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Without details, this is a solid depth move.

Last I knew the Twins offer was like $280m.

we are now on two of the biggest spending teams in baseball who seem to feel that this is a pretty real risk.

$30 million a year in dead spending would be disastrous to Minnesota.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/06/yankees-eye-pirates-bryan-reynolds-amid-unrealistic-asks/

Not to mention, insurance cost is tied to risk. A policy like this is probably insanely expensive anyway, even if it was insurable. The quants who do those things for a living are really good at making sure the insurance companies come out ahead on everything in the long run.

It is nice to move on.

Invite to spring training I could get with. He at least has had some success in recent years. I think the physical would be key here. If he really is physically unable, that probably excludes him.

And unfortunately it is a complete lack of transparency and honest that leave people with educated guesses and speculation. Of course local media could ask a hard question, but that won't happen.

With the circumstances around his departure, there is WAY more to the story than is being told. What we know adds up very cleanly to something bigger than we know.

No one has any problem with positional versatility. But in specifically Eloy's case, we have seen him injure himself multiple times playing defense. It is not an overreaction to that exact history to want him out there as absolutely little as possible so as to keep him healthy as a hitter. Also there is no problem at all with any other player on the roster playing in other positions which their skillsets allow them to learn and play to a level that doesn't hurt the team when they play that position. There should be some common sense built into that idea. Sticking horrible players in a position to fail and excusing it as "positional versatility" is just another way to excuse stupid decision making.

I really, really think the truth is imbedded in this statement more than we will know for a while. I don't think it is as much "health" as a concept versus him not being able to exist in a healthy state in this job. Read into that what you will.

RBIs have no part of OPS. HR does in a secondary way of SLG and OBP.

Free to a good home.

Let's play the game of Gavin Sheets or Eric Hosmer? .241/.295/.411/.706 .268/.334/.382/.716 This signing is the definition of low risk no reward.

Is Tony back?

Hopefully the Sox are one of the two other teams.

Their "problem" is they aren't chasing after the 12 and 13 year olds illegally like some organizations are. By the time the Sox are scouting kids, many are already locked up, not leaving much in the way of options. The problem is the Sox are "legitimate", it is a group of teams who flout the rules who aren't. You can argue whether the Sox should be in the sandbox with them or not, but that is what the system is right now. As was said in the previously quoted fangraphs article, there are $3 million commitments in the classes of 2025 and 2026. Those kids are 13 and 14 right now.

Any big guys from Cuba still to be cleared?

I mean if the choice is Eloy in RF or ride or die with a completely green rookie in RF, count me in as #TeamColas

Especially after fucking up the end of the Cavs game.