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Saw MLB.com continued its annual tradition of hoping for a breakout season from Jordan Walker. Am I missing something other than a high slugging percentage in the Texas League at a very HR friendly park in 2022? Age 20, sure.

Walker had .750 OPS in AAA in 2023 and 2024. Granted, he is still younger but it doesn’t seem like he warrants national media coverage for possible breakout season. Age 23, this year.

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https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43447447/dodgers-shohei-ohtani-donating-500k-la-wildfire-relief Shohei donating $500k to wildfire relief. Unfortunately, $490,000 is deferred.

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Ah yes, we've reached the "pissed because my team didn't sign a guy who has been bad since 2019" part of the offseason. That's like #5 on the 7 stages of grief.

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I may be the only one that thinks this……but the MLB needs a salary cap..

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5 hours ago, umphrey said:

They didn’t do nothing, they clearly just maxed their payroll with Hoskins and Woodruff and decided against another major trade besides Devin. I’m sure they would have loved to pay up for another infielder. 

I don’t know if that’s true. But for Lorenzo Cain the Brewers have never really been in the market for marquee free agents. 
 

As for the bargain basement free agents and NRI player they typically load up on, it’s probably a question of playing time. 
 

In other words, players taking NRIs and one year deals are looking to go somewhere they can play everyday and try to resuscitate their careers. Milwaukee has 8 spots kind of spoken for on an everyday basis.

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Professional sports contracts have been boggling minds for a long time now, and I realize that there are guys with bigger paydays, or similar injury-issues. But the Rendon deal, for me, really really blows my mind. A quarter of a BILLION dollars. Wow.

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Ty France only got 1 million?  I know he isn't great, but for that price, he would have been worth a shot over a guy like Bauers.

Twins signed 1B Ty France to a one-year contract.
 
The non-guaranteed deal is worth a reported $1 million. According to the Pioneer Press’s Betsy Helfand, Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said today that France is “going to play a lot. That’s really the best way to put it.” It seems like bad news for fellow right-handed hitter José Miranda, who looked like the favorite to start at first base a few days ago.
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1 hour ago, TURBO said:

Ty France only got 1 million?  I know he isn't great, but for that price, he would have been worth a shot over a guy like Bauers.

Twins signed 1B Ty France to a one-year contract.
 
The non-guaranteed deal is worth a reported $1 million. According to the Pioneer Press’s Betsy Helfand, Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said today that France is “going to play a lot. That’s really the best way to put it.” It seems like bad news for fellow right-handed hitter José Miranda, who looked like the favorite to start at first base a few days ago.

 France isn't much different than Bauers. France in 479 ABs had 13 HRs, 306 OBP, 670 OPS, a -0.4 WAR and negative DRS and UZR at 1B. Plus he's a RH hitter. Bauers in 302 ABs had 12 HRs, 301 OBP, 662 OPS,  a -0.4 WAR, and negative DRS at 1B. He is a LH so an alternative bat to Hoskins. Neither guy offers much. 

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Now that one... can't believe we will roll with Oliver Dunn instead of Dejong for $1M. 

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I thought DeJong was the best option left on the free agent market.  He's probably a negative WAR player going forward as a shortstop.  Bounce Ortiz to short and let DeJong be a full-time 3B.  He was a 1.7 fWAR player last year and that is with 70% of his innings at SS where the advanced stats were bad (-9 DRS, -9.1 UZR/150).  Third base numbers in 2024 were +1 DRS, +10.6 UZR/150.  Projection services have him about a 0.6 WAR player for next year, but I think as a full-time third baseman he has a better chance of avoiding injury and the defensive should be much, much better...I think a 1.5-2.0 WAR season is not an unreasonable projection if he's put at third base.  At that point, you just have to worry about the OBP because historically that has not been good, just counting on there being enough home runs to make up for it.

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So Jose Iglesias is a completely different type of hitter than DeJong, but could he fill a similar role if he came to Milwaukee.  Basically he was out of baseball for a year and a half, but since the 2019 season he has a slash line of .302/.340/.417/.756 in 1419 plate appearances.  .337/.381/.448/.830 last year with the Mets (291 plate appearances),  He is now a minus defender at short...probably would be about average as a 2B...but played 130 innings at third base in 2024 and was +4 DRS and +2.8 UZR/150.  Brings very little pop to the plate, but has the .340 OBP in his last 1400+ at bats.  Stearns already signed his replacement and has said that Iglesias will not be back with the Mets.  Also credible reports that Iglesias is only looking for a 1 year deal.  He's probably looking as the same 1 year, 1 million dollar type deal that DeJong got...and at face value it seems like he might be a pretty decent addition.

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On 2/16/2025 at 5:42 PM, JosephC said:

I thought DeJong was the best option left on the free agent market.  He's probably a negative WAR player going forward as a shortstop.  Bounce Ortiz to short and let DeJong be a full-time 3B.  He was a 1.7 fWAR player last year and that is with 70% of his innings at SS where the advanced stats were bad (-9 DRS, -9.1 UZR/150).  Third base numbers in 2024 were +1 DRS, +10.6 UZR/150.  Projection services have him about a 0.6 WAR player for next year, but I think as a full-time third baseman he has a better chance of avoiding injury and the defensive should be much, much better...I think a 1.5-2.0 WAR season is not an unreasonable projection if he's put at third base.  At that point, you just have to worry about the OBP because historically that has not been good, just counting on there being enough home runs to make up for it.

1.5-2.0 WAR season may not seem unreasonable based on last season, which was his best season since 2019, and he only posted a 95 wRC+. He has a .205/.263/.372/.635 76 wRC+ over the last 3 seasons. (Monasterio is a .243/.322/.324/.646 82 wRC+ lasr 2 seasons) That's the more reasonable expectation for 2025. I wouldn't have opposed his signing, but I don't think it's a miss passing on him.

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Joe Buck is going to do his first national MLB in four years when he does Brewers/Yankees on opening day for ESPN.  I know some aren't big fans, but I really like him, so I think this is great, better than the normal ESPN announcers.  Plus he was given his choice of partners so he picked Bill Schroeder and Joe Girardi, one local guy from each team, which is pretty cool of him, and cool for Rock to get do an opening day game on ESPN.

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23 hours ago, Vgmastr said:

Joe Buck is going to do his first national MLB in four years when he does Brewers/Yankees on opening day for ESPN.  I know some aren't big fans, but I really like him, so I think this is great, better than the normal ESPN announcers.  Plus he was given his choice of partners so he picked Bill Schroeder and Joe Girardi, one local guy from each team, which is pretty cool of him, and cool for Rock to get do an opening day game on ESPN.

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They were just interviewing Buck on the MLB channel this morning.  He said he specifically picked Bill Schroeder to be with him, so he could get some good Uecker stories.

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On 2/18/2025 at 8:45 AM, Vgmastr said:

Joe Buck is going to do his first national MLB in four years when he does Brewers/Yankees on opening day for ESPN.  I know some aren't big fans, but I really like him

It's funny, the people who say that a certain announcer is bad rarely ever say who is good.

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