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  1. Fear The Chorizo
    I feel like the advent of shifting has gotten middle infielders much closer to 2nd, so those force plays have them acting more like 1B standing stationary on the bag instead of moving through it or being able to catch the ball and quickly bounce off the base to avoid the slide thats coming. McNeil could've made it a non issue by simply backing off the bag as soon as he caught the ball, but instead he stood there like a statue and did try to transfer to his throwing arm to make a play to 1st. It's a totally clean and legal slide, and if McNeil is upset at almost getting hurt he should have practiced taking throws at 2nd more in spring training so he doesn't get himself racked up.
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    Rusty Hardin's email must've had an out of office reply...sheesh
  3. Fear The Chorizo
    Better for Smith that he's behind Ohtani...guys in front of him tend to get tossed under buses
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    You know who's probably most pissed about all these opt out/1 year deals for pitchers? Burnes, yet another Boras client. Get ready for another looooong free agency period next winter and spring
  5. Fear The Chorizo
    He's also his scapegoat, which is the most important role to him at this point.
  6. Fear The Chorizo
    Problem is that we've previously been down that road with Mitchell in other seasons, too.
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    this is so frustrating....but as Jopal notes, arguably the most important tool a player needs to have in order to be a longterm everyday mainstay in an organization is health - if you can't stay on the field, you can't permanently take up a 40 man roster spot. Hoping he heals up and is at least an option to get back to Milwaukee before the all star break.
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    The nationals organization is also paying Strasburg 30+M dollars a season to be retired for the next few years. A 459 slg percentage on a 324 BA in spring training is actually pretty terrible. Winker's last game or two of plate appearances have softened those numbers a decent amount, too. Hiura's 2024 deal makes sense for him to get routine opportunities to get back into the majors if he continues to rake in the Tiger minor leagues. The Nats are likely vying for another few seasons of picking in the top 5, so them having Winker on their mlb roster to start this season is a "who cares" event.
  9. Fear The Chorizo
    Feels like people have 20/80 vision retrospectively on previous year's rotation quality because of names that aren't around anymore. The Brewers' rotation last season was a weakness....not as much of one as their offense most of last season, but it's not like we saw 4-5 straight months of consistent starts going 6+ IP giving up 2 runs or less, either. Gasser starting in the minors is due to service time manipulation - he'll be up by May. Excited to see Hall develop and throwing every 5th day. It feels a ton to me like the 2019 season, when the Brewers first let Woody/Freddy/Peralta get extended shots in the rotation - that was the year Burnes was among the worst starters in baseball, btw. There will be growing pains with young arms, but you gotta let them work through it at some point.
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    His start this year is encouraging considering his struggles the previous spring trainings...there are a handful of MLB teams right now where he'd be an upgrade at DH to what they currently have in their plans for Opening Day. Don't want to get too specific on team names to start derailing threads before the regular season, lol. Wouldn't surprise me to see him in some afterthought end of Spring Training deal where he's switching organizations with a quicker shot back at MLB.
  11. Fear The Chorizo
    This is 100% my point...something is very fishy when as soon as lawyers looking at factual records start making statements on behalf of their clients are the polar opposite to that of the translator who has long been ID'd as like a "brother" to Ohtani, and the Dodgers instantly fire this guy despite plenty of people apparently knowing about this looming issue for months. And my statement earlier in this post was intended to be sarcastic and cheeky - I know Ohtani makes plenty of money to not have to worry about living expenses despite deferring basically all of his MLB salary in this contract until after he retires. Guys with his kind of income/net worth are the ones who wouldn't bat an eye racking up a handful of million in gambling debts. It starts looking pretty bad when all of a sudden you find out there's an investigation going on about an illegal gambling setup that you might have some form of link to through a middle man, and then try to scrabble together a "loan/debt repayment" plan under the premise of bailing a friend out from his own debt...the fact that was the initial statement by his interpreter only for it to be instantly turned around as him stealing this money somehow through wire transfers after everyone lawyered up is what makes this story incredibly juicy, IMO.
