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Guillorme was terrible last year, but he can make contact, draw some walks and play all the difficult infield positions acceptably well. Reasonable enough signing for a role that's not going to see too much playing time.

I'm pro-Harrison Bader, but sheesh, that's a lot of money.

Yeah, I don't have the world's highest opinion of Snitker, but I don't believe that he's an actual, factual stupid person. I don't think he's ignorant of Sale's age and injury history, and if Anthopolous sits down with him in spring training and says, "Look, Sale's fragile, we need him for the...

Just sign Gator Legend Harrison Bader and call it an off-season.

Rosenthal has a long piece on the trade. Nothing Earth-shattering, but he walks through the thought process involved. https://theathletic.com/5175739/2024/01/02/atlanta-braves-chris-sale-charlie-morton/

Part of the reason I'm a little more down on the Sale trade than a lot of people (the money makes it better than I initially thought) is that I don't know that there actually is a lot of upside with him. It feels like there should be, because it's CHRIS SALE, Badass Cy Young Contender, but...

Interestingly, the advanced stats mostly show him battling right field to a draw during his time in Atlanta. They have him -1 run defensively in 2002 and -2 runs in 2003, after being -15 in 2001 and -10 in 2004. I don't know how much of that is statistical flukiness, how much of that is...

In isolation I don't mind taking a flier on Sale, just as, in isolation, I don't mind trading Grissom for a valuable piece for the big league team. But I'm not wild about trading Grissom for Sale.

This is one of those takes where you just make a sweeping psychological judgement based on basically nothing, so I apologize in advance, but...I always got the sense during Andrelton's time in Atlanta that the Braves and Simmons never really knew what they wanted him to be as a hitter. He was an...

Things don't seem to be going too well for Wander Franco.

I was going to say "So, like, seven guys?" And it turns out that dickish snark would have been overly generous.

Ken Rosenthal @Ken_Rosenthal Source confirms: Dodgers close on Yoshinobu Yamamato. First: @JackCurryYES , who reported contract will be for more than $300M.

It's not the worst thing in the world for Anthopolous to basically take a season off from major trades -- you'd like to give the farm system a chance to refresh itself, at the risk of drawing out the "farm" metaphor a bit too far. Any major trade we'd make would basically require giving up every...

It's so beautiful.

Rosenthal had an interesting note on Ohtani's contract. There's a clause that says "If specific change in Dodger personnel, player may opt out of contract at end of season the change occurs." Rosenthal says he doesn't know who that refers to.

DOB (I know, I know) says the plan with Fletcher hasn't changed -- he's still going to be the utility infielder. They just moved him to AAA to increase their offseason roster flexibility, knowing that no one would claim Fletcher on waivers and take that contract.

I had no idea Marcus Stroman was so short.

The Athletic is reporting that Ohtani will defer $68 million annually out of his $70 million salary, without interest.

I understand this is mostly about the Dodgers clearing two 40-man roster spots for Ohtani and Kelly.

We would have signed him, but Anthopolous insisted on only offering $699.99 million because he thought it was hilarious.