MLB News & Notes - 2024 Season

Is there evidence though that older players run out of gas in the postseason? There is clearly a bias towards playing them in the postseason over younger players, but that may just be managerial error playing older players over more talented younger players.

We just lost a few games we should have won in Arizona last year. It could have happened for a dozen different reasons. The older age of the core does make it more important to try to compete each year we have a chance. I just think we see as many instances of older rosters overachieving in the playoffs relative to talent as younger rosters (compared to their regular season record).

The 31-year-old starter’s performance this season could also hurt his chances of scoring a bigger payday if he decides to opt-out. Montgomery has a 6.44 ERA and 1.67 WHIP for Arizona with the lowest strikeout rate of his career. After two successful starts in late April to start his Diamondbacks tenure — four earned runs allowed over 13 innings — Montgomery’s ERA has been higher than six in each of the past four months.

Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said Friday that Montgomery would begin pitching out of the bullpen, as starter Ryne Nelson had earned the final spot in Arizona’s rotation.

Players on waivers for the cost of the contract season has started. Taylor Rogers is the interesting name here. $2 million this year plus $12 million next, but he is an above average left-handed reliever having a good year. The question for the Phillies is whether Alvarado is expected back this season. And the cash of course.

Looking on Twitter it seems the Mets are one of the favorites to get Rogers while also blocking him getting down to the Phillies on the waiver wire.

The continuing saga of …. Can the White Sox actually be the worst modern team, an 8 game losing streak (commonly known as the likely outcome of 8 games) to get to 31-105. 26 games to go, they have to win 11 to avoid setting the record. 11-15. Not a chance.

It’s a shame to see the Mets lose this record, they so deserve it (every year)

Tanner Banks was the White Sox best reliever, and his ERA was over 4

Technically they would need to go 10-12 to not break the record if we are talking win percentage. Mets were 40-120. A 41-121 record would be slightly better. Now the chances of that team winning even 10 games are not great of course.

Guessing Alec Bohm's agent is taking notes here:

Chapman is the better player, but this is for age 32-37 and they are pretty close offensively.

Well, it's the same agent! But Chapman was going to opt-out, so somewhat different timeline/leverage. I'm still not especially for extending Bohm and Boras probably isn't either, but five years $100 million would probably be fair.

That minor league catcher story is wild. He was just drafted this year and had a $300K bonus. This seems like grounds to void a contract but there's really nothing to void (i.e the bonus was for signing and can't be touched and there was no guaranteed future pay anyway).

Think anyone will sign him?