Random Baseball Musings

[CardsofSTL]

A friend of mine, Joe Pott, is about to start doing pre-and post games on the Cardinals radio network. I’m really happy for him.

Really cool.

[Radbird]

This guy needs a promotion to STL to take our minds off of this [expletive] show of a season.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Lucroy to the Cubs.

[cardsfantx]

Lucroy to the Cubs.

prob hit .500 while contreras is out

[Big Amoco Sign]

Lucroy to the Cubs.

prob hit .500 while contreras is out

Hard to believe he had 8.1 fWAR one season.

[CardsofSTL]

Lucroy to the Cubs.

So there are no more waiver deals; but teams will just release players and other teams will pick them up for....salary relief?

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Lucroy to the Cubs.

So there are no more waiver deals; but teams will just release players and other teams will pick them up for....salary relief?

Teams can still claim waived players, which would provide salary relief since the claiming team is on the hook (like the Reds claiming Gausman.) Lucroy cleared waivers and was a FA.

[CardsofSTL]

Lucroy to the Cubs.

So there are no more waiver deals; but teams will just release players and other teams will pick them up for....salary relief?

Teams can still claim waived players, which would provide salary relief since the claiming team is on the hook (like the Reds claiming Gausman.) Lucroy cleared waivers and was a FA.

Yeah...so the only change is you can't waiver players back and forth between teams. I was trying to think of a reason why it would be worthwhile to a club just to cut ties; not in specifically Lucroy's case but generally. I guess the salary relief is worth it for some clubs.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Derek Dietrich has 273 PA this year with .863 OPS. He has more HBP than singles.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Yordan Alvarez is hitting .350 .428 .712 1.140 in 187 PA. He's 22.