I want to just assume this is a joke, but you kind of have an extended pattern of trades now where you give him elite talent on an platter. Posey and Marte... not sure if there were others.
Maybe it just feels like it.
Jim has a good point. Really, you can leave your frontline starters in the lineup at all times to avoid obstacles like this. Bonus: if your lineup is ever locked down because someone comes off the DL, you might not be forced into dropping someone in order to make sure you don't miss a frontline start. The LOD is all about that extra 2%; only your backed SP should ever be cycled in and out of the lineup, if possible.
The risks of a player not signing also mimic real life (which is kind of cool?), and are simply built into the player values in effect (which is fine). No need at all to change things.
I understand why JF is annoyed and he should be but it's not like a deferred pick is objectively better than just keeping the unsigned player. They are kind of just deferring their pro development by a small amount anyway.
Speaking of which, Bradley Jones is hitting .156/.206/.219 for Dunedin with THIRTY strikeouts in seventeen games.
Incarnate proof that protection is real in baseball lineups. A pure product of Vlad Bo.
Jon Harris: 7 IP, 3 H, 4 K's, 0 BB, 0 R.
This was against Portland, a team featuring several veterans with big league time (Mike Olt, his french cousin Brock Holt, Henry Urrutia) as well as Devers and Chavis.
There have been articles written on the juiced ball this year. The math is somewhat convincing.
I think the seams are also different, which might contribute to blisters.
Eno is looking into blisters from his mixed reporting/numbers perspective. Apparently it's tricky to get the data together because many of the instances aren't resulting in DL time.