Bellhorn04
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The MLBTR piece puts an optimistic spin on a trade for Price. It says there about 7 teams interested in Ryu and suggests that the Sox will have multiple potential partners for Price, and that the Sox could expect teams to be willing to pay $20 mill * 3 of his contract.
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I just don't know why you're going apeshit about a possible trade of Price to the Jays. It's not like trading with the Yanks or the Rays.
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What are you blathering about?
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He was talking about Teheran & Keuchel methinks.
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The lux tax is not going to disappear altogether, no chance. Players realize that having a lux tax is much better than having a hard cap. Maybe the rates are reduced a bit and the thresholds pushed up a bit.
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At this point I feel like anything could happen. Maybe if they're underwhelmed by the offers they're getting they scrap the reset for this year.
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I expect Manfred's threat was simply a negotiating tactic.
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But it will get resolved.
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Bum and Miley are signed.
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It's kind of like the Mafia. They have always been very resourceful and adaptive in devising ways to separate people from their money.
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If the umps are cooperating, it's pretty much a done deal now.
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The question is how baseball revenues continue to rise when attendance and viewership are apparently dropping. That's why I raised the 'partnerships' thing as a possible explanation.
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Where is all the new dough flowing from? Probably from the new 'partnerships' like Nike and DraftKings, isn't it?
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Yes, a big miss on my part.
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As far as obvious concrete examples go, you can't do any better than the '16 Cubs and the '17 Astros. Both teams somewhat notoriously tanked for a few years, scoring high draft picks that were integral to building championship teams.
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It's one of those things that's just obvious. When we talk about the farm, what we're really talking about is being successful at scouting, drafting and developing players.
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Not to mention producing Betts, JBJ, Benintendi, Devers, Barnes etc.
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You only lose pool money if you exceed the tax threshold AND sign a free agent who has rejected a QO. http://m.mlb.com/glossary/transactions/international-amateur-free-agency-bonus-pool-money
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You really think most fans don't care if there are any exciting prospects in the system or not? You must think the average fan is basically an ignoramus, I guess.
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Or not.
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I think most fans care about the farm. Even if they don't follow it closely they recognize how important it is. It's always been important.
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Not true and not true.
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There's no draft penalty unless you go over by $40 million or more.
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I don't think any of us expected that by Christmas they would have done virtually nothing.
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I do have a suspicion they may have floated the reset goal to see how fans reacted with ticket sales and are now reconsidering.
