2026 : Around the League

Are they going to be airing more games on Netflix this season? Because I probably won't watch many. For the love of God, please don't put a playoff game on there. That might have actually been worse than ESPN.
 
I get he was extremely expensive, but I can't imagine how much better we'd feel if the rotation were Sale, Fried, Lopez, Holmes and Elder, with Strider coming back in a few weeks. Lol
 
I get he was extremely expensive, but I can't imagine how much better we'd feel if the rotation were Sale, Fried, Lopez, Holmes and Elder, with Strider coming back in a few weeks. Lol
I get what you're saying. But the 20/20 hindsight on Fried here is fun. For starters, we were not coming close to matching what the Yankees gave him (nor would most any other team), and there was no indication he would have taken a discount. Apart from that, there are/were real concerns about his durability and lack of playoff success (we saw this come to play against the Blue Jays last year).

It will be tough to really evaluate how this worked out until the end of the contract. There was no reason to think he wouldn't continue to be dominant in at least the first few years.
 
I would just like to point out that Max Fried has the 2nd lowest active ERA among pitchers with at least 1k innings pitched, behind only deGrom. And we would be paying Lopez and Profar roughly the equivalent of his salary in 2026, if Profar wasn't suspended.
 
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