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That would be great.

Counterpoint - he's basically free!

edit: what I wrote here was, in fact, completely wrong.

Red Sox DFA Swihart

File this under "pretty cool" to start the year and super small sample size Anderson talked in spring training about how he had worked a lot on staying back. I thought that would show through in helping in breaking stuff, but...not really. Offspeed stuff however...he's like destroying. Last year Tim Anderson saw 7.5% of his pitches as off-speed pitches (changeup, splitter, fork, screwball). He whiffed on 34% of his swings, and when it came on two strikes, he struck out 32% of the time. Both of these were comparable to his results with sliders. This year? Tim has seen 18 offspeed pitches so far, and he hasn't missed any of them that he's swung at. His 90.5 exit velocity is the highest for any of EVs across pitches during his career. In 8 PAs he's had 5 hits, 2 doubles and a home run. So that's nice. On fastballs its a similar story but less successful. He is making more contact against them (16.5% whiff rate compared to 21.5% last year), and hitting them harder (89.2 vs 87 in 2018). The regression is easy to see on sliders. He has not hit them hard, and has not hit them in the air, but has a .381 BA / .581 slugging with them this year. He swings and misses against them more often. And most weird! His launch angles have changed for the offspeed/breaking pitches. Where they were pretty typically 10/11/10, they are now 9/2/3. He is hitting worm burners on non-fastballs, but at least with changeups he's hitting the crap out of them. Tim anderson! More contact, more barrels, less launch angle. Gonna be fun to see what happens! https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/tim-anderson-641313?stats=statcast-r-hitting-mlb

Bulls are not one back court piece from having their back court figured out.

Props to sixers for dominating comeback, but boy I love watching Brooklyn play anyway. Clips too. But for me I'm just waiting around for when Milwaukee has their first real series tos ee what happens. Kinda bummed at how TOR has played so far.

Honestly I don't think it matters.

Maybe in that the arb $ going to relievers who had already been a closer makes them pretty much market value.

To get a top 100 guy for a bullpen arm, my belief is the contending team will need to buy into the reliever being so dominant they will be the guy they hand the ball to in the ninth of the playoffs. Colome and Herrerra are both good but they would very likely be middle relievers on any contending team, and will return similar. Unless maybe there is a very bad run of injuries and they get lucky.

And people will claim this is revisionist but many pointed it out at the time. Rutherford had developed no power, and seemed to be a classic case of older high school prospect who may have been overrated due to a more mature body. That said with the exception of Florial the yankee prospects that were traded out that summer have busted, though one largely because of the white sox power box. What was that fake ken rosenthal deal? Florial, Mateo, Adams? I was through the moon for that. Cashman man. If he's trading you a prospect that prospect probably sucks.

He's been traded twice including once at the deadline. He has less control and is 30 now. Why would he suddenly be worth way more? He'll need to hit the kind of dominance he only achieved once in his career. I hope it happens.

He's working on his offspeed/breaking stuff and that seems like worthwhile development in the minors. I think he'll be up in like mid july.

I dislike this trade regardless of whether colome plays well. I didn't dislike it because colome is bad, I disliked it because the amount of money he was getting in arb and relatively short term control made acquiring a similar player in free agency pretty comparable without giving up narvaez. I'd rather have traded/released Castillo, rolled with Narvaez and a player like Jeff Mathis as the defensive catcher, and laid the ground for Seby this year. Apparently some want to flex on it because Colome has pitched well (he is a good pitcher), but it's the process I didn't like. Now, certainly could pan out if he keeps it up and is a truly elite deadline piece with a year of control. But considering he's been traded twice with fairly meh returns, I'm not optimistic.

Dang woke up and saw Kanny actually scored some runs but in the least interesting way possible ha.

Same infield dimension as everywhere ha

Tilson and Cordell both hitting well in Charlotte.

If only someone had done this work for you all.

Just incredible scouting signing Santana and then being so ecstatic to get him in the rotation immediately.

I honestly don't find them that different except because of flexibility OF often includes some higher ceiling FA than 2b typically will. Probably your ideal RF (ish) FA last year would hav been Brantley who got 16mm, vs. Lemahieu who got 12. Then you have a bunch more older 2b that are probably more certain to be around slightly below average than the same quantity that was available last year. But there's also just playing Curtis Granderson in RF on a minor league deal option and hope.

Why? He wouldn't be "blocking" Moncada. Moncada would be the 2b if he had signed, and we'd just have a great infield and would need to find a RF. Had Harper signed, we'd have Moncada at 3b and would need to find a 2b. We theoretically have either prospects that can replace both, or are dealing with positions that are typically affordable on the marketplace. So it didn't matter, and getting an elite player was more important. But Machado's plus defense would be nice.

Yeah it went from "oh no there's a fire at Notre Dame" to "holy sh*t Notre Dame is going to be completely destroyed" in like 15 minutes. Really sad.

They are solid top ten. I dont understand how you mark someone as a "poor start" for getting injured, but adolfo has been on top 100 prospect lists. I don't understand why it's so obvious that we should bank on Madrigal but so foolish that we could bank on one of four outfield prospects to provide production in the corner outfield. Your reasons why Harper was the superior fit has two ifs on it. But Harper >>> any of the OFers we will put up, and Machado >>>> Madrigal so I guess it didn't really matter anyway.

It's true, but I really have a hard time just accepting that every 2-3 years he reverts to being a complete disaster that has to be rebuilt.

I'm all for Cordell getting his shot, as if Palka doesn't get a hit today it's almost sadistic to keep him out there. I'm just really disappointed in Cordells year last year and not sure it means he'll be that good offensively. But when we are getting so little defensively and literally nothing offensively from Palka, it's absolutely the point to make the change. But I'm also at the point where Engel should be CF and Leury RF regardless, sadly for offensive reasons.