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Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Free Agency, Nats, Yanks, Phils, Bucs, Marlins

By Connor Byrne | October 27, 2018 at 8:35pm CDT

This week in baseball blogs…

  • The Point of Pittsburgh doesn’t expect the upcoming free-agent market to unfold the way it did last winter.
  • District on Deck spends a week in Nationals GM Mike Rizzo’s shoes and makes seven big moves to get the team back atop the NL East.
  • Know Hitter proposes eight offseason trades the Diamondbacks could make if they elect to rebuild.
  • Call to the Pen (links: 1, 2) lists eight potential offseason moves for the Yankees, and advises Phillies fans not to underestimate general manager Matt Klentak.
  • ProspectsLive ranks the Pirates’ top 30 prospects.
  • Fish Stripes explains where the Mesa brothers fit on the Marlins organizational depth chart and what their signings mean to the South Florida community overall.
  • Twins Daily points out similarities between new manager Rocco Baldelli and the team’s center fielder, Byron Buxton.
  • Sox on 35th has a list of the five players the White Sox are most likely to trade in 2019.
  • Reviewing the Brew wants Milwaukee to extend Travis Shaw.
  • Friars On Base identifies the Orioles’ Dylan Bundy as someone the Padres could pursue via trade.
  • Good Fundies, Mets Critic and Mets Daddy each have pieces on the Mets’ GM search.
  • Motor City Bengals names three shortstops the Tigers could pursue in free agency.
  • Bronx To Bushville shares a post-mortem on the Brewers’ season.
  • Rox Pile suggests some changes to Coors Field’s dimensions.
  • The 3rd Man In ranks the top 10 prospects in next year’s draft.
  • Rotisserie Duck highlights the top clutch hitters of 2018.
  • The Runner Sports profiles Joc Pederson.
  • Everything Bluebirds reacts to the Blue Jays’ hiring of Charlie Montoyo as their new manager.
  • MLB & Fantasy Baseball Analyzed focuses on the role of psychology in baseball.
  • Baseball Rabbi (podcast) discusses Dave Roberts, the Brewers’ roster and more.
  • Pinstriped Prospects (links: 1, 2, 3) has pieces on a few of the Yankees’ Rule 5-eligible farmhands.
  • Rising Apple wants the Mets to play with an edge in 2019.

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  1. Phillies2017

    7 years ago

    I like Deon Stafford a lot!

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    • MetsYankeesRedSox

      7 years ago

      I prefer Jim Stafford of Spiders and Snakes fame!

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      • Slevin

        7 years ago

        My girl Bill…

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    • jimmyz

      7 years ago

      If you’re talking about Deon Stafford the A ball catcher in the Pirates’ organization, I like his offensive profile and abilities as a catcher a lot too. I hope he’s tasked with more catching responsibilities as he moves up, Jason Delay (drafted the same year as a senior out of Vanderbilt) has been moving up with the higher profile pitchers at the same levels and that Stafford continues to hit.

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  2. MetsYankeesRedSox

    7 years ago

    youtu.be/_TRJUAaQ2WU

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  3. sportsfan101

    7 years ago

    I’ll be honest these posts are very miss for me, in religious to this site and there writers, but I don’t want to read what xyz writer writes based on there home town team there being paid for to write for. I like this site based on them being Jon biased. These posts are links to purely biased posts which I’m not a fan of. I refuse to read most posts for my fav team bc I know there biased and that doesn’t give you the true story. In the end go mlbtr!

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    • sportsfan101

      7 years ago

      Sorry for my phone auto correcting a lot of what I said to the wrong words! Ops!

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      • CursedRangers

        7 years ago

        Plus most of the good regional blog writers have moved over to the Athletic…

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    • southi

      7 years ago

      I actually like seeing team X fan’s take on their hometown team. In most cases yes they are very home team biased, but at other times it gives you a perspective or insight that you might not have gotten just reading national sites. If you don’t like them, then you always have the opportunity to avoid reading them.

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  4. Marc (Phillies Phan)

    7 years ago

    So I hear others complaining about their manager (new or old) and/or GM. I will take anyone over Klentak/Kapler. Anyone wanna trade LOL? I read that article and I am still not sold on Klentak.

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    • Tal Venada

      7 years ago

      Firstly, thanks for reading.

      This was not a homer piece. I write positive articles because there’s too much competition for the negative ones.

      I realized that every offseason Klentak does more than I expect. Every single one of his three years.

      I realized that when I was responding to beliefs such as yours from my Twitter readers. BTW, I wasn’t trying to change any minds because that’s a taller order in Philly than you would imagine.

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  5. denny816

    7 years ago

    Wow…the proposed trades in that Know Hitter blog article are brutal. The return for David Peralta should be more than Goldschmidt?

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  6. Cardinals17

    7 years ago

    Obviously you don’t see any big ticket Young free agents names associated with the St. Louis Cardinals. As long as their owners insist on keeping president of baseball operations John Mozeliak employed, you will continue to see a “Low Hanging Fruit” type of starting line up. There has not been a superstar quality player on the Cardinals since 2011, when Albert Pujols left. Obviously the Cardinals owners are satisfied with only having teams that can play a little over .500 baseball which will draw 3 million fans into Busch Stadium each season. And …… why wouldn’t the owners be satisfied??? Low Hanging Fruit line ups equals low payrolls. 3 million fans a year equals huge money. The Cardinals owners are laughing all of the way to the bank!! That is why John Mozeliak is still in the position he currently holds. ( One other interesting point on the Cardinals John Mozeliak; he never played or coach baseball above Middle School. He is by trade an Accountant…… And he is doing well as an Accountant for the Cardinals!)

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  7. juicemane

    7 years ago

    If Harper signs with the Angels then they are definitely moving to Vegas…and dont say Portland, they are already Mariners fans.

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  8. Phillies2017

    7 years ago

    Lot of the snakes trades are very ambitious except Goldy which is very light.

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