Below is the report card for the GM Project of 2016. Some teams did very very well for themselves and some teams did not. There are strong opinions about players and who won what deal but as the dust settles on this year’s project owners regroup and make new plans for the 2017-18 season. Some [...]
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of what will happen in real life. By Dan Spiro Entering the 2016 baseball season, only [...]
The Mets hope to have their four young aces healthy for Opening Day and the entire 2017 season. Since all are expected healthy for Spring Training, let’s grant that at least the first part of the first sentence turns out to be true. Then the question becomes: Who’s the team’s fifth starter? Let’s compare the [...]
It is no surprise at all that Yoenis Cespedes has decided to opt out of his three year deal with the Mets after year one. After all, the whole idea of that option was to allow him to jump back into the free agent pool were he to have a big impressive 2016 season. And [...]
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of what will happen in real life. By Brian Kobil After being assigned the Cleveland Indians, [...]
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of what will happen in real life. By Ray Kuhn This truly was not easy. The [...]
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of what will happen in real life. Following the Mets’ 2015 NL pennant win and World Series [...]
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of what will happen in real life. By Scott Ferguson This is now my third year [...]
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of what will happen in real life. By Stephen Guilbert The most difficult task the Miami [...]
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of what will happen in real life. By Mark C. Healey Last year was the first [...]
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of what will happen in real life. By Jim Keller Being a small-market team with payroll [...]
Congratulations, Cleveland and Chicago! As this is written, game two of the 2016 World Series has just concluded and the Cubs have just squared things up with the Indians. The playoffs so far have been pretty terrific. As happens every year, the rest of us get acquainted with players with whom we may not be [...]