jacksonianmarch

Renfroe has been up and down in his career. Bloom sells when value is high. Renfroe wasn’t going to get much higher in value

JBJ wasn’t reacquired because they wanted JBJ, imo. I think Bloom bought himself prospects by taking JBJ’s contract.

I smell a trade. If you consider Wacha your long man and Whitlock your 5, here are the guys under contract for your pen Houck Strahm Diekman Hernandez Barnes Davis Taylor Brasier Wacha I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a Barnes trade, honestly. The reliever market is dry as a bone outside of Jansen, and he’s elite with long term deal needed. Eat a few mil, get a good return and watch Barnes thrive without the pressure

I say strange because now you have five lefties in your bullpen. When you consider that most of the teams that you were going to be facing in your division are heavily right handed, it makes one scratch their head. Diekman has decent splits, but typically it is up to the hitter. But there’s no madness to Bloom’s moves. For all we know, Darwinzon is part of a package for something larger that will be made public soon

Strahm and Diekman to the Sox. Very lefty pen. Strange

As it stands right now… 3B Lemahieu RF Judge DH Stanton LF Gallo CF Hicks 1B Voit 2B Torres C Sanchez SS Urshela SP1 Cole SP2 Severino SP3 Taillon (might miss April) SP4 Montgomery SP5 German/Cortes CL Chapman SU Green SU Loisiga MR Holmes MR Peralta MR Luetge MR Gil If healthy, that’s a good roster. As it won’t stay healthy, it needs help that the farm cannot deliver right now. Gotta spend here

It didnt seem possible that they would do nothing at the deadline last year either but they did. I wonder if they are going to use $230 mil as a hard cap and save some room for mid season reinforcements

And for all the big guys left, the only one I want is Freeman. I do not want Correa. He is also injury prone, he's a cheat, and he will be on an obscene long term deal, blocking the guys we need to eventually make room for. Freeman allows us to move on from Voit or keep him around and use him as a bench bat or a LHP platoon guy.

Urshela has bulked up a bit from his MIF days. While he can pick it with anyone, he doesn't have the range Torres had. Torres' issue was between his ears where he would miss routine throws or bobble easy balls. Torres will be better served as a 2b, but you cannot go into this year with Urshela being the lone SS option (let's be honest, DJ's days of SS are over). Is the plan to fast track Volpe? Kid hasnt played in AA yet, which is usually the proving ground for young talent and he only has one plus season under his belt. Is the plan to go to Peraza? He is more ready, but offers a lower offensive upside. Either way, the infield of Voit, Torres, Urshela and Lemahieu offers significant offensive upside, especially if DJ is healthy this year, but the SS defense will be lacking. While DJ is a good glove man, we don't know how he is at 3b. Voit is a butcher. Torres is prone to the brain farts in the field as well. Add in Sanchez and we are looking at a straight minus defense with significant injury risk. The depth options we had before 2021 are gone. Thairo Estrada was a solid backup option. We dealt him off and he became a really useful utility guy on a SF team that won the most games in baseball. Tyler Wade was dealt this offseason, which begs the question, why? HE was the only guy on the team who could steal bases, pick it at all IF positions and reach base reasonably for a backup. We need to add someone who can hit who isn't a big injury ?? We were lucky not to lose Judge or Stanton for major stretches last year. Cannot bank on that again. Our CFer lives on the IL in Hicks and we let some of the OF depth go with Frazier moving to the Cubs. This is a decidedly thinner team, and while I like our farm, we are in a far different stage than we were 3-4 years ago. Our upper levels are chock full of high velocity arms waiting for their turn. We are not flush with reasonable big league depth on the position player side and our top prospects are at least 3-4 months away absolute best case, likely 1+ years out. We need to add veterans and to this point, Cash has had his thumb in his ass. Interestingly, with the Yanks just getting a $20 mil bonus injection to the lux cap, they still are no longer rumored to be after anyone. And that will pose a major issue for Yankee fans who realized rather quickly that the 2021 team was not good enough to take it

Because they have clear holes and major durability issues. What’s the definition of insanity?

Yanks just sitting on the dock of the bay

IKF now a Twin. Literally nothing for the Yanks even though they just got $20 mil more for the Lux tax limit

Where are these moves? Yanks said they aren’t making the Olson deal and now seem to be out of the Freeman stakes.

Is he injury prone with good HR numbers and lots of K’s? If so, then probably

Robo umps had lots of glitches in their trial, so they’re out. Shift is banned for 2023

Yanks better not be finished. Ultimately, if healthy, the Yanks are the stacked team, but they’re never f***ing healthy. April is always, which musclebound hulk tears a muscle month in NY. Tendons count too. Let’s just say March just got real interesting. Yanks need at least one big bat who can hit for average and one more veteran pitcher who can give innings should Sevy tweak something

Rumor has it Freeman is going to be getting a big offer from the Yanks. I hope this is true. While I like Olson, I do not think dealing the upper crust of our farm is a good plan right now when you can just spend some cash and get a guy. I said before that Freeman would likely enter his down phase around the same time as some of the other highly paid players making it a reasonable gamble

CLOSE THIS THREAd!!

One thing this lockout really hurt was Bloom's ability to dumpster dive and move players. He is gonna have to go warp speed now. With a normal offseason, I thought there would be absolutely no way Bogey suits up in Boston in 2022. Now, it's a virtual certainty

They will attempt toplay baseball. There is a question as to whether they will succeed

There is a reason why the shift needs to be banned. It was the reason for the launch angle change which turned the game into a snoozefest of all or nothing baseball. Listen, the game is different than it was 50 years ago. Pitchers throw WAY harder. Analytics is able to discern where hitters hit the ball and then the pitchers pitch to that part of the plate. The shift removed the old adage of hitting it where it is pitched. You cannot do that anymore lest you end up batting around the Mendoza line. Pitchers are dropping 95 mph hammers inside on all hitters and watching them pull the ball into the shift. If the batter hit it out, so be it. Most geekfest s*** in sports usually makes for better offense which makes for more excitement. Instead, the geekfest s*** decidedly shifted the power to the pitcher.

f*** YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!! There will be baseball!

Won’t start til 2023, but Halle-f***in-lullia. Been asking for this for awhile.

Owners are proposing an INTL draft. As a Yankee fan, that likely hurts us. But there’s one caveat to it that I think should be added to the mlb draft. It’s not record based. The league is broken up into 5 groups of 6 and the the groups go from picking first six this year to second six next year to third six the year after that. This TREMENDOUSLY drops the benefit of tanking. So on the whole, I personally don’t want an INTL draft but I want the league to adopt their plan for an intl draft to the big league draft to removed the benefits of tanking

I agree with Turner. Miami isnt a spender, but if they were to add an offense to their electric pitching staff, financial investments would need to be made. Status quo (they added Garcia, but that is it) will leave them a .500 or worse team again. Jeter thought he had another $15-$20 mil to play with in 2022. That is enough to add someone with a good bat.