God Mode

@DreKnott David Riske, Grant Balfour

@FranmilsEyebrow We're 25th in MLB Market Score, so looks like we're spending in line with market size.

Moral of the story, whether you want to count their benefits and buyouts, or MiLB salaries or not, Cleveland is sitting ranked about 24th to 25th in baseball, no matter how you stack things up. That’s unacceptable, no matter what.

With everyone giving their interpretations of MLB payroll lists and such, this was the best breakdown I could find of Cleveland’s 2025 payroll, and why people are posting different totals.

@rooster_ohio @FrankLaRose Frank was just so surprised Trump gave a stately tribute for once that he had to share it.

Thinking of the Carter Family tonight 🙏

@HouckToby @TheDougRush @tankathon Are you trying to spell "morale"?

With the Browns losing to the Dolphins 20-3, an update to the current 2025 NFL Draft order, according to @Tankathon: The Browns losing to Miami allows them to move ahead of the Giants for the No. 3 overall pick. The Giants then drop down another spot and have the No. 4 overall pick.

@JacobsFieldRBW Weird stat, but okay.

With perks included, the estimated value of Juan Soto’s contract with the Mets exceeds the value of the Guardians’ entire player payroll. I’m sorry, did I say entire player payroll? I meant their entire player payroll since the start of 2018.

@FranmilsEyebrow @CleGuardians Back in the day they used to even come to Columbus every year. Still have my Sizemore autograph from that.

@CleGuardians Embarrassing.

An update regarding Guards Fest moving forward. #ForTheLand

@MLBONFOX @jaysonst Any buzz about fairer team payroll levels?

Rob Manfred says there is “buzz” around adding a "Golden At-Bat" rule to Major League Baseball, per @jaysonst. This rule would allow a team to choose one at-bat in every game to use their best hitter regardless of where they're at in the lineup.

@jeffMLBdraft Who else did they take?

Also find some who loves you as much as the Cubs front office loves good partial seasons of Guardians pitchers

@OurCLEGuardians Hmmm. Makes you wonder if this is why the larger markets are willing to spend more.

Annual estimated TV revenue* Top 5: $196 M - Dodgers $143 M - Yankees $125 M - Phillies $125 M - Angels $111 M - Rangers AL Central: $60 M - Tigers $60 M - White Sox $55 M - Guardians $54 M - Twins $45 M - Royals *Estimates based on recent years. Many RSNs are in flux.

@rooster_ohio No one would even notice. It's all about who can be the biggest Trump sycophant and greatest culture warrior.

@OurCLEGuardians It basically illustrates the high water mark for the Guardians as other teams improve and move up the rankings as the off-season progresses.

I love FanGraphs, but power rankings before most significant moves are made seems pretty pointless, no?

@CovertheCorner Yeah man. It's all a big conspiracy. I'm sure he's just blatantly lying.

@Brill_Grates Oh, man, I should totally believe a guy paid to offer PR for his boss when he says things.

They'd have to chop at least a handful of games off the regular season, but I'm 100% in on this if they do.

@Brill_Grates Yeah... guess those owners will be forced to spend some more!

@BaseballGabb You are attractive and witty.

@BaseballGabb Who could have expected a pro bowl quarterback to regress this badly though. The Browns roster was a super bowl contender with a good QB. You can certainly criticize the decision from an ethical standpoint, but from a football standpoint it was a no brainer.

@AlPawlowski Watson

The Browns will enter the bye week 2-7 with no realistic shot at making the playoffs. Who takes the fall?

@OurCLEGuardians Agreed. I think fans on here got distorted views of players' abilities after the playoffs. Intentionally trading away one of your few above 100 wrc+ bats would be insane.

The more I mull it over, the more I think the Guardians need to keep Josh Naylor. The lineup wasn't good enough last year, so we really need to add rather than subtract. Convince him his best route to staying healthy and having a big year (and a big contract) is to primarily DH.

@rooster_ohio They already tried in 2017 and couldn't figure it out after promising to repeal it ad nauseum.

@frankiemacd Not North America altogether

What is my favorite place in the world