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  1. Like what was said yesterday, this is kind of the no mans land of Spring Training. The initial excitement has worn off and won't pick back up until the Opening Day roster really starts to take shape.
  2. In a way, it's pretty impressive that how we've gone from Snell/Boras wanting an unrealistically long and expensive contract (IIRC 9/270) to now wanting ~$30M to pitch less than a full season and try FA again. In the midst of all this there's been almost nothing on Montgomery who put together a great season last year, including a solid postseason. At a certain point you just have to wonder when the player steps in and tells Boras to just get a deal done so they can start playing.
  3. This really isn't surprising. Thaiss started catching at a profession level only two years ago and Wallach is a career AAAA catcher. Pretty sure O'Hoppe's abilities behind the plate have always been his strong suit since being drafted so him handling the pitching staff better isn't much of a surprise.
  4. I know some teams (Baltimore and TB off the top of my head) have adopted a philosophy of having the catcher just set up middle of the plate and lets the pitcher rely on his stuff. I'm hesitant to believe this is an issue since by the time the catcher is set up I don't see how a batter could get that info and adjust his approach fast enough to account for it. Reminds me how you get some little league teams where if someone is on second they try to signal to the batter where the catcher is setting up. This is pretty different from the trash can since they would bang it well before the pitcher started his motion.
  5. Could send Detmers down to AAA to work on things similar to last year. Rosters expand on the 1st so that could give him 3 starts in AAA and then the team can reevaluate his role for that final month. Reminds me a lot of Heaney. Heaney could be cruising for 3 or 4 innings and look completely unhittable and then one bad walk or home run and suddenly the wheels come off. Have to wonder how much of it is mental
  6. Calling it now, Cleveland is going to be the first team named after a sponsor. The Cleveland Progressive Insurance.
  7. Could you elaborate on this? Are you saying that the players didn't like the use of openers or are you against the use of openers? Teams like the Rays, Yankees, and Dodgers have used the opener with success so its not some fringe theory. Though I'd agree that you have to have a good bullpen to make it work.
  8. Wish more people were able to understand this rather than just blaming bad luck every year.
  9. Fletcher batted .307 when batting lead off last year. I can easily see him hitting over .300 again over a full year.
  10. I feel the stigma of voting for the guy on a non-playoff team isn't nearly as prevalent as it was just a few years ago. The biggest thing that'll hurt him is missing those last few weeks of the season while Bregman was on fire. Since voting takes place just before the postseason that would have been fresh in their minds.
  11. I honestly doubt that they'll go after the players since then it would involve the Player's Union. I could definitely seeing them disciplining coaching staff, front office personnel though along with forfeiting draft picks and international spending money.
  12. If the Angels ended up getting one of Odorizzi/Wheeler/Strasburg and one of Gibson/Hamels/Keuchel I would be okay on missing out on Cole. I don't like Bumgarner's home away splits to justify the money he'll command and Ryu's injury is worrisome considering how many injuries the pitching staff has experienced. Strasburg is more worth the risk since he's much more productive despite the injury concerns.
  13. I feel like then teams would just wait til near the deadline. Players would accept less money in fear of missing the season.
  14. Really pushing for the Nats. Would be awesome to have another all wildcard World Series between the Rays and Nationals.
  15. Completely agree. It's not very often you get a guy at Cole's level in free agency, the closest comparable is probably Scherzer back in 2015. The past 4 years Eppler has been building the farm and signing stop gaps, eventually risks have to be taken and the front office needs to go into win now mode while the best player in baseball is in his prime.
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