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Young, analytically inclined, associated with a smart organization, knows Anthopolous. Does any of that mean anything? Hell if I know. The reality is, there is always going to be significant uncertainty when you hire a new manager unless you're hiring Bruce Bochy. That's particularly true when...

This all seems like pretty good news. Or, to phrase it the way Bowman would, there is reason to believe this is pretty good news.

Devil is in the details, of course, but Detroit has to know that $150 million isn't going to cut it for Skubal.

Julio's at-bat to end the series...woof. Up 2-0 in the count, Raleigh on deck, and you swing at three pitches out of the strike zone. Fine player, but that's an unacceptable approach in that situation.

Sigh. It's going to be Bill Shanks.

Pretty standard list of names -- pretty much the guys we've been discussing here. The exceptions are Ryan Flaherty (yes, that one) and Danny Lehmann, the Dodgers' bench coach.

And even that started falling apart this year.

I don't ask for much from a manager. Keep the clubhouse serene, don't do anything tactically to actively hurt the team.

Brian Snitker got as many years as Acuna?

I mean, I struggle to believe that Mark Bowman of all people could ever construct a strangely worded sentence.

I wonder if Murphy would have been able to pass a physical if we traded him. That's not to let Anthopolous off the hook -- by all accounts we didn't know about his hip injury until he revealed it late in the year, so that couldn't have been why we held on to him. But as a practical matter it's...

Pat Murphy first made his name as a college coach, but he's been out of the college game for so long that I don't think you can count him as a "college to the pros" success story.

Snitker's getting a place in the Braves Hall of Fame, a senior advisor job that I imagine won't demand very much of him and a freaking trip to Hawaii. I'm a sentimental guy and I would be upset if the Braves had disrespected Snitker, but they didn't. They're doing right by him.

Huh, Rickie Weeks. There's a blast from the past.

My memory is that when we made the trade we backloaded the actual cash for Hampton’s contract, so we only paid two million a year for the first three years and whatever the big number was for the last three years. But for accounting purposes we averaged it out and it was (I think) $8 million a...

Sorry, David O'Brien has to respond to every one of them, individually, with retweets.

Our decision to drive a truck around Truist Field with "BRIAN SNITKER RETIRE BITCH" written on the side clearly paid off. Well done, everyone.

Dunn's kind of an interesting case study when you look back at him with the benefit of hindsight. People like me were certainly guilty of overrating him when he first came up. Part of that was because the stathead ethos at the time was all about assembling a slow pitch softball team -- defense...

Was that TallahasseeBravo?

His one 2023 start for the Blue Jays' FCL team was pretty fun. 2 2/3 IP, 10 hits, 11 earned runs, two HRs, two BBs, three Ks.