discussed this on the podcast this week but the issue is more that you’re signing said player—who for all of those reasons you basically cannot ever bench or cut—years past where he projects to be a player you actually want to play regularly

his agent has thrown out comps positing in the range of more than double this so far

thought the Alonso discussion in here was the best distillation yet of an extremely complex situation

Well that was the big defensive play that always happens during these

Rays immediately up there with Nats and Padres for best City Connects

Did Contreras forget the game was happening

9 whiffs and 9 hard hit BIP converting to 8 IP, 1 R is so funny

I wrote this about De La Cruz about two years ago and well score one for the eye test baseballprospectus.com/prospects/arti…

the two huge day 2 immediate pitching breakouts being George Klassen and Quinn Mathews is a real testament to the gap between college and pro pitching dev in certain places

it’s a beautiful day to save baseball games

there are less good pitchers

Jarrett Seidler Sending down was the correct decision

Those swing metrics 😖

Holliday’s underlying swing level numbers have been *so* bad that even after 10 games I think this is totally reasonable. Leaving him up to get nuked while he can’t get around on fastballs in the zone is going to lead to actual regression

not looking it up but I’m like 96 percent sure Bo Nix played with Cadillac Williams and Ronnie Brown at Auburn