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In an odd way, I kind of look forward to watching 2 central teams, Milwaukee in the NL and KC in the AL, for their different approaches to potentially competing in weak divisions.
Milwaukee kind of decided they could be in the mix while taking a step back to build for the future. That's almost impossible to pull off, but the Burnes deal was about the future while getting some assets they can pencil in right away in Ortiz and Hall, the Hoskins signing is a nice patch for a weak spot, and they made some effort to patch together a rotation. Chourio is a legit RoTY candidate from the start of the year, maybe Yamamoto's biggest rival. Rooting for Joe Ross too. they project per FG at 80 wins, while the best team (the Cards) project at 83.
KC was a bad team that made a bunch of moves to try to put together a competitive pitching staff. They patched the position players with 3 vet signings, and they get Pasquatch back. In that division, that can perhaps get them near .500, which is enough to compete. It's sort of a cheaper version of how the Rangers decided to try to compete. Question is will it be ccloser to Rangers 2022 or 2023. Maybe the answer is either is ok for KC. FG still projects them as 10 games below .500, but that's ahead of the ChiSox, while only the Twins (84 wins) project to be over .500 in the division.