Baseball's best are jockeying for position in the sport's second season — the mayhem of October. The rest of MLB's clubs are looking back at what went wrong. In a sport where transactions and roster decisions provide clear expectations, we have separated out the rebuilding teams from the ones who entered 2022 expecting to be setting playoff rotations, not vacation plans.
Correa can opt out of his contract this winter and retry the free agent market without a lockout. On the idea of remaining with Minnesota,,"When I go to the mall, and I go to the Dior store and I want something, I get it. I ask how much it costs, and I buy it. So, if you really want something, you just go get it. I'm the product here, and if they want my product, they just have got to come get it.
Why is Estrada the most productive hitter? Well, Brandon Crawford and Brandon Belt came back to earth and dealt with injuries, Buster Posey retired, and some other 2021 revelations like Darin Ruf crashed to earth so hard they were traded. Also, Estrada isn’t JUST a hitter. The logical conclusion about an aging, lumbering team turned out to be more true than we realized. This team cannot play defense. No matter which metric you use, this is a bottom-three fielding unit in MLB.
That’s particularly frustrating because they are wasting a dynamic starting rotation fronted by likely Cy Young winner Sandy Alcantara.Much of the same unless they either invest in real hitting talent or fix the hitting side of their player development operation in a hurry. GM Kim Ng would seem to have more space to operate now that Derek Jeter and holdover executive Gary Denbo have departed the organization.Well, pretty much the entire conception of how to build a baseball team in 2022.
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