Transmogrified Tiger

This has been a whole lot of trade capital used on 2026/rentals. Hope they make it worth it.

Yes, this is not saying that Ballesteros and McGwire are prospects without flaws, but that they were used to get a reliever with a 2 month track record and a walk rate that is disqualifying to be a late inning stalwart. The team control does not matter because reliever performance is wildly unpredictable year to year.

If that's the deal(and I've seen Angels-side reporting of it) I'm struggling to think of a worse deal Jed has made, or really anything that's come close from a value perspective.

they don't draw well regardless, but there was a sizable rain delay tonight

Last year 42% of his PA were with runners on base, this year so far it's 68%, RISP is 27% last year and 40% this year. Might just be seeing less aggressive approaches because the consequences of him running into one are greater on average so far this year.

Yes, stabilization gets abused so much because that connection gets missed so often. Even when you finally get to 'this is meaningful' (stabilization), the gap between 'this is meaningful' and 'this is predictive' is often still really big!

Think about the motion you're making on that play, you're concentrating on catching the ball first and foremost. That throw, unlike say, the return bounce when you're dribbling a basketball, can get to you in a wide variety of locations and the runner could be sliding multiple ways which changes your tag target. That means there isn't a muscle memory that when you catch the ball you make this specific movement and that's a clean tag every time. You're taught(at least I was) to bring the ball to the base, the runner has to get there. At the MLB level it's not exactly that simple, but that's the general mechanic. You can see Swanson doing a version of this, but he came in a little low and the ground slowed the sweeping motion just enough for the runner to be safe. The other end of the spectrum is if you come in too high, a hand can sneak in under you.

Maybe ESPN lost/gave up radio for Sunday night baseball since they lost the TV rights

Feel like we collectively should be making a bigger deal that our new large adult son hit a ball about 715 feet last night

You'd think after the Cam Smith experience last year we'd learn our lesson about this particular brand of overreaction

Full No trade. In the practical sense it's for the first 3 years of the extension because he'd have 10/5 rights for the back half of the deal.

Next season per Rosenthal

Nico was 4th among qualified 2B in offensive value last year

Yes if you assume the Brewers will be better at filling 90% of the roster indefinitely then it will be difficult to overcome that. Also the Pirates seem fearsome if you focus on the best case scenario for their handful of pitchers and ignore that their offense looks extremely dire for the foreseeable future.