HandsomeQuack

I'm pretty sure interference/obstruction has to do with where you set up before you get the ball

The pants! Still not "good" but so much better

Yeah, given Means's tough rehab outings I wouldn't mind them riding the hot hand with Suarez in the rotation. It just seems likely that the "hot hand" will cool off soon.

I could have left out the "very" in "very good", I guess. My statement was assuming he does not get re-injured, which is not a given. If you looked at the other 29 teams and picked out their current weakest link in the rotation, I'd imagine a healthy Means projects to be better than 20 of them. But I agree that he is not without question marks.

I wouldn't go as far as to call the current situation a logjam, but Kremer deserves a mention as being better than the mediocre/below average tier. Certainly more than Suarez. He's not an All Star but guys like him don't grow on trees, either. So that's, when everyone is healthy, four average-or-better starters, plus Means who if nothing else should be very good for a 5. Having Tyler Wells as a setup option should transform the entire pen. His career slash allowed as a reliever is .168/.212/.319.

Congrats, you have concocted a scenario where letting him walk makes sense. It's also possible that Kjerstad is not an MLB-level player. Maybe they QO Santander and he accepts, then they flip Kjerstad for a pitcher and groom Mayo to be the eventual RF starter. A lot is still possible in April.

Player A being better than Player B is justification for paying Player A. Duh. He's better and the goal is to win. This decision will probably make itself easy by the end of the year -- it's the outright dismissal today of extending him the QO that is silly.

I'm going to see how the season plays out -- hopefully Kjerstad gets some run at some point and we get more information on him. But when you are trying to win now, there is value to the bird in the hand. Stowers and Norby -- they're nice prospects, but there's a pretty good chance they never become what Santander is now.

That's fair, but Santander is probably better than those guys and it's not *my* $20 million. As long as the team is solvent I'm not losing sleep over their finances.

Wieters and Colby Rasmus accepted QOs on the same day, or within a day of each other. I also don't get the opposition to a potential Santander QO. We need to see how the season plays out, obviously, but I don't think a 1 for $20MM is going to affect the long-term financial prospects of the team, nor will it be the difference in the team making some big FA splash that isn't happening either way. And if it would hamper either of those things, then Elias will just not do it.

Hell yeah!

Somewhere, Buck is smiling at that perfect left-right alternation. Good luck, Rocco!

Until Means or Bradish is ready

When they first came out with the city connects, I hated them. Now that I've had some time to get used to them, I still hate them.

How can you not be romantic about baseball