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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.

So you offered Soto? There's literally no one else this can apply to.

It's purely sim. Literally a game of watching names and numbers, you're basically acting as a GM/President of a team. Ridiculously in-depth, it has just about every player in the world including amateur guys. You can "play" games but basically just as the manager.

I've heard reports that Josh Palacios was hitting a ton of atom balls at the alt site. Watch and learn folks.

Yeah this is fine by us.

Fake news! Brandon Nimmo sprints to first base on walks. Mark Canha is literally a ginger. You can't top that pastiness.

Why are you so intent on splitting up my Cubans what do you have against pasty white boys Mark Canha and Brandon Nimmo or Italian-American Conforto? I'll take a look later and see if I can find a deal that satisfies both of us.

Realmuto comes back home. I've made significant moves over the past week and in the process traded...*checks notes* ZERO of my 5 starting caliber outfielders. Cool cool cool

Really? I thought he did his job just fine considering what his actual role should have been. Average ish defense with the ability to fill in all over the diamond, average baserunning, below average offense with a slap hitter's skillset but he took some walks so he actually got on base a decent amount.

Generally speaking, not being in the AL East.

Has Payamps even been added to the 40-man? With Phelps already being reported to have passed his physical I think he'll be taking Yamguchi's spot. We'll probably DFA Payamps, try to get him to pass waivers and lose him to some other team that will do the same.

For the love of god someone trade for my extra outfielders.

Offseason after that. He has two more years of team control remaining, although he'll actually be relatively expensive for this one at $6.6M because the Red Sox tried to avoid arbitration while he was still good and paid above what he's currently worth. I actually imagine this is one of the reasons that they wanted to move on from him.

Meh, Benintendi was god awful in 2020 with injuries. Cordero has an extra year of control, also injury prone but has some monster tools so there is some upside. Winckowski is whatever, pitching depth. The Red Sox will probably get a lottery ticket or two more to round it up. The deal makes sense for all teams involved.

A few things wrong here. Biggio absolutely plays like a power hitter. He's a flyball heavy hitter, strikes out frequently, pulls the ball often, and walks a lot. Just because he runs well compared to most power hitters doesn't mean he has a slap hitter's skillset. Biggio doesn't have great bat control, he has a great strike zone discipline which doesn't mean the same thing. He takes A LOT of pitches and is very selective at what he swings at, and as a result his contact rates are roughly league average and because he doesn't swing at balls he doesn't swing and miss too much. If Biggio were to swing more it's not a given he would have the same contact results, he likely would start swinging through pitches more, for better or worse. If he had great bat control he would 1) make contact a lot more often 2) strike out less. Bunting is a lot harder than it seems. Biggio will probably start laying one down every now and then if teams like Tampa continue playing 4 OF alignments against him, but can he bunt successfully consistently enough to outweigh the given opportunity of taking a walk, getting a single or getting an XBH? Not a simple question to answer! Especially because we don't know if he's actually a capable bunter or not.

Pain.

One of these is not like the others lol.