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The Pollyanna take is that Hanley was hurt in 2015, healthy in 2016, hurt in 2017, healthy in 2018.

As notin said above, these things always get resolved one way or the other.

I can't let this pass either. There's absolutely no evidence Wright laid a hand on his wife in anger, and if there was, it sure as hell wouldn't be something to joke about.

Well, we got cash considerations for Brentz...

My guess is Marrero. Or not.

BDCLIVESMATTER...that's funny...although some may disagree.

Mookie is hitting leadoff to start the season, we already know that.

I think 'sham' might be a little strong of a word. Obviously MLB will allow these types of contracts as long as they're not totally unreasonable. It's not really a big deal if a team is able to trim a little off their luxury tax number - or defer a little into the following year as with the Nunez deal.

There's not much, I don't think. It's time for Dave to put on some old clothes and go dumpster diving.

Well that's right...we are sort of hoping to contend for a championship.

The second opt-out is after Year 3.

Not necessarily.

YIPPEE This makes my day. Well done DD.

I watched the MLB Network documentary on the amazing 1941 season that started out with DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak and ended with Williams hitting .406 by going 6 for 8 on the final day of the season. There were a lot of good clips and interviews with Ted. I must say this documentary gave me a little different perspective on Williams, who I had formed an image of as being this kind of grumpy, unhappy guy whose relationship with the Boston fans ended up as a sour one. They showed the famous clip of him homering on the last at-bat of his career at Fenway and refusing to acknowledge the fans who wanted him to come out of the dugout and wave to them. But the clips of the young Williams from 1941 showed him with a lot of big smiles, looking like a kid having the time of his life. There's another famous clip of him hitting a walk-off home run in the 1941 All Star Game and practically skipping around the bases with joy. The All Star Game was a big deal then. There's a nice little story from Bob Costas. Costas said he was talking to the older Williams and said something like this: 'You know that character that John Wayne played in all his movies? That character was you. But you played that guy in real life!' Costas says Williams looked at him and said in his typical gruff way (but with maybe a little twinkle in his eye), 'Yeah...I know.'

Yes that's a fair point about Pomeranz. Farrell kind of gave him the 'my way or the highway' talk is what it looked like. Maybe Farrell had no problem laying down the law with younger players, but didn't know what to do if it was a veteran player like Price causing a problem.

One little story that came and went that I thought was kind of amusing was about Goose Gossage being banned from the Yankees training camp this year after being there the last couple of years. He was banned because of numerous comments basically disparaging some of the trends in modern baseball like the one-inning reliever and the reliance on newfangled metrics etc. Goose is unapologetically old school, let's put it that way. When old Goose learned that he was not welcome this year he lit into Brian Cashman and said Cash had no balls. One of the things that occurred to me was, can you imagine if something similar happened with the Red Sox? Say for example Pedro Martinez went a little funny in the head and started calling Dave Dombrowski a big pussy? That would get quite a bit of attention in the Boston media, I think. But the Gossage-Cashman thing went away quickly. The New York baseball media is actually pretty low-key compared to ours.

As the title suggests, this thread is for anything about baseball, past, present or future.

I agree there was dysfunction. There were incidents, that's for sure. And I don't mean to crucify Farrell, but when there were incidents he seemed to have no idea what to do but keep his mouth shut and act like nothing was going on.

To me it sounds like you're relying pretty heavily on the word of an unnamed scout in Lindy’s Baseball Preview issue. Bottom line: 1) In spite of this colossal dysfunction some people are attributing to the 2017 team, they won the division. 2) If Cora is the good manager we're hoping he is, he'll figure out all this stuff.

FWIW my suspicion is that Marrero would be let go before Holt. Mainly because of some comments I read about Holt by DD. He seems to really like him and thinks he's all over the concussion/vertigo stuff.

The normal age curve indicates they should still be rising a little, doesn't it? That's all you can really look at, is norms. The best thing is to look at their 2018 projections. I'm not a big believer in the accuracy of the projections myself, but they are the most scientific thing we have.

Cool. A $4 million AAV is nice.

Looks like the 2018 tax value for Nunez is 6 million. It's 4 million for 2018 and a player option for 2019 for $4 million with a $2 million buyout. So he is guaranteed $6 million.

I think we really need to sign JDM. I think with him and a full season of Devers and with more AB's from Nunez we would have a very strong offense.

Maybe the 147 mill number wasn't accurate.