The Great Hambino

I'm also in the torn-hip-labrum club. It's the most frustrating injury I've ever had (played football at the D3 level - I was never a bjorks-level athlete), partially because it's difficult to diagnose without an MRI, partially because the symptoms come and go seemingly out of nowhere exactly as you described in point 2. I took the surgery route, which included re-shaping the top of my femur (congenital defect left me with too much femoral neck for the hip joint, which led to the labrum tear that caused the impingement). It took several months to fully heal, but I was able to play two more seasons. My lateral movement never returned, but it was ish to begin with, so no big loss there. They told me a hip replacement in the future was virtually guaranteed, but I've been able to dodge it for 20 years so far. Tying this back to Buxton, I completely understand how his issues can seemingly come and go and flare up in a really painful fashion, and I also get the frustration involved with an injury where it's tough to acutely pinpoint the cause. When I finally got the tear diagnosed with the MRI, a part of me was relieved to finally be able to point to something to be able to show my coaches I wasn't making things up. With the obvious caveat that not all impingements are created equally, I hope they give some real consideration to the surgical option. There's plenty of time for recovery, and the psychological benefits of eliminating these flare-ups are almost as important as the physical benefits. I would also strongly encourage the Twins to consider any future time spent in CF by Buxton to be a bonus from a roster planning standpoint

He hit the Grab & Go!

I might be increasingly in the minority on this, but I don't think we lose more than a month of games next year. The upcoming media rights negotiations in 2028 will prevent a prolonged work stoppage. Missing a season right before these negotiations take place would literally kill the golden goose. There will be a lot of posturing, and the offseason will feel like it lasted for seven years, but that's too much of their future revenues at stake to go nuclear. Personally, I don't think a cap is needed if they have the amount of revenue sharing that would meaningfully level the playing field (it would sort of work as an unofficial cap on its own - the big spenders would have to curb their spending if all their revenue was getting pooled). However, to get the revenue sharing and high floor needed to create payroll balance through collective bargaining, I don't know what could be offered as a trade-off other than some form of cap to get the owners to agree to it. My prediction: there will be a (not high enough) floor, some convoluted mechanism that blurs the lines between a stiff luxury tax and a soft cap on the high end (think NBA), both sides will claim they won, and we're playing competitive baseball by May. As for what I want to happen, I want any mechanism that incentivizes organizations from putting their best 26 healthy players on the active roster. No more service time manipulation, no more maintaining profitability with noncompetitive payrolls. Overall, I think the Pirates of the world are more responsible for the imbalance in the sport than the Dodgers

It's probably a nightmare from a coding standpoint, but hiding the responses of ignored posters within quoted text would be swell

I'll be there Friday - no amount of lousy play can keep me away from Yacht Rock Night

It's the one major league city smaller than Minneapolis

Have they considered just skipping the sixth inning? Just like Beulah from Field of Dreams - experience two fifths, then move right on to the seventh

Normally I'd agree. But for this front office/ownership group, that's kinda their thing. Like when they couldn't understand why fans weren't thrilled to learn they were pulling the team off the market, or when they jacked up payroll only to pull the plug on Year 1 of their alleged 5 year plan to build up payroll (Gleeman referred to this; I wish I had a link) But yeah, if the team has any oversight of the content on their site, then it would be a really strange thing to post if that wasn't the plan

I'm hoping for Jenkins, but not holding my breath. I think they're too concerned with working Jenkins around the current roster instead of just working the current roster around Jenkins. But they gotta try something I am completely unconcerned with the risk of anyone they call up sputtering and failing to provide the spark they need. When the status quo isn't good enough, the potential reward that a call-up can provide outshines any associated downside by a mile. Worst case, someone got their feet wet now and they have some experience to rely upon going into next season

The longer they hold onto JJ, the greater the chance some team suffers an injury to their QB room and gets desperate enough to overpay in trade. He would have to be actively sabotaging their game planning to be such a distraction that he's not worth holding onto in case of that scenario. I think locker room cancer-type things generally get overblown - these are professionals, they're too wrapped up in their own game prep to get too concerned with high school locker room drama. I'd like to think that, anyway

Time's up, let's do this WALKERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR JENKINSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Despite his best efforts, Corey could not jinx Bradley out of his immaculate inning

I think this is the first time I've heard Zebby talk. This is not how I pictured his voice sounding

The part of my brain that needs all of our Tupperware container lids organized a certain way in the drawer really wishes this headline started out with "Crank-n-Clank"

Don't underestimate the allure of Marlins Man