It is not a coincidence that the average MLB career is ~2.7 years and arbitration starts at 3 years of service time. Don't know of a good way to pull these numbers quickly. But, I'd estimate ~75% of MLB is either pre-arb or arb, and being paid below-market rates for their work at any given time.

Very busy week over on our Substack. Reactions to a bunch of moves made this week, continued 2025 prospect recaps with a look at RHP Wellington Aracena, and plenty more! Sub 👉 t.co/aA9s6yvFOO

Soriano's changeup has negative IVB and is really pretty nasty. Throws a pretty big slider more than anything else, followed by the change. He's a low-slot guy so the 4S isn't anything too impressive from a movement perspective. But good separation from the sinker, and both mid-upper 90s.

Um, Chas McCormick waiver claim for some CF insurance? Average defender in center and 91wRC+ against lefties last year?

So yeah, you give us your best international prospect. We will give you a couple months of this guy. And then you give him back. And we'll throw you a couple dollars. Hilarious. Brilliant. Welcome back Drunkle Andrew.

Update. Still listening to Jose Iglesias telling me to achieve my dreams.

Also, thrilled to see the good TON and paying him for ~2WAR/year is going to look like a bargain when he shows up.

Miss you already, Jorge. Didn't want the O's to pay you $5.5MM but do love you still.

Shuffle knows I miss baseball 😭😭

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Last night was awesome 😭😭

I do feel bad for Vlad. That dude deserves the world. Most feared hitter on the planet for the last month to put an entire country on his back.

Yamamoto has to be WS MVP I think. Or Will Smith I suppose but I am always biased toward pitchers.

How do you POSSIBLY get your hands inside that pitch!? Unbelievable stuff.

Will have no qualms staying up until 4am with this game to stave off the impending doom of months without baseball.

"John Smoltz acknowledge that there are multiple types of sliders" challenge. Impossible.

Hey Andy welcome to the game dude

Cue some voodoo magic to reanimate the playoff-corpse of Teoscar Hernandez.

I love baseball. I love it so much. Light in the dark in all of this madness. And the baseball gods have decided we all deserve a little bit more.

i mean

OH MY GOD LOOK AT THIS IDIOT WHO GAVE HIM A PODCAST

Why is Miguel Rojas hitting?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

"Ernie Clement had a postseason-record 30 hits in the XXXX MLB playoffs" is going to fool everyone in about ten years. Name belongs nowhere in the 2020s.

Bring in Ser to walk the bases loaded

As somebody who struggles to reconcile feelings for teams and players, the Blue Jays as a team are presenting a unique challenge. They're division rivals, and the team whose fans threw beer at Hyun-Soo Kim. But, man, Vladdy. Max. Yeasavage. Even Bo to an extent. They have eminently likeable players.

Time for the Dodgers to haplessly guess splitter or slider for the last few innings I guess

Game 7 has certainly been a spectacle, but for like none of the reasons that any of us thought it would be.

Unsure how anybody on earth could be on Gimenez's side of that one lol

Should we check in on the Gabi Moreno trade again?

Scherzer facing Muncy is just an awful matchup. Can't be much worse lol

Well the superhuman isn't supering tonight.

The washed-up, cast-off, geriatric version of a legend in Max Scherzer putting every fiber of his being on the line. The superhuman, undisputed best player in the world, still yet shaping his legend in Shohei Ohtani. It feels like a matchup just primed to advance a legacy.

This is not a drill!

Apparently we gave Rico $900K, and MLBTR suspects it's in an effort to create roster flexibility, as fewer teams would take on the slightly elevated salary on a waiver claim. Reminiscent of what we did with Emmanuel Rivera! Interesting thought and certainly makes sense. And a nice raise for Rico.

Smoltz talking like Ohtani is just throwing "a breaking ball" and turning the wrist slightly to get the sweeper or curve lol. How is this dude so far behind the times in the position he's in???

Does the world know that Sydney Sweeney doesn't have to be on *everything*?

The idea that Seranthony could just magically get better command is such an outdated thought. He has such incredible stuff because he has a long, violent arm swing. No team in the league would have him trade that and 2mph, a few inches on the sweeper, etc., for a bit more command.

Going to preface that I have an insanely comfortable bean bag and fleece blanket combo in front of my tv... But yeah I didn't even see Will Klein come into the game last night, much less the Freddie homerun.

That's cool but like can we do the next unbelievable game at like 2pm

What an unbelievable baseball game.

What an unbelievable baseball game.

The irony of this Straw/Sasaki matchup. I love this game.

Albernaz has a lot of respect around the game and has been in discussions for managerial gigs for a good 3/4 years now. Very much unsurprised that they didn't bring in somebody with 20 years' experience. I am readonably optimistic here!

EBJs stance is like if Mookie Betts crossed with Tony Bautista and hit from the left side.

Have been talking myself into Lane Thomas a bit today as a low-cost option, capable of CF, who hits lefties well. Has actually been better in center than the corners. Not the most exciting move but hedges against Cowser struggling and shouldn't be too expensive.

go Dodgers I guess

Deliver me from this misery

Vlad is terrifying. That was 113.

capital one bank guy might be my least favorite human on earth