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Angles have never spent money well. Padres have never won a WS. Dodgers are resetting this season.

wRC+ the 4 years prior to 2022 for Elvis Andrus: 74 57 76 76 DRS the past 4 seasons: -4 -10 -3 -9 Maybe the Red Sox just don't think Elvis Andrus is that good?

Same manager. Same GM. That franchise is treading water. Sad!

The haven't even played a Spring Training game yet. Maybe not playoffs, but they'll have more wins than last year.

Don't care. Yoshida is going to mash. Other former unnamed execs/scouts need to cry more.

For sure. A glutton for punishment?

Dear readers, note that jacko said not a peep about Nestor when he was diagnosed with a hamstring strain, but leaped at the chance to talk about Bello's forearm.

@alexspeier Alex Cora says Brayan Bello was shutdown briefly (“nothing to alarm”) due to forearm soreness he experienced in his last bullpen, when he threw a lot of breaking balls. He’s scheduled to resume throwing Monday. “We’re very confident Monday he’s back on his throwing program.”

On an MLB deal too. Younger than Iggy. His bat is ok. He can play every IF spot. Seems fine to me.

I bounced from public accounting because of busy season. Once I had kids, my priorities changed. Maybe Thunder is just a sucker for the pizza parties?

Manfred basically said that he'd make sure local MLB rights would be handled, but there would still be issues over the short term for many fans. MLB is propped up by tv revenue that I don't entirely believe is real. I bet Henry knows exactly how much he's making off of NESN. These other owners are just making the tv money second hand.

I know I bag on Henry a lot, but at least NESN isn't going into the toilet yet. While Diamond Sports Group appears set to default on $140 million in interest payments, a move which is expected to trigger a bankruptcy filing in the coming weeks, its 19 Bally Sports properties aren’t the only RSNs feeling a financial pinch. According to multiple league, finance and network sources, the three AT&T SportsNet brands in recent weeks have handed over lighter-than-expected envelopes to their respective MLB franchise partners. An executive with direct knowledge of the RSNs’ financial dealings confirmed to Sportico that the AT&T outlets in Denver, Houston and Pittsburgh submitted their most recent rights payments to their MLB clubs in a timely fashion, although the disbursements were not commensurate with the contracted rates. The teams impacted by the shortfall are the Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros and Pittsburgh Pirates. The precise amount of the funds withheld is not known but is said to be significant enough to have catalyzed concerns about the long-term viability of the three networks.

What the hell?

Since they are now playing every NL team, will they be swapping fields next season with their opponents (i.e. the play MIA at home this year, but would pay MIA away next season)?

For BOS? Less than 25%. Maybe a platoon bat? IDK.

His bat needs to carry him at every level. There are some questions about it. We’ll see if he struggles with the cold weather early on or if he pushes to WOO.

He hasn’t hit well at AA. Slow bat. No position. That limits his outlook.

His wRC+ is trending towards Simmons levels too.

Most FCL guys start off low in the rankings. Rafaela, Bonaci, Paulino weren't all top 20 guys. Bleis was kind of an exception as he got a big bonus up front and there were lots of people high on his potential from day one. The highest ranked INTL signing from 2023 started off at 49. None of the others are ranked at all. You have to give those guys a little bit to develop. I believe even Kavadas' first ranking was 40 or higher.

Walter has always been old for his league. I want to see him at least perform at AAA before I even consider him for MLB.

Dalbec has a career 12.8 UZR/150 at SS.

What if Sale is the ace of the rotation?

Henry dumped DD because they weren't aligned. Henry doesn't want to spend. DD does. Henry fired him.

That's not a thing.

Mata was much higher ranked than everyone on that list but Bello. Bello is the only decent comp. However, I don't think people see Bello as having top of the rotation profile. He's probably a 3? Maybe he's a 2 if everything breaks right? IDK. Mata just showed a lot more potential at an earlier age. Bello just popped recently. Perales is interesting, but has been outright dismissed by a lot of national guys as he just hasn't been healthy.