Ben Rice 392 plate appearances .804 ops, 2.0 fWar 363rd overall pick #1 overall picks Jackson Holliday & Adley Rutschman combined 835 plate appearances .688 ops, 2.0 fWar Baltimore Orioles

the brewers, a small market team that doesn't spend & trades their best players before FA, have a .565 winning percentage & one season below 86 wins in the last 9 years precisely because they're one of the most analytically inclined teams in the league stop this nonsense

yeah it's definitely because they don't practice hitting groundballs to short anymore and not because every pitcher throws 102 with a sweeper that moves three feet

we got AI generated players like "Victor Vodnik" and "Edgardo Henríquez" throwing 101-104 and your boomer uncle still wants to know why guys strike out more today

Wheeler on Ethan Belchetz (2026) "..has NHL teams drooling over his hulking frame & good skill" a physically imposing great shooting winger, he has the profile of a true classic power forward & if he can improve his skating a little bit he could be a star may end up in the top 5

guy who wants a career .265/.302/.458 bad defensive catcher in the Hall of Fame says we should be scandalized that a good defensive catcher with damn near 60 homers could win an MVP

let's bring back the dead ball era, and double pitcher injuries, and change the game more than it has in a century, cause i'm mad guys don't hit enough weak groundouts to shortstop!

#11 in your program #1 in our hearts the legend that is Brett Gardner

this was never confirmed & added perks like this officially are supposed to count towards the luxury tax so it should be able to be confirmed fairly easily

This isn't talked about, for some reason, but Ben Rice is basically Lou Gherig on offense and Mark Teixeira on defense

find someone who loves you as much as Joe Girardi hates cutters

two things can be true at the same time - Cody Bellinger has been an absolute godsend for the Yankees & we're thankful for that - Kyle Tucker is a significantly better player than Cody Bellinger, & a much better long term investment even at a much higher price not complicated

"RBI" in 2025

Ondrej Palat

he has an 1000 ops at this point i'd honestly rather put him out there and tell him to literally not even move at all and that would still be better than benching him

dax kilby is gonna be like if luis arraez had power and could play defense

this is the dumbest fucking argument that literally gets proven wrong every single year and somehow people still bring it up homeruns win playoff games if you want to win a world series you gotta put baseballs in the seats

yep that's going to be Tommy John shortly

Giancarlo had (basically) four days off and then went nuclear when he's locked in he's locked in, it's not about "rhythm" it's about his approach and how he's seeing the ball way more important to keep him healthy & caballero isn't going to be hitting homers every game