Funny how it lines up. - Kent doesn't make the HOF without Bonds in front of him. - Kent gets in on the BBWAA ballot if either Bonds gets voted in quickly or gets banned from the ballot entirely. - Kent gets in today in no small part because Bonds/Clemens essentially made it a six-man ballot.

With Bonds/Clemens/Sheffield out of the mix, here's my suggested eight-man ballot for the 2028 Contemporary Baseball Era committee: Lou Whitaker Dwight Evans Ryan Braun Rafael Palmeiro Bartolo Colon Miguel Tejada Jose Canseco Paul Lo Duca

And I'm kind of surprised about the anti-Kent sentiment. There's a pretty good chance the BBWAA would have wound up electing him if the HOF hadn't reduced the years on the ballot from 15 to 10. He was up 46.5% in his 10th year. This would have been his 13th year.

That's how I feel, especially given the makeup of the committee. Throwing out Bonds and Clemens, because I assumed the committee would, I probably would have guessed Kent and Delgado would get the fewest votes of the remaining six.

Bob spoiled the BBWAA awards with some advanced knowledge. He might have the goods here, too.

Just say no to evaluating relievers based on ERA. Ferrer had the fourth highest groundball rate in baseball last year and struck out 4.5 guys for each one he walked. He did this while throwing to arguably the game's worst catching tandem and in front of a bottom-three defense.

Love Ferrer for a contender, but that he's such an extreme groundballer isn't something the Mariners are going to take as much advantage of as others would have. Still, like this for both teams. Never been completely sold on Ford, but the Nationals badly needed an intriguing alternative to Ruiz.

One of the most important questions for the Cubs right now is whether Kevin Alcántara is going to be assigned a fourth option year (he's used his three), and it doesn't seem like any reporter has even touched on it. I'm guessing he will, but I'd love to hear what the unnamed sources would say.

Good for Garcia that he'll get to play. Bad that he'll be doing so in the league's most difficult home run park for righties. Oviedo is nice as an underrated averagish SP who doesn't make much, but the Red Sox already have a few of those guys and shouldn't be blocking the high-ceiling youngsters.

The youngest of those players is 67 and retired 30 years ago. Four are over 80. Definitely would seem to bode better for Mattingly, Murphy and Valenzuela than the more recent players.

Got one right. FWIW, I had Valdez at 5 yr, $150 million and Suárez at 5 yr, $135 million. Expect that this will be the biggest contract for a SP.

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This makes a couple of times recently where Rosenthal has gotten sniped because of The Athletic's apparent desire to present breaking news as an article, rather than to have it just tweeted out. Interesting, to me anyway.

I would have understood signing Larnach for ~$3 mil today. I don't understand tendering him and potentially having him more than double his salary. MLBTR projections have him going from $2.1 million to $4.7, even though he was thoroughly mediocre (quantity tends to trump quality in arbitration).

Globe Life Field played as the worst in the league for right-handed hitters last season. Third worst in 2024. I think García will be a nice get on a one-year deal.

Been waiting for this for 19 years. Really excited for everything, but I'm especially looking forward to seeing if we can make the Futures Game and the MLB Draft events people are more excited to tune into.

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Fascinating. Big swing for the fences by the Angels, though it probably doesn't bode well that the Orioles were down on Rodriguez enough to make the deal. Still think it's worth it. Ward has only one year left before FA.

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This is a good year for the ballotmakers, but they should have gotten Wieters on there. Four-time All-Star. Definitely as worthy as Murphy or Porcello. Davis hit 295 homers. Briefly wondered if that was the most for a player left off, but Mark Reynolds had 298 and wasn't included last year.

Yawn. Everyone in the world knew Acuña would be just fine. How about Woodruff or Brad Keller?

Byron Buxton placed 11th in the AL MVP voting, which means he missed out on a $3 million bonus by one spot.

From the only writer who didn't have Perdomo in the top 10.

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Surprised only @dszymborski.fangraphs.com had Jakob Marsee in the top three for NL ROY. He was the NL's Roman Anthony but in a much weaker field.

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No one traded for Fairbanks at $11 million or Kinley at $5.5 million, and the Cubs didn't think Kittredge was worth $9 million.... seems like teams are expecting a downturn in the relief market this winter.

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Oct. 25: Nine innings, one run allowed, victory Oct. 31: Six innings, one run allowed, victory Nov. 1: 2 2/3 innings. zero runs allowed, victory There's just not much beating that.

HE JUST STARTED YESTERDAY!@!!

Yamamoto or Roki?

Pretty sure I passed out an hour ago and this is all a dream.

Damn. Rojas actually replied to this tweet of mine, saying something along the lines of it was all hard work, but it's gone now... looks like he deleted his twitter.

Shohei Rojas

Seems like we at least deserved a sideview of the Clement non-swing.

101st time

Didn't see how Glasnow was enough better of an option -- of any better of an option -- than the alternatives to burn him like that. But, baseball.

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Was rather hoping for more weirdness. Still time for Rosenthal to body slam a photographer or something,

Broadcast getting a little avant garde, next inning they won’t show the action at all, just a wilting rose lying in a puddle

Turning my phone around in every big situation to prevent Passan from spoiling things.

Feels like people have forgotten just how bad the baseball was from like the 12th through the 17th innings. But, then, 18th or 19th.... that's when things got fun again.

This is the greatest, stupidest thing I've ever witnessed. I'm so relieved I don't have a real rooting interest.

Just pitch to the not-so-good hitter maybe.

So much fun stuff tonight, but have we talked about how Ohtani successfully steals that base with a headfirst slide if he doesn't injure his left shoulder on the same play in the last World Series?

Experiencing some regrets about my Tommy Edman World Series MVP pick.

Need to mention football every 15 minutes or so just to perk Smoltz back up.

I mean, it's probably not happening regardless, but you are more likely to get an interesting response to a question from the Capital One guy than from Derek Jeter.