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Most teams don't have a below replacement level player between 3 and 5 years of service time on an albatross contract that they're fine getting rid of in April. Teams keep their 40 man full to protect guys from the Rule 5 draft and they don't want to expose someone to waivers if they don't have to.

Yeah, I can read the title of this thread. Others think it means there's an immediate corresponding move which isn't necessarily the case.

Might as well outright him now and see if someone will save Arte $20 million. Hope he figures it out, but we have a roster spot when we need it. I'm sure something will come up. It doesn't make sense for a catcher since DFAing Thaiss would be the corresponding move. Warren or Joyce eventually would not surprise me. Might need to call up a BP arm next week.

I’d be interested in their 3B playing SS for us this season.

12 years/$500 million

Pretty much all players are removed in the middle of spring training games. Was he removed in the middle of an inning?

It’s fine. We have Lorenzen to play OF too.

It’s just covid

If he’s anything like me, it’s the Shell across the street from Hooter’s to buy a pack of cigarettes before heading to Fritz’s, but that routine, sadly, will need to change

Those rules don’t apply to away teams.

Sounds like Mayer’s mentality when he was trying to nibble the corners against Shed Long…

Today is a great day, first Safemoon, now this.

All they needed to do was spend 20% more than the 2nd highest payroll in baseball.

Lot of people in here missed that Garlick has been vaccinated.

Hard to grade him now but I’m not really sure what he would have needed to do to get an A+ grade from some people. I think it’s disingenuous to give any grades if an A was impossible to achieve (and save an A+ for pulling a fast one on another GM like the Blue Jays trading Vernon Wells for Mike Napoli without eating money) He didn’t petition the commissioner to make the Angels exempt from the luxury tax and he didn’t convince Pujols to retire. Bauer signed for too much and the aces that ended up getting traded would have completely obliterated our farm system. Was he supposed to convince them to take less money and lesser packages? The Iglesias’ acquisitions look like bright spots that don’t hamper the future but the pitching, especially the bullpen, was still lacking. He really turned it around in the past week by adding 5 bullpen arms. We really just need 2 to be above average. I’d like a better RF than Fowler but with Adell, Marsh, and Adams knocking on the door, we can’t really do anything besides a stopgap for now. Ozuna, Brantley, or Pederson wouldn’t have been much better. The biggest negative I can see is potentially not extending Bundy or tying up Quintana beyond this year. What I like the most is that there is decent depth between the 26 man roster and the alternate site. Bullpens usually rely on guys having a good year so the extra arms give a better chance at having a good bullpen this season. I know that’s the Eppler strategy that didn’t work but at least we aren’t using the strategy of reclamation projects with high spin and velocity dips that ended up being a sign their elbows were going to explode. Perry really needs the opportunity to go through a draft and international signing period to add to the farm. We had some good drafts in the last few years but a lot of talent is in the low minors. Without a season last year, we missed the chance for them to build their value which hurts the overall rating. It would be dumb to trade away those guys when they’re only going to get more valuable. I’m probably too optimistic but I’m not sure what he really could have done better without tying up too much money or trading away too many prospects.

Ohtani going on Sunday Night Baseball

Doubt it.

I've read some ideas that teams will not have a full 60 player pool to start off with so they have room to add players without having to release anyone and subjecting them to waivers. It would also let you basically trade anyone because you could add someone to the 60 man at any time. Any idea if teams are planning on doing this? I suppose we'll find out tomorrow.

The answer to #2 depends on #1 except then Adell would start in CF. Would not surprise me for Detmers to be training with the practice squad and get a chance to make the team if/when injuries happen. #4 and #5 would probably be answered by #6. Makes sense to have a 6 man and not overwork anyone. Teams with a true Ace might go with a 4 man rotation to get their studs as many starts as possible. #7 depends on what happens during "spring" training. Probably carry more pitchers and not let starters go too deep. #8 Maddon will do what needs to do to win. #9 I can see teams that aren't looking to compete shed payroll. Maybe the Tigers look to move Boyd or the Rockies move Jon Gray. #10 really depends on who is in and who is out. Answer goes back to teams shedding payroll if they are out of it. Teams also might just hold at that point for the comp pick.

The players have no incentive to agree to a deal unless they get paid more than the amount they'd get from a 48 game season and full-prorated salary. The 72 game @ 70% guaranteed pays them approximately 48-49 games worth so why would the players agree to play 24 more games for 1 game more salary? It would also come with expanded playoffs which would primarily benefit the owners. I was originally on the owners side because I just wanted baseball back but with the 48 game baseline, I support the players because the owners have not made any effort to improve the money the players would get in any of their proposals. They are negotiating in bad faith because they have not come off of their original position at all.

He played 159 games as a 23 year old and then played between 145-154 for the next 7 seasons before playing 63 last year. It would be unrealistic to think he’d play 162 in his age 32 season. It’s less than a day off every 2 weeks. For a guy with 2 PRP injections within the last 18 months, him playing 150-155 would be great. Letting a combination of Fletcher, La Stella, Goodwin, Rengifo, and Adell play 12 more games so Upton stays fresh and healthy (as a 32 year old) isn’t going to ruin the season.

Thanks for providing the data I’d been looking for. I agree that we’ll be able to get more starts from our better pitchers this season but you still only have 162 games to amass those innings. We have a plethora of guys who will be able to contribute quality innings. There were 5 AL teams in the top 15 and 9 AL teams in the bottom 10. Bundy and Teheran averaged 5 1/3 IP per start last season so I’m not sure who we’re getting 7 inning starts from to boost the average. i think we have good pitching depth and we should be able to get a lot of starts from the top 8 guys we have but to boost the IP, starters have to go deeper in games, it’s not necessarily a bad thing but we don’t have guys that are going to throw 7 innings each start. Last season, we had issues getting starts out of the guys we had because there were constant injuries. This year, I think, we’ll have the starts covered but the biggest area to improve from the rotation will be having them pitch deeper into games.

Only two teams had more IP from their starters last season, the Nationals and Mets. Here’s the top 5: 1. Mets 941.1 2. Nationals 938.2 3. Indians 930.1 4. Astros 907.1 5. Dodgers 893.2 6-11 were between 880 and 890. The Angels were dead last 20 innings behind the Rays at 680. It should probably be amended based on how often we used an opener last season (I’ve wanted to go back and see how many innings that would add to our “starters” but haven’t been bored enough to check). Getting up to 880 would be huge to help take pressure off the bullpen. The Giants were 16 at 849 IP so I think getting to 850 would be a good realistic goal.

So he won’t be up for the first 5 games