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Dude it's the first game of ST. They're not exactly going to trot out their game 7 lineup every game.

I don't think it has anything to do with capacity, and more with what TL mentioned in the post below mine.

I don't think the minor leaguers will have full access to all of these facilities, unfortunately for them. There's a reason why there are minor league specific facilities in the original video. This is probably more for ST, extended ST and the major leaguers on rehab during the year and offseason.

I'm sure this is how the Astros line of thinking started too.

Marquez is on an extremely team-friendly deal that takes him through his age 29 season. Arenado is on a monster contract which the Cardinals will own through his ages 30-36 seasons. They're worlds apart in value even with Arenado being the much better player (in the short-term).

Those BP videos are sorely lacking sound.

God damn, SWR's delivery is smooth as butter.

Jacob deGrom?

They gave him a player option for the third year lol.

Yeah I agree with you. Thinking of it again this might be their solution to not having signed/getting rejected by the decent infield bench options in free agency. Just have a bunch of guys able to play multiple positions so Panik/Espinal are only deployed in specialist situations.

Well two of those guys you ideally just don't want to see playing out there - Vlad and Panik, for different reasons obviously. Then Bo and Semien should have their set positions, would definitely have preferred that Semien chose 3B at his mainstay if he's not to play SS but it seems that was part of the reason he signed with us so you probably want to honour that agreement. Biggio is just a swiss army knife, he'll play wherever he's asked, so I hope he gets the bulk of PT at 3B but he should be available to move during the game and between games on a whim. Maybe there's a good lefty on the mound and you want to stack right handed hitters, if Gurriel is passable at 3B or 1B then you can play all of Grichuk, Teoscar, Gurriel, Springer and Vlad while not sacrificing too much on the defensive end. I agree with you maybe it's overkill, but having the elite flexibility that this would allow us would present so many different lineup opportunities while still maintaining some excellent pieces on the bench along with injury insurance.

Not surprising since it didn't work out for him at all, but we can see Ray using his usual long arm motion as he did with us last season.

What? Are you saying the Tatis and Acuña deals are in any way comparable?

Bo didn't grow up poor. He's not signing a team friendly extension.

Pearson overdoing it a bit with the accessories lmao.

Yeah I'm with you. I think this says two things: 1) the Rays think Springs has some serious K potential, his minor league rates were pretty absurd and he had an elite SwStr% this year. Could be another Nick Anderson/Pete Fairbanks type? 2) Sell Ronaldo Hernandez shares ASAP, although the Red Sox under Chaim Bloom are no slouches, he very well knows exactly what kind of player he's trading for.

My god, the Brewers just have no shame.

Convenient to ignore that they didn't have Eduardo Rodriguez pitch in 2020 who was excellent the year before and projects well. They'll also add this one lanky guy around midseason, you may have heard of him.

It's pretty common for teams to run through each other's garbage. Before landing in Tampa, Oliver Drake went through like 5 teams where he pitched one inning, was bad, and got DFA'd. For some guys they don't even get to be on the 40-man for more than half a day, teams like to claim guys on waivers and immediately DFA them in hopes the rest of the league won't notice or something lol.

The defense is starting to tank, which was expected for a player his age, and I don't think you should be buying into his 106 wRC+ in 2020 that came with a career high BABIP with worse contact rates, I'm sure he's had stretches of 50-60 games before where he's looked like a passable hitter, but ultimately the plate discipline does him in and he's never show the power to make up for it. Also signing Almora and Pillar, two versions of the same player, seems like poor roster management. The projections have him as a 1 WAR player which I can believe. It's a cromulent signing for a team that everyone - especially Mets fans - was expecting to spend big on with their new owner and his fancy new toys (money) and yet they missed out on every high profile FA. Obviously they had their one big splash in the Lindor + Carrasco trade, but ultimately their offseason came down to that rental with free agent signings of James McCann for more money that most would have guessed, Albert Almora, Kevin Pillar, Trevor May, Aaron Loup and Jonathan Villar. Did the Mets need to sign everyone? Probably not. But they didn't really address their biggest needs anyway, with the DH not happening for another year they'll have Dominic Smith and Brandon Nimmo playing at their worst positions along with J.D. Davis playing any position at all bleeding runs defensively. From the perspective of Mets fans it's like if Ross Atkins and Shapiro talked the big talk about 4 good additions/2 elite ones and then their final offseason outcome was like, a Kris Bryant rental and signing Jake Odorizzi with a bunch of garbage sprinkled in there.

Better, I think. Gretzky has some absurd records in the NHL that even Jordan or Brady don't have. It's like if Wilt Chamberlain played in the 80s and 90s in terms of records I'm pretty sure.

FTD changed his to a top tier name so you have a lot of pressure on you to follow suit with a similarly clever one.

Just let me have this one. I can't lose out on him twice in one week.

I don't actually disagree, but your statement was dumn. I assume you meant Machado or Seager, who are simply not just a little bit worse than Trout as hitters.