Image credit: © Brad Penner-Imagn Images Translated by Fernando Battaglini Kyle Schwarber signed a five-year, $150 million contract to return to the Phillies on Tuesday, the biggest highlight of the Winter Meetings yet. It was a predictable deal. Everyone agrees that Schwarber is an exceptional player. He’s one of the best home run hitters of […]
Image credit: © John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images Translated by Pepe Latorre “One of the great inefficiencies of history is that most of it happens without us paying attention”. If you had to guess where this quote came from, you would have to consider many possibilities. It could be a sentence Our city, from Benjamin Franklin’s […]
Image credits: © Daniel Kucin Jr. images Translated by Carlos Marcano Los St Carlo Mullins for one year and $7 million dollars. A story in two quotes, both from April this year: “There are guys on this team that we would like to have here longer than currently planned. It’s not automatic. It’s case by […]
Image credit: © Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports Translated by José M. Hernández Lagunes There was, believe me, a time before the Internet. If you wanted to keep up with the news, you had to listen to the radio, watch television or read a newspaper or magazine. If you followed baseball, the newspaper was the only […]
Image credit: © Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images Translated by Pepe Latorre We return with the series for another year Revelations of value! As a reminder for this series, I’m going to profile some late-round hitters who far outperformed their draft position. Explain that I will be using the NFBC no-bid drafts for the preseason ADP and […]
Image credit: © Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Translated by Marco Gámez With the Automatic Ball and Strike System (ABS) on the horizon for the 2026 season, my intuition is that we will be going through a period of upheaval when it comes to what is and is not a strike. The desire to use robots in […]
Image credit: © Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images Translated by Marco Gámez During the season, I usually rely on a few stats as a shortcut. I’ve talked about this before and said that I appreciate the simplicity of the strikeout-to-walk ratio. It’s about as useful as you can hope for during the season, as it’s a good […]
Image credit: © Jim Rassol-Imagn Images Translated by José M. Hernández Lagunes Pete Alonso He never wanted to be here. Last winter season he wanted to land a multi-million contract that would cover the rest of his career, but he was unable to do so. Instead, after lengthy negotiations with the Mets, he signed a […]
Image credit: © Bill Streicher-Imagn Images Translated by Fernando Battaglini Greetings, readers of What they say. I’m happy to be here to talk to you about the Phillies infield, as I promised last week. But first we need to discuss what Dave Dombrowski and Phillies management No they said about Bryce Harper. As you may […]
Image credit: © Dennis Lee-Imagn Images Translated by Pepe Latorre We return with the series another year Revelations of value! As a reminder, for this series I’m going to talk about some hitters selected in the latter rounds of the fantasy league drafts who have far exceeded expectations. I will use all non-bid NFBC drafts […]