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    March/April 2024 MLB Gamethread

    Montgomery makes his debut for the DBacks tonight against the Giants, and their starting pitcher ... Blake Snell! Boras Battle!
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    A Dream of 2025, What is Going Right and Looks like the Sox can Build On

    See, I knew there was someone I was forgetting. That is an interesting one, actually.
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    A Dream of 2025, What is Going Right and Looks like the Sox can Build On

    They're even outliers for the Dodgers themselves, a team nobody would accuse of being cheap. Before this past offseason - and I'm just eyeballing this, so I might have missed something - the last pitcher they'd signed for more than three years was Kenta Maeda? They did extend Kershaw a bunch of...
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    A Dream of 2025, What is Going Right and Looks like the Sox can Build On

    Kluber pitching poorly doesn't invalidate the strategy to me; it just means your team needs a better coaching staff and/or a better internal player evaluation system than the Sox were working with last year. It's actually possible that the current Sox front office agrees with my assessment; they...
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    A Dream of 2025, What is Going Right and Looks like the Sox can Build On

    I hesitate to bring this up, but I'm starting to wonder if the Bloom model of bringing in a bunch of 1- and 2-year guys every year is the way to go. I think the end result of all of these injuries will just be that teams won't give out big contracts to pitchers anymore, not even for the Corbin...
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    A Dream of 2025, What is Going Right and Looks like the Sox can Build On

    I don't think anyone's saying "don't try to improve the pitching," just that the days when you could go out and trade for a Josh Beckett or sign a Jon Lester and then dust your hands off seem long gone. Teams need to adjust their strategies and fans need to adjust their expectations.
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    Everybody hurts sometimes: The latest injuries

    I remember this group really going through it with injuries, but a glance at the GP numbers suggests that my memory doesn't quite match reality. EDIT: I'm probably thinking of losing Ellsbury and Mike Cameron in short order?
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    SS possibilities going forward

    Since I started this, I'll clarify: last year, Mayer hit poorly upon his callup to AA and then was shut down with a shoulder injury (which, we presume, explained the bad hitting). As a result, I'd think the organization would want him to sustain some success at AA before calling him up, and I'd...
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    SS possibilities going forward

    In the Story thread, I said this was unlikely — which I stand by — but through four games, Mayer is playing like a guy who wants his shot! .400/.444/.667 with a homer. Way too early, obviously.
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    March/April MLB News and Notes

    So I don’t know if it turned out this way in reality, but I read somewhere (possibly here?) that the O’s were concerned about facing several tough LHPs in the opening weeks (looked it up and, sure enough, six LHPs in the first ten games, though one of them was Marco Gonzales), and they didn’t...
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    The TrevorEnding Story: needs shoulder surgery, out for the year (4/9 update)

    Mayer is coming off a shoulder injury himself that surely contributed to a lackluster performance in Portland, I can’t imagine they would try to rush him up. If Story is out for the year, I’d probably just trade for a stopgap, Jorge Mateo or someone like that. You know who’d really help this...
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    March/April 2024 MLB Gamethread

    You know, I kind of hope Bryant plays well enough this year to convince some other team to rescue him from Colorado. I am aware that this will take Colorado eating some money and/or stapling an excellent player to him and/or taking on another bad deal in exchange and they've never seemed to be...
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    March/April 2024 MLB Gamethread

    Well, at the rate things are going, they (and the rest of the league) might get another shot at JD at the trade deadline!
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    March/April 2024 MLB Gamethread

    I'm so rarely correct, but after five games I'm feeling pretty good about my "watch out for the Tigers! For serious this time!" posts from the offseason.
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    The Ballad of Andrew Bailey: Will the harvest come in?

    Right. I guess either way, it’s less “he can’t be a good manager” and more “how do you then replace your awesome pitching coach?” In Farrell’s case, he’d already been replaced so it was moot.
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