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Here's Rosenthal's piece this morning on the Braves not acquiring another starting pitcher.

I like that Nacho was the best they could do for the highlighted player. Also, "Brewer Hicklen" is not a real name.

Murphy shatters his hip trying to catch an 89 MPH fastball Strider threw in the dirt.

The temperature will go down once Anthopolous completes the Skubal trade.

This isn't really meant as a defense of the Murphy/Contreras trade, but my memory is that our pitchers genuinely kind of hated throwing to Contreras, and I think there were real questions as to whether he would stick behind the plate. Like I said, that's not a defense of the trade, because the...

Chip Caray Would Trade Those Prospects for a Block of Cocaine.

Even if Strider is done as an effective starter, there's still the option of moving him to the bullpen once he's conclusively proven that. I don't think moving a starter to the pen is a panacea, but it's not hard to imagine him regaining those lost MPHs when he only has to throw one inning per...

In the days of yore, when 50Poundhead was a young man on the make and MLB teams had deep benches, a guy like Smith could make a lot of sense as an endgame bench bat and pinch hitter. These days, it's hard to see how he fits on a thin bench and on a team with a first baseman who plays 162 games a...

I suspect that one of the reasons the owners are willing to go balls-to-the-wall for a salary cap this time is that they sense a potentially fatal weakening in the union. The owners have more or less won the last handful of CBA negotiations, and the "strongest union in America" seems weaker and...

The Elder gods have returned. That is not dead with can eternal lie. And with strange aeons, even Quad-A starters may die.

Guys, the deals we almost made? Brilliant. Genius near-moves.

It's actually kind of funny how little value Castellanos has generated for the Phillies. 1.3 WAR and a 100 OPS+ over four years for what will be $100 million.

Castellanos is just straightforwardly incapable of playing outfield on anything more than an emergency basis at this point, right?

Look, if there's one thing the history of Major League Baseball has taught us, it's that owners deeply care about the health of the sport and never pursue policies aimed solely at reducing the amount they have to spend on player salaries. That is never their motivation.

The PR war doesn't really matter -- arguably one of Marvin Miller's biggest insights, and one that Donald Fehr played out in the 90s, is that fans yelling at players doesn't move the needle. Fehr literally flipped off a fan at a Yankees game who held up a derogatory sign in his direction. All...

Oof. I would happily have done that for Bassit.

Did Bassit sign somewhere? Maybe you guys can share a link or something?

The Jimenez thing isn't a surprise, right? We knew he was going to be out for a while based on AA's offseason comments.

Votto's cool. Kershaw is going to be a Bob Feller-esque "Modern pitchers are all wusses" cranky old man very soon.

What are the odds Chavez throws an inning in a big league game this year?