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  1. JoeBrady
    Of the top 50, only 19 have signed, and only 13 teams accounted for the 19 signings. So by default, you must be including 13 teams that have signed someone not in the top-50. So are you looking for us to sign one of those #51-100 FAs?
  2. JoeBrady
    I certainly hope that no one wants May back. That's delusional. IRT Polanco, the Mets will start him at DH. Anyone wanting to pay Polanco $20M to DH is likewise delusional.
  3. JoeBrady
    Mays?
  4. JoeBrady
    When I started, the auditors did serious digging. Now they spend more time on check lists. I did my thesis on the some of the financial fiascos from the early '90s (Barings, Sumitomo copper, etc.). The audits were worthless. In the Barings case, the perpetrator sent a confirmation, supposedly from a US bank, from his home computer. He forgot that he programmed his fax machine to have a header "From <him and his wife>. The auditor never caught it.
  5. JoeBrady
    IMO, another awful signing by the Mets. $20M for a DH. maybe a 1B?
  6. JoeBrady
    Red Sox have passed 'entitlement' like it was standing still. I would guess that even Yankee fans have been astonished at how much more entitled RS fans are than the Yankee fans are.
  7. JoeBrady
    Glasnow will be a negative, but Rushing is pretty interesting. LAD has a lot of good prospects.
  8. JoeBrady
    Interesting spray chart. Those little red dots look like only 7 HRs at Fenway.
  9. JoeBrady
    Contreras is underwater. He will cost nothing.
  10. JoeBrady
    I never too excited about these things, for a couple of reasons. The payroll number will be one of the driving factors. If we spend $263,999,999, we're getting some good players. They might be HR hitters, they might great glove/good bat players, or they might the #2 SP I want. But we will get some good talent. Most of what we do in here is fantasy baseball. A lot of educated guesses, but still guesses. I like Okamoto & Kim. I might even be more right than wrong, but it is still my amateur opinion. And as I always mention, there are a dozen ways to build a team. Paying a high price for Greene will make us a great team. Paying a lesser price for Marte will make us a very good team. Paying for Okamoto & Kim, and keeping prospects, will make us a very good team. We could trade either Duran or Abreu, or any of our 6-10 SPs, or Campbell and acquire some good talent.
  11. JoeBrady
    It's entirely possible that Stearns has a plan that he is not sharing with the fans. Fans are freaking out on FAN. My guess is that they are landing Tucker at a price that will be a discount to Alonso's value, and they will follow that up with a #2 SP.
  12. JoeBrady
    We need desperately to separate bookkeeping from accounting. Almost all the stuff people do in accounting doesn't require more than a 2-year degree The MBA is a joke. The graduate level accounting classes I took were identical to the undergrad accounting classes I took. And accounting is not the only profession like that.
  13. JoeBrady
    I always consider that. I always like to see the motivation when teams allow players to leave, especially teams where payroll is no issue.
  14. JoeBrady
    Either Rubenstein is moving in a lot of money, or Elias is feeling the heat after last season. They've gone from $89M to $126M to $177M, and they are currently at $178M and need at least one more good SP, maybe 2.
  15. JoeBrady
    If you're going to pay Seager $189M to age 37, you might as well pay Bregman $150M to age 36 and keep everyone.
  16. JoeBrady
    Me neither. IMO, there will be GMs calling to steal him for a one-year #3 SP. But I think there will also be GMs that think this is a golden opportunity to acquire a top-15 prospect at a discounted price. I leaning towards further development, because his ceiling is so high. But if someone asked for him to be included for Greene, Burns or Chandler, maybe Marte, I would have to listen.
  17. JoeBrady
    He's not: he's regressed. IMO, they should write him off for the full year and keep him in AAA. Keep him in one spot for the entire year, and work on building his strength. It was a reasonable gamble that he could handle MLB pitching given his AAA stats and development, but it didn't work. Need to start over.
  18. JoeBrady
    I was a little surprised by his lack of athletic instinct for a guy that's a pretty good athlete.
  19. JoeBrady
    It's been like this on the internet for a 100 years. And not just the RS. For fans that don't like the GM, for any team, every good move is attributable to luck or the owner over-ruling the GM.
  20. JoeBrady
    That's why I didn't address 2025. He had one legit injury, so I don't know if he was dogging it. And the house getting broken into could've affected him. I'm prone towards overlooking things if they are one-time issues.
  21. JoeBrady
    That's always been a pet peeve of mine. There is a risk with every player, and context is king. Prospects flame out more than vets do, but at a far lower cost. But highly ranked prospects flame out less often. Just like 28 year old free agents flame out less often than 32 year old free agents. Both prospects and veterans can be good or bad risks. The talent is predicting one from the other.
  22. JoeBrady
    Too lazy for a deep dive, but he averaged 141 games from 2022-24. Weak, but not terrible.
  23. JoeBrady
    Raffy was finished at 3rd. Whether they signed Bregman or not made no difference. I kind of look at Bregman as the bridge to Mayer. The issue with Casas injury could not have been predicted.
  24. JoeBrady
    Everyone loves Moon, but Buehler-Oviedo?
  25. JoeBrady
    That to me is the much more interesting question than which $25M FA we should sign. Almost every minor league player of the year has gone onto successful careers, and many have had very successful careers. The past 15 years have included: Trout Buxton Bryant Snell Acuna Vlad Witt Gunnar Holliday Campbell I entered the off-season thinking he should be trade bait, but the company he keeps is very exclusive.
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