Moose Milligan

Audio exists of Stu Miller being blown off the mound at Candlestick, I've never seen a video of it though and I've always wanted to. I'm not sure if it exists. Steve Avery was an excellent pull for Braves 1st round pick, I had that baseball card.

This got me all tingly. Where his barrel hunts! Exciting!

I whiffed on Giants first round pick. I should have used Posey but got ahead of myself and used him for the .300 hitter. 8/9 219 Jeffrey Hammonds, Pete Rose, Jonathan India Darren O’Day, Terry Pendleton, Chipper Jones Sidney Ponson, Buster Posey, miss. Hammonds was .7%, DOD was 5%, Ponson was 4%

That’s a guy that was a beast in the 80s and, I think, has largely been forgotten. WAR hasn’t been particularly kind to him but his OPS+ is pretty good. At his peak, he was a .900ish OPS bat. Top 5 MVP finishes, too.

That’s a nothingburger.

2%

why you gotta take it there

It would be cool if they won 100+ games again though.

9/9 59 rarity score

I can see why people would want him and if we signed him I’d be okay with it. I’d be more excited about it if we were, like, a 70 win team and had more room to gamble with a guy like that. And maybe this is the bargain bin we’re shopping in this off-season. But I want more of a sure fire bet, a known commodity if they’re going to spend money. Which they won’t.

Slim. Less than 25%.

It would be a giant boost to this team if he came back and had a great season out of the pen.

That's my list, too. Hesitate on G-Rod but he looks like he could be really special.

IMO and after thinking about it for a bit, not much stays a secret very long these days. I don't believe the initial rumor to be true, as much as I'd like it to be.

For the record, I agree with SG that they should be able to add a pitcher at 3/60. I'd hesitate to give that 4th year but if the analytics and whatever other advanced things they're looking at suggest that a guy like Gray can still succeed while losing some zip on the fastball, that's fine. But I know that they won't. And I know that they won't add a bullpen arm like Hader (who I'd really like to have). I think they should spend but I know better. The bigger issue for me is if they're going to spend to keep their own talent. I am admittedly attached to Adley but I can see a scenario where it makes sense to let him walk. But not ponying up to keep guys like Gunnar, Holliday, Basallo, or whatever guys really step up and become core, indispensable players to a team that's always in the playoffs will be pretty inexcusable. Like, you don't draft and develop a guy like Gunnar, IMO, to see him walk at the first opportunity. The Braves have locked up their core for awhile and should be contenders well into the last half of this decade, there's no reason we shouldn't be able to do the same. In summary, not spending in FA...kind of stupid not to, but whatever. But not spending to extend some of these guys? A bit ridiculous.

I believe it.

Oh look, a Pickles/CoC debate that makes everyone's head hurt.

Glowing report, looking forward to reading the one about Holliday here in a minute. The size does give me a bit of pause, he sounds like he's built like a young Frank Thomas. And Frank Thomas in 1990, 1991 was a pretty imposing guy but by the end of the decade he was closer to Cecil Fielder. But whatever, it's really exciting to have him in the system. Glad to see the international efforts paying off.

I don't get mad at water for being wet. It's as simple as that. To anyone that thought Angelos would spend after a 101 win season with one of the lowest payrolls in the game, where's the logic? JA just looked at Elias and said "We fielded a team that won 101 games, spent hardly anything to do it, why increase the payroll? Run it back in 2024, let's do it again." I'm with @Frobby, I don't care how much they spend, but just win. And I realize that's going to come at the expense of securing guys like Adley and Gunnar to extensions but it is what it is, so I'll enjoy them while they're here. No one can say they didn't see what's going to come, coming.

8/9 244

Lol at SG always stepping right up to the line of the "no politics" rule but never crossing it. He's a line stepper, habitually. He's a habitual line-stepper.

Adley, what a disappointment.

Yeah?

I almost went with Ernie Banks but wanted to try someone current. Figured Steele would have been more popular. Also figured Cal would be more popular but this game is surprising!

Never!