Major League Baseball: 2026 Season

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While March is a bit a ways from now, its not too early to start the ball on the 2026 season. Dodgers looking to 3 peat ahead of an expected lockout in 2027.

First strange move of the offseason is the Orioles trading P Grayson Rodriguez for Angels OF Taylor Ward.
 
I have a feeling that the Yanks, now Grisham has accepted the qualifying offer and messed up the budget plans, will do their usual act. Pass on the expensive elite hitter (Tucker) and sign the cheaper above-average option (Bellinger) to a long contract that lessens the AAV hit. We've seen this Cashman ploy so often, it starts ok and almost always ends badly (Hicks, Lemahieu, etc).

With the Orioles I can only assume they didn't like Grayson's health longterm because that move doesn't make much sense otherwise. I won't complain, the division is looking tough enough so any little helps.

Just enjoy the upcoming season because another ownership lockout is clearly coming.
 
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I have a feeling that the Yanks, now Grisham has accepted the qualifying offer and messed up the budget plans, will do their usual act. Pass on the expensive elite hitter (Tucker) and sign the cheaper above-average option (Bellinger) to a long contract that lessens the AAV hit. We've seen this Cashman ploy so often, it starts ok and almost always ends badly (Hicks, Lemahieu, etc).

With the Orioles I can only assume they didn't like Grayson's health longterm because that move doesn't make much sense otherwise. I won't complain, the division is looking tough enough so any little helps.

Just enjoy the upcoming season because another ownership lockout is clearly coming.
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Which is the entire reason Grisham took the QO (and definitely why Torres, Woodruff and Imanaga did as well). He'd rather get the money now and then worry about 2027 if it happens. You don't get paid during a lockout.
 
Mets and Rangers traded older veterans for each other as OF Brandon Nimmo was sent over to Texas (with $5 million in cash) for 2B/SS Marcus Semien. The trade is about equal on money (Mets over lifetime of both deals save $3 million), but Semien is about 2 years older and a sort of better fielder, which fits what the Mets are looking to do over the offseason.
 
Mets sign Devin Williams for 3 years. Have fun on that rollercoaster :lol:
 
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Mets and Rangers traded older veterans for each other as OF Brandon Nimmo was sent over to Texas (with $5 million in cash) for 2B/SS Marcus Semien. The trade is about equal on money (Mets over lifetime of both deals save $3 million), but Semien is about 2 years older and a sort of better fielder, which fits what the Mets are looking to do over the offseason.
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I think the biggest worry for the Mets is really Soto vs Lindor vs McNeil chemistry. It was sad to see Brandon leave after (14 years?) with the Mets organization, but our core was become way too complacent. Semien seems more of a business minded get-to-work type of player.
 
Jeff Kent is now a Hall of Famer. Barry Bonds is not.

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I don't care about the drugs, everyone was using them at the time and before, there are already dopers in the hall, it's all a joke.
 
Rich getting richer

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Dodgers Sign Edwin Diaz

The Dodgers are signing the top reliever on the free agent market. Edwin Diaz is headed to Los Angeles. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.
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Fezzik
Rich getting richer

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Dodgers Sign Edwin Diaz

The Dodgers are signing the top reliever on the free agent market. Edwin Diaz is headed to Los Angeles. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.
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So this made me extremly angry because not only we let him walk for a measily 3 million which the Mets allegedly have in abundance, but to lose him to the Dodgers?? Out of all teams?? the team that had only ONE weakness, which is their bullpen, we go ahead and fix that hole for them.

EDIT: yep, and now we lost Pete Alonso... Yeah the Mets just cooked this season.
 
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So this made me extremly angry because not only we let him walk for a measily 3 million which the Mets allegedly have in abundance, but to lose him to the Dodgers?? Out of all teams?? the team that had only ONE weakness, which is their bullpen, we go ahead and fix that hole for them.

EDIT: yep, and now we lost Pete Alonso... Yeah the Mets just cooked this season.
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I am upset about Diaz because he basically was gone during the summer. His brother was raving how good their staff was. In addition, he was mad the Mets fired Hefner (who wasn't that good in getting length out of pitchers).

Alonso? Hurts sentimentally but he wanted the years. Mets weren't going to go that far in length. Stearns has no connection to Alonso and from a business perspective, it is a risky deal for a player possibly past his peak stuck as a 1B to a DH role. The Mets will likely have to put Soto at DH near the tail end of the deal and if Alonso is stuck at DH... yeah.
 
Fezzik
Mets sign Devin Williams for 3 years. Have fun on that rollercoaster :lol:
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Mets To Sign Luke Weaver

The Mets are working to finalize a deal with former Yankees reliever Luke Weaver. Get details on the move at MLB Trade Rumors.
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Doubling up on erratic relievers who lost the Yankees closer job.

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(I forgot Clay Holmes, so it's actually a triple dip)
 
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