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  1. It guarantees the team always has good weather conditions. It's silly to rank a team as having bad weather when they have a roof they can use.
  2. Marlins, Brewers, Rangers, Braves, Astros, Mariners, Jays, Diamondbacks but NOT the Rays this season.
  3. If they had built a stadium with a roof on it, we would already be hearing about how that makes the team uncompetitive, and we need a new stadium without a roof so they can draw fans.
  4. I don't think so. If the weather allows them to start the 2nd game then it allows them to finish the first game.
  5. Buxton's ISO OBP is 50 points, Wallner's is 90 points. In the minors, McCusker was around 60 points, closer to Buxton than Wallner.
  6. It's all about his strikeout rate and batting average. He could hit anywhere from .180 to .290. Byron Buxton actually has a similar power/strikeout profile. Buxton has a tad more speed to his game which helps him stretch doubles to triples.
  7. Someone who can hit lousy AAA pitching. Nobody should expect him to hit .350 in MLB. Fortunately, he has enough power to be a positive contributor with a .240 average. That's basically Randal Grichuk or Jorge Soler.
  8. The Twins are likely to get 2 years of Topa and $5M in salary relief for Polanco, who was nearly unplayable in 2024. That's mostly nothing for nothing.
  9. What Polanco does in 2025 is completely unrelated to the trade. The Mariners declined the club option and Polanco became a free agent. That ended their side of the ledger after the 2024 season.
  10. He's 26 and just finally holding his own in Double-A. An all-bat prospect needs 1000 OPS in the minors and he's at 823. If he does make it, it will probably be a very short MLB career.
  11. They have a 13 game winning streak. Nobody could expect Duran to pitch in 13 consecutive games with a lead. Necessity means opportunities will be spread out.
  12. Kody Clemens now has the highest OPS on the team (min 35 plate appearances). Jeffers has enjoyed hitting against Milwaukee. The Brewers are a fun team to watch. They're fast, play great defense and play hard.
  13. I'm pretty sure this 12 game win streak means Rocco keeps his job at least until the end of the season.
  14. Or next year, or the year after that. If he's optioned at any time between now and 2027 he has to stay in the minors for 15 days which costs him a year of service time.
  15. Woods-Richardson was just barely under 1 year of service time last year. He's controllable until 2030 and there really aren't any further benefits because he'll run out of options after this season.
  16. It's worth noting that Simeon Woods-Richardson is younger than Zebby Matthews and David Festa. If those guys can learn and improve, so can Woods-Richardson.
  17. Hands up if you thought the team with a .370 winning percentage would immediately reel off the 2nd longest winning streak in the history of the franchise. Everyone with their hand up is a liar.
  18. I like this idea. Rose can go in after everyone who ever knew him is long dead and the historians are the only people left who care. Pete Rose, HOF 2130!
  19. Pete Rose is a sex offender, but I don't think he killed anyone.
  20. None come to mind. Pete Rose is the only Hall of Fame caliber player who ruined his career by violating the only rule that has a lifetime ban as a punishment. Pete Rose is a like a package of all the bad traits of every other sketchy candidate all rolled up into one person. I guess he wasn't an overt racist, so he has that going for him.
  21. He also placed bet as a player. See my link above.
  22. Still denying he bet on games while he played for the Reds. Still lying. BTW - Mark McGwire apologized and his support went from 25% to 0% overnight. The lesson I've learned is if you really want something in this world and don't care about anyone else, never admit fault, never accept responsibility and never apologize. You're much more likely to get what you want than if you admit what you did and say you're sorry. Forgiveness is a sucker's bet.
  23. The writers won't have any say on Pete Rose. He's only eligible for Era Committee voting. That means he has to get past the screeners who make the Era Committee ballot. Then 12 of the 16 committee members need to be convinced that he deserves one of the 3 votes they get to distribute among 8 players. They won't vote on Rose until December, 2027 at the earliest.
  24. That is a good place to start. He needs find a way to pitch that can reduce that split by >100 points. Usually, that means developing a changeup. The article mentions his fastball (24th percentile) and breaking (26th percentile) pitches, but his offspeed run value (2nd percentile) actually ranks the least effective on statcast. If he had a 25th percentile changeup he'd be an adequate innings-eating starter.
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