Some teams are extending beer sales through the 8th inning in response to the shorter games.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/13/phillies-pitcher-matt-strahm-slams-mlb-teams-for-changing-beer-policy/
It's kind of shocking that after such a crap year last year, the mission seemed to be to make the team even worse. Henry didn't let Bloom spend a whole lot, and the returns on what he did spend on are slim so far.
Generally speaking, the guys they got rid of were about to become free agents. So that is quite a bit different from a guy they just signed to a 10-year extension.
If they didn't plan to keep Devers they would have followed the same MO and traded him or let him walk.
This is a circular thing - one of the reasons so many have thrown the towel in is that it seems ridiculous to see Dalbec at SS in the 12th game of the season.
And Bloom said what the heck, let's take a chance, it's only $140 mill. He even wanted Story to go back to SS this year. Always just a bit ahead of the curve, is Chaim.
And he signed for 3 freakin' million, after we were speculating we didn't sign him because he was asking for too much LOL
Total clown show stuff going on.