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Yanks win! Yeah, that does feel weird.

The only thing is, the Yanks are in a battle with the Stros for HFA.

Can the freakin' Yanks beat the A's once?

Damn, I should've just said LAST arb year.

The strength of schedule stuff doesn't even mean that much at this stage. The Rays recently had a hard time with both the Tiggers and the Birds.

And it was .562 last year. Yikes.

Jackie's OPS against lefties is .624.

Are you knocking the greatest manager in Red Sox history again?

One thing for sure is that there will never be a deal that everyone's happy with.

Some of this is being addressed by higher arb salaries. I mean, we're already beetching about how much JBJ is sure to get in his third arb year...

Yeah, I think we might be seeing somebody like Ryan Weber pitch some innings today.

700hitter, you would get along great with Phil. Players’ Weekend disaster shows MLB’s continuing foolishness Phil Mushnick August 29, 2019 10:02 PM In the 1934 movie “You’re Telling Me!” W.C. Fields says he “bought a wonderful club in Toronto,” then tells his caddie, “Give me the Canadian Club.” By the time MLB’s “Players’ Weekend” ended, no elixir was strong enough to clear or further dull the mind of the systemic senselessness. But MLB never runs low on rotten ideas. It suffers from advanced nearsightedness while self-deluded into practicing the kind of innovative thinking that guarantees a maximum of unintended, unforeseen, ridiculous circumstances. So does the NFL. Thus, our question for commissioner/marketing genius Rob Manfred: Given that every game for three consecutive days appeared the same — Johnny Cash and the San Quentin 9 versus the psychiatric facility security detail from the movie “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” — which game or games did he choose to watch? After all, by design they all looked alike. The players wore monochromatic white-on-white or black-on-black self-selected nicknames on the backs of their corresponding all-white or all-black monochromatic uniforms, making it impossible to know for sure who many of them were — even if you knew their nicknames, which were mostly inside gags. Reader Joe Plitnick thinks Gary Sanchez went with “No Sweat.” Of course, at MLB no one saw this coming. MLB placed everyone in the same clown suit then hit “send” under the full impression and authority that it knows exactly what it’s doing. So all 44 games over the weekend were played in indecipherable secret code — white ink put to white paper, black ink on black paper. Morons. Or as the bibulous W.C. Fields said of his African safari: “We forgot the corkscrew. All we had to live on was food and water.”

That's a contender for Most Cynical Sentence of 2019! But I know you can do better, too.

Not Cashner!

There's no doubt about that.

The very best players, like the most popular movie stars, get paid crazy amounts. It's just the American way, really.

The Red Sox, meanwhile, purchased for 700 million in 2001, are currently worth an estimated 3.2 billion. So that's a tidy capital gain of 2.5 billion.

The interesting question is, is this the end of the bubble? Does anyone think the KC Royals will be worth $10 billion in another 19 years?

The pencil-necked stat geeks that allegedly carry so much weight in today's front offices weren't crazy about big money for JD last time around. I can't see their opinions changing when he's a few years older.

I honestly don't think even DD would have traded Devers. I'm sure he got some asks for him...

Technically, Nick was just asking, not making a statement. Anyway, our Yankee fan friend just did a better job burying DD LOL. Bring on Eddie Romero!

I don't think anyone said none of those players would be starting for the Sox this year. Obviously Moncada would be. Saying that Logan Allen is better than Brian Johnson ain't saying much, of course... I'm not saying that the losses won't be turn out to be significant. No one can say that at this point. But it is fair to say that the losses are largely potential ones, not realized ones.

Logan Allen *might* be a solid major league starter in 2020 but it's not really a lock.

Your point is valid but I think Nick's point is valid too. In the short term, i.e. to the end of 2019, the only losses of any significance in terms of major league production are Moncada (3.0 bWAR) and Margot (1.8 bWAR). That excludes Travis Shaw, who had fine seasons in 2017 and 2018 before a disastrous 2019. It'll be interesting to re-evaluate in the years to come...

3 half-nails. 5.5 back.