Fans are jerks LOL. If Crochet or Anthony get hurt this year we'll be bitching about them too. It's pretty hard to find a beloved player who isn't playing or performing up to their contract.
And the other remaining free agent bats will likely be overpaid too. Sometimes it comes down to good old supply and demand, and the supply is pretty small.
It does look like an overpay, but the market for premium free agents is so limited. We can't just turn our attention to the next Bregman because there is none. There's Bichette but he'll be even more expensive.
I think Joe B and me are both looking at the same thing - his WAR per games played is consistently good.
You're not wrong that are concerning signs as well. But I'm still hoping for the announcement that we've signed him.
Forbes's annual Business of Baseball rankings started with the 1998 season, so we've had that data at our fingertips for over 25 years now. I assume that we're not confining to our comments to just what's said on the Talksox forum.
We don't expect owners to dip into their own pockets to fund their teams, that's why we normally look at the revenue the team is generating rather than the wealth of the owners.
Pretty close to the infamous porn star mustache.
But it's hard to predict much off looks. Isaiah Campbell has a pretty cool mustache and glasses thing going, but his numbers suck.
Red, I laughed when I saw your Eddie Driscoll reference the other day. Here in Halifax, when we first got cable TV in the 70's, we got the NBC station in Bangor, so we saw plenty of Eddie, and Dick Stacey too. 😀