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No one was calling on Anthopolous to "gut the team." Trading Ozuna, Iglesias and Johnson doesn't tear the beating heart out of a roaring lion. Murphy would have been a more painful loss, but everyone understood that's only a move you make if you can extract a pound of flesh. And it's not going...

Which is why it was very smart for the Rangers to hire Victor Zzazz as their president of baseball operations.

I had no idea Hayes had been so bad offensively the last couple years. .236/.279/.290 this year after .233/.283/.290 last year. WAR still likes him, presumably because of his defense, but still...woof.

The frogurt is also cursed.

This strikes me as a pretty reasonable approach.

Anyway, there's no reason to think too deeply about the Fedde move. We need pitchers. Literally need them. We're experiencing a significant shortage of ambulatory human beings who can throw a baseball 60 feet, 6 inches. Fedde can do that and he was (more or less) free. That's all there is to it.

You think Waldrep was pitching against scrubs in the SEC?

What is it you’d say you do here, Snitker?

What do we think happened? I have five bucks on the AJC trying to force him to use AI to generate game stories and he said no.

I don't know who those people are, but...cool.

Waldrep was a starter in college.

Hey, if the second half of the season is going to be a joyless death slog to 85+ losses, at least I can enjoy the nostalgia of watching a Gator great.

I won't pretend to know that much about our first round pick, but at least we didn't draft someone named "Dax Kilby."

Trading Acuna would likely have a noticeable impact on ticket sales. I don't think there's any meaningful number of fans attending games because of Marcell Ozuna, Raisel Iglesias, Pierce Johnson or even Sean Murphy.

The 2002 NLDS was when I finally stopped believing in the idea of a "team of destiny." Man, I loved that team. Couldn't hit at all outside the core of Sheffield, Chipper and Andruw, but they could pitch the hell out of the ball, and they just kept winning all year. If the bats were silent...

Oh God we're trading Acuna.

There's nothing wrong with having Allen at the end of the bench as a defensive replacement or even starting at SS and hitting ninth in a heavy-hitting lineup where you can sacrifice a lineup spot for defense. He's a perfectly acceptable piece at a league minimum salary. That said, I suspect it...

The author himself acknowledges that the question is clickbait and they're obviously going to pick up the option -- even if Albies just ends up being a 1.1 or 1.2 WAR guy this year, you don't mind paying a few million bucks for that, and that's without even getting into the other stuff.

If you go player by player you can find reasonable explanations for just about everyone. Strider hurt his elbow, which happens to pitchers. See also Smith-Shawver. Iglesias is having a terrible first two months of the season, which has been known to happen to relievers. Albies is approaching 30...

Haven't used a first-round pick on a position player since Shea Langeliers in 2019. Also, I had completely forgotten that we once used a first-round pick on someone named "Ryan Cusick." Didn't wait too long before trading him.