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It never fails to get a good laugh out of me when I see slappy fans dramatically overrate players within their own teams and systems. As if a mid- to back-of-rotation starter fresh off of his underwhelming rookie season could pry the #1 major-league-ready shortstop prospect from a loaded farm system, straight up.

As is a well-placed expletive. It's all about just the right context.

This is exactly what trolls do.

I might go so far as to say this is all of it, unless you believe there is a genetic basis for women being less selfish than men?

I don't think women are inherently less selfish, per se, than they are acculturated by a male-dominated society to performatively act less selfish in public to keep up social appearances and maintain communal harmony.

Fork, yeah! I mean, fork, yeah! Aw, shirt, I meant "fork". Son of a bench, what the fork! This is such bullshirt!

I'll drive an extra couple of miles to go to this gas stations that's consistently 20¢ a gallon cheaper than stations near me. That's a couple miles to save two bucks on a ten-gallon fill-up. Yeah, it's not terribly efficient, but hey, I'm winning the game!

Many have suggested.

They gambled on a game in which they have a duty to perform. That's the basis for being declared permanently ineligible. Are you saying that Rose deserves a pass on gambling in-game because he's good at baseball?

Pete can't make the Hall of Fame without being reinstated by Baseball, so would you want to see all players who have ever been declared permanently ineligible for gambling reinstated as well? Or only Pete?

A lot of Robbie Ray’s future success is going to be tied up in whether he can keep his career low BB rate as low as it was last year. But even if he does, one big red flag is how much luck factored into his Cy Young success this season. His .268 BABIP ranks 9th luckiest out of 39 qualified starters, but even more starkly, his strand rate of 90.1% is the highest full-season rate in big league history. These two data points are a key reason his RA9-WAR, which reflects actual on-field results, is 7.1, while his regular WAR, which is predictive based on fielding-independent results, is only 3.9. That’s a big enough difference that I would be cautious in taking a $200MM chance on him.

Matthew Boyd will be an All-Star for someone else. Book it.

Probably not the Yankees, Dodgers, Mets, or anyone else up against the current luxury tax threshold. They’re probably gonna wait until the next CBA is done before they throw nine-figure contracts at players, since they don’t know whether a new luxury tax situation would hurt them for a signing they make before December 2. Teams like the Tigers don’t have to worry about that, so they have a window open to move right now. So, come on, Tigers, move, gosh darn it!

Semien and the Rangers raised the bar for everyone not named Carlos.

Mini Miggy to the Marlins. That’s a good fit for him.

Well, it is the Rangers, so it’s not like were talking about cutting-edge analytics here.

He would also cost us runs with his bat

I don't know if I agree. I think Seager has nearly the same injury concerns that Correa does, plus he doesn't have Correa's glove.

Who do you think gets a bigger deal than he?

I'm sure Kurt Russell's professional opinion of Javy Baez is the same!

"Certainty" is a super high bar. Actually, too high. By dint of his multiple IL stints, it's fair to consider Carlos Correa to be more injury-prone than other players of similar career length who have not been. This may be especially true for Correa since two of his IL stints involved his back, a notoriously wonky and unpredictable part of the body as far as injury is concerned.

You will do more than just "live with" Baez. You will love the guy. You will not be disappointed. I guarantee that.

I know. I'm having fun.

Fans of crypto will insist that it's the future of money and transactions, but as far as I'm concerned, as long as everybody only trades it and nobody ever spends it, crypto is basically tulips in 1636.