Robert Hassell Joins the team. Here’s a complete history of my predicted Rule-5 additions (with links to each prediction piece), along with the Actual players the team protected (with links as well), to show my (lack of) predictive powers. It’s updated for 2024 and has narratives about each class and how the players turned out later on with updates for the last year of … [Read more...] about Rule-5 Protection History and Player Performance (updated for 2024)
2024 Rule-5 Player Analysis and Prediction
Hassell should be a lock to protect. Photo via nbcsports It’s that time of year. Its “Rule-5 time!” We do it every year. Its our annual deep dive into our older prospects to see who the team may be thinking about protecting. Here’s links to past years posts on this topic: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010. And here’s a … [Read more...] about 2024 Rule-5 Player Analysis and Prediction
MLFA Carnage in the Nats Farm System
Kieboom set to leave the org as a 6year MLFA after hitting a AAA ceiling. Photo via Federal Baseball A critical day in the off-season calendar of baseball every year happened earlier this week; five days after the end of the World Series (11/4/24) all “6-year minor league free agents” get cut loose. The Universal Player Contracts (UPCs) that players sign upon turning pro … [Read more...] about MLFA Carnage in the Nats Farm System
Welcome to the pre-2025 Off Season
The World Series is over. The Yankees bungled away game 5, but let’s be honest, they would have struggled to win a game 6 with Yamamoto dealing and Rodon choking. The Dodgers were just the more powerful, complete team in a year when the NL was just far more stacked than the AL. If it had been the Mets, Phillies, or Padres in the WS instead of the Dodgers, I don’t think we’re … [Read more...] about Welcome to the pre-2025 Off Season
Yankees – Dodgers is a dream World Series
Soto in his younger years. Like the beginning of 2018., Photo via minorleagueball.com So, MLB collectively breathed a sigh of relief when the two juggernaut franchises of the league (the Yankees and the Dodgers) advanced with relative ease to face off against each other for the 2024 World Series title. We avoided the hapless Cleveland Indians in the series (quick: … [Read more...] about Yankees – Dodgers is a dream World Series