The 2021 Major League Baseball Player Chatter, News and Fantasy Thread

[EmpireMaker]

Kyle Seager has announced his retirement, according to a statement relayed by his wife on Twitter. He had the rare honor of spending his entire career with one organization, having been drafted by the Seattle Mariners and staying with them until reaching free agency at the end of the 2021 season.
Seager, 34, began his career as a third-round pick of the Mariners in 2009, climbing through the minors to make his MLB debut in 2011, getting into 53 games that year. In 2012, he had a breakout year that saw him hit 20 home runs in 155 games, slashing .259/.316/.423. In combination with his solid third base defense, he was worth 3.8 fWAR that year.
From that point on, he essentially took over and made himself a fixture at the hot corner in Seattle, playing at least 154 games for the Mariners for seven straight seasons from 2012 to 2018. A hand injury limited him to 106 games in 2019, but that would prove to be his only significant absence, as he played all 60 games in the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign and then 159 games in 2021.
After a 2014 season in which Seager hit 25 homers, was selected to the All-Star game and won a Gold Glove, he and the Mariners agreed to a contract extension worth $100MM over seven years. That contract, which just concluded a few months ago, kept him a Mariner for life.
Over his 11 seasons, Seager played 1,480 games, notching 1,395 hits, 309 doubles and 242 home runs. His overall career slash line was .251/.321/.442. He was worth 34.8 wins above replacement in the estimation of FanGraphs, with Baseball Reference putting him at 36.9. A model of consistency, Seager produced at least 1.5 fWAR for ten straight seasons, from 2012 to 2021, hitting at least 20 home runs in each of those seasons, except for the shortened 2020 campaign. Despite his reliable durability, power production and defense, the Mariners were never able to build a postseason-worthy team around him, having not been to the postseason since 2001.
In 2021, the final year of his career, Seager set career highs in home runs and runs batted in, with 35 and 101, respectively. His slash line on the year was .212/.285/.438. Going into the offseason, MLBTR predicted that he could have earned himself a new contract worth $24MM over two years. Instead, he will hang up his spikes and enter the next chapter of his life.
Seager addressed his retirement with Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times this afternoon. The third baseman said he’d decided to retire by the end of the season, a year that ended with an emotional farewell from the fans at T-Mobile Park after the Mariners had been eliminated from playoff contention. “I knew if we got eliminated that would be the last time I played baseball. I knew it was my last at-bats, I knew it was my last ground balls, my last innings,” Seager texted Divish. “All those thoughts were in my head. I had so many emotions going on that day. My family being out for the pregame pitch was magical. I got very emotional very early in the day!”
Seager went on to tell Divish he’d been contemplating retirement as far back as Spring Training and said the ongoing lockout and labor uncertainty played no role in his decision. “It honestly was an easy decision. As much as I love baseball, it was time. I’m ready to be home with my family. I’ll miss a lot of people and aspects of the game, but I am ready to start the next chapter of my life.” Mariners fans in particular will want to check out Divish’s full piece, which also contains quotes from Seager on his appreciation for the Seattle fanbase as well as interest he’d received from other teams this winter after the M’s bought out his club option for 2022.

[stevenash]

Fernando Valenzuela threw it perfectly

So did your other guy.
Mike Marshall.

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Zito had the prettiest curveball you will ever watch. Definitely underwhelmed after getting paid though.

Blyleven and my favorite Moose too.

One advanced scout once said "When on, Mike Mussina's overhand curveball is the most devastating pitch in the game".

[JAKEPEAVY21]

What happened to the Jay Bell's of the world?

Players that can lay down bunts well is a thing of the past...

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What happened to the Jay Bell's of the world?

Players that can lay down bunts well is a thing of the past...

If I'm a GM I want a stick artist batting second in my order behind my leadoff guy the guy who can get on base at least 35 percent of the time, minimum.

You get your lead off guy on base with regularity and have a hit and run or bunt artist type hitter right behind him I'll show you a 1-0 lead or better before the first inning is over.

I'll say this again (Not directed at you JP)
I'm old school that meets new school.

I believe in analytics but know enough to know sometimes you have to throw out the analytics book.

