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You don't even want baseball back though?

Not prorated, he's out at revenue share.

^^^ Player gets his salary reduced to 25% while playing 50% of a season, can't see his family and can have his career ended on one play. If the compromise is some players opt out of playing this year, the owners will lap it up as they'll get the same revenue with a reduced payroll cost.

@redsoxstats Last year at this time the Sox had won 11 of 13, outscoring opponents 100-37, had gone from 8.5 back to 3.0 back. That night Sale struck out 17 over 7 innings, Workman gave up the lead in the 8th, Brasier lost it in the 11th. The season imploded from there.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1994-04-23-9404230561-story.html California starter Chuck Finley walked Hatcher to open the seventh, he moved to second on a wild pitch and went to third on an infield out. With Naehring at the plate, Hatcher started thinking about making the dash for the plate. "I wasn't going to go with Timmy up, especially after they threw over to third," Hatcher said. "After Timmy struck out, with Mo hitting, I was going to give him a couple of pitches to hit. But Finley wasn't watching me. "Even when it got to 3-and-1, [Finley] still hadn't looked at me." Finley disputed that, saying he saw Hatcher out of the corner of his eye. But it was a weak defense. Hatcher took an aggressive lead and never stopped. "I was in the dugout, looking right down the third-base line," Harris said. "There was Hatch and then the next thing I knew, he was three-quarters of the way to home." Vaughn had no idea what Hatcher had in mind. "He didn't give me any kind of sign," Vaughn said. "The first I knew what he was doing was when I saw this big blue head coming at me. I wanted to stay in the batter's box, not to create any interference, but to distract the catcher." Hatcher said, "I didn't want to tip it off. When I came down the line and made eye contact with Mo, his eyes got real big and I just prayed to God he wouldn't swing." Finley's pitch was outside for ball four. Seeing that, Hatcher slid toward the middle of the plate and just beat the tag by catcher Greg Myers. "That's a gutsy play with a lefthander at the plate and it's an especially gutsy play with Mo Vaughn at the plate," manager Butch Hobson said. What really happened was a fight broke out in the stands behind 1b. Finley lost his concentration and looked away from the batter and into the stands to see the commotion. Hatcher bolted the second Finley's head looked away from the plate. My guess is that Finley didn't want to look like a dumbass for being more concerned with the fans than Mo Vaughn at home plate and hatcher on 3b. I was on the 3b line so I saw both the fight and Finley stare off into the stands.

I went to a Red Sox game instead. Billy Hatcher stole home.

https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1260918683184050177 ^^^ Good baseball content

Snell later sent a text message to the Tampa Bay Times and said that he realizes his comments came off as greedy, but that “I mean, honestly, it’s just scary to risk my life to get COVID-19 as well as not knowing and spreading it to others . . . . I just want everyone to be healthy and get back to our normal lives ’cause I know I miss mine!” He added, “I’m just saying, it doesn’t make sense for me to lose all of that money and then go play. And then be on lockdown, not around my family, not around the people I love, and getting paid way the hell less — and then the risk of injury runs every time I step on the field.” I agree with him 100%.

The players don't want revenue sharing at all because they believe that pushes them closer to a cap.

Why do you hate the players so much? Also, who cares about senior prom?

Sharing revenue isn't the same as a 50% cut. The players already agreed to a 50% cut.

Game balls and slushies are way cooler than a trophy at the end of the year.

Per MLB: Undrafted free agents will have their bonuses capped at $20,000. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlbs-2020-draft-changes-will-have-long-term-ramifications-most-of-them-will-be-bad-for-baseball/

They also lose the allocated money towards that 2nd round pick, which isn't great. Fact is, we don't really know how teams will approach the draft and what their plans are for moving forward with a reduced MiLB system.

The trophies aren't for the kids, they're for the parents.

How is it a shell of how it should be played? The schedules have changed over the course of time and it never really ruined baseball. Was baseball prior to interleague play not real baseball? Is having NL teams use the DH not real baseball? I just want to know which part of the changes are frustrating for you.

