JoeBrady

Or Montgomery, right? There are always that do better and do worse. I wanted Montgomery and Snell, and I wasn't alone. And those two have averaged 4.5 wins per year.

You simply don't understand. I consider it a version of stolen valor. Several groups have suffered enormously from prejudice over the years. Among them being Native Americans, African-Americans, and gays. When people wrongfully claim to be in any of those groups, they are giving themselves a share of the suffering they never had to endure. If you thinking that type of claim is okay, that's your opinion. I'm never going to agree with.

It's not a bad idea. Pitchers go down like flies during ST. If we had 5-6-7 SPs looking as good or better than Sandy, see what the market is for him. While I have to acknowledge that lack of depth killed us last year.

Why would we eat Sandoval's contract?

I am kind of curious why you are trying to dissuade MVP from discussing the HR v OBP issue with me. Do you think MVP is incapable of holding such a conversation? Or deciding which data is valid?

You are one remarkably damaged little person.

IMHO, the no-trade probably comes from someone higher-ranking. IRT the salary, I assume that JH sets the budget and mostly allows Breslow to spend how he sees fit. I would make the same assumption with most teams.

I didn't insult Ms. Eilish because she is gay. I accused her of gay-baiting. I resent that type of pandering. In regard to her she is dating, I could paste the links, but you won't read them. But she's dating Nat Wolff. But, like all other things, if you do some research, and find out I am wrong, you can provide me a link and I will apologize if I am wrong.

I've said, and fairly recently, that both HRs and OBP count. Just that OBP is more important. I don't think I have used the phrase 'OBP is king by a lot'. If I did, please feel free to point that out. But I didn't, so don't waste your time. it is not a matter of 'imo'. I am presenting data. I am taking the data from Baseball Reference. There is no opinion involved. If you feel that I have reached the wrong conclusion, and you think that HRs are more important than OBP, please feel free to create a spreadsheet just like I did.

Anyone that has played any amount of poker will have hands that they played perfectly, and lost. And have had hands that their opponent played perfectly, and still lost. The result of the hand doesn't impact whther or not you played the hand correctly.

Nothing that hasn't been said before, or that doesn't make 100% sense. We wouldn't go as high as Chicago, and we wouldn't give him a no-trade. Like it or not, those are the facts.

You become more and more disturbed by the day. You are in a complete meltdown.

They were 2nd in Py W/L last year. Tough to predict how their rotation will recover.

While the depth has weakened, the control has increased exponentially. 34 years between 6 position players, and that doesn't KC or Casas. If those two guys, plus Arias pan out, while highly unlikely, we won't need to draft a position players for 3-4 years (some artistic license taken). Even the pitching, which is usually less projectable, has Crochet, Bello, Tolle, Early and Witherspoon thru 2030 and beyond.

I've done some low-level stuff on that. The biggest issue is trying to create a model that I like. In 2025, I calculated the standard deviation for the top-10 scoring teams relative to HRs, and calculated the standard deviation for the top-10 scoring teams relative to OBP. It's only one year, but the STD for Runs-HRs was 4.98, while the STD for Runs-OBP was only 3.02. On the HR side, the largest variances were the RS (7th in scoring and 15th in HRs) and MIL (3rd in scoring and 22nd in HRs). Runs HR Runs OBP NYY 1 1 1 2 LAD 2 2 2 5 MIL 3 22 3 3 TOR 4 11 4 1 CHC 5 6 5 11 ARI 6 8 6 7 BOS 7 15 7 8 PHI 8 9 8 4 NYM 9 5 9 6 SEA 10 3 10 10 4.98272 3.023243

Who could it be? It feels like is has to be from Boras. It won't be from the RS unless someone is out to undermine Breslow. It could be from Bregman. But unless Bregman is dealing with Breslow directly, then Bregman could only get it from Boras. And Bregman doesn't strike me as someone that would do that. Or it could be from Boras, and he could have motivation(s) to not be entirely truthful. Do you see any other candidates? I have some other Machiavellian theories, but some people already think I'm defending Breslow.

The only ones that could make a contrary report would be Bregman and Breslow. GMs usually don't address issues like this.

Certainly not hurting for cash, but that puts an extra $40M in his pocket. And that's without consideration of Japanese/US tax rates. Some countries won't tax you depending how much of the year you spend abroad. It's probably a non-issue, but it would be worth hiring an accountant to find out.

We won't keep Mayer in AAA any longer. This why you have highly-rated prospects.

No. Shaw had a very good year, but suspiciously low EV and swing speed.

By design. 1 means it the winning team had both a higher OBP & more HRs. 2 means HRs did better, and 3 means OBP did better. It's pretty meaningless since some of these series are 2-game series. But that was the question that was raised.

That's 100% accurate. Can we all agree on what the two problems wre: The Red Sox don't give out no-trade clauses. The RS offered less PV money. Is there a 3rd problem that I am not seeing? On point 1, if this is JH's rule, there is nothing that Breslow can do about that. On point 2, maybe there is some grey area. Like I have mentioned, if there is a $5M difference over the life of the contract, one could argue give in and give him the extra $1M per. If the difference is $4M/year, there is nothing that Breslow can do about that.

He did the same thing with JDM, twice.

I can think of two other reasons. I know that CA is looking to change their tax laws, but if the law is taxing Ohtani on his $2M instead of the PV $42M, then Ohtani is saving about $40M over the course of the contract. This is probably sure to start a fight, but IF Ohtani has a gambling problem, it is POSSIBLE that he feels more comfortable only getting $2M a year in cash.

Why would I want to do that? No one here has 1st, or 2nd, or 3rd hand knowledge of what went on. I fine with believing Bregman objected to the no-trade. What else do we know? If someone can tell me what the RS offered, at least in the ballpark, then we'll know more. But it won't matter. If the CBT offer was $135M/5, then Breslow didn't value Bregman as much as the Cubs.