PJ Moran

NFL Draft @FantasyPros / Miscellaneous takes on football, baseball, movies. Eli Manning was the best QB in Class of 04.

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

Volpe just isn’t an everyday major league player and Aaron Judge’s injury should not prevent the Yankees from taking that action.

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

Pass Rusher Championship Belt (Sacks Era):

1982-86: Lawrence Taylor
1987-89: Reggie White
1990-95: Bruce Smith
1996-98: Reggie White
1999-2000: Warren Sapp
2001-03: Michael Strahan
2004-05: Dwight Freeney
2006-07: Jason Taylor
2008-11: DeMarcus Ware
2012-16: JJ Watt
2017-2021: Aaron Donald
2022-Present: Myles Garrett

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

For someone who has authored as many choke jobs as Sascha Zverev over his career, it’s truly special that we could have the choke job of all choke jobs in front of Zverev right now.

[José Morgado @josemorgado]

#RolandGarros QFs, bottom half:

[26] Mensik vs. [28] Fonseca

[2] Zverev vs. [27] Jodar

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

Hey Joe Schoen, I see you drafted Jaxson Dart and signed Braxton Berrios:

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Giants are signing veteran WR Braxton Berrios to a one-year deal, per his agents Drew Rosenhaus and Robert Bailey.

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

On the Skubal / Yankees front, I think it’s realistic because…

1. Don’t think acquiring Skubal is gonna cost THAT much. It won’t be cheap but teams won’t have to empty the farm. Spencer Jones would be a very good candidate.

2. No way Cashman forgets about 2017 Verlander trade.

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

Assuming health, this is the way for #Yankees at Trade Deadline. Use Rodon as the closer for October. And you have Will Warren and Ryan Weathers for middle innings to counter both righty and lefty stacked lineups.

(And throw in Jake Rogers for a better backup catcher.)

[Jimmy Randazzo @JimmyRandazzo]

1. Gerrit Cole
2. Max Fried
3. Tarik Skubal
4. Cam Schlittler

Is in play? That would be insane.

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

John Elway was able to gunsling ordinary Broncos teams to 3 Super Bowls before getting Mike Shanahan at Age 35.

For the next 4 years, he was at least the 2nd best statistical QB in the sport and went 50-17 with 2 rings.

There’s only 1 QB you can’t confidently stack him against.

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

On top of 9+ All Star teams, Chapman at this rate has a good chance to retire with a higher career WAR than Lee Smith, Trevor Hoffman, and Billy Wagner.

And yet this crappy Red Sox team might be the first team that actually likes having him. Like I said…weird case!

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

Aroldis Chapman is gonna be one of the more difficult Hall of Fame debates yet.

[Just Baseball @JustBB_Media]

Aroldis Chapman has moved into 10th place on the all-time saves leaderboard!

He's 12 saves away from tying Dennis Eckersley for the 9th most in MLB history 🔥

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

- Won rings with Cubs and Rangers
- Has his most career WAR with Reds
- Is currently pitching at the best level of his career with Reds Sox

And yet has his most career saves with Yankees, where he wasn’t anything resembling a Hall of Famer.

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

Everyone wants Ryan Jeffers and that would be sick but I don't know why Minnesota would flip him early for a non-exorbitant cost.

A more realistic target IMO would be someone like Logan O'Hoppe. Angels are buried and he's prob not part of their future. 114 wRC+ vs LHP in 2026.

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

#Yankees trade thoughts...

I do not think one is coming at all in 2026 for a 3B.

One is probably coming for a RP but not soon and I doubt it's for a new closer.

One needs to happen ASAP for a catcher. Wells needs a platoon buddy and Escarra ain't it. No help in minors either.

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

Good on Bednar for digging deep there but I think I’m ready for the Carlos Lagrange experience.

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

If Babe Ruth to the Yankees is unsurpassable as the worst trade ever, gotta figure that SGA to the Thunder trade is locked into 2nd?

It’s way worse than the Herschel Walker trade now. Would be like if the Vikings also included Chris Doleman and Randall McDaniel plus the picks.

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

David Bednar is a good reliever but he’s way too predictable / attackable right now to close.

I don’t know if it’s the gameplan, the catcher, Bednar himself, or some combination of the above. But #Yankees gotta figure out how to use him before putting him in more of these spots.

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

It's uncommon to convert targets into big yardage as often as Boutte did in 2025. It helps to have a QB playing at an MVP level like he did last season, but I don't really see it as a fluke from Boutte.

Diet Coke version of AJ Brown could be reasonable for him on next contract.

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

Kayshon Boutte getting dealt as just a toss-in chip in the AJ Brown trade would be really annoying. He's good for real.

Dirt cheap salary for 2026 and you could probably extend him at a mid-level rate. I'd offer more for him than I would for like Brandon Aiyuk.

[Carlos A. Lopez @LosTalksPats]

#Patriots WR Kayshon Boutte has continued to work out away from the facility, per @MikeReiss.

Reiss notes that Romeo Doubs didn’t mention Boutte when speaking about acclimating to New England.

“I have Mack… DeMario and Kyle, and even Efton. Those dudes been guiding me.”

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

Most recent players from NPB to sign big MLB deals compared to the most similar player/contract in the same free agent class:

Kazuma Okamoto (4/$60m): 5 WAR pace
Josh Naylor (5/$92.5m): 0 WAR pace

Munetaka Murakami (2/$34m): 156 wRC+
Jorge Polanco (2/$40m): 53 wRC+, injured

Yoshinobu Yamamoto (12/$325m): 2.72 ERA, All-MLB First Team
Aaron Nola (7/$172m): 4.43 ERA

Shota Imanaga (4/$53m): 365 IP, 3.15 ERA
Jordan Hicks (4/$44m): 191 IP, 5.07 ERA, traded twice

Kodai Senga (5/$75m): 3.39 ERA, 1x All Star
Taijuan Walker (4/$72m): 5.12 ERA, released

Masataka Yoshida (5/$90m): 109 wRC+ with no glove, good hitter but this was a bad deal at the time too.
Andrew Benintendi (5/$75m): negative WAR player since this deal.

Seiya Suzuki (5/$85m): 129 wRC+, 12+ WAR
Nick Castellanos (5/$100m): 98 wRC+, 0 WAR, released

(Left out Tatsuya Imai for now.)

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

If there’s a more deceptive Sports Reference page out there than that of Derek Carr, I’d love to see it.

You’d think this guy was a borderline Hall of Famer, not someone with a career 0-1 playoff record.

[PJ Moran @PJonDraft]

Hard to put into words how much I loved a person who I've never come close to meeting before, but that's John Sterling (and Suzyn).

The sun will come out...Tanaka...

[WFAN Sports Radio @WFAN660]

We are devastated to hear about the passing of John Sterling, a WFAN and Yankees radio icon whose voice was synonymous with an entire generation of Yankee fandom.

Rest in peace, John ❤️