Doubtful.

https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2020/05/13/mlb-has-not-yet-submitted-health-and-safety-revenue-sharing-plan-to-players/ Owners have not yet submitted the entire plan to players. That’s according to Ken Rosenthal’s report in The Athletic today which says that MLB “soon plans to present the union with an 80-page document outlining potential health and safety protocols for the COVID-19 pandemic, sources said.”

I agree. I don't see an NL team reaching for JD when they don't know if they'll need a DH in 2021.

Yup.

My guess: Workman is traded. They shop JD and Eovaldi but get no takers.

Happy to contribute the first trade JBJ 2020 post.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/05/examining-the-red-sox-potential-trade-chips.html If and when Bloom returns to the trading floor, he won’t have a Betts to work with. It’s quite unlikely he’ll seriously entertain talks for long-term core player such as Rafael Devers and Xander Bogaerts. It’s not likely the team will be keen to discuss Andrew Benintendi and Christian Vazquez given that each has multiple seasons of affordable control remaining. Even younger players like Alex Verdugo and Michael Chavis surely aren’t going anywhere. But Bloom sure has a lot of other guys that would be worth talking about … Brandon Workman, RP: In retrospect, it’s surprising there wasn’t more talk of Workman in the offseason. He ran up over seventy frames of sub-2 ERA ball last year with big strikeout and groundball numbers. And he was approximately the only pitcher in baseball that seemed immune to the long ball, though walks remain a concern. With only a $3.5MM salary, Workman is a really nice target for the many teams that will be looking to compete as hoped without adding financial obligations. Jackie Bradley Jr., OF: The salary considerations go in the opposite direction here, as Bradley’s $11MM walk-year payout isn’t very friendly to the pocketbooks. He’s not likely to be a sought-after player unless he really makes a rebound at the plate. But he has shown that ability before and is a quality up-the-middle defender. Kevin Pillar, OF & Mitch Moreland, 1B: These veterans are both going to have to show what they’ve got on the field before any other teams take a look. But each could be a mid-season rental target. Eduardo Rodriguez, SP: Perhaps the most valuable potential Red Sox trade target that could realistically be shopped, the quality southpaw only just reached his 27th birthday after a productive and healthy 2019 season. He’s due a reasonable $8.3MM (on a full season basis) with one more arb year to go, so the Red Sox will probably intend to hang onto him for 2021 … though their plans could probably be changed with the right offer. Matt Barnes, RP: He keeps producing monster strikeout numbers with good but not great results, due in part to some free pass proclivities. There’d be a ton of interest if the Red Sox make him available, but as with Rodriguez, there’s little reason for the team to sell short. Barnes is earning a full-season $3.1MM salary in 2020 with another pass through arbitration to come thereafter. J.D. Martinez, OF/DH: Might there be added interest with a temporary National League DH? That’d be a risky strategy since the designated hitter could disappear in 2021, particularly given Martinez’s significant post-2020 obligations ($19.375MM apiece in 2021 and 2022). The slugger’s now less likely than ever to opt out of the remainder of his deal. Nathan Eovaldi, Martin Perez & Collin McHugh, SPs: None of these hurlers would be moved at the moment, but perhaps that could change if mid-season trades are possible. The former is owed a lot of coin, but could conceivably be swapped in the right circumstances — if he returns to form. The latter two are buy-low free agent signees who’d be possible deadline flips in a normal year. Perez does come with a 2021 option.

It's a weird short season. I bet they just punt on it knowing that if they are 5 games back at game 75 it looks better than if they are 10 games back at game 150. Though there may be lots of cost cutting measures some smaller market teams make to save money. Maybe the Sox can capitalize on that?

Then why don't the owners just give the players a higher %? It's not like those billionaires need the money. The players are fine with taking a pay cut. They are fine with a prorated salary. They just don't want the terms the ownership put forward. They'd take half of their salary to play half of the games.