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Good for Max. I suppose this closes the books on the Martin Prado for Justin Upton trade.

For what it's worth, the notion that second basemen tend to age poorly and fall off performance cliffs is an old trope I've heard basically since I started following baseball. The idea, as I understand it, is that second basemen take a lot of punishment at the bag, particularly on double play...

A huge part of baseball is that you can't just bring up your best player in the biggest moments. Bottom of the ninth and Ronald Acuna is due up: cool, good for you. Bottom of the ninth and Luke Williams is due up? Too bad, find someone better than Luke Williams. That's the whole damn point.

Braves non-tender Laureano, Canning, Kerr, Ynoa and Salinas.

If I had to guess, I'd say Sale needs another couple good-but-not-great years -- I don't think he's quite passed the bus test yet. But the Cy is a huge feather in his cap, so is the fact that he has a ring (and it's helpful that there's highlight video of him closing out that World Series), and...

Yeah, I don't know how the Dodgers would ever handle a lot of injuries.

The Yankees losing Soto to the Mets would be absolutely humiliating. George Steinbrenner would look up with shock from his place in the afterlife.

I'll be honest: I have no idea who either of these people are.

I'd be thrilled with just about any three-year deal for Fried.

DOB says we're not sending along any money. Angels are taking on all of Soler's contract.

Hyers is official.

Hyers is official.

Apparently George Lombard is one of the big managerial prospects. I remember Lombard as a hotshot Braves prospect around the turn of the millennium, and I remember how pissed some folks on whatever message board we were using at the time were when the Braves traded him in 2002. And not only is...

Seitzer's wife had cancer this season -- that was why he took a month off in the middle of the season. She recovered, thankfully, but it's not hard to imagine how that might affect someone's overall job performance.

We obviously never know what's going on behind the scenes, and I don't want to overreact when the impact of coaches is pretty ambiguous and hard to quantify. But man, that's a tough beat for Seitzer -- getting fired one year after his guys set records for offensive potency, following a season in...

We obviously never know what's going on behind the scenes, and I don't want to overreact when the impact of coaches is pretty ambiguous and hard to quantify. But man, that's a tough beat for Seitzer -- getting fired one year after his guys set records for offensive potency, following a season in...

I think the hope with Langeliers as a prospect was that he could be a low-BA hitter who popped enough home runs to generate real value at the plate while drawing just enough walks to keep the OBP on the right side of embarrassing. Which is mostly what has happened, though the OBP is still pretty...

Victor Vodnik is having a vaguely respectable season, considering he's pitching in Coors. Too many walks, but a 108 ERA+ isn't anything to be ashamed of.

It's hard to see how he comes back from this (and, in fairness, it seems very possible he doesn't want to).

This is a crazy story. Apparently he told his teammates that he wanted the season to end.