It's pretty astonishing that the younger Braves have had much worse luck with injuries than the Phillies, both on the mound and at the plate. Perhaps the market inefficiency with older players is that they're durable, if still subject to short-term injuries and being banged up.
Or it's all luck. All of it. MLB is March Madness now (including the part the best team probably will win most years in the end
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.
The White Sox are looking Historic. 31 games left, they must win 12 to avoid history. That would actually be a hot streak for them.
They will not pass the Cleveland Spider 134 loss season in the 1890s, but “modern” record is 120.
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)
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?
Back in the 2008 All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, it was said early in the broadcast that Tim Lincecum was unavailable due to a hospitalization for "flu-like symptoms". A friend of mine who knew someone who used work for the Phillies with close access to the clubhouse told me that "flu-like symptoms" was baseball jargon/public coverup for too hungover to play.