[EmpireMaker]

Last winter, Josh Bell found himself on the move. The Pirates, the only team for which he’d played in his career, were amidst a full rebuild. Bell was down to his final two seasons of arbitration control, and his escalating salaries were accounting for a larger percentage of Pittsburgh’s annually low payrolls.
Bell’s value last winter was complicated by a subpar 2020 showing. While he seemed to break out as a middle-of-the-order slugger with a .277/.367/.569 showing the year before, the switch-hitter stumbled during the shortened season. Bell appeared in 57 of the Bucs’ 60 games but he hit only .226/.305/.364 across 223 plate appearances. Of perhaps even greater concern, his strikeout rate spiked from 19.2% to a career-high 26.5%.
In need of a first baseman, the Nationals took a shot on a Bell bounceback. Washington acquired the Texas native for a pair of pitching prospects, Eddy Yean and Wil Crowe. While Bell didn’t completely regain his 2019 numbers, that move largely paid off for Nats’ general manager Mike Rizzo and his staff.
The 29-year-old appeared in 144 games and tallied 568 trips to the plate this past season. His 27 home runs were the second most of his career, trailing only his 37 longballs from 2019. Overall, Bell hit .261/.347/.476, an offensive showing that checked in 18 percentage points above the league average by measure of wRC+.
In addition to the improved results, Bell seemingly rediscovered his better process at the dish. He cut his strikeouts back to their typical range, punching out in only 17.8% of his plate appearances (about five points lower than average). His rate of contact on swings rebounded to 77.4% after cratering to 69% during his down year in 2020. Those better bat-to-ball skills came without sacrificing contact authority. Bell’s average exit velocity (92.5 MPH) and hard contact rate (52%) in 2021 were each career bests.
The one alarming aspect of Bell’s batted ball profile that carried over from 2020 was an uptick in ground-balls. While he’d only put 44% of his batted balls on the ground in his 2019 peak season, that spiked to 55.7% in 2020 and checked in at 53.5% this year. So Bell gave back some of the impact of his hard contact by hitting the ball into the turf, explaining why his power numbers didn’t bounce all the way back to 2019 form.
Even still, Bell had a decent season. His numbers were a bit better than the .257/.338/.454 leaguewide mark from first basemen. His 2019 campaign offers a hint of further offensive potential, and Bell had a quietly strong second half. From the All-Star Break onward, he hit .277/.381/.506 with more walks than strikeouts (albeit with a still concerning 55.9% grounder percentage).
That largely went unnoticed, though, because Washington had since fallen out of contention. While the Nats had hoped that a Bell resurgence would be part of a team-wide bounceback that’d keep them competitive in the NL East, things didn’t play out that way. Washington hovered around the periphery of contention for the season’s first few months, but a mid-July swoon kicked off a deadline teardown and organizational reboot.
Bell wasn’t part of that midseason sell-off, but there figures to be a bit more interest around the league after his strong play down the stretch. He’s now entering his final year of club control, and the Nationals don’t seem to have a plausible path to contention next season. It’s not clear Washington wants to entertain a multi-year rebuild — with Juan Soto under club control for three more seasons, there’s not much time to dawdle — but Bell’s ticketed for free agency next winter anyhow. Trading him coming out of the lockout wouldn’t be a sign of a longer-term rebuild so much as a recognition of their unlikely contention status in 2022.
The first base market didn’t move much before the transactions freeze. Freddie Freeman’s status seems to linger over both free agency and trade possibilities. Beyond Freeman, Anthony Rizzo remains on the open market. The A’s seem likely to trade Matt Olson. Perhaps the Yankees will move Luke Voit. Some of those dominoes may have to fall before there’s much progress on a potential Bell trade.
At a projected $10MM arbitration salary, he’s not going to bring back a return as strong as Oakland would get for Olson or New York would recoup for Voit. There’ll be teams in the Freeman/Olson markets who don’t land those stars, though. The upcoming collective bargaining agreement may introduce a universal designated hitter, leaving some National League clubs looking for another bat. Some of those teams figure to see Bell as a viable alternative to the market’s costlier options. Given the Nationals’ current competitive situation, it wouldn’t be too surprising if he’s donning a different uniform for the third straight year come Opening Day.

[Cross]

Maybe another 4-6 weeks til sides start talking it seems.

