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  1. jad
    I've heard this argument a couple of times. But it seems wishful thinking. Why would a veteran give up MLB's guaranteed money on a long-term deal for a one-year contract demanding that he 'prove himself'?
  2. jad
    I know this should be on another thread, but there is nothing I like better in the MLB than seeing "The Cardinal Way" exposed as fraud. (OK. Back to Cora.)
  3. jad
    Damn! They said I wouldn't have to go to the library for this class!
  4. jad
    Quote Originally Posted by Bellhorn04 View Post Decimated means destroyed. It's not generally used to refer to a resource that has been utilized to advantage. Sticking with the farm analogy, when farmers harvest their crops they don't usually call that 'decimating' their farm. Semantics, perhaps, but I think we all know what we're talking about here. The farm was destroyed Bell. Regardless of why it was destroyed or regardless of the ring that followed, the farm was destroyed. Actually, somewhat to my surprise and contrary to the way it's almost always used, 'decimate' does not mean 'destroy'. It means to kill one out of ten (10%). So I suppose in that sense, you could very well decimate the farm without doing it a whole lot of harm ... (well, taking 'kill' metaphorically.)
  5. jad
    Exactly. All you can do as a manager is take the players you're given and try to put them in a position to win. If they don't perform, that's on them, not you. There aren't many cases of managers doing the reverse: say, like putting Joe Kelly in a position of getting six outs in an extra-inning series-deciding game when you have other relievers watching from the bench.
  6. jad
    I'm sure the GM decided that there was no way they could keep a manager whose career BA is higher than the 2019 performance of a guy they just forked out nearly half-a-billion dollars for.
  7. jad
    Great time to finally get rid of the guy who is only .500 in World Championships. I understand Dave Roberts might be available. ... And don't the RS need a closer? LA might have one available.
  8. jad
    Fire the fans! I mean look, it's been a YEAR since they've had a parade! A whole year! And as for their loyalty, not one fan has showed up to Fenway in the last two weeks! Time to clean house. Get rid of all season-ticket owners and start afresh.
  9. jad
    Well now, let me think about that. If my g-f, whom I wanted as a life-partner, were to dump me, I don't think I'd mind coming back as her 'bit on the side'.
  10. jad
    And if the RS fans won't 'tolerate' something, exactly what is it they do? Compose brilliantly vitriolic posts on sports boards? Or show up to the games with hateful signs?
  11. jad
    Great idea! Now, since I haven't been following the league closely this year, remind me which team has two players who hit 30+ hr, 200 hits, 50 doubles, over .300, under team control making almost nothing, who would jump at the chance of giving them up for one such player?
  12. jad
    Perhaps it's worth considering not 'who has the most trade value,' but rather 'who has the most value for the team.' As pointed out above, no one is going to Fenway park all fired up because the RS have great players in Portland, where I can see them just fine in my $10 front row seat.
  13. jad
    Ignore him. Yankee BOT.
  14. jad
    Exactly. That was my point about the difference between ordinary businesses (which generally are concerned primarily with hte bottom line), and sports franchises, which in many cases are 'hobbies' whose primary function is feeding the owner's ego.
  15. jad
    Or it could be a simple business decision. (Although sports franchises, for many owners, are less like a 'business' than a 'hobby'.)
  16. jad
    I don't know. But it seems to me if the thinking is "Sure. Porcello had a mediocre year. So he won't mind being punished with a one-year contract, worth half what he's making now" then you might as well plan to low-ball Mookie as well (who also will welcome the chance to 'rebuild his reputation'). I think it's far more likely RP and his agent think 'Damn! I'm a Cy Young winner, and I plan on being paid like one.' I.e., exactly what you and I would think if we were in the same (unimaginable!) position.
  17. jad
    No they're not. They are a way of ensuring that the players get money that otherwise would be pocketed by the owners. If the owners don't like guaranteed salaries, then they can offer players something equally valuable in the next CBA.
  18. jad
    Why would you exclude that? It's far more reasonable than most of the trades suggested here.
  19. jad
    Or, as many posters have suggested, throw in your best and cheapest players as well, since their trade value is highest. So I think if you added Devers and Erod to the mix (maybe trading them for JD and Vasquez and simply letting Mookie walk), the deal might work. Otherwise, DFA the whole pack of them.
  20. jad
    Yeah, Big Papi sucked too. Plus, the entire ALeague pitching staff did nothing at the plate all year. DFA them all.
  21. jad
    Trade Chacin straight up for Betts. Maybe throw in JBJ (on one side or the other) to make the deal work.
  22. jad
    Doesn't this just show the expected? When you're successful, you stick with what you have. When you're not, you try different approaches? (I don't think any manager of a successful team says 'Hey, I've got an idea: let's use 60+ pitchers this year and have our aces pitch as little as possible.')
  23. jad
    Yup. But if he had made that play in inning 1, he would have saved himself 4 runs and could have cruised to a W. (Of course, as Nadal said about the conditions that could make Kyrgios' a top 10 player: "Eef, eef, eef, eef ...")
  24. jad
    Unless you're competing against your lover (or would-be lover), your friend with Parkinson's, or an 11-year-old, you try to win, no? That's more or less the convention of sports. Especially, I would guess, when you are asking people to pay to witness it.
  25. jad
    Love Devers. But that was the worst AB of his (or nearly anyone) I've seen all season.
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