Paddac , Ohl, Cabrera, Davis, Wentz, Kriskie, Ramirez, Urena, Tonkin, Alcala, Hatch Davis, McCaughin, Mischewitz, Blewet and Alcala all showed last year how relievers are not fungible.
Good framing would still be balls called strikes The adeptness would be the batters not challenging it. The 4/11 on challenges on strikes does not measure how well he frames.
The Ishbia’s came, saw the numbers and figured out the Twins at 1.7 billion were not worth sinking the money into to make a contender The market size may be large, the willingness to spend money on tickets, and at the time cable, were not there.
San Diego at the start of last year was capped at borrowing money, 40% of valuation Of the valuation was 2.5b, they had a billion in debt. The return on their investment is not as great as people make it out to be considering the 5 acre prime development site is included
When the Correa trade went down the negotiations ran through Jim Pohlad. Jim controlled the money. Jim had the say in how the team would be run. Joe was just sort of like the press secretary and a chief of staff. He got to talk to the press and handle the mundane.
Austin Martin is not the hitter that Arraez was at his peak. Gallo at his peak did not provide the offense that Arraez did. More useless comp scenarios
Roden and Outman started games, Rodriguez., not so much. That should be the indication that there was no plan to have him start the season in the majors.