No, it is one of the B-Ref comparables but I felt stupid for not seeing it.

The Phillies should trade with the Rays more often, good things have happened.

Dontrelle actually went on to play some more minor league games somehow, but both ultimately out of the league at 32, just a brutal sport.

It is hard to recreate when he would have hit free agency and when he signed extensions, but looking at comps, he is really close with Cutch through age 31 where the Phillies gave him 3/$50M which is only slightly more than Abreu was making with the Yankees after the trade, so actually similar?

The other one I remember was Neftali Feliz coming up to "save" the 2021 bullpen and just getting the shit kicked out of him.

I don't remember everyone of that era, but there is a whole genre of washed dude the Phillies signed during the bad years who never got another contract after that, and he was one of them and I remember writers hyping him and he didn't make it out of camp.

Very important that K-Rod is also this ballot for that reason.

There were two openers and it is 9:30 and the headliner has not yet come on. In fairness we did this to ourselves by going to Chicago (well really choosing to live in a city that only gets like 80% of bands)

Nimmo’s defense and physical skills have gone in sharp decline, he is trending towards bad LF/DH which puts him in conflict with Soto, power is declining. He has 5 more years left and doesn’t seem like a great teammate. Semien can still field, and has 3 years left and universally praised as teammate

Nimmo is not only not a CF but bordering on not an OF, sharp decline in physical metrics with 5 years left. Semien is old, but can still play defense and to my knowledge has always been one of the good ones

This is also the answer to “why do you write about baseball?” Multiple months without a job will make you develop bad habits (caring about A-ball pitchers) that you will carry the rest of your life

The hitting side is probably more desperate, here is the 40 man depth chart.
C: Marchan, Subbs
IF: Harper, Stott, Turner, Bohm, Sosa
OF: Marsh, Rojas, Castellanos, Kemp, Wilson, Leon, Rincones

That is just 14 hitters, a lot of work to do.

They can, but it will be less and meanwhile their first many years are capped at a lower rate, essentially their salaries are suppressed and when they climb they are released, 99% of the time they get less than their arb amount otherwise a team would have traded for them.