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Looks like Bregman‘s gambit of doing the high-AAV short contract with opt outs last year worked out for him after all. I don’t think there was any ghost of a chance he would ever get $215 million over six years last winter.

That should spell the end of Matt Shaw in Chicago, although if the Cubs end up trading Nico Hoerner instead, they deserve to miss out on the playoffs next year. I don’t like Matt Shaw the person, but maybe Scott Harris should go after Matt Shaw the player to play third base for us. We have the prospect capital to pay for him.

He will hit in Wrigley.

No wonder the red hats all still think Trump is the bee’s knees.

I don't know, I don't think a back-of-the-rotation pitcher controllable for only one more year would get us much more than a team's #10-#20 prospect as the headliner in a volume return. Is that OK with you?

Based on this self-documentation from ChrisCo himself, I'm guessing Trump is a huge fan and gives him mad props.

We appear to be moving in that direction, yes.

That's because they are not actual ministering or religious Christians. They are cultural Christians, which makes them secular Christians. The Christianity they flash as social credentials is all posturing and virtue signaling. So much for Matthew chapter 6.

More like the golden shower all over us.

They're going to get to the rest of us eventually. Wait until they deputize your red-hatted neighbors to round you up. Won't that be a hoot.

I'm not sure I have ever seen anyone do as complete a 180 as I've seen you do. 🫡

Lining up to join ICE?

That's because they don't want the truth. They want their truth.

Was that Biden headline from the Bezos Post? Because that's the only way this tweet makes sense.

I hated to have to Like this one, but I had to.

She is, isn't she? I wouldn't trust her to not defect to RWM a la Lara Logan.

Look, I like a liberal arts education as much as the next guy, but I don't think anyone is going to Texas Agricultural & Mining University for a degree in platonic philosophy, anyway.

I don't. We wouldn't get much for him, and he would do more good for us in our rotation than whatever we get back would anywhere else for us—unless Harris pulls a rabbit out of his hat, and I don't think anyone here thinks he would on a Mize trade.

I like Bassitt. He posts up and looks like he still has something left in the tank. Giolito might be the backup plan if Bassitt doesn't came aboard. Our rotation is in pretty decent shape without either of them.

I too don't think these numbers come out of thin air.

I don’t think the Tigers necessarily low-balled Skubal with an offer of $19MM. They might have considered $19.8MM out of respect for Skubal’s accomplishments, a number that would have made him the highest arb award to a pitcher to date no matter what. But it’s not as though they truly low-balled him with a number under $15MM or something. The Skubal ask of $32MM is way, way more out of line versus precedent than the Tigers’ number. I kind of doubt they informally discussed beforehand what they would offer, and assuming they did not, I could see the Tigers thinking we’ll offer $19, they’ll ask for $25 or so, we won’t mind losing that, it’ll be fine. Instead, we have this, and all the narrative attended to it. I understand the Harris regime is a file-and-trial regime, but I don’t think that necessarily means they can’t negotiate a mid-point number. I think it’s possible the Skubal camp would be nervous enough about a $19 award that they would accept a $26 or $27 settlement. A truism of negotiation is that literally everything that goes before it factors into the outcome, so it’s reasonable to assume that any long-term deal Skubal signs would be a lot higher if he made $26MM this year than if he made $19MM. That would be incentive enough for him to accept a midpoint settlement.

… and that come out in January.

This is your answer when I ask you to prove your wild statement that was obviously untrue? Huh. This is clearly personal for you. I have no interest in this anymore.

Of the 21 Games running on NBC, 17 of them involved Big Six teams: Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, Giants, Red Sox, or Cubs. In fact, there are more games that involve two Big Six teams (five) than have no Big Six teams (four).

I’ll be interested to see whether Andy is good enough to stick on the Dodgers’ big league roster for a whole 183 days.