Pitchers and catchers report this week and there are still like 30 clear cut MLB players available, and a handful of stars. I wonder if there's anything MLB can do to stop having the worst offseason in professional sports.
Especially because the expected reward gets smaller every year. If nobody wanted 32 or 33-year old Bauer, they're probably not going to want him next year at 34.
Gausman
Berrios
Bassitt
Kikuchi
Manoah
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White (will be in the MLB pen)
Rodriguez (probably in AAA if everyone is healthy)
Francis (AAA)
Parsons probably the 9th guy up for starts as things stand. But if they need more than a spot start or two, Tiedemann probably is probably just added to the roster and given a shot.
Hader has taken so much s*** for this from fans, but he's right. Imagine busting your ass with elite 2-3 inning outings in a fireman role and then the team f***s you in arb because you don't have saves.
Yeah. It would be crazy to be in a playoff series and still carrying around Winker and Paddack. Could be the difference maker.
Boxy if you see this, release this man.
A-Rod is a good one. I never really had a chance to appreciate good Griffey. He was traded to Cincinnati right around the time I started really following baseball, and I probably didn't see more than a couple games with him as a Mariner. Kind of seems like the previous generation's version of a generational player
When I think of generational talents over the last 25 years I think Trout, Ohtani, Pujols, Kershaw, and DeGrom. DeGrom might not even make the HoF. But when he was healthy he was the most dominant pitcher I've ever seen.
I think the biggest difference between what they are and what everyone thought they could be as that Vlad was supposed to be right-handed Yordan Alvarez but instead is CJ Cron.
I think I saw something a few weeks ago that the Jays had checked in on Urshela, but it wasn't known whether that was before or after the IKF signing. I'm guessing it was before, because there really isn' any room for Urshela on the roster right now.