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Anderson may have only been considering one year deals with teams where he would be the starting SS. Seems like the best path to recapturing the value he lost with his atrocious season at the plate in 2023. Rosario has never played any 3B in the bigs, and graded as a terrible SS defender last year. Hard to say what he'll be moving forward, but we definitely don't need another light hitting 2B type. Based on the purpose for which IKF was signed, neither of those guys was likely an option. If you are specifically looking for the 3B defense and versatility, you are definitely much better off paying IKF than either of those guys.

Are they also going to look like they were made out of mesh laundry bags?

He's only 34, so likely choosing to hang them up early due to lack of MLB interest, rather than riding the buses in the minors or heading overseas. Hopefully that helps you feel slightly less old

Hosmer announced his retirement and said he will focus on his new venture "Moonball Media".

They point out that he's throwing to live batters while making no mention of the dead one he ate

His arms look disproportionately small compared to his head but could be camera angle trickery

Devers looks out of shape, also very clearly unhappy with the BoSox inactivity.

Had yet to even make his pro debut, that is a weird move

HBP in seven of his first eight college appearances during their season opening double header. A young Reed Johnson

He'll make a great Bison

Quote them, I enjoy reading interesting quotes

Pinto is the only catcher on their 40 man at the moment. Must have been a busy day for him today. But one clear spot they could go out and upgrade, depending on what's out there.

I had a few bucks on him to go under par today haha was a boost on 365

Greig as a rookie is at 0.5 points per game, +19 on a below .500 club and he's a rare throwback who plays with a true edge. He's going to have a long career as one of those guys you love to have on your team and hate playing against.

Yeah that's gotta be at least 2-3 games, even for a first time offender. A shot to the head that long after the play is done, not able to defend it as a "hockey play". Grieg is a s*** disturber, he knew what he was doing. Rielly took the bait, got himself suspended. Should have just dropped the mitts, Grieg would have obliged.

MLB Free Agency: New MiLB Roster Rule Leaves Some Veterans Struggling For Contracts February 9, 2024 J.J. Cooper If you’re a veteran free agent, even one with multiple years of MLB experience, this is proving to be a tough offseason to find a job. We’re not talking about unsigned premium free agents. Even though they haven’t signed yet, Cody Bellinger and Blake Snell aren’t worried about securing a contract. They’re trying to find the best fit and the best possible deal. But this is a tough offseason for players several levels below them on the pecking order. These are the veterans with upper-level minor league experience, and in some cases MLB experience, angling for a MiLB deal with a non-roster invite. These types of contracts have always provided a wonderful foot in the door for players who aren’t perceived as worthy of a 40-man roster spot. Every year, some of those players take a step forward and grab an opportunity. Others struggle and are released at the end of spring training. But the door has slammed closed this year for some of those players. As part of the new collective bargaining agreement agreed between MiLB players and Major League Baseball, MLB had the right to reduce the in-season player limit for domestic MiLB players to 165 players beginning for the 2024 season, which means there is an offseason limit of 175 MiLB players per organization. As expected since the moment the MiLB CBA was agreed upon, MLB has exercised that right. That’s a reduction from the 180 player in-season and 190 player off-season limits from a year ago. In other words, there are 450 fewer domestic U.S. roster slots for players this February compared to this time last year. That means that players who would have signed deals last year with outside shots of making big league teams coming out of camp can’t even land MiLB contracts this offseason. That may not actually mean that there are 450 fewer players on rosters, as not every team has always gone right up to the roster limit in the past. But multiple MLB front office officials said they are getting calls from agents daily trying to find spots for veteran players. In many cases, they have to tell them they have no roster room to sign them. “You can’t take fliers on guys anymore,” said one MLB front office official. Not everyone agrees with this assessment. Other MLB front office officials say teams can always create roster room through releases. They believe players with a clear shot at MLB roles are still easy decisions. After all, if a player has a real shot at a big league role, are you going to turn him down to keep a 19 or 20-year-old role player? But structurally, this year is very different for MLB teams when it comes to MiLB roster management. While the door is opening for teams to move MLB 40-man roster players to the 60-day MLB injured list which frees up additional 40-man roster spots, teams won’t be able to take advantage of the 60-day MiLB injured list until mid-March. So with many teams sitting at or very close to the 175-player limit currently, those teams are in a situation where signing a non-roster invitee means releasing a younger player to clear a roster spot. It’s a conundrum many of these teams have not really faced before. There’s another odd development from these roster changes. In the past, spring training was the time where players had to battle to make a roster. Before the MLB takeover of the minors in 2020, teams had much larger offseason MiLB rosters, because for every short-season and rookie-ball team a club had, they had 35 additional roster spots. So a team like the New York Yankees, which had two domestic complex league teams, a rookie-ball club and a short-season team, could bring close to 250 players to camp. Now, making the offseason roster may actually be tougher than surviving spring training cutdowns. Each team is allowed to move up to 15 players to the 60-day MiLB injured list in mid-March. Those 60-day IL players will not count toward the roster limit until they are activated off that list. In the case of most teams, there are a number of players, most notably pitchers rehabbing from Tommy John surgeries, who are guaranteed to move onto the 60-day IL as soon as they are eligible to do so. With a 175-player offseason limit and a 165-player in-season limit, a team with 11 or more players slated for the 60-day IL will actually find themselves with roster spots opening up in mid-March. It’s conceivable that a team could break camp on MiLB spring training without releasing anyone. This is a source of frustration for some MLB front office officials who note that having an offseason roster limit hinders their flexibility to try to build the best roster that they can. Teams that used to bring numerous players to spring training in hopes of finding an unexpected bounce-back candidate or a diamond in the rough say that now, they’re much more limited in what they can do. International players do not count toward the player limit until they set foot in the U.S., so the new rules also incentivize teams to wait to bring over players from their complexes in the Dominican Republic until after spring training is over and full-season rosters are sorted out. While this change is somewhat significant, no one can say it was completely unexpected. Both sides collectively bargained this in the first-ever MLB-MiLB Players Association collective bargaining agreement. As is true in any collectively bargained agreement, both sides got some of what they wanted and gave on other aspects. MLB agreed to raise minimum salaries for MiLB players dramatically, guaranteed housing improvements and assure MiLB players that there will not be any contraction of MiLB teams during the life of the current CBA. In return, MiLB players agreed to a 180-player in-season roster limit (and a 190-player offseason limit) and gave MLB the right to reduce that to 165 players in-season and 175 players in the offseason after one year. That phased-in reduction has taken place as expected.

Yeah but might actually be good for his career, at least in terms of getting plenty of opportunity to rebuild value as a starter.

Stripling dealt from the Giants to the A's. Should see a wide open opportunity to start in Oakland.

And their response to you would be something along the lines of "well at least I didn't have to buy her"

Sort of does seem like they've been active for the sake of being active. I don't see a clear improvement to their roster