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  1. jad
    Questions on Hanley's contract (maybe answered earlier). (1) If the RS 'trade' him, the contract goes with him. Would that include the vesting option? (i.e., if he reaches 497 plate appearances for the year, would the RS be responsible for the 22million the next year?) If so, then trading him is out of the question. (Of course,the other team could agree to pick that up, but there would be no trading partners). (2) if the RS release him, then what? If he gets picked up, the RS of course still owe him the difference between what the other team pays and the salary the RS signed him for. But what about the vesting option? Does that still apply? (i.e., one of the two teams is responsible for 22 million the next year). If so, that makes the whole thing very dicey. Anyone know?
  2. jad
    Agree entirely. The first year was a disaster, but as a regular in the line-up playing first, he was fine. You can't blame the player for agreeing to an inflated contract.
  3. jad
    I agree. Not sure what the specifics of this kind of deal are, but obviously, the intent is to distinguish a 'regular player' from one who sits on the bench, not to distinguish a guy who gets 490ABs from one who gets 500. And had the RS said they were releasing him specifically to avoid next year's contract, or worse, given him another 150 ABs or so before releasing him, they would certainly have been violating the spirit of that clause.
  4. jad
    I'm going to miss him. An erratic but very exciting player, who, like his namesake Manny, made hitting look like the most natural thing in the world.
  5. jad
    It's mostly due to one or two posters who are now on my block list. But it does make the threads almost unreadable. (Plus, of course, fans of other teams--but why they post here is something they need to discuss with their middle school counselor, not us.)
  6. jad
    Thank you JasonBay. Now I can actually scroll through game threads with only two 10-year-olds on my block list.
  7. jad
    Gotta see that again. Doesn't the on-deck hitter need to tell him to slide?? He's just standing there. Nunez got deked by the catcher. (That's on the on-deck hitter, no?)
  8. jad
    That unnerving silence when almost no one other than two a-holes on your ignore list are talking.
  9. jad
    Why would the rules about the shift favor power hitters? The shift should favor hitters who want to hit to the opposite field. No one wants to do that.
  10. jad
    Well, that alas will likely ensure another streak of 1-20 or so.
  11. jad
    Thank god they don't bunt!
  12. jad
    He needs to stop getting at-bats at the major league level.
  13. jad
    For God's sake just bench him. He cannot hit a belt-high fastball when he knows it's coming. This is embarrassing to the team and to him as well.
  14. jad
    Eck: I love you. But the ball is carrying BECAUSE the air is light, not IN SPITE of that fact.
  15. jad
    "Despite the misty weather, the ball is sailing ..." Wrong. BECAUSE of the misty weather, the ball is carrying farther than it would otherwise.
  16. jad
    Once again, announcers (this time, Eck) speak of the air being 'thick'. But the fact is that misty, humid air is lighter and less dense than dry air, that is, it has less resistance. Balls theoretically should travel farther (although there may be other factors involved--cold? the nature of the surface of the ball?)
  17. jad
    Wow. And again again.
  18. jad
    Again.
  19. jad
    He isn't in a slump. He has demonstrated over the past couple of days he cannot (for whatever reason) hit basic ml fastballs. Enough already.
  20. jad
    OK I've seen enough. I've really supported Bradley, but if he can't hit a series of pitches like that (and those like it he saw yesterday), he has no business in the league. Having the manager spend time with him in bp is a waste of time for both of them.
  21. jad
    I'm sure John Henry as well as all RS sponsors are thrilled to know that not only pink hats come in to watch games, but that the RS have fans from other teams actually following nearly every pitch!
  22. jad
    Well, at least Mookie didn't hit into a DP.
  23. jad
    OBVIOUSLY, should have left JBJ in the game.
  24. jad
    OK. But exactly what do you recommend they do about it? Any players you acquire (and could you get any as good as, say,Nunez [remember how he virtually carried the team last year], Hanley [how's he doing this year?], and JBJ? [capable of extraordinary hot streaks]). Anyone you get is going to be as subject to slumps as these are. Hitters like Martinez are not out there just waiting to be picked up on the waiver wire, or traded for unproductive, streaky players.
  25. jad
    Well, it's not a clean inning any more.
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