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Pena had such a WEIRD year. For half of it, he didn't really regress at all - he was the same player he was in '22 - he just wasn't anywhere close...
I'm not sure the Padres would throw anything else into the mix - but I'd be VERY intrigued by a straight-up Tucker-for-Soto deal. And if you could...
This will be interesting to watch because you could conceivably argue this is the first offseason they've dealt with significant issues without...
Yeah. Fans should absolutely be excited about Diaz. But they need to, I think, be a bit more conservative with their expectations. He might hit 30...
Yeah, I wouldn't frame Diaz's potential shortcoming, @The Beard, as "he doesn't walk." That's obviously a by-product - but the issue is that he's...
Giving up a prospect (in the case of Chicago, a high-end prospect) for the right to negotiate with a player you have no idea their intention is a...
The Bears being involved makes zero sense - but if you're asking why Sweat cost more, it's because he's a better player right now (and the Niners...
Honestly?... I probably have more confidence in Verlander being an above-average starter than I do in Brown, Garcia, Urquidy & France being...
Would you rather have Sweat or Young? Or Sweat or Young + a top 50 prospect? This team should not be wasting assets on rentals. In fact, if you...
It's going to be really fascinating to see his second - and hopefully first full - season play out. Unlike Pena, who's promise was wrapped around...
And... he's a former player, which Crane also seems to value. The Astros have an incredibly unique, appealing offer: a championship caliber team...
Because he's one of the ~15-20 best hitters in baseball; he's under club control and relatively cheap for two more full seasons, and he's young....
Take a breath, and then reread what I posted and consider the context... I was discussing why Dusty didn't use him throughout the season and then...
Not that rotations line-up this precisely throughout a long season - but if he wasn't catching out best pitchers, he likely wasn't facing the...
Yeah; I wonder if he could get *that* much? Maybe? Soto was/is better and he was younger - but only had 1.5 years of control. With Tucker - again,...
Yeah, and I agreed: if he's not willing to sign an extension, he'd be an interesting trade chip, especially this offseason, where two years of...
Hopefully. Being an everyday player, he's going to see better pitching/pitchers who will be more capable of exploiting any weaknesses. I have to...
Yainer Diaz is a free swinger, and now that there'll be a book on him, he's going to see fewer and fewer strikes. He can still punish balls...
The pitchers' argument for Maldonado isn't that he make them *better* necessarily. It's that they're more comfortable with him. I'm guessing what...
Well... specifically: we've made the idea of hustling down the line on sure outs into a measure of a player's heart and desire - and it's total...
