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I don't actually think they can have Ohtani in the off-season if they want. They can have Ohtani if Ohtani wants. After the way he joined the league I can see him taking less money to play where he wants to play. I also wasn't being serious about taking on that bad contract. But if someone would...that would be pretty valuable.

They could offer to take the Rendon contract. That'd be worth a top 100 prospect.

It was .711 less than a week ago.

I won't be disappointed if they "just make the playoffs"

So not the worst?

Yep, that will work. Just send everyone down until they turn into Mike Trout. That's all it takes, reps in the minors.

You say this a lot, and I mean a lot. What defensive metric are you judging him by? You've never said.

I just want to say, age is always a factor in the draft. It's always going to be considered.

There are far fewer examples of any players that come up and ever rake or pitch very well. I'm not at all certain everyone on your list will qualify in that regard. The Braves have had a couple guys come up and play well out of the gate. Every player is different and we shouldn't look at Gunnar and assume Jordan will follow his path. He'll have his own path. It just seems to me that folks are using Gunnar's transition period as an excuse to support the team's reticence to promote players.

I think his absolute floor was low enough for a lot of teams to not consider him for a 7 digit contract. He did have can't get out of A ball risk.

I'm expecting Adley's defense to rebound and be the main difference.

Corbin Carroll seems to be doing OK. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/carroco02.shtml Struggling isn't a certainly either.

He's more likely to have the higher WAR total at the end of his career. If you are looking at the six years of team control (which to me is the sensible route) I'd go with Adley.

The one pitch was the four seam fastball. It's not like he had issues with sliders. I'm sure that fact that he turned down 2 million from Boston the year before was a factor, as was the simple fact he was a year older.

Frazier!

Right now Yoshida is the odds on favorite. Gunnar can run him down. Actually if someone can get Gunnar at +2500 I'd consider it. https://www.sportsbettingdime.com/mlb/al-nl-rookie-year-odds/

Some of us were never worried.

Now he's just padding stats!

It it a bit of a problematic term in regards to whom it gets used to describe.

Ahem.

I don't think it is emulating the Rays so much as it is using the same data to reach the same decision.

Have to let the other team score some more so it's a save situation.

A push on the other hand, that would be a surprise.

I'm of the mind that if you are going to pull a pitcher after the first baserunner just start the inning with a fresh arm.

He might very well still be ill.