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The 60 game season would have been worse for Sox fans if it was actually 162 games long.

I would make Mondays a mandatory day off. MLB is now Garfield.

@custom_baseball #OTD in 1896, Chicago Colts player Walt Wilmot was acquitted of the scandalous charge of playing baseball on Sunday. The jury found him not guilty and this is said to have paved the way for games to be played on the Lord's day. Wilmot would join the N.Y. Giants 1897. I'd mandate double header's on Sunday.

@mlbtraderumors Yankees Sign Ryan Weber

Sticking point for players is luxury tax threshold (artificially deflates player salaries) and reduction in arbitration years (players want to reach FA sooner). Those are the two biggest things the players want to negotiate about.

According to Blum, The Athletic’s Evan Drellich, ESPN’s Jeff Passan and Jesse Rogers, and other reporters, here are some of the proposals floated by the league in today’s talks… In regards to the top pick in the amateur draft, the teams with the three worst records would be involved in a lottery, with the winner receiving the first overall pick. This is similar to a previous league proposal, except this time, MLB added that a team wouldn’t be allowed to take part in the lottery for three consecutive seasons (to help address tanking). The MLBPA has also wanted a draft lottery, except a larger process involving the eight teams with the worst records. A draft for international players, as opposed to the current “July 2” international signing window and bonus pool system. The elimination of the “Super Two” arbitration system, as players who would count as Super Two-eligible in the future would have salaries determined by a formula. The league’s proposal offers some leeway, as players with even one day of MLB current service time would have the option of taking part in this new system or opting to remain in the old system. Regardless of this grandfather clause for current union members, the MLBPA isn’t keen on the idea of any statistical-based calculation tied to salary, such as the league’s prior proposal to entirely eliminate the salary arbitration process. If a team has a top 100-ranked prospect on its Opening Day roster, and that player finishes in the top five in voting for a major award (the MVP, Cy Young, or Rookie Of The Year) during one of his arbitration-eligible seasons, the team would receive a bonus draft pick. The idea is to provide a benefit for teams so they won’t hold back top prospects for service-time reasons, as extra playing time might help a player earn an award like the ROY as soon as possible. According to Passan/Rogers, players have some reservations about this idea, including concerns over how the list of “top prospects” eligible would be determined. (MLBTR’s Tim Dierkes is more bullish on the concept, as outlined in this Twitter thread.) An expanded playoff bracket, with 14 teams reaching the postseason. The players have expressed an openness for a 12-team postseason in the past, though as Sportsnet’s Ben Nicholson-Smith notes, an expanded playoff is “arguably players’ biggest bargaining chip” given how much the league and the owners want that extra postseason TV revenue. The use of the DH in both the American and National Leagues. The universal DH has widely been expected to be part of this CBA, and Susan Slusser of The San Francisco Chronicle writes that the players union seems agreeable to the idea as long as the universal DH isn’t “tied to something else as a bargaining chip.”

Just leave out the last period and you're good to go.

Go straight to jail. Do not pass go.

@alexspeier Within: The Red Sox have now hired Katie Krall as a minor league coach, making the Sox the first org with two women on their coaching staffs. Bianca Smith: “That’s going to be history in itself…It’s kind of sad that it’s still a big deal, but we’re both really excited about it.”

I would have re-signed Pedro. He had 9.6 fWAR over the first 3 years of the contract (better than Schilling in that time period). It was sad to see him go, but it was obvious they weren't bringing him back.

@JeffPassan Baseball labor update: There is no deal. There never was going to be one today. MLB made a proposal. The reaction among the players was not positive. Few on either side expected it to be. The question is how soon the MLBPA counters. Spring training starting on time is in peril.

The curse of Jay Buhner. If he's not on the roster, you can't make the postseason. In looking at his fangraphs page, I'm surprised he was never a 4 fWAR player. Must have been a horrible fielder. 2001 roster also included Norm Charlton, who I believe was the last of the Reds' Nasty Boys to retire.

He was NOT deserving of that ring.

Peak Nomar was great. It's just a shame how it ended here.

In 2021, the Mariners pen was 5th in WHIP in MLB. Where will they wind up this season?

Getting drunk and jumping off from the top of port o' pottys?

Yeah, they should have signed Hendriks. That would have been good. Does that help them beat the Astros? IDK.

The one true sport.

Would I enjoy sports more if they took a break to have a meal? I don't know.

The final 2 minutes of any basketball game is a miserable tv watching experience.

That doesn't irk me at all. They still massively underpaid him for his first 6 seasons. He deserved to get paid. He made more money for the Sox than he made off of them.

Post-Pedro: Lester compiled the best career with BOS. Sale had the best peak. Sounds fine to me. With 2 great seasons, Sale would leap past Lester.

^^^

fWAR as a BOS starter: Lester 27.9 Beckett 20.4 Sale 18.2 (more years to come) ERod 14.6 Buchholz 14.3 Price 10.6 3 best seasons fWAR: Sale 17.4 Lester 14.6 Beckett 14.2 So the question is what the definition of "best" is. If it's most production overall, it would be Lester. If it's best peak production, it would be Sale.

Yes, we need to have this discussion again.