[jrgum3]

Kyle Seager has announced his retirement, according to a statement relayed by his wife on Twitter. He had the rare honor of spending his entire career with one organization, having been drafted by the Seattle Mariners and staying with them until reaching free agency at the end of the 2021 season.
Seager, 34, began his career as a third-round pick of the Mariners in 2009, climbing through the minors to make his MLB debut in 2011, getting into 53 games that year. In 2012, he had a breakout year that saw him hit 20 home runs in 155 games, slashing .259/.316/.423. In combination with his solid third base defense, he was worth 3.8 fWAR that year.
From that point on, he essentially took over and made himself a fixture at the hot corner in Seattle, playing at least 154 games for the Mariners for seven straight seasons from 2012 to 2018. A hand injury limited him to 106 games in 2019, but that would prove to be his only significant absence, as he played all 60 games in the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign and then 159 games in 2021.
After a 2014 season in which Seager hit 25 homers, was selected to the All-Star game and won a Gold Glove, he and the Mariners agreed to a contract extension worth $100MM over seven years. That contract, which just concluded a few months ago, kept him a Mariner for life.
Over his 11 seasons, Seager played 1,480 games, notching 1,395 hits, 309 doubles and 242 home runs. His overall career slash line was .251/.321/.442. He was worth 34.8 wins above replacement in the estimation of FanGraphs, with Baseball Reference putting him at 36.9. A model of consistency, Seager produced at least 1.5 fWAR for ten straight seasons, from 2012 to 2021, hitting at least 20 home runs in each of those seasons, except for the shortened 2020 campaign. Despite his reliable durability, power production and defense, the Mariners were never able to build a postseason-worthy team around him, having not been to the postseason since 2001.
In 2021, the final year of his career, Seager set career highs in home runs and runs batted in, with 35 and 101, respectively. His slash line on the year was .212/.285/.438. Going into the offseason, MLBTR predicted that he could have earned himself a new contract worth $24MM over two years. Instead, he will hang up his spikes and enter the next chapter of his life.
Seager addressed his retirement with Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times this afternoon. The third baseman said he’d decided to retire by the end of the season, a year that ended with an emotional farewell from the fans at T-Mobile Park after the Mariners had been eliminated from playoff contention. “I knew if we got eliminated that would be the last time I played baseball. I knew it was my last at-bats, I knew it was my last ground balls, my last innings,” Seager texted Divish. “All those thoughts were in my head. I had so many emotions going on that day. My family being out for the pregame pitch was magical. I got very emotional very early in the day!”
Seager went on to tell Divish he’d been contemplating retirement as far back as Spring Training and said the ongoing lockout and labor uncertainty played no role in his decision. “It honestly was an easy decision. As much as I love baseball, it was time. I’m ready to be home with my family. I’ll miss a lot of people and aspects of the game, but I am ready to start the next chapter of my life.” Mariners fans in particular will want to check out Divish’s full piece, which also contains quotes from Seager on his appreciation for the Seattle fanbase as well as interest he’d received from other teams this winter after the M’s bought out his club option for 2022.

I didn't see this one coming. Kyle Seager quietly had a solid career and even better he played for one team for the entirety of his career. That's rare and he will probably be missed in Seattle because he was a good player during his career there.

[JAKEPEAVY21]

Maybe another 4-6 weeks til sides start talking it seems.

They don't give 2 shits about the fans..

[stevenash]

Alex Lewis
-The Athletic (the best by far in the business)

A year ago, an idea emerged: Why not make some predictions for the 2021 season? The task was tough, especially after a 60-game 2020. But we tried.
And we were right … on a few! The Salvador Perez extension happened, the bounce-back seasons of prospects Nick Pratto and MJ Melendez garnered national attention and the club indeed added a few more key players before the season began.
Of course, we were not perfect. Bobby Witt Jr. did not make his major-league debut. The Royals did not draft a college-aged pitcher first (they opted for high schooler Frank Mozzicato). And the Royals did not win 80 games.
Still, the exercise was fun — and it was enjoyable to keep tabs on throughout the year.
In that vein, with New Years Day right around the corner and baseball fast asleep in the heart of a lockout-laden winter, we thought it’d be fun to make a few more predictions. Here are five, ranging from prospects to development to more:
1. Bobby Witt Jr., MJ Melendez and Nick Pratto will debut in the season’s first half; expect early struggles.

