Terminator

These jerseys are going to suck. I guarantee it.

Both the Giants and Cubs have 3B trade options. So if they sign Chapman something could shake loose there. The Giants have JD Davis and Wilmer Flores. The Cubs have Miles Mastrobuoni who bats left and projects for 96 wRC+. He seems like a decent defender at 3B. He and Kinder-Falafel could form the most uninspiring and mediocre 3 WAR platoon in baseball history.

Steamer adjusted IKF's projections recently, likely due to him playing mostly 3B this year instead of mostly corner OF last year. His WAR went up to 1.1 in 112 games played and his Steamer600 is 1.4 now. I believe it was 0.8 and 1.1 last time I checked. Jays are going to squeeze 2+ WAR out of this *******. Watch.

Shulman's son is going to be the radio PBP guy. Chris Leroux will do color commentary. Doesn't seem like they will be traveling for road games.

Assuming Soler would have signed with the Jays for 3 years and 42 mil I probably would have talked myself into it. But if we had the choice between Turner and Soler, I'd probably lean Turner at his price. Turner can play 1B and can stand at 3B and 2B. The one year deal is nice. His consistency is excellent. He's old though. Soler has huge power potential but he has less defensive utility and he's been very hit or miss. That hit or miss seems like an increasing risk as he enters his mid 30s. Fans tend to be more optimistic with their projections so the thought of plugging Soler in and getting 3 years of 35+ homers is tantalizing. But the reality is that he probably doesn't come anywhere close to that. I also hate the idea of locking up this amount of money/years into a DH when good ones are available every year for 10 mil. Some years we may not even need a DH at which point that 14 mil could be spent elsewhere on a position of need.

I'm thinking maybe he can be JP Crawford prior to his power outbreak.

The casual fans would love it I'm sure. And then in Year 3 of a 6 or 7 year deal when he's an albatross and his contract has stopped us from making any moves that offseason they'll have diminished excitement and lowered confidence again.

110 exit velo on Jimenez is very encouraging. Always thought this guy was slap hitter with a good glove but he's progressing very well as he moves through the ranks. Everything I read on Kendry Rojas suggests that he's developing very well and has a chance to be a pretty good starter if it continues. Jace Bohrofen could be something. He was BA's #48 high school draft prospect and chose college. He didn't really play much until his junior year when he finally started and he raked. Law suggests that he's a legit CF. I thought he was more of a corner guy but that could raise his profile as well.

Lol oof

Seems like a decent chance he gets through waivers. Just glancing at garbage teams like the A's and he's probably not even an improvement over what they have. Or look at a team like the Marlins who are on the lookout for infielders and they have about a dozen guys just as good as Lopez.

Yep, if the juice ain't worth the squeeze for teams when he's 33, it ain't going to be worth it when he's 34 either. Unless somehow a team feels that a passage of time somehow makes him more palatable. But it's not looking good. He's probably cooked.

Yeah there were times last year where it seemed so obvious to let Francis start games but they just never really let him. They went with fat Manoah, Richards, etc. instead of using Francis.

So Tiedemann makes 10 and then Chad Dallas would be on there somewhere, though he's not on the 40 man yet. Parsons is definitely barely hanging on to his roster spot. The glut of infielders and not having options made Otto Lopez next man up to get the boot but Parsons isn't far behind. Parsons actually projects to be somewhat serviceable though and might be worth hanging on to through ST if they can. It would take a ton of injuries for him to break camp with the team, but let's say we get 2-3 injuries in the spring then Parsons is suddenly in AAA as the #7 or 8 SP and next up as the long man, or something like that.

Wow here I am minding my own business only to find myself the victim of a vicious xenophobic attack™. But yeah you're right about baseball holding itself on a pedestal. It's so stupid though and it's also a little selective. Some players seem to get away with things, others don't. This makes plenty of sense to me. It seems like a pretty desperate move.

Yeah this happens every year. Casual fans will scream "WTH is Boras doing???" And then his clients make bank every single time.

Ok I have 4 OFers and I need to trade one for a SP. Obviously some are worth more than others. But who do you think would be a good one to sell on compared to their perceived value? Riley Greene Nolan Jones Lane Thomas Estuery Ruiz Greene I just got. Some prospect whore would probably back the truck up. Jones I get a lot of bites on since I'm in a Denver-based league. Might be able to squeeze a little extra juice than normal out of trading him. I have shopped Lane Thomas around and no one wants him. I actually think he kind of sucks in real life but in fantasy he seems like he plays up as a stat accumulator who hits at the top of the lineup for 160 games. So I'm fine keeping him. Ruiz is interesting. I need steals and he kind of single-handedly fixes that. But is there any hope for his bat to improve? Steamer thinks he'll be better but his Statcast page is UGLY.

Ok I did it. I got him to throw in some money to cover the salary discrepancies and he got a couple of pick upgrades. Ultimately I agree with you on Ohtani. His offensive production seems like a really safe bet moving forward. I could see Betts's power output slowing down soon given his small stature and his age. Greene vs. Cruz seems like a wash. Cruz has bigger potential but I already have Bo it made sense.

There's a lot of layers to signing Bauer. A lot of it revolves around headlines over the years driving narratives about Bauer. His Trumpy online persona (self-reporting for politics) is probably enough for several teams to cross him off the list. But he's really not that bad and he's barely political or in to culture war stuff. But people think he's some sort of full-blown white nationalist because of a couple of headlines/tweets that they saw. Add in the sexual assault allegations and he's toxic for the majority of teams. Yeah he was exonerated but the vindication will never make up for two years of sexual assault headlines. People have already made up their minds by this point. Now here's the real kick in the nuts for Bauer. Baseball journalists HATE him for the aforementioned reasons. Whoever signs him will end up on the end of a thousand hit pieces. The owner themselves will be painting a target on their backs. Journalists will be writing articles with headlines like "Pirates owner's problematic past under scrutiny after Bauer signing." They'll dig up some sexual harassment case from some subsidiary company that the owner owned 20 years ago and use it to smear the owners of the team that signed him. On top of it, how do we know that this is the end of the allegations. Journos will be begging women to come forward with allegations and it could lead to a PR disaster. So whoever signs him really just has to not give a crap about anything and there aren't going to be many teams who fit that bill. But surely there is an owner out there with the courage to do the right thing (build a winner).

That's not obvious at all. Going to trial and being found not guilty would be much worse than the police deciding they don't have enough evidence to bring charges against him to begin with.

Yeah I think several of the AL or NL Central teams make sense. The Texas teams and the Rays too. The Browns signed DeShaun Watson to a mega deal and his accusations are much more concrete. Bauer can be had for an incentive-laced one year deal.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/six-takeaways-from-our-2024-playoff-odds-release/ Jays win total seems really low but the following explanation makes it make more sense:

Fangraphs is even more harsh. Also has them in 3rd place but only winning 85 games instead of 87.