Good afternoon everyone, it’s time to dive back into the mailbag and answer some of your questions. The season is unfortunately over, which means we’ll be rolling the mailbag back to bi-weekly shortly, but for now we’ll remain at our current pace to go over the postmortem. Remember to send in your questions for our weekly call by e-mail to pinstripealleyblog [at] gmail [dot] com.

The Hall Monitor asks: Anthony Volpe is due to get his first arbitration raise before the season starts. Some models estimate he’ll get a raise from the ~$900k he made this year to about $3.9 million. Question 1) Does that number seem right to you, or does his bad 2025 bring it down? Question 2) Because Volpe is still relatively “cheap” at that number and you could probably spin a narrative around him that “the t

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