Blissful first Saturday of the offseason, everybody. To rejoice the event, you get two mailbag columns this week! The primary ran on Monday and wrapped up an exciting World Sequence. In at present’s version, we’ll transfer on from the Fall Traditional and reply your questions on a number of groups that completed in final place this season. We’ll additionally cowl small-market groups and a few of the buildings which are in place to encourage them to spend extra on their rosters.
The primary query we’ll reply at present is a few participant we’ve featured earlier than on this column. In actual fact, some are calling him the Patron Saint of the Mailbag, an honor second solely to his standing because the worst main league participant ever.
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