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I have to say, the entire argument for Snitker as the team's manager is that he's a great clubhouse guy, someone all the players like and respect, someone who can keep everything on an even keel during a long season and ensure a certain degree of harmony in the clubhouse. If he loses that...

Olson had kind of a day, huh?

He hit 36 in 2000 and 38 in 2001. He wasn't 1996 Brady Anderson. Can I sit here and promise you to a metaphysical certainty that Chipper never used steroids? Of course not. It was a pretty steroid-suffused era. Juan Cruz apparently tested positive and he was rail thin. Alex Sanchez was the...

Juan Cruz? Didn't that guy weigh, like, 125 pounds?

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.