Free agency feels very top heavy this year. Ohtani is obviously the top guy with Yamamato being out there too. Bellinger, Nola, Snell, and a few other nice pieces out there too. Curious if Soto gets dealt.
that’s the only counter, he’s so toxic he just has to leave by all accounts he’s awful in the locker room
That and he's been awwwwwful for 1.5 seasons. He had a 63 wRC+ in the 2022 2h and a 60 in 2023. I didn't know a negative wRC+ was a possible but he had a -2 month. -2!
just insane he went from All Star and one of the only players MLB promoted to an udder potato in what seemed like 3 months. He pretty much took the Sox with him, the whole team went potato as well dudes mental health got destroyed by his extra marital problems
Guy is a disaster right now and you have to think they shopped him around in trades before just cutting bait. He's got no value
Anderson will end up signing 1/$11mm with someone in mid march. Can't imagine there's any market for him.
There was a strong sentiment last year of Player "I can't wait to get traded out of this place!" White Sox: "itd be nice if you played well enough for another team to want you"
Probably hasn't been mentioned because you guys have been trying to process it the last 36 hours, but the Tigers traded for Mark Canha yesterday.
MLB is finally going to give Craig Counsel manager of the year this year (after deserving it pretty much every year for the last five years) and he'll announce the next day that he's going to the Mets. Or at least that is The Athletic and Heyman's wet dream.
Shit posting the Athletic comments section is oddly satisfying. Spoiler it's not actually satisfying, the New York Times sports page doesn't care about me complaining about lack of Brewers coverage
Search my longer post in the old MLB thread, but cliff notes version. Marlins have been absolutely brutal at drafting and developing under Jeter and then Ng. Owner told her that he wanted her to stay in her role as GM and be in charge of the 40 man roster and everything MLB team related but bring in a president of baseball ops that would oversee scouting and development. She said no and left. she was a solid GM and had every right to ask to remain in charge of it all, but it’s not like she was some super star that got a raw deal.
he was playing last year. obviously there used to be guys who did both in the past, but is this the quickest turnaround from player to manager somewhat recently? I can't think of anyone who took one year off and was right to managing a big league club.
#Texas Rangers how hard are the Rangers going to fight to keep Montgomery? I know it was a quick connection there.
the scribes tend to think that he will command more money than they'd want to spend on him but they'll be wanting to add a SP regardless so it's certainly possible.