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I guess that’s one thing every conservative religion can agree on: god hates fags.

Will Carroll called me stupid maybe 15 years ago for daring to suggest that teams manipulate their disabled lists to manage rosters.

He’s a good guy, he helped me get a couple of articles published there.

Mine doesn't email me, but the app does light up when the washer or dryer is done. Thanks, LG!

Flip side: teams typically don't allow their best players to be exposed to the Rule 5 draft. There a lots of examples of good players chosen as a Rule 5 player, but for every one that turns out even as good as Baddoo (which ain't saying much at the moment), there are twenty who completely wash out. I just wouldn't want Harris to treat it like the numbers game Al Avila did.

All sub-20%. That's great if they hit the ball hard, too. That's a key to a low K rate being a plus—if they're soft or even medium hitters, all they're doing is making outs in the field instead of the plate. Andre Lipcius also drew a metric ton of walks this year. Gotta like that!

Because we wanna see a whole bunch of guys shit-canned! 😅 Looks like it might not happen all today. BTW I have no interest in taking a flyer on yet another Rule 5 guy, but hey, if Scott Harris sees someone good slipping under everyone else's radar, then great.

Funkhouser and Diaz, I predicted on Page 1. Brendon Davis was a three-level hitting star in 2021 so I thought he might have been interesting enough to keep around and give him one last look. Guess not.

Scott Harris acquiring a Devil He Knows Steele Walker, ex-Texas Ranger.

Go on … 😁

All these coaching moves and no announcements about the roster … yet … on purpose?

Ah.

Did I call him “Todd”? I don’t recall that, but if so, then my mistake. I think you know I meant Tyler. Will they keep him on the 40-man in the hopes that he can progress from injured among-the-worst pitchers in baseball to a healthy merely below average pitcher? I don’t know, maybe. I guess there’s value in that for the long/mop-up guy in your pen. I might be more in line with that thinking if he were turning 25 next year rather than 29.

i agree with this on balance, although it’s not going to be like this across the country. Stop the Steal will still resonate in most Confederate states and in most west central and mountain states. Where it is going to fall flat is in blue and most purple states. Being a reasonable Republican is a very different proposition in New York vs Alabama.

If Willi Castro gets slotted into fourth outfielder slot without showing some astounding improvement in Lakeland, then something has gone terribly wrong on the player acquisition front. I agree with you, six-position utility guy is his best chance to fashion any kind of career.

That .639 OPS first time through the order is only for relief appearances, as you say, and covers just 72 PA. The year before it was .731 in 157 PA; in 2020 it was .891 in 93 PA. I'm not sure he can claim it as a permanent skill just yet.

Repeal the 19th and 26th Amendments! Votes only for white male landowners over 40!

Boo Willi, I assume? He was a win-positive player last year and could serve as a multi-positional depth piece. He was even average in outfield defense, not below average, by multiple measures, despite the moaning and groaning we did about him early in the year. And he's defense-positive at 2B. Willi's not a playoff team player as currently constructed, either, but he is also not the dead loss Harold and Victor are. I think he gets one more chance to prove he can come close to 2020 once again.

Alexander can't strike guys out, doesn't walk few enough guys to support that, gives up contact that's routinely is too hard, has no killer out pitch, ultimately gives up too many runs, and he's going to be 29 next All-Star break. His Statcast card is awash in blue. It should be the end of the line for him here, just going off Scott Harris's big three goals, all of which Alexander fails. The only thing he's got going for him is he's left-handed. I know we need pitching depth, as does every team, but even if we want to keep him as minor-league depth going forward. we should not be wasting a 40-man slot on him. Particularly if Harris determines that there was something to post-May 8 2021 after all, and we decide we can try to compete for the weak division. Tyler Alexander has no business on a playoff team.

It’s cautious good news that one of the alt righties is actually starting to question the faith. I say cautious because even the hard righties were lambasting Trump after January 6—at least for a week, anyway. So get me past this hot period before I conclude there’s been any kind of sea change.

The thing that concerns me is not that they’ll win in court, or even the court of public opinion. What concerns me is the ardent red hats will sense that their back is truly going up against the wall and they’ll start acting out with greater frequency.

It’s been a nice respite the past week or so, but we’re not going to be able to avoid the 2022 election deniers for much longer. They still have their 30% of the people, and social media is still a thing.

I was just coming in to post that today should be a wild day. Tyler and Harold will be gone; Willi stays.

And that has stopped her before when, exactly? 😏

Because she wants to burn the whole house down, preferably while the rest of us are still in it.