Shohei Ohtani continues to improve every season. And one MLB exec can only compare him to one other athlete. More observations from baseball front office minds, via jaysonst:
“It’s really hard to be the team that goes big to build through free agency,” said the same exec. “But go look at the total Wins Above Replacement created by those free agents over the last two years. They have hit in free agency, time after time after time. And that’s really tough to do.”
• The number of pitchers who landed on the IL jumped from 225 at this point last year to 246 this year — while the total number of hitters on the IL stayed essentially the same . • On the other hand, elbow and shoulder issues have mushroomed this season at a rate Rhoads had never previously tracked. He found 75 pitchers heading for the IL with elbow trouble and 59 with shoulder problems over the first 63 days of the season. And when you compare that to just five years ago , it’s a sign of, well, something. But is it too soon to say what?
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