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  1. JoeBrady
    Anything is possible, and again, we will never know the details. To me, I get the player or I don't. I'm not overly concerned about who said what to nwhom.
  2. JoeBrady
    Any team can defer. Cleveland just deferred a lot on Ramirez.
  3. JoeBrady
    Some guys, no matter how much I like them, are hands-off.
  4. JoeBrady
    Which owners will be unhappy? There might be ten teams who voluntarily exceed the cap. There might be ten more who are not going to go close to the cap. So you're going to have 20 teams that have no interest in a hard cap/floor.
  5. JoeBrady
    We don't know and never will. Breslow had a number, and the Cubs exceeded that. It's like you're buying a house that you think is worth $400k, and the owner won't take less than $440k. If you disagree with the $440k, that in no way implies that you failed.
  6. JoeBrady
    Good for everyone.
  7. JoeBrady
    Some would have praised Brez had he signed Bregman to fill in the blank amount. The same people that criticized Breslow for not signing Bregman, would have criticized Breslow for overpaying for Bregman. We know this like it is etched in stone.
  8. JoeBrady
    Without an acquisition, Mayer will start at 3rd, and Romy/DHam will platoon at 2nd.
  9. JoeBrady
    As someone else pointed out, the fact that the Suarez deal came together so quickly means that they had already come together on numbers, pending the Bregman results. Nothing mysterious here.
  10. JoeBrady
    Does he have to?
  11. JoeBrady
    Not to mention #1 in bWAR among position players.
  12. JoeBrady
    He had a 95 OPS+ with huge advances in his K/W. I find it interesting that continued improvement isn't really considered. He's 25. Most players peak at about age 28.
  13. JoeBrady
    Funny, but never blaspheme the Moody Blues.
  14. JoeBrady
    I would think it matters a lot to players as well. Just imho, you have players that never move (Narvaez, Casas, Story, Bregman, Duran, Raffy and Abreu) because they are strong at their position. Even irt rest, schedule days off for lefties when there is a lefty on the mound. For the righties, check the schedule for pitchers that they don't hit. Having 4 very good outfielders makes that more difficult, but I see very little need to move guys around the field.
  15. JoeBrady
    That was more from a guidance perspective. You can't make someone work out if they don't want to. I was thinking more along the lines of going to the gym, checking his form, trying to get an update on what still hurts, making sure that they don't over-do it or under-do it.
  16. JoeBrady
    I'd bet that he does. I'd be shocked if his current 2028 roster doesn't show Arias as our starting SS, and choice B being picking up Story's option. You might not spend a lot of time on it, but I'd have a white board for every year between now and 2031. Just for example, you wouldn't trade for a MLB-ready 23 year old OF because the board tells you that you won't have an opening for a number of years. I wouldn't trade Witherspoon for a glove-first SS with an ETA of 2028 because we already have one.
  17. JoeBrady
    I would tweak that by saying they have a 5 year plan, and probably more like 7 years, but also a Plan B, C, D, etc.
  18. JoeBrady
    To me, those promises are meaningless. I'm not unsympathetic to Devers not wanting to play 1st, but even in a beer league, you still have to earn your position.
  19. JoeBrady
    We had some. Duran and O'Neill lived in the weight room, as did Eovaldi. But I often wonder if teams have off-season workout programs designed for each player. It probably would require a whole lot of science to determine where your weak muscles, ligaments, and cartilage are, especially relative to your position. And then have a roving OT/PT visit each player for 3-4 days at a time to supervise their workouts.
  20. JoeBrady
    His conditioning also wavered from year to year. He'd take some criticism, and I think Cora spoke to him, but he never came to ST in good shape. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, but never good. It's a shame. I'd see him make some very good plays when he was younger, but never consistently.
  21. JoeBrady
    I'm waiting for that. Fred will recommend trading Gray for Paredes and then complain that we traded Gray for Paredes.
  22. JoeBrady
    That's the stupidest, dumbest, err, wait, I'm finding a reason to object. I'm going to risk having my PC self-destruct, but that idea works pretty well. I'd have said flat no before Suarez. But my logic for a Bello-Paredes type swap was that out 5-6-7 guys might not be that much worse than Bello still applies. Bello might not be that much worse than Gray. It's a slippery slope, but at least I'd be happy knowing that it would effectively be Paredes for Clark & Fitts. That's pretty good.
  23. JoeBrady
    The pros look long-term. As you said, Casas was the 1B of the future and Devers was the 3B of the future. There is an expectation that they will improve. Both Duran and Romy were painful to watch when they first came up. One became good and one became acceptable.
  24. JoeBrady
    I don't think it's unreasonable to expect some improvement, and I thought I saw some. But then it just flattened out.
  25. JoeBrady
    I've seen this so, so often. You have to make tough decisions. There is no real right or wrong. Breslow probably has 2-3 Type A options and 2-3 Type B options. Taking the first offer might please the fans, but his job is to improve the team.
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