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Those days are gone. Those teams were bleeding money.

That and the 12 year commitment if all of those things snowball. Also, worth pointing out AAV math (for luxury tax purposes) for pre-arb extensions and how that has changed for traded players in the new CBA. Pre-arb extensions typically have the same escalation as normal contracts where money increases until year 6 and maxes out after that. This drives the AAV way down for the back end of those contracts. Now teams that acquire players get the AAV from the time of the trade to the end of the deal. Tatis's AAV number right now is about $24.3M. If he is traded this offseason, it is about $27.8M. Also, reading between the lines on how Harris has talked about a development culture, I have a feeling soft factors like work ethic will be emphasized a lot by this front office (and could see that rubbing people here the wrong way).

Nope... All kinds of risk there.

It's hard to quantify given the gray area and how some of these things don't get updated, but if you include... Baseball Ops Analysts R+D Analysts Player Dev Analysts/Technology Programmers Software Developers Biomechanists I've got the Tigers around 21 I saw the White Sox were about 7. The Red Sox at 32... I was going alphabetical by city, so those were the outliers. I count the Dodgers at 32, Rays at about 50. Braves around 20. Padres at about 15. Giants about 24. The Guardians don't list everybody on their website.

You can poke around media guides here and get an idea https://pressbox.athletics.com/Publications/MLB Media Guides/

A couple of them are new positions, but several of them are just additions to positions that already exist. They are still bottom half, but growing. Some teams pared their analytics staffs down. A long ways away from the Rays and Dodgers. Content in my current job, too.

A series of tweets telling Chris I to F himself after he extended the lockout earlier this year probably sealed my grave. And I'm not proficient in the software they request.

Those jobs posted yesterday all appear to be additions, not backfills, at least based on snooping social media. That just means there is growth coming to the analytics, biomechanics, and software engineering departments.

Drew Carlton opted for free agency. He was eligible because he's been outrighted twice.

Palacios is an arbitrage opportunity, nothing more. Wayyyyyy too much is being read into this. This doesn't indicate anything about the plans for the Castros or even Short. This is a guy on waivers they wanted to take a shot on. It wouldn't shock me if they try to slip him through waivers later this offseason.

There are seven roster moves that need to be made by 5 days after the World Series... five moves if Chafin and Schoop opt out.

Drew Carlton was also eligible, but did not opt for free agency.

Baseball America revealed that the competitive balance rounds will be ordered by winning percentage now. This means the Mariners, if they still get one, get the first pick in the Tigers round. The Tigers would get the 6th, and the A's get the 8th and final.

Bookmark my sheet. I keep that updated. Offseason Eligibles tab. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jRnDAcv86yGYl1Tq6fdXD1VoGr2Ls5PiRBNEFBXHL3Y/edit?usp=drivesdk

The Mariners promoted their assistant GM to GM today. That tells me the Giants or Tigers were trying to get him for their vacant GM spot.

Yep

Point being, you don't need to be in the bottom six to be eligible for the draft lottery. Every team that makes the playoffs is eligible.

Worth noting the Giants are rolling too. With a couple more wins and continued MIL/PHI tailspin their playoff chances could start to be noninfinitesimal.

Overuse of the reflexive pronoun usually goes hand in hand with dumb takes.

If Sosa/McGwire/Bonds don't count, neither do the 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, or 2009 Yankees.

As I get my hurricane prep ready, it reminds me how useful external phone chargers are.

No However relative to league totals, you can still make the case it is the greatest HR season of all time already.

A waiver claim on Andujar wouldn't make sense at all. He is a clear non-tender, since claiming him and rostering all offseason means he is going through arbitration with an incoming $1.3M salary and tying down a 40 man spot. A free agent flier makes sense, but I doubt anything is there.