Would any of you like a behind home plate view of Kevin McGonigle hitting a “triple” tonight? (It was 105 off the bat and also badly misplayed, but he’s moving here)

I see no compelling reason why this should not count

They’ll probably be able to replace him reasonably enough for cheaper, but it’s still annoying that the Rays basically refuse to pay anyone market value at this point.

Of the 254 players selected in the last NFL draft before GTA V was released, only 12 are still active.

Here's my ranking of this year's top 50 MLB free agents: www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/ran...

We did our first mock draft of the offseason last week. ADP data is starting to come in. I looked at 15 of the most interesting picks from that draft, which some ADP perspective in today’s FBT Newsletter: www.cbssports.com/fantasy/base...

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Hell yeah, Emilio Bonifacio is still going

Fantasy Football Twitter jumped the shark a long time ago, but this is a new low

*David Bowie voice* CChinges/Fries for 3.40/CChinges

There are a few cameos that are pretty cringey, but I think the idea that Parks And Rec has aged especially poorly for a sitcom is a real “get out of your bubble” moment.

Hi, Aaron. Chris Towers here, writing on behalf of Fantasy Baseball players around the world. Can you make sure he gets to 20 appearances per season moving forward? Thanks!

I don't even think the results of this poll are wrong or off-base, or anything. But I do think it's true that McGonigle is winning this poll at least in part because Jackson Holliday made it to the majors before him.

I know every time there's a major political event in this country, my first thought is, what does some middling-ass 'roided up late-1990s MLB reliever think about this? You guys have got to check out Kent Mercker's substack.

John Rocker hasn't been relevant for literally 25 years and there's nothing he can do to change that.

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This video is going viral on Twitter because now that games aren't happening anymore, people need to find old clips to use to rage bait about umpiring, so I'll just point out here again that *there is no such thing as a "wrong" call on a checked swing.*

The Dodgers might be good at this. www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

First off: plate depth. Legally, the pitch below is a strike. It glances the back of the zone. In an imaginary world with perfect umpires this is a strike. The ABS review system and the TV broadcast will all say "ball, high". That's because they all use a 2D plane based on the FRONT of the zone.

But thanks to pitch tracking technology, anyone who's watched an MLB broadcast in the past decade is used to seeing the 2D representation of the strike zone rectangle, giving live feedback of whether anything is "actually" a ball or strike. Or does it? This robot strike zone is lying to you!

Maybe this is cope to a certain extent, but: Burns missed some time with a flexor strain this season, but he also was shut down from throwing for like ... three days. I think that was as much about managing workload as there being real concerns about Burns' elbow.

I think part of the problem with Trout-as-face-of-baseball has always been that he really does not seem to want to be the face of anything.

Yeah, agree he's a lot lower on the list than everyone else. But I also think pitchers who get strikeouts and avoid walks but get crushed are generally pretty good cheap bets because they just have to improve one skill that tends to fluctuate a lot anyway.

My excitement level for Chase Burns could not be higher. I wrote about him and about 20 other first or second-year pitchers who could help remake the state of the position for 2026 and beyond: www.cbssports.com/fantasy/base...

I understand why it happens, but it's still extremely funny to me that if Bryce Eldridge hadn't been promoted to the majors at the end of last season, his price in 2026 Fantasy Baseball drafts would almost certainly be higher (maybe significantly so) than it will be now.

I thought the floor for Bieber was probably something like $70 million, so I’m legit shocked he picked up the option.

please stop

EXTREMELY early NFBC ADP is out and George Springer with a 109.95 ADP feels like an obvious, screaming value even if you're kind of skeptical of what he did in 2025. nfc.shgn.com/adp/baseball

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Reinventing solipsism from first principles

I think there should be three first-round SPs in 2026 Fantasy Baseball drafts, so I decided to try out a Pocket Aces strategy in our very first mock draft. I think it's certainly a viable strategy. www.cbssports.com/fantasy/base...

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I find the whole "let's clone our beloved pet" thing extremely weird. Grim, even.

I have decided: I don't need to know that the shipping label was created. Keep me in the dark on that. Come back to me when something real is happening

I am always going to nice restaurants and asking why their food is behind a paywall.

the beautiful consistency of cheering for people that pay for top notch work to be limited in doing so and also complaining that top notch work is behind a paywall

very normal reaction to an article that takes a measured approach at explaining why the reasons people give for wanting a cap don't hold up. It's almost as if the crying and wailing and kicking and screaming is coming from these folks instead

Or Michael King outside of 2024, or Dylan Cease for multiple seasons, or Ranger Suarez in the second half of every season but 2025, or ....

I do not think you should have a whole lot of confidence about Steele in his first season coming off Internal Brace surgery on his elbow. I think you should probably have less confidence in him for 2026 than Shota Imanaga, in fact.

Most of the pitchers making less than $20 million are not readily available to be acquired for nothing more than money. The Cubs replacement for Imanaga will, definitionally, have to come either via trade or free agency. Replacing him will not, in fact, be easy, I'm sorry.

Well we will see how easy it will be at less than $20m AAV for three years

Yeah, I dunno man, your favorite team is not owed your support, especially financially. If you do not like how your favorite team operates, you could withhold that support. Try it!

Nobody said every team can just do what the Dodgers owners do. But almost every team could spend more and prioritize winning more than they currently do. Unquestionably.

When I successfully transfer all of my data from my old phone to my new phone and shut the old phone down:

You could stop blindly supporting everything your favorite team does and instead pressure them to actually try to win games.

Yeah I dunno I still think teams like the Cubs not acting like the big market behemoths they are is worse for MLB than the Dodgers.

Two pitchers were on the active roster the entire season: Yamamoto, and Dreyer. They were insanely lucky that the rotation got healthy in October

Yes, the entire Dodgers’ plan at pitcher is just “manage everyone’s workloads and hope they are healthy in October.” It worked, but the idea this is some kind of refutation of modern pitching limitations is incredibly silly!