Baseball this year is super tight. I may have access to a sim engine, and if you run the season 1000 times, you have 2/3 of the league could win 100+ games. ATL and LAD are basically the only locks to make the playoffs - the next best team after that is like 80%. I actually have the Jays win the...
I mean, the fact that they punted Espinal and Schneider is still a lock to make the team is giving him a lot of rope. If not for his potential and his hot start last year, he'd be nowhere close to the roster right now and would be back in AAA.
The biggest question right now on the roster is...
Jays need to figure out the 4th OF spot. The IF can be pieced together, and if someone like Clement comes in and steals Espinal's spot, all the better.
Guys like Votto I always find a bit weird how to handle. Like, on the one hand, giving him a few games, letting him play for the hometown team, and at least letting him retire on his own terms is great. but on the other hand, I kind of feel that a guy who does play his whole career for one team...
As we had in the discussion before, any option is going to feel right and wrong, just because they are pretty unique scenarios. And even if we had this before for Bauer, he's technically cleared to return now, so like at some level it feels like he should protected or not right now. But at the...
Yeah, like I think you stomach the IKF decision a lot better if Chapman locks in for like a 4 year deal.
Still a chance that Chapman's deal doesn't work out, but it's only 3 years and drops in value. Odds are he'll opt out as long as he doesn't get hurt, but that's not even a bad thing. It's...
Just trying to hype them up and hope someone bit. It worked for Ohtani. But Chapman and Belli (and soon to be Snell and Montgomery) are not exactly "can't miss" options. I wonder if they would have been better to go the other route, leak that Chapman was thinking about signing a 3/60 deal...
The keys for the Jays this year:
-Can we get bounce-backs from Vlad, Kirk, and Manoah? All 3 showed All-Star/MVP potentials in the past, and the 3 combined to be terrible last year. If all 3 bounced back, that alone could be like a 10 win swing
-Can we get a mini-rebound for guys like Springer...
I'm kind of surprised the Republicans don't go all "Hey, the Democrats are in power and IVF is getting banned. Why do you even bother voting for them?"
Bellinger back to the Cubs 3/80 with opt-outs every year.
Guess he didn't get his 6 year deal. That's one I don't think I would mind. At least the term won't kill you like the 150 or 200m demand initially reported on him was.