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Seriously. Ozuna was a sub-replacement level player in 2021 and 2022, and on April 26, 2023 he was hitting .085/.194/.203. And then he hit 79 home runs in 2023 and 2024 and now he's OPSing over 1.000. What the hell? Has he been freebasing untraceable Profaritol?

Marcell Ozuna makes no sense.

Look, the details are fine, but the important thing is that Schwellenbach is the greatest pitcher in the history of the game.

I remember when we thought 2024 was the nightmare season.

I'm a little surprised spring training could move a projection that much.

I know Anderson being traded looks bad, but I really think he can still be an effective pitcher for us in the right situation.

Kimbrel is obviously still striking out a lot of guys, but I suspect he's the kind of pitcher for whom that doesn't really tell us that much at this point in his career. He's always going to strike guys out, just like Rickey Henderson was capable of drawing walks when he was half a decade past...

Are you people competing to see how miserable you can be?

Oh, this is one of your bits.

Just to be clear, in case someone didn't bother clicking that link: Caminiti underwent an MRI and it found nothing more than tendonitis. Obviously it's not great news that our top pitching prospect has tendonitis in his throwing arm, but in case someone is reading those posts and thinks that he...

The thing is, it's not like we reached on Waldrep in the draft or ignored obvious bad data that scared everyone else away. MLB Pipeline had him ranked as the 19th-best prospect in the draft. Fangraphs had him 6th, and if anyone would be cognizant of bad pitch data, it would be Fangraphs.

Hitting a baseball is really difficult. Even a pitcher with objectively terrible stuff and command by Major League standards will be tough to hit in an absolute sense. Don Wengert once had a month where he threw seven innings in a start and gave up one run, and another start that month where he...

Anderson might make sense as a buy-low candidate for a hopeless rebuilding team like the White Sox. But if you're a team that actually cares about the outcome of its games, it's hard to justify going out of your way to acquire Ian Anderson.

I'm on board. Looking at the stats, it seems like the best-case scenario for him would probably be a low-OBP, high-SLG guy with a lot of strikeouts, but hey, we've acquired Adam Duvall about 37 different times over the last five years, so we're clearly cool with that player archetype.

I assume that's not Miguel Cairo at short, though considering how terrible our benches are I can't rule it out completely.

I'll admit that I am so utterly uninterested in stories about deals the Braves almost made that, coincidentally, happen to disprove claims that the team was budget conscious in the offseason.

Bregman to the Red Sox.

It's increasingly common and a source of some angst and frustration. There are times where the manager is on board and it's more of a collaborative back-and-forth than the executive handing down "Thou shalt not" dictates from on-high -- by every account Dave Roberts in LA has this relationship...

The Braves -- and Anthopolous specifically -- have publicly said, over and over and over again, that they believe it's vital to the culture of the team for their regulars to play every day, where they mean "every day" as close to literally as possible. I personally disagree with that, and very...

I've always really liked Diekman, though I recognize that's more about vibes and how dominant he can look in any given appearance than a true reflection of his overall effectiveness (he's got 3.2 WAR for his career and an ERA+ of 108). I think you have to assume this signing isn't going to be...