and the command was lacking, but models hate his fatsball and slider.
I’ve picked him up like 4 times this year, but haven’t used him since the first two starts of the season. Kept hoping he’d show signs of turning it around but I don’t think it’s happening
I remember fondly the days (5 days ago) when we were talking about how the only enjoyable part of watching this team was Garcia and Hoffman locking s*** down in the late innings. Of course even that small joy has been taken from us.
Remember when the Dodgers gave Conforto 17M and everyone said it made no sense? Well he’s at -0.5 WAR and a butcher in the outfield everyday, and it still makes no sense.
4% BB rate 23% K-rate and 0.294 xwOBA are all pretty much in line with his entire Detroit tenure.
I feel like 99% of the "this player's recent hot strike might be legit because of swing/approach change" articles are just slop written because content needs to be pumped out, and the player is back to their old self within a month.
Not sure about your other questions, but Topps Heritage has both current and former players. What Heritage does is release cards in the style of past sets. So 2025 Heritage has the design of 1976 Topps.
Based only on his on-field accomplishments, I think he should be in the HoF. Going to be close to 400 saves, ERA in the mid 2s, 1300+ strikeouts despite never starting a game, and just unique dominance that people who watched him will never forget.
I haven't thought of Santos in many years. Didn't he come with like a 5 year contract that had some options, and we all thought we had a long term elite closer?