By now, you probably know Dayton Moore’s three requirements for prospect promotions, but let’s re-state them:
1. The player has to have premium talent.
2. The player has to be performing.
3. There has to be an opportunity.
Witt, Melendez and Pratto already answer No. 1. That’s why most of the anticipation for the Royals’ season surrounds these three young hitters.
As for No 2, all three players will certainly receive big-league spring training invites. They all competed in camp last year, too. They’ll listen to Mike Matheny’s morning speeches. Witt will field grounders alongside Adalberto Mondesi, Nicky Lopez and Whit Merrifield. Pratto will dig out a low throw to first base at George Brett Field. Melendez will flip off his catcher’s mask and drift beneath pop-ups in the same grouping as Salvador Perez.
If they handle these drills well — and there’s little evidence to suggest they won’t — performances in spring training games will take precedence.
Then comes No. 3: The question of opportunity. Witt, a premium infielder, has primarily played third base and shortstop, where the Royals likely will have a need from the time they break camp. Melendez, a catcher, won’t supersede Perez, but if he’s swinging the bat the way he did in 2021 (he led the minor leagues in home runs), the Royals could find a lineup opportunity for him. Pratto’s chances of playing big-league first base depend largely on what happens with veteran Carlos Santana. If the Royals trade Santana before the season, Pratto could fill the role.
It feels fair to predict that Witt, Melendez and Pratto will make their debuts in the season’s first half. Then comes the question of: Will they produce? Hitting prospects across Major League Baseball, such as Dylan Carlson and Jarred Kelenic, are examples of players who have floundered a bit at first. Mega prospect Wander Franco is the antithesis. It makes sense to think a talent such as Witt could hit the ground running. Some might say the same for Melendez or Pratto. But predictions require realism. Expecting slow starts for these three feels right.
2. Prospects Will Klein and Maikel Garcia will emerge on national prospect lists by the season’s end.

More than a week ago, one of our readers, Stan B., asked which under-the-radar young player would contribute in 2022.
The answer is right-hander Will Klein.
Not only did he strike out 121 batters in 70 1/3 innings at High-A Quad Cities, but one person who is in the loop of Klein’s offseason work said recently: “This dude is a joke.” And he meant that as the highest possible compliment.
Klein, whom the Royals selected in the fifth round of the 2020 MLB Draft, stands 6-foot-5. His fastball has touched 100 mph. He can spin a plus curveball. He’s also throwing a changeup with plus potential. This being the case, don’t be surprised if Klein’s name moves up prospect lists in 2022 as he dominates in the minor leagues or, if performance permits, reaches the big leagues.
Another prospect who may garner a healthy amount of attention is Maikel Garcia, a shortstop from Venezuela whom the Royals added to their 40-man roster this offseason. Garcia stands 6-foot and weighs only 145 pounds, but his bat has some pop. In the Venezuelan Winter League, he posted a .828 OPS with 18 strikeouts and 11 walks. His gene pool should help his cause, too. A couple of his relatives: Alcides Escobar and Ronald Acuña Jr.
3. The Royals will trade Carlos Santana before the season.

MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand reported in July that “Boston had talked to the Royals about Carlos Santana, but KC wasn’t inclined to move the veteran switch-hitter.”
On the day Feinsand posted that report, Santana had a .757 OPS. At the end of the season, his OPS dipped down to .660. A Grade 2 quad strain certainly contributed to that drop-off.
What’s obvious is that a trade would have provided the Royals a way out of Santana’s 2022 salary (and unlocked more money for them to spend in 2022). But no trade materialized.
Now here the Royals sit with Santana. And although they haven’t said that they will be in the market to trade him, it stands to reason that they will. If Mondesi, Witt and Lopez occupy the infield spots beyond first base, Whit Merrifield will likely move to right field. In that case, Hunter Dozier would need a spot — either at first base or in the designated hitter role. Once Melendez or Pratto’s bat proves ready, they might need one of those spots, too. Trading Santana could be the Royals’ best chess move.
4. Advancements in the Royals’ pitching development processes will become evident.

