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  1. mul21
    This is what I was thinking as well, especially when you factor in the incentive for starts being at 15 to unlock the additional $10 million for 2026. There has to be something in the medicals making teams hesitant.
  2. mul21
    Not to mention the fact that if they do stay under the CBT number this year, they'd be back to a first time offender again in 2026 with a ton of money coming off in 2027 to get back under again. There's almost no reason to think budget will be the issue when it comes to re-signing those guys. Contract length, yeah, probably something to be concerned about, especially if Jed is still around.
  3. mul21
    Cots has them at $198M, so probably somewhere in the neighborhood of $30-33M left to spend to stay $10M under for deadline additions.
  4. mul21
    This has to be satire right? Between citing batting average and misspelling multiple player's names, I can't begin to take any of this seriously. 1908 already knocked this out of the park bullet by bullet, so I won't waste anyone's time doing it too, but you're conveniently leaving out A LOT of nuance in every single one of these thoughts, not to mention the inaccuracy.
  5. mul21
    There are a ton of things that could change in the next CBA (salary cap or floor, how deferrals work, when FA happens, etc.) and not being tied to a bunch of existing contracts is desirable for management because then you can flex the muscle of the new CBA on players. It's smart business management and extra ****** human behavior.
  6. mul21
    He explicitly called out having mechanical issues as the reason for the struggles last year, so that's likely tied to the velocity loss.
  7. mul21
    He was just on the Score and said he'd been working with someone this offseason and has it 99% solved. Seems encouraging to me and Hottovy has instilled enough confidence that I feel good about him fixing the rest of it.
  8. mul21
    Sexy Rexy Ryan. Although he wanted the Jets job and may not actually be interested.
  9. mul21
    Nah, he was banged up constantly here and that wasn't going to change as he aged. I think it was just inevitable that so much torque from his swing on that body type and the day to day dings anybody gets playing 3B were always going to add up and cause him problems.
  10. mul21
    Man, those numbers Carlson has against LHP are a lot better than I was expecting. Career .792 OPS and he's 6'2". I bet you could get him cheap and use him as a handcuff/injury insurance for CF and 1B. I'd be into that.
  11. mul21
    They wanted to do things but Contreras and Gray deciding they were going to stick to their NTCs, Arenado rejecting the trade to Houston and the rest of the 3B market developing slowly because of Bregman really screwed them. The TV money issue is a huge problem for them too and when you combine that with attendance cratering last year (they sold tickets, but nobody was there to buy beer) and probably not seeing an uptick this year, their ownership is really clutching pearls about spending anything. I think it's less succession plan than all the other external factors.
  12. mul21
    Greg Maddux was top 10 in strikeouts 7 times in his career. Please stop making things up about him not throwing hard or having great stuff. His last few years at diminished velocity were not who he was most of his career.
  13. mul21
    What? Are you just saying via trade? Because it sounds like the conversation with Robertson is decently far down the road.
  14. mul21
    I read it and you're both wrong and missing the forest for the trees. Nobody is arguing that teams don't pay more for sexy offensive numbers than they do for great defense and are also conceding that there is absolutely a limit to the amount of value that can be derived from defense. The argument is that a WAR is a WAR, not whether or not you can achieve the same peak WAR on offense as you can on defense. A player having the best offensive season in history may be able to put up 10 WAR on offense and the best defensive season in history may be 5 WAR, but those first 5 WAR are equivalent or they wouldn't be statistically valued the same.
  15. mul21
    So you're trying to tell me that a guy robbing a home run and thereby "saving" a run isn't the same as a guy hitting a solo homer? That's some, uh, interesting logic there.
  16. mul21
    Agreed on number one, but we have explicit evidence of number 2 from the Cubs convention last weekend. "we're just trying to break eve" is the biggest load of horsefeathers I've ever heard when we all know that they're bringing in massive amounts of revenue related to owning the Cubs even if that money isn't directly being made off the team itself.
  17. mul21
    I'd agree with you in most cases, but when you have 3 NFL WRs on the other team that are all going to be in single coverage it's just too much of a risk. Send an extra guy to make him throw it sooner than he wants to and have a shell ready to tackle anyone before they get to the sticks.
  18. mul21
    I'm still baffled by the all out blitz and zero coverage on the 3rd and 11 that ended the game. I get sending an extra guy but to leave the DBs on an island against that set of WRs just seems like a no win situation to me.
  19. mul21
    I'll disagree on the PI call being bad, but mostly because the DB initiated contact and then held on. The receiver definitely pushes off at the end, but that never happens if the DB isn't hanging onto his arms for the last 10 yards of the route.
  20. mul21
    The 4th foul on KJ was maybe the worst foul call I've ever seen. My biggest gripe (and you touched on it) was the half dozen whistles that happened well after whatever they were calling happened and they just waited for the outcome to see if they were going to call anything. And these were calls that went both ways, specifically a couple where the shot wasn't made and all of a sudden it's a foul and I guarantee had the ball gone in there wouldn't have been a whistle. By far one of the worst officiated games I've ever seen.
  21. mul21
    Dansby was just on the Score a little while ago and said he had a sports hernia repaired this offseason. When he was asked when he got hurt, the response was, get this, sometime in the middle of the 2023 season. He was somehow allowed to go through last offseason with this and just do some rehab instead of getting it fixed and it was obviously an issue throughout the entire 2024 season.
  22. mul21
    Do you not look at other parts of the site? You keep posting things in here that are being talked about elsewhere long after they've been discussed.
  23. mul21
    Yeah, but functionally, Joc had a $4.5 million salary with a $2.5 million buyout which would have been paid after the 2021 season. The $8 million Schwarber was projected to get would have all been payable during the 2021 season, so there was a $3.5 million difference in that season's payroll. It's still utter horsefeathers that they went that route, but it was more than $1 million.
  24. mul21
    That was exactly what came to mind right away. A lot of an Expos vibe IMO.
  25. mul21
    I would bet the Commanders hard if I hadn't seen young QBs suddenly turn into pumpkins in the playoffs so many times after looking terrific the week before. I love that Texans line and will probably hit that hard. The Chiefs have wiggled out of so many losses this year I just don't think their luck can possibly hold through the postseason and while I like the Bills out of the AFC, I think the winner of the Bills/Ravens game is going to the Super Bowl.
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