Each MLB Team’s 23-24 Offseason Report Card Grade
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Leaving out the two-game series the Dodgers and Padres will play in South Korea next Wednesday and Thursday, just 2 weeks stay till Opening Day (March 28) for the 2024 Major League Baseball season.
That suggests it’s time to put a bow on the offseason and totally turn the page to forecasts for the routine season.
(You hear that, Blake Snell and Jordan Montgomery? Select a group currently, would ya?)
One last agenda, though: Offseason transcript grades.
Everybody understands the Dodgers passed with flying colors, investing well over a billion dollars to ensure they went into the season as the World Series preferred.
How did everybody else fare on the attempted and real A-F scale?
In addition to the Dodgers, 7 groups got an A- or much better for what they achieved this winter season.
The A’s were not one of those A’s. Oakland is one of 5 groups that stopped working badly.
Groups have actually been separated by department and provided in alphabetical order within each department.
American League East
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Baltimore Orioles
Secret Additions: Corbin Burnes, Craig Kimbrel
Secret Departures: Félix Bautista *, Kyle Gibson, Adam Frazier
Grade: A-
The O’s didn’t really lose Bautista, however they entered into the offseason understanding they would require to attempt to change him for a year while he recuperates from Tommy John surgical treatment.
And in signing Kimbrel, they did about the very best they might wish for on that front, understanding that getting Josh Hader was never ever in the cards.
Where they actually updated was trading for Burnes to take Gibson’s area in the rotation, going from an innings eater to a genuine ace. With him, they seem like a more major World Series danger.
Boston Red Sox
Secret Additions: Lucas Giolito, Vaughn Grissom, Tyler O’Neill
Secret Departures: Chris Sale, Justin Turner, Alex Verdugo, James Paxton, Adam Duvall, John Schreiber
Grade: F
Even before learning that Giolito may miss out on the whole season with an elbow injury, this was a harsh offseason.
They understood damn well that beginning pitching was their glaring weak point, and their grand option was to trade their oft-injured ace for an unverified middle infielder while changing Sale with a pitcher coming off back-to-back hardly sub-5.00 ERA projects– all while declining to sign Blake Snell or Jordan Montgomery.
The Red Sox are still thought about the favorites for Montgomery, which would be a huge, last-minute splash. Even that would just bring them from an F up to possibly a C, as we went into the offseason rather presuming they would land one of the a number of marquee beginners readily available.