Royals chairman and CEO John Sherman identified pitching development infrastructure as a focal point during a conversation last season with The Athletic.
“Because when you think about the pipeline of pitching talent that we’ve developed and brought in over the last few years,” Sherman said, “to me, it’s one of the deepest in baseball. So we need to invest in them and around them to make sure that, at the end of the day, you’re producing a real high-quality rotation with the major-league team.”
What does investing look like?
Maybe it’s more personnel.
The Royals already have a well-structured pitching development staff with Paul Gibson, a former big-league pitcher; Jason Simontacchi, whom the Royals hired in 2019 from the St. Louis Cardinals; Dane Johnson, a longtime pitching coach with the Toronto Blue Jays whom the Royals hired ahead of the 2020 season; and Derrick Lewis, a longtime Atlanta Braves pitching development staffer who joined the fold ahead of the 2020 season.
The club also utilizes premium technologies such as Edgertronic high-speed cameras, Rapsodo pitch-tracking devices and more. They’ve even entered new frontiers, bringing young pitching prospects to the University of Nebraska to analyze their movements biomechanically.
Still, it seems as if more could be done. Maybe it’s developing a pitching lab on-site in Surprise, Ariz. Maybe it’s establishing internal software that spits out pitch sequence recommendations. Maybe it’s a combination of all of it. What appears likely is that the Royals will be doing more things differently, beginning as early as next season.
5. There will be updates with the downtown stadium idea.

In mid-September, the Royals held a press conference for two promotions: They were elevating Dayton Moore to president of baseball operations and J.J. Picollo to general manager.
The moves were notable. Moore had been the Royals’ general manager for 15 years. Why adjust his title? What duties will his new role ask of him? Picollo had long been integral to the Royals’ drafting and development processes. How much autonomy would he have? How will he operate differently? All of those questions will be answered in time.
But above all was a comment Sherman made afterward: “We are conducting an internal process to help us evaluate our options for where we play, and one of those options is to play downtown baseball.”
This was not totally unexpected. Nor was it the first time this idea had been floated. But this time was quite notable. Reactions around the city have ranged from sheer joy to brutal skepticism. There are questions to answer, including concerns about location, taxes, parking and architecture. The process to put together the groundwork for a new ballpark takes time, which allows for more insight, information and details.
No, this isn’t a pointed prediction, but more a reflection of how these things tend to go. Further plans on where the Royals expect to play once their lease at the Truman Sports Complex wraps up in 2031 should come in 2022.

[JMobile]

So did your other guy.
Mike Marshall.

Never heard of that guy. Probably old timer

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Never heard of that guy. Probably old timer

Won the Cy Young Award in 1974 becoming the first ever relief pitcher to do so.
Set the record for most games pitched in a season which will probably never be broke.
One of the most devastating screwballs ever thrown by a pitcher.


1974
Check it out.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/marshmi01.shtml

[EmpireMaker]

After receiving a PRP injection in October, Carlos Santana said that “Now, I feel 100 percent” in the wake of an injury-plagued season, the Royals first baseman told The Kansas City Star’s Lynn Worthy. This tracks with the 4-6 week timeline Santana initially gave in the wake of the injection, which was meant to help treat the Grade 2 quad strain that plagued the veteran slugger during the last six weeks of the season. Between the quad and other leg problems, Santana clearly wore down in 2021, batting only .185/.217/.284 over his last 351 plate appearances.
With this rough season lingering, Santana said that he is “working on a couple things that I need to help me, my swing and my body. That’s the only thing I changed. I started early, working out, compared to the year before.” Now entering his age-36 season, Santana has posted two below-average offensive years (as per the wRC+ metric) since his 2019 All-Star campaign, which is a little ominous for a Royals team that still owes Santana $10.5MM in 2022. While Santana has bounced back strongly from disappointing years in the past, 2021 was the worst of his 12 big league seasons by just about every metric, so Santana will have more of a climb to recapture his old form.
More from around the baseball world as we enter 2022….

