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I will say on Arenado, the Rockies are covering a good chunk of his contract, and there are some deferals in there. The contract isn't too prohibitive, but the CBT number would balloon in 2027 (first year of Skubal under a free agent contract) due to the fact that the Rockies aren't covering any of that contract.

Includes health benefits (total divided by 30 with some weird adjustments, roughly 17.5M last year), 16.7M for the pre arb bonus pool. Players on multi-year deals are generally on the AAV of the deal, but there are some adjustments. For example, they valley charge on Flaherty.

Second by percentage increase.

FYI, as of now, the Tigers have the third highest CBT number increase from last season.

Putting a pin for this... I am not necessarily saying this was a reason not to sign him, but in terms of something to track going forward, if the Tigers hit on their second rounder this year or hit on a pick taken with under slot money saved on the second rounder, remember that wouldn't have happened if Bregman signed.

If they are making a $120M investment based on a 98 PA sample, that is a mistake.

bsky vs. twitter. I wish more people would make the move. Enough Tigers beat guys have that I can get what I need in the special group of them I've created. Still waiting on the Evans. Bluesky is 100% chronological and user chosen. No algorithm pushing stuff. I'm keeping my Twitter for the stragglers, but if you see, almost every tweet I have posted since 1/20 has included a jab at its piece of **** owner. I suspect the blue checkmarks don't want to move and lose that paycheck. My golf follows, understandably, are slow to move.

I've programmed spreadsheets that write SQL code to query a database, and also have a special computer that runs a program that queries a SQL Server database.

I'll leave it to the politics thread for the reason, but sounds like you may soon!

I wanted to circle back here, because I have a set of the pre-2012 rules, and doublechecked to confirm there are no such rules on the books. They were informal suggestions, not rules.

Need to launder any money? That's about the only use.

Flying to DC tomorrow, which means there's a chance I'm sitting next to a congressman on the flight. If so, I am prepared to filibuster the whole way asking if they are okay with (blank)?

This already happened Thursday after a court paused the deferred resignation deal and the WH just said they are still processing the resignations.

My what is not in charge?

Algorithm based social media feeds will be the death of us.

All are recently signed, which means if they were signed to an MLB deal, they have a no-trade until June 15. Wisdom is overseas: Japan or Korea, too lazy to Google it.

France is the only free agent among that bunch.

That's the $64 dollar question.

Answering your question instead of sending people to my sheet... Both were throwing 3X a week two months ago. I bet they are both 60 day candidates. Even if close to ready, you have 30 days on rehab assignment (60 days in SGL's case because of the special TJ rule), so if they are close for game action by late April, you are covered. Mattson could also theoretically be IL'ed, but that starts his service clock unnecessarily. They did this with Freddy Pacheco a couple years ago, but he was claimed too late to be optioned, so it was the only way to keep him .

Little plug for my sheet... I've got a tab where I log the official team injury updates: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jRnDAcv86yGYl1Tq6fdXD1VoGr2Ls5PiRBNEFBXHL3Y/edit?gid=885247594#gid=885247594

Possible teams are waiting until 40 man roster spot can be cleared next week by the 60-Day IL next week.

Sharing here... Because I think the Flaherty contract structure means the Tigers are planning on being at least luxury tax adjacent next year.

What do I fall back on if I lose the coin flip? I would flip the coin because the expected value is higher, but if I'm broke after a coin flip, I would take the security. This is why my portfolio is like 99+% stocks.

The Heritage Society doxxing left of center federal employees is going to lead to some violence against them (us?)