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Eh. No harm, no foul, but when a guy like Farmer hits his mid-30s and collapses, you should probably assume he's just done.

Will implied verbal consent suffice?

The new network can run advertisements for The Battery, and then they can use the increased revenue that drives to fund advertisements for the new network in The Battery, and on and on in a glorious cycle of shareholder profit maximization.

As with everything else in the world, it depends on cost -- Giolito could well make sense on a small enough contract. But he did turn down a $19 million mutual option to hit free agency and got a $1.5 million buyout, so I doubt he'll accept anything that we'd regard as a bargain. He'd also be...

Andruw, Heyward and Brian Jordan. Not bad.

Kiley McDaniel's top 100 is out today. Braves have three prospects on the list -- Caminiti at 53, then Fuentes and Ritchie back to back at 88 and 89. Caminiti certainly sounds like a Max Fried type -- excellent athlete, excellent-but-not-elite stuff. He'll need really solid command and control...

This is kind of an intriguing idea. A tiered qualifying option system would introduce a lot of interesting dynamics into the decision-making process. Let's call Tony and Rob, make it happen.

I like that, after decades and decades of fierce fighting, we managed to win the war over the idea that the MVP can't come from a losing team, and now we're pushing the idea that the MVP can't come from a team that's too good.

Remember when Ohtani and his reps refused to disclose the name of his dog?

So, looking at Tommy Hanson in 2010, when he threw 202 innings and seemed to be on the verge of stardom.... What stands out looking at the game logs are the number of pitches he threw very early in the season. He was at or over 100 pitches in each of his first three starts and in six of his...

You kind of have to do some creative finagling with definitions and boundaries to make Meta's stat accurate -- you have to focus only on starters and ignore relievers, "drafted" means that guys like Fried who we indisputably developed don't count, you have to use bWar and not fWar, etc. But even...

Geez, Hanson only racked up 4.9 WAR in his career? He was at 6.7 after his second year. Also, who here knew that Mike Minor was worth eight WAR for the Rangers in 2019?

You people are a bunch of paranoid weirdoes. There's no way he could hurt his finger as a result of slipping on ice? Have you ever, you know, fallen? There are a thousand different ways Kim might have reached out to brace himself that could have a resulted in a finger injury. Weird stuff happens...

However obnoxious one might find the Dodgers, the idea that it's a good idea for the long-term future of baseball to instigate a potentially devastating lockout all so you can restrict the spending of the team that had the fifth-best record in baseball last year is not a position I agree with.

I think our pitching concerns are less about projections, which by nature cluster around a median, and more the downside variance. There is absolutely a scenario where everything works out great for the starting staff -- Sale is hale and healthy like he was in 2024, Strider bounces back...

Why can't we be as dedicated to winning as the Angels, Royals and Orioles?

Because Arraez is one of the most celebrated players in baseball in 1978.

Rosenthal briefly discussed the Braves' pursuit of a starter on his podcast. Thinks Framber Valdez is unlikely. Not much substantive -- they really want a good starter, no one quite knows who that will be.

But both are related to Franklin Foyer, the inventor of the fancy-pants lobby. Neither, however, are related to Franklin Foer, the Atlantic writer who occasionally does interesting stuff but is mostly just a shrug-inducing establishment journalist.

Either it means the contract offer had significant incentives baked in or Rosenthal is saying that the A's might have been willing to offer even more if Kim negotiated with them.