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The Elder gods have returned. That is not dead with can eternal lie. And with strange aeons, even Quad-A starters may die.

Guys, the deals we almost made? Brilliant. Genius near-moves.

It's actually kind of funny how little value Castellanos has generated for the Phillies. 1.3 WAR and a 100 OPS+ over four years for what will be $100 million.

Castellanos is just straightforwardly incapable of playing outfield on anything more than an emergency basis at this point, right?

Look, if there's one thing the history of Major League Baseball has taught us, it's that owners deeply care about the health of the sport and never pursue policies aimed solely at reducing the amount they have to spend on player salaries. That is never their motivation.

The PR war doesn't really matter -- arguably one of Marvin Miller's biggest insights, and one that Donald Fehr played out in the 90s, is that fans yelling at players doesn't move the needle. Fehr literally flipped off a fan at a Yankees game who held up a derogatory sign in his direction. All...

Oof. I would happily have done that for Bassit.

Did Bassit sign somewhere? Maybe you guys can share a link or something?

The Jimenez thing isn't a surprise, right? We knew he was going to be out for a while based on AA's offseason comments.

Votto's cool. Kershaw is going to be a Bob Feller-esque "Modern pitchers are all wusses" cranky old man very soon.

What are the odds Chavez throws an inning in a big league game this year?

Eh. No harm, no foul, but when a guy like Farmer hits his mid-30s and collapses, you should probably assume he's just done.

Will implied verbal consent suffice?

The new network can run advertisements for The Battery, and then they can use the increased revenue that drives to fund advertisements for the new network in The Battery, and on and on in a glorious cycle of shareholder profit maximization.

As with everything else in the world, it depends on cost -- Giolito could well make sense on a small enough contract. But he did turn down a $19 million mutual option to hit free agency and got a $1.5 million buyout, so I doubt he'll accept anything that we'd regard as a bargain. He'd also be...