At Defector ($), David Roth wonders if the Royals know one thing about shoulders, following the acquisitions of Kyle Wright and Nick Anderson, who’re each recovering from shoulder accidents:
As Michael Baumann writes at FanGraphs, there’s an equally legible subtext to the 2 most notable transactions of the offseason up to now—Milwaukee’s resolution to non-tender injured co-ace Brandon Woodruff and Atlanta flipping Kyle Wright, who received 21 video games in 2022 and bought downballot Cy Younger assist, to Kansas Metropolis. Legible, and ominous. Woodruff and Wright have each been very profitable huge league pitchers, though Woodruff’s c.v. is notably longer and stronger, however additionally they are each recovering from shoulder capsule surgical procedures that they underwent in October. It is a comparatively new surgical procedure, and one whose early monitor report when it comes to restoration time suggests 1) that neither pitcher is more likely to pitch in 2024 or 2) essentially a lock for 2025, both. Wright, who has three years of group management, may but ship one thing to the Royals throughout that timeframe, which was sufficient for the Braves to get a faulty former first-round decide from Kansas Metropolis within the deal. (Once more, the Braves are betting that they will take Jackson Kowar’s extraordinarily quick fastball, which has been handled very rudely within the bigs, and construct a workable pitcher round it in a method that their counter-party couldn’t.)
Our good friend Preston Farr checks out infielder Travis Bazzana as a doable 2024 Royals draftee. Preston is hiring contributors for his wonderful new website, Farm to Fountains!
The marriage of former Royal Nicky Lopez was featured in Individuals Journal. Lopez was traded from the Braves to the White Sox throughout the wedding ceremony weekend.
Additionally this previous weekend in Royals weddings, congrats to Nick and Hannah Pratto on their nuptials! Their wedding ceremony was officiated by former Royals outfielder Brewer Hicklen.
The Padres are going with Mike Shildt as their new skipper.
Righty Kyle Gibson signed with the Cardinals for one 12 months at $12 million.
Shortstop Paul DeJong is headed to the White Sox.
Former Angels supervisor Brad Ausmus will be part of the Yankees as a bench coach.
The Royals weren’t on this checklist of a dozen potential groups for a Tyler Glasnow commerce.
I’ve to confess, I didn’t learn about very a lot of these 9 Google Docs hacks earlier than. I additionally must admit that the primary time I attempted to kind that sentence, I typed “Google Canine.”
Some mild studying from Ask a Supervisor: 12 tales of bizarre office meals incidents, and a assortment of basic vacation tales from the positioning’s archives.
Apparently secure deposit packing containers aren’t all that safe.
This previous week I discovered about an tried shootdown of a cargo aircraft in Baghdad in 2003. The pilots managed to fly again to the airport and land the aircraft regardless of the entire plane’s hydraulic methods being depressurized. That left them with simply the throttle and ranging energy between the best and left engines to steer and management the velocity. Two earlier cases of hydraulic failure led to tragedy in Japan and Iowa.
Right this moment is the sixtieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Who do you assume was accountable?
SOTD: Alex Melton’s cowl of ‘Mirrorball’ by Taylor Swift
