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This is a pretty great signing by the Giants. Sure, there’s risk, but SF prints money with that ballpark and it is max 2 years. The upside is a top 5 Cy Young guy. I certainly would rather pay Carlos 22 mil than give 16 to Kimbrel, but that’s me.

So, you're saying I have no shot of being a major league player?

Wow. I was about to come on and say May 1 first game June 1. Great minds think alike.

I just love seeing anyone in the batting cage. My brother and I were planning to see a game at Winston Salem this year anyway. Now I might move there.

If the owners refused to counter, met, and rallied together to make a big offer that would lead to the players also offering concessions and this was the best they could do, we may be in for a very long work stoppage. It would be hard to consider this anything other than incremental at best. I was hoping this would be a game changer, I am very disappointed. As far as the CBT is concerned, why should the players of every team suffer because certain markets aren’t viable (e.g. Tampa) or certain owners are wealthy beyond imagination but philosophically opposed to healthy payrolls (e.g. Oakland)? I fear that the owners are going to have a hard time negotiating with each other to make the kind of offer that will tempt the players to settle.

Listened to the podcast. Thanks, it was fun and informative.

I disagree. Small market teams wanna cut costs no matter what. Big market teams are gonna want to start the season.

It's really an interesting strategy to take a bunch of college players and then process them quickly. And I agree the results are not stellar. They have gotten players to the majors, but the impact is debatable. 2018 is an interesting class. They've traded Madrigal, Steele Walker, Pilkington, and Heuer. Lency Delgado busted. Arguably they could still get value out of Stiever, Bilous, Romy Gonzalez, Luke Schilling, Davis Martin, and I suppose Cabera Weaver? Ultimately, that draft class will be middle of the pack in career WAR, so not a disaster, but the headliners are a contact-oriented 2b, and a bunch of reliever/backend starter types. The guy who has upside athletically is Romy Gonzalez, but low probability he becomes a multi-year starter.

Collier is the guy I was hoping for, but if he keeps swinging it like this, he will not be around when they pick.

It’s possible the owner doesn’t want any opportunity for media to ask about the lockout. If the owners are gonna play hardball, the less said, the better for them. Sucks, but we may be in for a very long Spring.

Yep. If you were going with Castellanos, you might as well run Sheets/Vaughn out there. At least they try.

Apparently McNeil was refusing the defensive shifts being ordered from the dugout. Lindor fought him in the tunnel over that. No thanks. Personally, I'm curious what it would take to get Gavin Lux.

I predict this will be an excellent hire.

Mets gonna be dangerous in 2024.

That's sad. What a classy guy. Baseball needs more like him.

Wow. How the hell is Dick Allen not a Hall of Famer? Anyhoo, psyched for Minnie and Tony Olivia. Cuban connection

Seager got 10/$325 mil and you know Correa wants to top that. I don’t think Detroit stays in for that coming off the last several years of Cabrera. But teams seem like they are ready to spend.

Cralos could also be the third in a Star Trek rule of three: "The Great Emancipators in history, Moses, Abraham Lincoln, Cralos of Rigel 7."

No one deserves Alex Jones gifs. Not even Alex Jones.

Gotta say, going from Colorado to a great pitcher's park in Texas could make 4 years $56 mil look pretty good for the Rangers. They might be able to flip him in 2 years for a haul if they aren't competitive by then. It's a gamble, but may end up being a pretty good one.

I think the Buxton signing is bad for the Sox, but good for baseball. Nice to see a highly drafted player get paid by his original team even though it means we've got to see him 19 times a year for the foreseeable future.

I think the Sox didn’t like his medicals.

Wow. Escobar got exactly what I thought he’d get, Marte is on the heavy side of reasonable, and Canha is surprising. The Mets’ strategy seems to be 30 plus year old free agents, which, better them than us I guess.

Cralos actually sounds like a brand of Dollar Store Crayons.

Personally, I would rather give more at bats to either Robert or Moncada. Segura hits 9th on this team. It’s a lot of money to give to another right hand hitting ground ball type, but to each his/her own.