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It’s fun how you refute the “starters under $12mil” with one name…

I think they are more likely to move someone like Baty or Vientos.i Semien (3 yrs $72mill) wouldn’t be the cure for the Sox offense. But it opens the door for Duran and possibly Casas at some point to step in at DH. With Yoshida owed much less (2 yr $36mill), it’s a saving for the Mets already. But it does weaken their defense…

And one opt-back-in…

In the year you skipped. Or we could keep the current system where the Dodgers now have, what, SIX players making $27mill or higher this season? How many are there in the rest of the NL West combined? Do the Dodger have an anyone in their lineup making under $12mill?

And in two years the Dodgers can sign him for a 4 year $500mill extension…

Or Triston Casas, as it turns out…

True, but the AL central out 3 teams in the postseason in 2024 and had a fourth in the cusp. Were those teams really among the best in the AL?

I think it’s been Breslow’s white whale…

Or does it compensate for weaker schedules thr Midwest teams get?

And then he went and shattered my confidence in him by spending $22mil on Brad Keller…

Those teams are already playing LA and San Diego more times and competing for wild card spots with teams playing the Pirates and Reds 26 times…

He seems pull happy. Two guys that fit Fenway might be the oft-mentioned Isaac Paredes and the rarely mentioned Miguel Vargas. The less Vargas is mentioned, the better. He’s reportedly a huge *******…

… and we can have more 2024 postseasons where teams get in because they play the White Sox 30-40 times…

National TV revenue - FOX, ESPN, Apple TV - is shared among all the teams whether they play in those games or not. But teams keep 100% of their local TV deals. Some teams are owned by media outlets or own their media (ex. The Yankees and the YES network). But I don’t think that should exempt them from paying other teams that they put on the air…

If you’re putting another team on the air, they should be compensated. It’s baseball; you need two teams to have a game. I think that draft model works better for MLB than for the NFL or NBA, where draft picks are expected to make an immediate impact. Plus I’d rather see teams still playing hard get rewarded as opposed to some team that pawns off half their roster in July and plays out the string with a team that looks like it was assembled using the same process used to convene a jury…

So the Mets have Bichette, Lindor, Semien, Polanco, Brett Baty, Luisangel Acuna, and Mark Vientos to fill four INF/DH slots. Meanwhile 22yo Carson Benge (.583 OPS in limited AAA action, but a .978 OPS in slightly more AA time) as their starting LF. And Tyrone Taylor in CF. But more important, their rotation appears to be Nolan McLean, David Peterson, Clay Holmes, Sean Manaea, and Kodai Senga. Was infield really their weakness?

Is Torres available? I have to think Detroit was ready to pay him when they offered the QO..,

Any reasons?

I think the charges were not so much that he doesn’t know how to build bullpens, but rather that he largely ignores the task in favor of other areas..

Soft cap/hard floor model? I admittedly skirted cap issues and revamping payroll penalties, but they are necessary fixes…

SP couldn’t be a lesser need for that team. However, they do need a setup guy who can throw the ball home without sailing it to the backstop…

Suggestions to fix MLB league parity 1. TV revenue divided. Moon proposed tjis and it does make sense. If the Reds are appearing on TV in Los Angeles, they should be paid for it. The Dodgers get the same courtesy for appearing on TV in Cincinnati. 2. League-controlled revenue sharing allotment system. Instead of handing out checks and hoping teams spend, give each team a league account that is used solely for spending on their team, in free agents, draft picks, extensions, etc. If you don’t spend it, you don’t get it. (I’m open to rolling it over, but you still don’t get it if you don’t spend it.) 3. Revamp draft order for all non- playoff teams drafting in order from best record to worst, followed by playoff teams in the current “worst to best” format. Stop rewarding losing teams and reward the teams that are trying. Lotteries are stupid. Not even sure what they are supposed to accomplish, especially weighted ones.. Does the league really think they prevent tanking, etc? 4. Fire Manfred and replace him with an orangutan that knows sign language. Or one that doesn’t. Both are steps up…

And Narvaez?

With Wheeler, Nola and Sánchez already on board, it was one area he didn’t have to worry about. From what I’m reading, DD might be getting close to his budget limits. MLBTR has him not being able to sign Bichette unless he can unload some cash, notably Bohm as he wouldn’t be needed anyway, and isn’t unmovable like Castellanos…

Absolutely. Yoshida isn’t 13 for 13 in stolen base attempts because he has blazing speed…