Javier Reyes

Aug 25, 2024 | justbaseball.com | Javier Reyes

Nobody likes to admit how fun a crusade of being mean can be. It’s a release, of sorts, for that little nerve cluster in your brain with an insatiable appetite for carnage. You have to keep it in check, of course, but being a meanie has, according to all the best scientists with all the best qualifications, benefits to your health. I bet anyone outside the Dalai Lama knows and accepts this.

Aug 8, 2024 | justbaseball.com | Javier Reyes

Every year, we like to make a lot of assumptions. The range of these assumptions touches on everything from the quality of a movie based on its 30-second trailer to the result of an election based on a given set of polling data. But really, all of these things are anybody’s guess. We put on a façade of crystal-ball-wielding, Will-Hunting-level expertise when we’re really just using a pinball machine and hoping it hits the right bumpers.

Jul 26, 2024 | justbaseball.com | Javier Reyes

Everyone loves themselves a fresh plate of trade deadline spice. The All-Star break festivities are lovely, but they’re really just a distractive appetizer for the full course meal of the szn that elicits great joy, or great disappointment. But for the San Diego Padres in particular, the trade deadline is something else entirely.

Jul 14, 2024 | justbaseball.com | Javier Reyes

The biggest story of the 2023 offseason — aside from Shohei Ohtani’s “exciting” decision to join an already-loaded Dodgers Avengers team — was, of course, the blockbuster trade that sent superstar Juan Soto to the New York Yankees. Padres fans suffered great anguish, Yankees fans embraced profound joy, and baseball prognosticators lamented the end of San Diego’s high-flying, superstar-studded ways. A fair assumption, to be sure, but there was one major thing that might’ve been overlooked.

Jul 10, 2024 | justbaseball.com | Javier Reyes

If you’re not sick of this shit stain we call baseball yet, then chances are your team of choice is still in contention. If you’re sick of it all, then chances are your team of choice is very much not in contention. Or maybe you’re just a sicko writing baseball articles on the internet, so the question is irrelevant. But no matter which side you fall on, the trade deadline is here to give you a jolt to your system.