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Believe me, I understand the risks involved with signing any pitcher to a big guaranteed deal. Washington will never recover from Strasburg and (to a lesser extent) Corbin. Arizona has cut bait with Bumgarner. Ad nauseum. You could make the argument, certainly on Stras and Bum, that the...

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/03/braves-sign-alex-dickerson.html Wow, that gives us, like, six left fielders. Dickerson Rosario Ozuna Duvall Arcia Acuna

I have always loved the idea of switch hitting. In my youth I was one (a bad one) and then my graduating son has been one (a good one). I think historically it was a way for a scrappy middle infielder "play the game the right way" type to add versatility to his game. But with the advent of...

Per Brittany Ghrol to the Brewers.

Per Joel Sherman of the New York Post. https://mobile.twitter.com/Joelsherman1/status/929933760358944768?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

"Pierzynski joins a 2017 FOX MLB team that has signed several former players over the last several weeks, including Alex Rodriguez, Nick Swisher, Pete Rose and Frank Thomas." Is there something in the new collective bargaining agreement that says only asshole ex-players are allowed to be hired...

From the Seattle Times, regarding his time with the Mariners: "Man, that was the some of the best 77 minutes of my life. It was awesome. The environment was crazy. The atmosphere was electric...I'm still getting fan mail from Mariners fans about all the work I put in over there." :cooter:

...I assume not just for me...Sav, did you forget the light bill? Do we need to pass the hat?

OK, guys, it's time to address this. It's overdue. SAV isn't this lazy, he's having a creative crisis. We need to help him out. My suggestion: 2017 Braves - from the outhouse to the penthouse...or maybe the halfway house

It's time to deal Vizcaino. Great closer probably, but we've got Simmons coming back and hey, Bud Norris throws 97 for one inning. Anyway, I think teams who can compete and don't have a good one are a place to go to get an overpay. And we need power and need to fill holes at catcher and...

“Comebacks are great but if you don’t win the game it doesn’t much matter,” Braves catcher A.J. Pierzynski said. “Yeah, we fight. We’ve always fought. No one quits and we play the game right and play hard and all of that. But at the end of the day you want to win the games.” Translation: why is...

I've been very impressed with Matt Wisler, despite his low K rate. His stuff is plenty good enough and he has very good command. But his BABIP, fly ball tendency and FIP look ominous. I have always believed the only way you can be a consistently successful outlier on the K/9 scale is to be a...

We're 6-19 now. How's the mood in the clubhouse? As a guy directly responsible for, like, five of those losses, how's your mood? In light of the front office's current strategy of bringing up four new stiffs a week, how's your veteran leadership going over? And is there any chance you're the...

Remember the late 90s, when we dealt Schmidt and change for Denny Neagle so that we could have four potential Cy Young starters? Or dealing for Gary Sheffield, so we'd have enough juice (heh) in October? Or when we'd get Leo a reclamation project or two and they'd round out the bullpen? Now we...

....aaaand the Satuday Braves-Cubs postponed for inclement weather. Sadly, the game will be made up at a later date.

I thought this was pretty significant news and didn't want to let it go by without comment. Jace looked good - really good - to me, until he stopped hitting. I thought his 2B play was excellent, as well. If, in fact, he was playing through an 80% tear in the thumb ligament for the last half of...

From Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe: If you’re a major league team, you have to consider new technology that could help reduce labrum and Tommy John surgeries. It’s from Neuro Performance Rehab Clinics in Miami, whose mother company helped quarterback Peyton Manning following his neck...

I was just on Baseball Reference marveling at Oso's .271 OBP and nine triples (that's GOT to be a record for guys over 250 lbs) and happened to check on his WAR. His very low OBP certainly hurts his oWAR, below 2, and it should. But then I noticed that his overall WAR was actually -0.2 and...

So, the Johns are patting themselves on the back for having the foresight to sign AJ Pierzynski, who has been an outstanding player and influence on the clubhouse despite many people thinking he might be a distraction, or perhaps a pain in the ass, making rookies go buy his fourth inning beers...

Jose is a nice player. SS is his highest and best use. He's been a .300 hitter who makes good contact with elite base stealing skills at the minor league level for a number of years. He's shown a lot of positional versatility, moving to 2B competently then to CF. On the other hand, he has no...