to be clear, this is a great offer in a vacuum - but it's not a vacuum (friedman_rational.FLAC) - between him, Burnes, Fried, these guys are aware they can get bigger total numbers if they hit FA a second time, but they want the damn years

I mean seriously, we're going to find out they offered him like 4/$160M

Mikey is going to put up generational "we tried" numbers this offseason

thank you for the context and the article - in general it seems like the transition to the MLB ball in AAA cuts down on spin rates - are teams confident that pitchers will recover their stuff with more reps?

the other thing I ought to point out is that those metrics in the article might be from AA/A+, not AAA - but you can see it's not that big a sample size

50% of Mounty PA he gets nailed by a called strike down or outside and he leans back and sticks his pelvis forward to protest / anyway he might benefit from a challenge or two but it doesn't help that he has Adam Jones syndrome and will go fishing with two strikes like his life depends on it

Can also assume starter scarcity means Cease gets $35M...

Cease $30M D Williams $15M Imai $25M

Remainder on whatever LHRP you can get

10,000 other people have said this, but they had him for 4 years! they didn't think Grayson would amount to more than ~3 fWAR in 4 years? on a team that was running out multiple corpses in the rotation last year? what??

This has ruined my week lmao

Trading for a one year RHH OF when they had Laureano effectively means going forward they like Bateman more than Grayson? Am I hearing that right?

There is so little upside to this trade that the best way this works out is if they QO him and draft a guy with a CB-B who becomes Grayson Rodriguez

average orioles relief prospect

1/$32M

Bradish putting up a 3-win season as the median also seems very bullish. I'm not saying it can't happen because if he throws like 2024/2025 over 140+ frames he gets there easily - but for a median projection, that's a great sign

184? he's never even hit 160 lol

Caminero?

what's the record for plate appearances after being washed?

And yet here is MLB adopting Stephen Miller’s rhetoric 😂😂