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Yes, I think he belongs. He was like Miguel Cabrera with a shorter career. Of course, I also wish Cabrera's career was shorter.

The thing is he has always looked terrible at the plate, but he use to make up for it with power. He had the lowest k rate of his career this year. What was missing was power.

Baez has always been a strange unpredictable player. I am not expecting it, but I would not rule out a comeback. Even if he just gets back to the player he was in 2022 (offense and fielding), he'd be useful.

I thought the vertigo is what first prevented him from playing and that perhaps contributed to his anxiety. Does he no longer have vertigo?

MAGAs would probably like that ad. Of course none of them would say that word and each one has a black friend who supports Trump, but "if Blacks can say ******, why can't we?"

I assumed mojo was being funny, but not sure.

Yes, players probably did pay attention to what was going on with Eduardo Rodriguez and they might have been fine with it for reasons that fans don't understand. Fans are upset at Rodriguez because he didn't do what they wanted him to do. The players may very well have had a very different perspective.

Getting injured in a variety of different ways might be an even worse sign. Some athletes have more duabilty that others and I think it's a "skill" or a trait. Maybe another guy fouls a ball off his foot and only gets bruised. Another player might be able to handle the daily grind without getting a stress fracture. Or maybe Greene is just unlucky. I have a friend who runs an insane amount of mileage and has run 37 consecutive Boston marathon and never gets injured. Other running friends (me included) get injured all the time with much more moderate training.

I think Torkelson will eventually hit well enough to compensate for his defense. He's not there yet though. Greene's injuries are a concern. As Gehringer said, he could probably stay more healthy if he stopped diving, but sometimes that kind of aggressiveness is just part of a player's makeup and hard to change.

**** Allen stories are the best.

I don't think it will impact players coming here either. I was responding to Chas' assertion that he had just sent a message to problem players. I didn't necessarily think that would be good thing, but I also don't think that's what happened.

He's another Pedro Martinez!

but even if he is right about Rodriguez and Turnbull, non-difficult players might perceive him as difficult to work with and avoid him. I am not saying that he should let difficult players take advantage of him, just that I don't think having the reputation as a tough GM is necessarily a positive.

Patientce. An injured pitcher making a come back and a multi-position guy are going to sign any day now.

Is that a good reputation to have when trying to attract talent from outside the organization?

Actually, if they just gave guns to everybody and locked all the doors, no more good people would get shot.

Scott Harris scouting report: Smart guy. Very thorough. Can trust him not to do anything stupid. The final step is for him to find his balls.

And Brent Clevlen is the next Al Kaline.

They are officially named the Athletics. They were officially the A's from I think 1970-1980, but have always been the Athletics otherwise. That name has been around for the entirety of the modern major leagues, so I hope it stays the same. They'll probably come up with some cute new minor league type name though.

They probably don't want CDC finding out that people living in households with guns are twice as likely to be shot to death than those who live in households without guns.

11 per 100,000 gun deaths sounded high. But I did the math and it looks about right.

The new manager is Pete Rose.

There is no clear cut winner in the NL. You can make a case for Snell based on ERA, strikeouts and home run prevention. You can also make a case for Strider and a couple of others.