The 2024 Baseball Season - Things to Come

The 2024 baseball season is over, as is 2024 itself. There are no more things to come.
Fin

 

Is @jim1961 still with us? Last seen 17w 5d ago

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I don't know much about him other than he can play middle IF and corner OF and wouldn't cost much. (b/t 3-12M and 3-20+ was what I just read)

I pretty much forgot he was on the market, he sure sounds like a useful guy.

...and yes, of course the Dodgers will sign him

 

Jeremy Pena
for
Wilyer Abreu, David Hamilton, and Franklin Arias.

Red Sox want to add RH bats to the lineup. They announced Rafaela is going to play mostly CF leaving SS in flux.

They have a high prospect in Mayer who is unproven, so Pena gives a team wanting to contend a proven MLB option with GG defense. Contending teams rarely want to rely on a prospect to man SS (2022 Astros excepted) and Story simply can't he counted on.

Mayer is blocking Arias who is probably 2 years away, but a true SS prospect. Mlbpipeline #95 and would instantly be Astros #3 prospect.

Hamilton is not an everyday or impact player, but between he and Dubon SS and #9 spot in lineup should be fine. He brings no power but excellent speed and defense.

Abreu instantly adds an everyday RF and lefty bat to the #5-7 area of the lineup.

 

Pick 37 back to dodgers. That's one way to get around draft penalties for FA signings.

 

Rooker easily could've gotten more on the market

 

He wasn't gonna hit the market until he was 33 a few years from now.

He "may" have gotten more if he maintained productivity for a few more years, but may as well lock in your set for life money instead of living on year to year contracts with massive downside potential.

 

Saw a thing yesterday that Lorenzen is trying to establish himself as a 2 way player which would allow his team maintain 14 pitchers instead of 13 . . . needs 20 games batting to establish . . . no idea if true, but interesting loophole if it exists.

The short contract then would allow him to hit open market or get traded mid season and, gatekeeping roster flexibility for a future team and possibly making more money.

This has to be addressed in a collective bargaining situation at some point.

 

They also "have to spend" money

 

Can’t he just blame his interpreter or trainer or friend

 

Well, I think he is saying his friend was the one using their shared account to bet on baseball. MLB can't fire his friend.

 

Don't worry, he's set for life in and out of prison...MLB will make it happen for taking the fall.

 

Just stopped in to say it's 2025.

Go Astros!!!

 

Wake me up halfway through spring training

The scoreboard on top of espn+ keeps reminding me that the Stros have 2 games on 2/22...

 

MLB leaving ESPN (or maybe ESPN getting out of the baseball business)

 

I think they've been getting out of the business for a while. I remember Baseball Tonight being a flagship show. They don't cover baseball with nearly the same effort they used to. The morning shows would rather talk about whatever stupid a** thing Jerry Jones did to or for the cowboys or something about LeBron than day to day baseball. I get it. It's a lot of games over a very long season. Kind of hard to do from a national perspective...especially when a majority of the country couldn't give a crap about the Yankees or Dodgers.

I wonder who jumps in?