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I was about to say it'll be funny when the first baserunner of the game happens in the 10th when he's placed at 2nd.

Had another player thrown a 92 mph projectile at one of our players on purpose, I only hope that we'd be an ass about it when we score later.

MLB: "We're losing fans left and right! How can we get this new generation to love our sport again?" Good Idea Fairy: "I know! Let's get our product off all streaming services and deaden the ball!"

Angel Hernandez needs a guy like CB Bucknor around to take the attention off of him once in awhile.

Agreed. Not sure how Castellanos is the only one ejected in that little skirmish. I know he “started” it by yelling at the pitcher but Yadi comes flying in like a bat outta hell and escalated everything along with bumping the ump. He always acting like a punk and seems to get away with it. Always. I absolutely can't stand Molina. He gets away with that crap all the time. Not only does he get away with it but he's even treated like some sort of class act and is basically worshipped in Missouri.

Castellanos rightfully fired up when scoring after getting a typical Cardinal beaning for getting a little too excited after a homerun. Day 2 and the Cardinals "holier than thou" act is already in full swing. And of course because MLB sucks and Molina is their golden boy for some reason, Castellanos is the only one tossed when Molina charges at him on his way back to the dugout and bumps an umpire on the way.

I don't think I've ever seen a lineup out 6 hours before opening pitch. This is a 6:10 start, right?

What were we offering for Machado in '18? I want to say that we wouldn't offer a better prospect than Luis Ortiz and the Os wanted Woodruff or Burnes.

My guess is that things will be back to "basically normal" for the 2022 season. But maybe I am overly optimistic.

MLB scheduling is weird. Like, a day off in the middle of a series? After one game? A day game nonetheless? Why? Then they have 3 week stretches without a day off later in the season. Why all the days off early in the season when everyone is raring to go?

I don't think 2 months of Story is worth giving up Mitchell for either, but I also think the Coors effect of those lifetime Colorado hitters is a bit overblown. Most good hitters who leave Colorado adjust just fine. Not that a .993 home OPS is probably sustainable for him but if moved I'm confident he'd do considerably better than .760.

That’d be the exact opposite of rewarding teams for building new ballparks. Not to stray too far off topic but it stinks that Tampa can't get any fan support. They have such a well-run organization.

I'm honestly surprised its still such a factor. In Wisconsin we are pretty much to the point where if you are an adult and you want a vaccine, you can get one. I suppose that's not the case everywhere. I would expect this becomes less and less of a factor but I suppose we can still expect some 7 inning double-headers this year.

Story is a guy I definitely would have loved in the offseason. It sounds like we are pretty much all-in on Urias at SS so we should have a good idea by July how that is panning out.

Sounds like an alternative will be named shortly. Won't be LA who is getting it in '22.

I totally forgot about this guy.

I know it's only one game, but it was good to be reminded of just how valuable Hader is to us and I'm glad we didn't sell him for the current market rate on his trade value because he's simply worth more to us than that. You could argue that the extra innings ghost runner rule makes guys like Williams and Hader more valuable. Peralta is another one of those guys. I can't help but wonder if he's going to find his way back to the pen just on the sin of being too valuable there to start him.

Limited no-trade clause, no opt outs. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/03/mets-to-extend-francisco-lindor.html

Most of your predictions seem pretty rational to me but I'm curious as to why you'd peg them at 77 wins and find them massively overrated. The Cardinals have only won less than 83 games one time since '99 -- they have a pretty established history of maintaining a very high floor, while not always the highest ceiling. Most of their core from last year is back, they will get Hicks back in the pen, and they added Arenado to their lineup. Much as I'd love to see them lose 85 games it would take some awfully thick Brewer blue goggles for me to peg them under 500 and even not think they'll be in it with us til the last week or so.

Didn't think they would just give a whole conference the extra home game. I would have liked to see them play the 17th game at a neutral site without an NFL team to try out some new markets. I think they are doing that starting in '22. One international game for everyone at a neutral site as the 17th game.

The number of humans who can regularly throw a baseball 100 mph and control where it goes is certainly not huge. A BB/9 of over 6 as a professional would suggest that Ray Black is not among those humans.

https://www.packersnews.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2021/03/30/green-bay-packers-bringing-back-defensive-tackle-tyler-lancaster/7060568002/ Now THIS seemed to be somewhere to go the "addition by subtraction" route.

It's like I said originally, Lucroy was a great Brewer until he started whining about money/his contract disguised as gripes about not winning. I suppose that's his right as a pro-ball player to gripe about money. After all careers are short. However, as a fan I get to chuckle whenever I hear his name because of his whining and the fact his career completely flamed out about 2 months after the Brewers traded him off guaranteeing no team was going to give him the huge deal he wanted in the first place. Whatever gives you enjoyment, I guess. As another fan I find no amusement in this, feel bad that his career fell apart so fast while at the same time being glad we didn't extend him. But I can totally understand why he wanted to be traded at that time and I'm glad we did. It worked out pretty well for us.

That's what bugged me. Apparently not catching everyday was going to hurt his value. How? That makes no sense. It's not like he was going to forget how to catch playing some games at firstbase. I think if anything it would increase his value if he could show the versatility to play another position not to mention he would save some wear on his body by not catching as much which would probably extend his career and therefore his earning potential. I really don't care if he didn't care about winning, the vast majority of professional athletes don't give a rip about the final score as long as the check clears. The Indians didn't win the World Series that season so by this logic I guess he should have been lobbying to be traded to the Cubs and only the Cubs. The Rangers literally finished with the best record in the AL that season. Anything can happen in the playoffs. A guy can want to play for a winner AND prefer a more desirable situation for his career at the same time. He got both. Lucroy was a catcher, his free agent value was as a catcher, the Indians wouldn't commit to giving him playing time as a catcher and told him straight out that he'd have to compete with Yan Gomes to be the #1 catcher going into the next season. Again, not great news for a guy that needed to log a full season as a starting catcher to establish his value in free agency. Gomes had been fairly unremarkable in his career up to that point, especially compared to Lucroy's career, and went on to post a .708 OPS in 2017 for the Indians. This feels really, really simple. I guess it's not real simple for everyone. All this. I'm guessing that for most people, relocating their livelihood and families to another area of the United States for the next couple years would be a fairly big decision and they might want control over the destination. Yet for these guys we look down on them if they don't jump on the first place we try to send them even if their contract specifically says they don't have to go.

Lucroy did consider going to Cleveland; however, they wouldn't assure him he'd be their starting catcher in '17, which was his contract year. I certainly don't blame him for declining. I've never seen a player so heavily criticized for exercising his contractual right. What exactly is the point of having NTCs worked into a contract if you're not going to leverage them?