Edgy MD

You can practically hear it sucking just by opening this thread.

He would be a fool not to be there. He works the concourse, gladhands some insiders, sits down with a reporter or two, gets a hello from Ollie Marmol, three articles get written suggesting the Cardinals are talking to him, and his price goes uppity up.

Yeah, that is my recollection too. And hey, you won't get me to support Selig. If you ask me, almost every commissioner has been a prop put in place to protect the owner's interests, players be damned. And the "Interests of Baseball" is a romantically phrased smokescreen. I imagine if you ask Alexa, she will tell you the same thing. Actually, if Selig did anything, he rescued the owners from the bouts of integrity that A. Bartlett Giammatti and Faye Vincent were prone to.

Awesome. Great to see everybone. After we figure out why the text "Forum Archives" text is overlapping with the "Not Affiliated" disclaimer, things are gonna be jake, but we're gonna have to move the archives anyhow.

Fun Fact — Kyle has led the league in schWAR for 11 straight seasons.

Somebody give that man an Amen! Hey! Let's play comps! Similar Pitchers through 28 Aaron Civale (989.3)Collin McHugh (978.9) Frankie Montas (978.6) Bailey Ober (970.5) Jameson Taillon (970.1) Joe Kelly (969.9) John Farrell (969.6) Wei-Yin Chen (969.3) Zack Wheeler (968.3) John Stuper (968.0) All those being a 968 comp score or higher suggests to me that the algorithm thinks they are all highly comparable, and seeing as there is probably one guy there in 10 over whom you would slobber to get the age 29-33 seasons from, I think we are looking at a foolish proposition.

And yet the stunning hypocrisy of electing Bud Selig doesn’t seem to have caused such breach. Who is supposed to get through the Bud Selig breach? George Steinbrenner and George W. Bush? Or maybe Marvin Miller? I figure that the standard is already established with commissioners. If you last for twenty years or more, by hook or by crook, you are likely to get in. It's too embarrassing for baseball, keeping around somebody for that long while acknowledging that he wasn't such a special figure after all, so they pretend he is.

It appears Fernando Valenzuela wasn't so much a lock as all of that. The path for Bonds and Clemens is still open as Manny Ramirez (for one last year, anyhow) and Alex Rodriguez remain on the BBWAA ballot, and in an otherwise weak year, they could certainly break through. If and when one such character breaks through, it likely becomes a breach in the seawall keeping all PED violators out.

We haven't turned that corner quite yet, but you're welcome. I will be getting on this tomorrow in earnest.

Holy ****! The Mets traded a Hall-of-Famer for Carlos Baerga!

Either Pete or his representation or both certainly seem to have a let-the-game-come-to-you strategy. That utterly fell through for him last season, so hopefully he is quicker to bite.

I cannot find a 2025 thread, so why not start 2026 early with this unfortunate picture that the AP used to report rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine violating his parole and getting a few months in the joint. I have not heard or read this figure's name before today, can only guess at how I may pronounce his name, but the AP reported on his situation, so I guess this qualifies him as a BS, and this is the photo they used to accompany the story that otherwise might have passed by me un-noticed, so I guess that qualifies him as ML. So ... yay? [fimg=600]https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/5124114/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6300x3533+0+0/resize/1440x808!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fef%2F2b%2F39e1dac1553729473503f6b5275c%2F079378d6057a421199619fdc07a4366c[/fimg]

Experience so far suggests to me that thoracic outlet surgery has served to be a solution that is worse than the syndrome, at least for professional pitchers. If my client is confronted by thoracic outlet surgery, I would humbly (for I am no medical professional) suggest he or she pursue an alternate course of treatment, quite possibly including nothing.

Ty’s Tigers tenure, which yielded no MLB appearances, predated his initial Mets’ Cockiness. He was released in the summer of 2024, but didn’t land with another organization and was signed anew before the season was out. Technically two terms, but in practicality he never left. Well, blow me down. Just what was it Ty was doing in that year in between his Mets release and his Mets re-signing? Was he perhaps employed as ... a narco-terrorist?!?!

Word. Word to The Ghost of Baseball Yet to Come.

His appearances over the last two seasons — and this is a specific unprompted memory — are from two different professional tenures, having thrown in with the Tigers in between. I imagine this means that, while we are indeed saying goodbye, we might be saying hello, again, hello, in the near future. I also remember that he looked like Daniel Murphy with a big shrubby beard. He was ineffective in his first go-around, but effective in the second, but what can you tell from three appearances?

I would sell my Kiss dolls to be the one to make those decisions.

Well, indeed, that is the shorter and less tedious way of saying it.

In 2021, the Mets traded not-yet-blossomed talent for apparent present value when the sent Pete Crow-Armstrong to the Cubs for Javier Baez. Despite two months of some of the best baseball of Baez' life, the team failed to stem their fall, and Baez moved on. In 2025, the Mets found themselves without any obvious answer in centerfield, while Pete Crow-Armstrong was putting up a six-WAR season for Chicago. They tried paper over that by trading not-yet-blossomed talent for apparent present value in giving up three guys for Cedric Mullins. They failed to stem their fall; Mullins left town in ignominy; and Raimon Gómez, Chandler Marsh, and Anthony Nunez may never make much of a splash, but they have their whole lives in front of them. I think we become emotionally attached to the present moment, and feel like we need to solve all problems at once, and we fail to see how quickly not-yet-blossomed talent can blossom and present value can rot. That is especially true when the metaphorical eggs of not-yet-blossomed target is frequently divided among multiple players, and the apparent present value all resides in the single basket of one man's arm, upon one man's UCL. Give me the allegedly unproven talent base every time.

Wisdom has this one.

Sheesh, I might prefer bringing back Julio Teheran.

Consolidation trades turn me off more than most trades. Top-of-the-rotation starters (which Ryan only barely qualifies as) blow up as easy as anybody else. I hate to put multiple eggs into such baskets.

If he stays with the Twins another season, I imagine his five-and-ten rights would supercede his contractual rights, and give him the right to reject trades. If he is acquired in a trade this off-season, that is out the window, though he may demand his contractual no-trade rights be extended/expanded in exchange for his consent to this trade.

Did you know the Braves signed Danny Young two days ago? I did not! And I care about that sort of thing. This is clearly vengeance for A.J. Minter. You sign the Braves' broken lefthanded reliever and break him worse, and you don't think there is going to be payback for that sort of thing? It is a pretty weird deal in that they signed him to a one-year deal when he probably won't even be allowed on a mound until the second half of the season, and quite possibly late in the second half. I was thinking maybe the report was referring to a different Danny, or a different Young, or maybe a different Danny Young. But nope, it's the same cat. Our cat. Or, our former cat, anyhow. [FIMG=500]https://a1.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0504%2Fr1487918_1296x729_16-9.jpg[/FIMG]

And Dean Chance!