• Brandon Nimmo is a free agent next winter, and “the expectation is” that the Mets will pursue a contract extension, The New York Post’s Mike Puma writes. Nimmo has a strong .266/.393/.445 slash line over six career MLB seasons, yet he has only 1695 PA and 457 games on his big league resume due to a variety of injuries. Given this checkered health history, one wonders how much of a long-term commitment New York would be willing to make to Nimmo, or if the Mets might only be willing to offer an extension at a relatively team-friendly price. From Nimmo’s perspective, he will have to weigh locking in some form of a guaranteed payday, or perhaps betting on himself to stay healthy and productive, thus potentially setting him up for a much richer free agent contract from the Mets or another team in the 2022-23 offseason. Hypothetically, the incentive-heavy extension between the Twins and another oft-injured outfielder in Byron Buxton could serve as something of a model for a Nimmo extension, if likely at a lower price point than the $100MM in guaranteed money that Buxton will receive. (Interestingly, Nimmo and Buxton are more comparable than one might think, in terms of fWAR.)
• Cardinals prospect Ian Bedell is set to make some light throws off a mound this week, according to Derrick Goold of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This marks Bedell’s first work off a mound since he underwent Tommy John surgery back in May, and the 22-year-old has been able to continue his rehab normally with minor league staff, as Bedell and minor league team personnel aren’t subject to the lockout. The right-hander is tentatively still on schedule to return to action by May 2022, as Bedell is eager to resume a pro career that has already been set back by the pandemic and now his TJ procedure. Bedell was a fourth-round pick for the Cardinals in the 2020 draft, and he tossed only 2 2/3 innings for the team’s high-A affiliate before being shut down for surgery last season.

[stevenash]

Quick drive by New Year wishes fellas.

Who's starting the 2022 thread?

[Cross]

Mike Marshall was legit for sure.

[JAKEPEAVY21]

After a brief hiatus, we are back in business(for the moment)

[JMobile]

Can't believe Ken Rosenthal was fired

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Can't believe Ken Rosenthal was fired

Just for disagreeing with Manfred.

Cancel culture is running wild.

[Chi_archie]

Just for disagreeing with Manfred.

Cancel culture is running wild.

I don't think that is cancel culture

[JMobile]

Cameron Maybin retires. Saw him become a player with the Padres

[EmpireMaker]

The most recent news about Devin Williams was from October 5, with Williams having undergone surgery on his pitching hand, which he had broken when punching a wall the week before. At the time, the Brewers had finished their regular season schedule and were a few days away from starting their NLDS matchup with the Braves. There was still hope then that Williams could pitch in the World Series, if the Brewers were able to make it that far. Unfortunately, it was their opponents in that series who made it to the World Series, with the Brewers falling to the Braves.
It’s impossible to say whether the Brewers would have fared any better in the alternate reality where Williams doesn’t punch that wall, but it’s hard not to wonder. He had an incredible breakout during the shortened 2020 campaign, throwing 27 innings with a miniscule ERA of 0.33 and an absurd 53% strikeout rate. It would have been impossible for Williams to maintain that level of dominance in the larger sample size of a full season, but he still pitched well enough to prove that it wasn’t a complete mirage. Over 54 innings in 2021, he put up an ERA of 2.50, along with a 38.5% strikeout rate, still well above league average. But the Brewers had to head into the playoffs without him, due to the actions of Williams himself.
Now three months later, Williams sat down with Will Sammon of The Athletic to discuss the incident and the events surrounding it. As detailed by Sammon, the incident took place the night of Sunday, September 26, after the Brewers clinched the NL Central, with the post-game celebrations that started in the clubhouse eventually making their way into the outside world. Although Williams doesn’t go into explicit detail about what happened, he says that he became “upset over an altercation” and that “instead of taking it out on that person, I walked away, hit a wall.”
After eventually realizing the severity of the injury days later, Williams was left with the difficult task of informing his teammates about the situation. On the subject of whether he adequately expressed himself in that moment, Williams told Sammon, “I think most people understood what I was trying to say. They got the message. But that … that was the most difficult part.”
However, despite the emotional toll of feeling like he disappointed his teammates, he hasn’t been spending his offseason completely mired in guilt. That’s at least partially attributable to Hunter Strickland who, though now a free agent, was with the Brewers at the time. He had a similar self-imposed injury when with the Giants in 2018 and told Williams, “You have to forgive yourself at some point and move on. Otherwise, you’re just holding yourself back, keeping yourself from moving forward.” When asked if he heeded Strickland’s advice, Williams said, “There was definitely a month and a half when I was just sitting there, couldn’t do anything and I was down on myself. But if I stayed like that, I would never get to where I want to be.”
Williams is now on pace to return to full health before reporting to spring training, gearing up for 2022. He figures to be an integral part of a Brewers pitching staff that is largely the same as the one that was among baseball’s best in 2021, as the club looks to make the postseason for a fifth consecutive season.

[JMobile]

Two juicers face each other

[JMobile]

Genevieve Beacom becomes first female to pitch for a professional Australian team

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Use the new thread Mobile