As I say every year. MLB Draft Lottery should occur the day after Qualifying Offers are announced. Why? Take the San Francisco Giants as an example. Currently slated to select 15th. 1% chance to land the 1st Pick. If they hypothetically moved into the Top 6, more inclined to sacrifice the 2nd Rounder to sign a player that received a Qualifying Offer. Or take the Mets. They could be picking anywhere from 1st Overall to 27th. It'd be nice to know your slot prior to giving up a Draft pick for a Free Agent. Especially a mid tier guy. Say a Zac Gallen or Michael King type.

We’re officially in “X Player opened to resigning with current club” season. Always makes sense for leverage; I did laugh seeing Jazz Chisholm Jr opened to staying with Yankees.

Jazz Chisholm might be the most talented player where still just sucks I’ve ever seen Pretty sure if you gave his talent to Miguel Cairo he’s Barry Bonds

In this wildcard format the team that wins game 1 has won their series 18 out of 19 times. Regardless of who wins Phillies @ Braves we have enough sample size for MLB/MLBPA to bargain to reduce WC back to one game series instead of 2 out of 3 while also bringing back game 163 as tie breakers. Just my opinion.

Predictions White Sox d. Astros Yanks d. Red Sox Phillies d. Braves (Cubs d. Padres Rays d. Yanks Guardians d. White Sox Brewers d. Cubs Dodgers d. Phillies Guardians d. Rays Dodgers d. Brewers Dodgers Sweep Guardians World Series MVP Kyle Tucker

MLB Average Payroll in 2026 $182M. Equates to $5.46B in league wide spending. MLB needs to implement spending floor eased in over 3-4 seasons with harsher penalties for exceeding the Luxury Tax. Avoid smaller market Clubs acting as clearing houses.

2026 Minimum $780,000 40 Man $63,6000 40 Man w/ MLB experience $127,100 Roughly 1/2 the Union... Owners Offer with Salary Floor in '27 Minimum: $1M 40 Man Roster: $175,000 40 Man w/ MLB experience $350,000 40 Man Retention Bonus? Player on 40 Man Jan 1 receives $25,000

Maybe I'm an Optimist. Don't see players missing games. Owners offer rank and file minimum salary increases, higher minimums for players on 40 Man. MLB Payrolls exceeded $5.3B in '26. Players aren't missing games. Owners have the leverage given 50% of players make less than $1M.

Owners won't get maximum 6 yr Free Agent contracts in CBA. Past few yrs teams willing to go high AAV to avoid longer term on players excluding Juan Soto. Disregard the Luxury Tax implications for shorter term. Skubal? 6-$300M $220M through Yr4 Opt Out $80M for Yrs 5-6

Estimate on Teruaki Sato contract. 5-$90M with an Opt Out after Yr3. Requires $15.375M Posting Fee. Assuming flat structure $18M per yr 2027-2031. Club would pay 3-$69.375M if Sato were to Opt Out after '29.

Top Reliever Contract currently Josh Hader 5-$95M. Highest AAV Edwin Díaz $23M on paper or roughly $21M on present value factoring in deferred money. If marketed as a Starter entering his Age 28 season, Adrián Morejón gets over $100M guaranteed and $20M+ in AAV.

Top FA LH RPs after Options 1. Adrián Morejón 2. AJ Minter 3. Gregory Soto 4. Newcomb 5. Alex Vesia 6. Steven Okert 7. Tyler Alexander 8. Brock Burke 9. AJ Puk 10. JoJo Romero 11. Caleb Ferguson 12. Brooks Raley 13. Jose Alvarado 14. Wandy Peralta 15. Keegan Akin 16. Tim Mayza

Top FA RH RPs after Options 1. Raidel Martínez 2. Bednar 3. Bryan Abreu 4. Raisel Iglesias 5. Loaisiga 6. Senzatela 7. Paul Blackburn 8. Evan Phillips 9. Emilio Pagan 10. Drew Anderson 11. Tejay Antone 12. Kevin Ginkel 13. Kittredge 14. Fairbanks 15. Kenley Jansen 16. Graterol

Top FA LH SPs after logical options 1. Skubal 2. Adrián Morejón * 3. Trevor Rogers 4. Foster Griffin 5. Robbie Ray 6. Bubic 7. Imanaga 8. David Peterson 9. Liván Moinelo 10. Matthew Boyd 11. Martin Perez 12. Kyle Freeland 13. Patrick Sandoval 14. Eric Lauer 15. Jose Quintana

Top FA RH SPs after logical options 1. Kaima Taira 2. Michael King 3. Hiroto Saiki 4. Mize 5. Sonny Gray 6. Freddy Peralta 7. Nick Martinez 8. Clay Holmes 9. Gausman 10. Dustin May 11. Mahle 12. Gallen 13. Soroka 14. Brady Singer 15. Bieber 16. Pivetta 17. Flaherty 18. Woodruff

Top FA Bats after logical options Exercised 1. Teruaki Sato 2. Arozarena 3. Seiya Suzuki 4. Jake Bauers 5. Brandon Lowe 6. Ryan Jeffers 7. Chisholm Jr 8. Luis Arráez 9. Varsho 10. Ian Happ 11. Ty France 12. Joc Pederson 13. Trent Grisham 14. Gleyber Torres 15. Eugenio Suárez

2026 Stats Jorge Polanco 20 Total Hits Pete Alonso 40 Home Runs

A Glove only 2nd Basemen Marcus Semien coming off injury entering his Age 35 season is worth $72M over the next 3 seasons but Los Mets couldn’t go beyond 3 years on the most prolific power hitter in Franchise History entering his Age 31 season. Pete Alonso played 162 games in back-to-back seasons and finished 11th in the MVP vote. David Stearns is LOST

Pete Crow-Armstrong is having one of the truly great seasons in MLB History. Best Offensive Player in NL - 2nd Best in all of Baseball Best Defender in MLB Elite Baserunner On pace 10+ fWar Season Winning Club Congrats on your MVP

MLBPA wants to completely disregard the melt down of the Regional Sports TV deals in negotiations.