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Good article in this morning's USA Today about Bauers: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2026/06/21/jakers-bauers-stats-brewers-contract/90633096007/

Erick Almonte was on Tim Dillard's podcast over the winter, I finally got around to listening to that episode this past weekend. It was a very interesting conversation, I enjoy hearing the stories of guys who were basically career minor league guys but lasted a long time.

By my math he's on pace for 45 wins. Is that a lot?

If anyone else was confused by the math on this like I initially was, the numbers past the decimal place are the number of days of service time they have, not a fraction of a year, so Harrison has 1 year, 102 days of service time, not just barely over a year of service time.

Happy for Murph, it's always a bit of an unknown with people you don't really know, but he seems like a genuinely good person and what he has done over the past couple seasons speaks for itself. It seems like so long ago that everyone was talking about how he was just there to keep the seat warm for a season or two until Rickie Weeks took over.

What a series. Can't ask for much more as a fan. Sure, a sweep would have be great, but what a way to win it.

This. I think it was last year (or maybe the year before) that Dom went through the statistics on Brewers Weekly and there was essentially zero correlation between how hot a team was going into the playoffs and how well they did in the playoffs.

The injury update on brewers.com shows that he's expected to resume throwing sometime next week, so it must not be too severe.

Durbin!!!

I don't pay much attention to the world of card collecting but it is wild to me that things that have so little tangible value (e.g, a piece of cardboard, a digital "coin") are somehow worth so much money. Also, without knowing the details, these 1/1 cards seem like they're pushing the boundary of sports cards basically being gambling. I suppose you could make the case that they always kind of have been to some extent, but still...

Well deserved, the way she does interviews with Spanish speaking players while simultaneously being the one translating the interview is so impressive.

It stands out as really strange to me that previous season/career fWAR for Contreras/Raleigh is slightly above Wieters yet over a decade later (with 35% inflation over that time period) the salary has not changed at all. Over that time, MLB revenue appears to have consistently grown (outside of the pandemic impacted seasons) and the qualifying offer has consistently grown. The article may be right that Contreras will lose but the argument that he should be making even more than he filed for seems logical, too, unless I am missing something.

No idea how much of it is true and how much is embellished but that Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich story is legendary.

Didn't one of the Atlanta teams do basically the same thing and have it work out really well for them?

He has an upward mobility clause in his contract that requires the Tigers to see if any MLB teams are interested in him on specific dates and if there are, they have to either add him to their own roster or trade him to the interested team. I believe the first date the clause triggers is March 26th, so it could be soon.