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    Yep...guy was getting paid close to a half million a season so it's not like he's a pauper - but the reason he'd be able to rack up that kind of gambling debt with anyone is because his accounts weren't the ones being used as credit. Stories be changing every time people are having to open up their mouths despite what appears to be a pretty solid paper trail of where funds ultimately came from to make payments is a pretty big red flag.
  13. Fear The Chorizo
    Guess trying to earn your meal money under the table with some shady dealings with your interpreter and sports gambling is what happens when you opt to defer 95% of your salary for the next decade. MLB should suspend Ohtani for 10 years until his annual takehome pay exceeds that of the amount that was allegedly "stolen" from him. At this point, I have no idea if the above needs to be in blue or not....which makes it all the more glorious after the Dodgers' offseason, IMO.
  14. Fear The Chorizo
    None of the arms you listed are pitching opening day because all of them are recovering from injury, right? Keep going down that list of highest AAV pitchers and it reads alot like a 60 day IL right now. Ohtani, Cole, Strasburg (he's retired due to injury but still making $35m a season for a few more years). Many of these same guys are Boras clients, too. Snell is getting less in AAV than these guys and didn't get close to a similar longterm 9 figure deal because, frankly, he carries a very similar injury risk at 31 and teams have either learned their lesson or already have too many arms that aren't healthy taking up huge swaths of payroll space. Even the biggest market teams have only so much room to pay veteran starters to get injured as they advance into their 30s.
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    Yep....lolz
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    I don't think the minimum wage would need to be impacted....jobs would just be hemmoraged from sectors that are hit the hardest, and perhaps the skills gap for the tens of millions of unfilled jobs right now can be diminished. As for people having issues knowing how to manage money, totally agree but can't be surprised given the fact the government does the same thing.
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    So much of the consumer spending propping this bloated economy up is still coming from people racking up debt (credit cards), draining savings, or even pilfering their retirement accounts to try and offset the now permanent cost increases of everything. In order to get things back on a sustainable track, I'm convinced that we do need to go through a period of deflation to reset prices - understanding that would be brutal for the economy across the board. If that doesn't happen, eventually this thing comes crashing down anyways because people will exhaust the extra options they've been using to come up with enough funds to maintain their daily life. The Fed needs to continue hiking rates, or at minimum maintain them where they are. Lowering them at this time would limit their ability to alleviate rate pressure on the economy down the road when it is actually necessary. I'd equate lowering rates at this point in time with that steering a big ship analogy to the captain of the titanic asking his crew to raise the cabin temperature 2 degrees to keep the passengers comfortable a couple hours before they crash into an iceberg instead of opting to turn the ship around and head back to port (would've ticked off all the passengers, but they'd still be alive to gripe about a bad luxury cruise experience).
  18. Fear The Chorizo
    His cap hit for 2024 isn't even the reason the Chargers are working through cap hell this offseason.
  19. Fear The Chorizo
    Very true
  20. Fear The Chorizo
    1 yr contract that totals a VRBO credit for door county, slip in egg harbor for a boat, and confidentiality agreement that withholds any and all photos of his legs in the weight room should be about market rate... Actually like the move, as it reduces the need to look at RB in the draft until late rounds and frees up those higher picks to target impact talent at positions teams shouldnt kill their salary caps with in free agency.
  21. Fear The Chorizo
    Gasser has been consistently underrated by Brewers fans...looking forward to watching him dramatically exceed expectations in Milwaukee this season. He's earned a rotation spot on Opening Day, but might have a little delay before his initial callup while the Brewers see if they can get a bag of balls for a different player already on their 40 man they'd need to jettison to put Gasser on it
  22. Fear The Chorizo
    60 percent of the time, it works every time!
  23. Fear The Chorizo
    There won't be many save situations anyways with the Brewers scoring 1-2 runs an inning
  24. Fear The Chorizo
    It's more to do with him not yet being on the 40 man roster than being deserving of a shot at the majors, IMO. Mother of all logjams to start this season, and if Black lights up AAA pitching from jump there really shouldn't be many IF's currently on that 40 man roster who should delay May or June callup.
  25. Fear The Chorizo
    He rested 1 month and then went through his whole offseason training program....which in this day and age includes throwing bullpens. this isn't Devin punching a wall before the playoffs.
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