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End of the day, if we weren’t keeping Freeman its hard to ask for anything more than this.

Y'all have a very different memory of how Mac left than I do. I remember it being bittersweet but hardly a surprise; I don't think anyone really thought we'd be re-signing him. And no one was mad at him because we didn't even make a offer other than to put a QO on him. I remember it as "good...

Would love to see that budget.

It's literally not. Baseball has an antitrust exemption.

I hope the work stoppage last years thus prolonging our reign as world champions indefinitely.

This ignores the reality of what happened in 1994. It's not like Jason Schmidt and Andruw Jones were agreeing to be replacements. It's was really only the longshots and has-beens who crossed in the first place (e.g. Kevin Millar, one of the more successful scabs, was a NDFA in A ball), and the...

D’Arnaud played 20 games at 1B in 2019. 4d chess Freddie replacement.

yankee is a term that predates the founding and was used with pride by yankees themselves, see "yankee doodle," and is currently used by a town of actual yankees. There are obviously nuanced conversations to be had here (e.g., the name "Braves" is more salvageable than the tomahawk which is...

why don't you just assimilate

This is again Bob Nightengale, famous liar and/or idiot. It's 50/50 whether this is based on something he actual heard or if it's just something he imagined. I'll note that the terms of the offer slightly changed from what he reported yesterday. Never forget: 674115114728034305

It's Bob Nightengale so it is almost certainly wrong.

I don't know how much it affected his spin rates, but Morton rather famously went through a series of mechanical/arm action changes (before spin rate data was available) to change him from washout to workhorse. Given how much of Anderson's success seems to come from his unique motion, I really...

Welcome to the draft. I reckon Ian Anderson is much closer to Mike Mussina than the average first rounder gets to their comp. Certainly a lot closer than Cody Johnson got to Ryan Howard or whoever folks were dreaming he'd be.

Hoffman was a starter in the minors for a bit (also a shortstop, so maybe not the most normal path) I think original-miracle-lefty Chris Hammond was a big changeup guy, if I recall correctly, and he started for a number of years. Maybe lefties aren't as comparable though. Also how can we...

What is the world coming to when someone would rather pay for internet access in order to ****post instead of giving that money to charity. Really makes you think.

I'll take the guy who put up "the definition of a #3" as a rookie every day and twice on Sundays. He might have peaked as a rookie, but also maybe he hasn't. Probably depends on whether he ever really gets ahold of his command. FYI, Max Fried had a .317 xwOBA the year he lost his rookie...

I just meant 1952, from your story, was the year before the Braves left for Milwaukee, much less Atlanta. The Boston Braves era has always felt like pre-history to me. Someone talking about being a fan that long ago is so far from my own experience.

It's a little disorienting that there are folks here who were fans when the Braves were still in Boston.

It was certainly a Martian debut. (RIP)