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Weird. I saw a report just today that said they would consider making those guys available. Not for Robert, specifically, but more generally, to fill holes.

People mock the notion of Getz focusing on an orderly clubhouse like it's a waste of brain cells, or not needed because that one team who won, none of the players liked each other.

The Giants just signed Sergio Santos. Maybe he's their reclamation project.

They should slip all these guys a couple of hundred and have them send back scouting reports on everybody. Asia covered.

“Shipping Brandon Nimmo to Texas created so much attention around the opening in left field that it's easy to forget that the Mets have needed a legitimate starting center fielder for over a year now…Sure, he could always just throw Steve Cohen's money at Kyle Tucker. If that's off the table, though, why not Robert? There really isn't anyone else available (aside from Tucker) with his upside, and his excellent defense in center would allow Benge to shine in a corner and give New York quality gloves alongside Juan Soto. Plus, the Mets have exactly the pitching depth that Chicago reportedly covets,” Landers wrote. yahoosports.com Except they won't trade Teng or Sproat for Robert even if the White Sox wrote a $20 million check...

Michael Baumann evaluates what kind of player McNeil still is and how he fits in the Athletics lineup as McNeil as the “Metsodous” continues. (Damn. I wish I’d thought of that word first.) Ken Rosenthal looks at where the Mets go next and how a toxic clubhouse seems to be driving these moves. (The Athletic sub. req.) Plus other MLB notes. “What they’ve done tells you how big a s— show their clubhouse was,” said one rival executive who was granted anonymity for his candor. “The guessing is over. It was a disaster.” Anthony DiComo writes about where the Mets might go from here. Lex Pryor writes that the Mets are seemingly adrift without a plan at the moment. Mets currently searching for someone better than Mark Vientos...Bregman or Okamoto fit here, maybe Willi Castro or Luis Rengifo? Moncada nah. Also, Stearns is going to have to assess the impacts positively and negatively of adding Robert Jr., into that mix with both Soto and Lindor at odds.

Everyone pretty much knew Danks was completely shot after that injury. Benintendi can still play everyday, just not that well. And the White Sox didn't have significant debt back then, either. (Leury Hendriks Keuchel all parts of that debt picture.)

He's really the only speedy player the Sox have after Robert. (Not going to count Hill yet.)

There’s been a few exceptions other than Leury. Keppinger and Danks come immediately to mind, but there’s others I know I’m not mentioning.

I agree with this. If he could lay off high heat that would go a long way as well.

"Joe Kelly will no longer be a big league pitcher, but don’t call him retired. That’s what he implied when speaking on Baseball Isn’t Boring podcast, and stated that the title of retired doesn’t sit right when discussing the end of an active playing career. Retiring is something my grandmother did. That’s so disrespectful. I’m sorry to all you out there watching that work real jobs— you guys deserve to retire— but athletes don’t. We just stop f****** playing. It’s used for people who served in the military, it’s used for people who work until they’re 65.“ yahoosports.com

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/nationals-agree-contract-ex-cubs-183629949.html Matt Mervis to Nats (hometown team) https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/all-star-slugger-urged-to-ditch-braves-for-guardians-after-6-seasons-in-atlanta-11268681 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/3-mlb-free-agents-new-york-yankees-should-target-amid-slow-offseason Yankees targets lol? Murakami Bellinger Kopech The only reporting on Kopech recently is a SFG interest...have already dealt with a similar pitcher in Hicks over there.

Closer money, for one year at least…

Mets sign Mike Baumann to split contract/terms undisclosed pending physical? "It would be quite a shock if Baumann landed a major league deal. The 30-year-old spent the 2025 season with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. He wasn’t exactly dominant over there. He tossed 15 innings at the top NPB level with a 4.20 earned run average and 11 innings in the minors with a 4.09 ERA.” Chris Getz will be all over him if he's later released AND AND AND Murakami really enjoyed him as a teammate. Would likely go to Charlotte as a depth piece/roster insurance.

The Fairbanks deal might very easily be worth $13.5 million. "Per Mark Feinsand of MLB.com, the deal includes a $1MM signing bonus and another $1MM in incentives based on appearances. Fairbanks will also receive a bonus of $500,000 if he is traded. The deal is pending a physical." Who was the reporter that had the Marlins offering in the mid teens first? And which reporter kept insisting it wouldn't be more than single digits? That turned out to be wholly inaccurate. Also: Tatsuya Imai is now at ten days and counting (next Friday) and right now nobody has a clue where either he or Okamoto are going. If he were to come down below $100 million....nah, JR hates pitching contracts over three years in length. Okamoto might be coming under 3/$50 million now as well. $40-45 million for 3 years sounds about right?

Forget it, he's rolling

4 When given a 5 point scale, it's very easy to give 3.5/5. Which counts as a positive at rottentomatoes, but not exactly a wholehearted endorsement. Kpop Demon Hunters is the best movie of the year. My students kept on pushing me to watch it and talking about it so much that I finally gave in and acquiesced. Train Dreams is pretty darned close to #1, and that has a lot of historicity to it, as well as the two fun Sisu movies. There's also the Chinese film Dead to Rights, about the Nanjing 1937 massacre, and Last Samurai Standing, which I think is the best 8 episode action show of the year. Finally, there's The Diplomat, which was recommended in the TV section, blew through three seasons in just two days.

JR usually believes in forcing players or coaches to perform until at least that final contract year hits. Unfortunately. Maybe Leury was the lone exception, but that was a tiny AAV in play there.

Is that a 4 or 5 star system? I thought I wasn't going to like Death by Lightening (and I wouldn't recommend to non-history buffs), but Matthew MacFayden as Guiteau grew on me.

At least $60-75 million of the debt is being paid off by Ishbia. Nobody knows the exact numbers, like they have put out there in Minnesota.

Dream on lol. He was willing to give an $8 million per year discount? Not even Carlos Rodriguez could pull that off...and they were pretty close apparently.

With Boras as his agent? For what terms? 5/$70 ???

The movies section has died and people are always looking for things to watch during the holidays.

One of my favorite articles is from Grantland and it boils down to "Mark Buehrle is so elite at defense and keeping batters on their toes that he succeeds." The Curious Case of Mark Buehrle