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The other guys are right—it isn’t $60 million, it’s $49 million. Otherwise, this. His ability to get whiffs took a dramatic drop. This is a tough era to morph into a pitch-to-contact guy, and he ain’t getting any younger.

Eduardo Rodriguez would have to suddenly be born again hard as a very good pitcher at age 30 to opt out of a guaranteed $60MM. I don't see it happening. I think he's ours for good, for better or worse.

One question, I guess, is whether at the talent level we had available to us, was this a true 65-win team? There was a seemingly historic level of concurrent under-performance, especially by hitters, that might not play out so pessimistically next year, or even in a parallel universe this season. If they believe there is some middle ground between 2021 and 2022 performance that serves as these players' "true" level, maybe they think they might be able to build from around the edges a team that approaches or even exceeds .500. At that point, the marginal value of a superstar becomes possibly more relevant for us. All this is speculation, but I believe it's plausible and within the range of outcomes, at least at the edges.

A team that positions itself to be a 65-win team isn't paying anything for wins because they aren't playing for wins. Anyone paying top dollar for top free agents are either trying to elevate themselves into playoff contention, into a higher playoff seed, or to lengthen planned contending status by at least an extra year. To your point, a marginal win has different values to different teams.

It's their concept and I have no claim to it. I see where they are coming from on it.

First of all, “Y’all”, what the fuck dog does Texas Woman have in Michigan’s Prop 3 fight, “Y’all”? Secondly, this kind of misdirection seems to be getting bolder and more on the nose. Illinois has an Amendment 1 initiative on the ballot that would change the state’s constitution to, quote, state that employees have a right to "organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing for the purpose of negotiating wages, hours, and working conditions, and to protect their economic welfare and safety at work" and that would prohibit any law that "interferes with, negates, or diminishes the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively." Sound eminently reasonable, right? Even Republicans can’t argue that state employees should have no such right. So how do the Republicans get ordinary people of modest incomes to vote against it? By calling it a Trojan horse tax increase, saying “While Amendment 1 is being promoted as a workers’ rights initiative, in reality, it is a disguised tax referendum, a Trojan horse that, if passed, is projected to cost a typical family over $2,100 in additional property taxes within the next four years”, and that “This is a conservative estimate, assuming the rapid growth of Illinois’ property tax burden holds steady. It’s likely property taxes would grow at an even faster rate, because Amendment 1 would give Illinois government unions unprecedented bargaining powers that don’t exist in any other state." Of course they don’t say how it would give such unprecedented powers to unions that would lead to what those tax increases are, or what those powers are that will increase property taxes. They say only that it will increase property taxes, and as far as the how and the what are concerned, they will simply leave it up to your imagination.

That suggests that the fault lies with the Twins for not winning with the team they put around Correa, not the fault with the Twins not valuing Correa correctly. The Twins clearly believed that they were competing for the inside track to win the Central, something most of us believed back then; nobody thought they were benefiting only by going from 73 to 78 wins. Had they won the Central by a game or two, most analysts would agree Correa would have been a big part of the difference, if not the whole difference, given how they got 1.0 wins from their shortstops in 2021.

That depends on both how he values a win, and how much that win is worth. There has been a lot of agreement the past few years that a theoretical win in the marketplace can be valued in terms of actual dollars, and that the value is right around $9 million. (For anyone who is interested, you can find numerous articles on the cost of a win in free agency at Fangraphs.) So if Harris agrees with this concept, he might conclude that a player projected to get five wins in a year could be worth as much as $45 million for the year. Of course it’s doubtful that after this season anyone will offer Correa a 1/45, since the market is almost certainly not there yet. But this is an example of how Harris might look at Correa’s 5.4 WAR of this season and conclude that the Twins got their $35 million worth.

Scoreless into the 18th is literally something I have never seen before.

Matt Boyd getting some trigger time in the 16th now! As a starter he should be able to go four innings or more if need be.

Raise your hand if you said after the Guardians 1-0 15-inning win over the Rays that there would be a game later during this postseason that would be scoreless into the 16th. Now put your hand down, you liar.

But see, that’s really the point: he didn’t need to be memorable at all. That’s what makes him the perfect candidate for the most Al Avila position player ever!

He’s got to be mentally ill. No one in their right mind insists on this.

It might be less about who will vote for him than it is about who will count his votes.

How do we know that any given porn actress any politician hooks up with is a porn star? As in top-of-the-game star, like, on the level of Ginger Lynn or Nina Hartley? Maybe this Nicole Sage is just a second-rate barely-anybody in that game who’s actually benefitting more from being with him than he with her? I always wondered that about Stormy Daniels, too …

The perfect candidate for the most Al Avila position player brought in during his tenure would be a guy no one ever heard of before he came here, signed by Al at just beyond prospect age, and has tools that tantalize just often enough to fool him to believing good production is right around the corner. The candidate has homer pop but strikes out a ton and can’t take a walk; has an iron glove that balls just clank off of and a wild arm he can’t control; looks like he should fit in at any position but can’t actually play any of them; gets way more reps on the field in the hope he will prove out the signing than any other organization would ever dare give him; and once he leaves, never steps into a major league stadium ever again without having to buy a ticket. Ladies and gentleman, I present to you: Ronny Rodriguez.

Which will make him the ideal Republican candidate in 2024.

Interesting tidbit by Costas in the broadcast, let’s see if i remember it accurately: today was the fourth time Judge struck out four times in a playoff game. As with this time, the first three times also came against the Cleveland ballclub. Judge went 1-for-20 with SIXTEEN strikeouts in that series. You know what’s gonna happen, though, right? Go on, guess … 😁

You’re still a child. Learn the software and get the job. 😉

This is new routine I saw this morning, apparently from Gateway Pundit: It was all a setup. From Ray Epps – to opening the magnetic doors from the inside – to the dozens of fed operatives in the crowd – to Ginger Gun – to firing flash bombs and gas canisters on unsuspecting grandmas and seniors – to the mass arrests of hundreds of innocent Trump supporters who were waved into the US Capitol. Now we have the proof that it was all a setup and the entire thing was filmed by a pre-staged camera crew.

He appears to be a plus behind the plate with no stick to speak of—but he does take a crap-ton of walks.

I was lucky to have bought my car when I did. I closed the deal in March 2021, just as the vaxes were coming out but overall supply chain issues were accelerating. The only thing my car ended up missing was the adjustable lumbar for the passenger seat. I got $250 off for that. Also was lucky that I bought my car when prices were highly negotiable. You may remember that car sales tanked the prior year and dealers were forced to actually deal. I was able to knock more than $10K off the MSRP. Had I waited just one more month, I'd've been paying some amount over MSRP.

This looks not unlike James Whitmore circa Shawshank.

Nico is a four-win guy over there this year. Cubs may think they have the solution.