Edman85

Welp, there's y'all's purge.

To me, it's a call on whether or not they think whatever plagued him this year was irreversible. I'd lean toward keeping him.

Cost can force some players into the lineup when they don't deserve to be. We are living this big time with Miguel Cabrera in the final years of his deal. I don't think any of the Tigers arb guys are in this boat.

Boebert won. May this be a lesson not to trust partisan wishcasters on Twitter pretending to parse the numbers.

He already signed in Japan.

Both Castros have options. Reminder, my sheet always has option data updated. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jRnDAcv86yGYl1Tq6fdXD1VoGr2Ls5PiRBNEFBXHL3Y/edit#gid=0

Jeb Bush in 2016. Rick Perry 2012. Howard Dean 2004

I figure I will post here, but a good substack/podcast from a really good Florida Investigative Journalist who covers some of the grift and corruption in the state government. I'm sharing because the notion that DeSantis is somehow more moderate than Trump or even some kind of libertarian is false. And here's some reciepts. https://jasongarcia.substack.com/ One article on the ticking time bomb that is the Florida Home Insurance market teetering on the brink. That, or legal fallout from the Martha's Vineyard Stunt are the most likely downfalls. https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/ron-desantis-could-have-made-lawmakers

Willi Castro is younger than Kody Clemens.

For what it is worth, there are restrictions on DFA's. You can't just do it to get below 40 unless there is some reason or you are at a certain time. Yesterday was not such a time, but they can lop a few more off on non-tender day Friday without backfilling.

Not necessarily, as a lot of the stronger players from last year likely migrated to the major league roster. Teams still are keeping their strongest 40; I doubt there's a significant bump in available talent. If anything, it just made the roster crunch a bit harder for some teams; see the fire sale the Rays had today.

Maybe they pull a Dave Littlefield and forget.

I think it was Skubal. It is because he looks like Todd The Painter from Wedding Crashers.

Ummm... look at all the guys taking up 40 man spots. There are 10+ less worthy than Willi and Alexander, thus their roster decision is all about surplus value relative to their likely salary through the arbitration process.

Todd is his nickname, and is one of my favorite of all time.

Alexander was pitching through injury much of this year and his stuff plays up in the pen. His arb salary doesn't project to be significantly more than the minimum. There are a lot of guys who are a lot more worthy of being dropped than "Todd."

Tyler Alexander is still on the Tigers 40 man roster by the end of the month. There are lots of others who should be above him on the chopping block.

I count six guys I think get added. Perez, Bergner, Gipson-Long, Meadows, Lipcius, Olson I wouldn't rule out a trade with a team that has a roster crunch. That is a good arbitrage opportunity. As for the chopping block? Miguel Diaz, Michael Papierski, Kyle Funkhouser, Jose Cisnero, Harold Castro, Sean Guenther, Brendon Davis, Kody Clemens, Zach Short, Andy Ibanez are all possibilities. And if you want to non-tender Jeimer, you can DFA him today and non-tender Friday.

The offseason will be forever slow as long as teams want to maximize 40 man depth and wait until they can clear roster spots via the 60-Day IL in mid-February.

I have been a bomb thrower and a bomb receiver. Man oh man, when I got piled on for going after the BP/Fangraphs types for their blatant pro-player tilt in labor analysis, it opened my eyes to how toxic that was and I started unfollowing and muting a ton of those jerks.

I've been pretty vigilant about muting ans blocking the types who would propagate that stuff.

This will get the conspiracy theory whackjobs going but if you were to fix an election, a New Hampshire house seat (400+ delegation) would be among the lowest bang for the buck

I had an issue yesterday trying to post. It failed and my IP appeared to get blocked. My way around it was to turn off my wifi, which suggested an IP block.

More from the post that went into the abyss. The Speaker is selected at the beginning of the term, and if majority flips, the committee leadership flips as well. The Speaker does not, and the speaker's committee choices are limited to joint committees and select committees.

Something is up when I tried to reply to Gehringer's post about closest house ever. I wanted to turn that on its head and point out that due to deaths and resignations, the house margin has fluctuated by as many as 8 seats over the course of a session in recent years. 1931 was a close margin that actually flipped over their lengthy recess (they were only in session from December to March). The speaker does not change when that happens, however it did in 1931 because the speaker was among those deaths.