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I think you meant to say, it's a fine 9th inning battery, after we're getting blown out and we put one of these guys in to pitch.

Agree. White wouldn't even be picked first in a church league softball draft right now. I think from the point of view of the Braves, Stassi will be worth more than the net $4.5 million they are paying for this whole deal.

Yeah it's weird, there's no real big money saved either way, and the guy owed the most is the worst player (White). I think I got the buyouts wrong, here's the numbers B-R has. White, $17m thru 2026. '24 $7m, '25 $8m, '26 $2m buyout Fletch: $14m thru 2026, '24 $6m, '25 $6.5m, '26 $1.5m buyout Stassi: $7.5m thru 2025, '24 $7m, '25 $0.5m buyout Angels on the hook for $17m Braves on the hook for $21.5m We net $4.5m plus a controllable 27 year old RH pitcher

White is owed $19 million. Fletch is owed $15.5 million. Max Stassi is owed $7.5 million. This minor league right hander we're getting is a 27 year old still bouncing between AA and AAA. What is going on with this trade?

Envious of the photoshop skills here. This is an art form. Beautiful.

Hmm. He might like this idea. Can be decline free agency? Have the Angels considered just offering him arbitration again?

Good point. How likely is an in person appearance by the player at the first press conference before the medical exam?

See, I told ya the "mystery team" was the Barstow Aztecs!

Yep. I've haven't binge-eaten this much popcorn since crude oil futures went to negative $37 a barrel back in April 2020.

Let me be the first to say...man, it's gonna be nice to go back to a 5 man rotation.

Live shot of the reporter at the airport:

I don't know, Shohei's plane the mystery plane doesn't land for another 45 minutes or so.

Oh, I just realized there's no Del Taco in Toronto, so that makes me 99% sure the Blue Jays are out. That means it's down to: 1. Angels, 2. Dodgers, 3. Barstow Aztecs I just hope the Blue Jays don't take Shohei to Alexandros in Toronto. If they did, Shohei will sign there. We can't compete with their chicken and pork combo gyro.

Tommy John

110%

Eh, Cimber is a little too close to Cinder, anything too closely related to fire for a reliever is bad juju. Hard pass.

We signed Kole Calhoun and Dallas McPherson? Who necro-bumped the 2010 hot stove thread?

My dyslexia is getting worse. I first read that as he "lobsters" the bellpun.

Or worse yet, Perry is confused about which one. And we just wildly overpaid for the guy who opened bullpen door for the Charros de Jalisco last year.

Yep, we're saving up our lottery luck for next year! Dad's only 43 and still a horse, so I'm picking him before I hit play.

Wow, I have to admit, I would pay good money to watch monkey jockey dog racing.

Meanwhile, do not play poker against this man.

Mental note: next time Dave Roberts invites me to his home poker game, accept the invitation.

Vernon Wells playing the part of the turd in the punch bowl. Again.