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  1. notin
    Until I become Commissioner and it becomes a requirement. Also, I plan to bring back Sunday double headers in my effort to keep the World Series out of November...
  2. notin
    I'll take the under on all 7 making the top 100. How many teams have had 7 players ranked at one time? I can only think of 3. (2011 Royals, 2014 Red Sox, 2019 Padres) And in the case of the Royals and Red Sox, not all of the named players even became Major Leaguers. Jury is obviously still out on the Padres. (But they won't.) . There are 29 other teams, each with lists of top 7 prospects close to or better than that with candidates for the top 100, and all 210 players simply cannot fit on a 100 player list. Not even if BA doubles the size of the list. The Sox might get 3 of them. Four would be the upper limit. (But that is still an impressive jump.)
  3. notin
    But having sufficient prospects to fill the holes for the league minimum allows teams to acquire better veteran players...
  4. notin
    Myth. Unless you're reserving your judgment for after-the-fact for when a player is good. If that is the case, we don't know yet if Duran qualifies. Minor League is history is littered with players as talented and more talented than Duran who never saw Day One on the Majors...
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    It's actually pretty tough for a 1B to get into the top 25, and extremely tough to crack the top 10. Lars Anderson did crack the top 25 (BA #17), and them dropped precipitously the next year. Other exceptional 1B like Paul Goldschmidt were never ranked at all due to their position. It's been done, but it's not as common as other positions...
  6. notin
    I think every team should employ a player-manager, and that player should be the catcher. That way, if he goes out to the mound twice in an inning, the pitcher has to be removed. Also, the catcher is still only allowed 6 mound visits per game. Once he uses them up, he cannot remove a pitcher mid-inning...
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    Per MLBTR, the Padres are thinking about including Luis Patino (2.69 ERA in A+ as a 20yo) in a deal for an outfielder - the most recent options being Betts or Startling Marte. To me, including a 20yo with a stellar high A resume and only 7 innings above that level might constitute a "sell high" opportunity for SD. No word on which OF the Padres prefer, but I have to think they would rather have Betts. Marte is cheaper with an additional year of control, but Bloom's willingness to take Myers (or more accurately, a chunk of Myers' contract) has to be a very significant factor here. No way the low budget Pirates touch that deal. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/01/latest-on-padres-and-mookie-betts.html
  8. notin
    The next logical step will be teams employing drones to spy on catcher video. As long as teams use hand signals, there is no way to avoid catching them electronically and deciphering them...
  9. notin
    Maybe we get to see the old-fashioned player-manager. Pedroia? Vazquez? Plawecki? JDM? Who's the best candidate here?
  10. notin
    I do think the right to pay Betts $27 mill for one year might not be worth what you think it is. That said, if the Sox take Myers’ entire contract, San Diego is essentially getting the second best player is baseball and saving $40 million in the process. If they don’t pay anything for Myers, the Sox should get a better deal here. Last year, the right to pay Paul Goldschmidt $14.5 mill was worth a top 100 prospect, an MLB pitcher who had been a top 100 prospect, and another player. And that was with no salary dump coming back. So even if Campusano and Quantrill are the equals of a Kelly and Weaver, the Sox still need equivalent value to offset Myers’ contract. And Gresham alone doesn’t do it. Patino would be a better fit here. Betts for Myers, Patino, Cronenworth, Quantrill, and Campusano works better for me. Still short on the simulator, but if the Padres included Franchy Cordero (whom I like better than Gresham), I like it a little better still...
  11. notin
    We have 3 brand new lefty specialist relief pitchers on the 40 man all added right before a 3 batter rule is implemented to make them obsolete
  12. notin
    That's one are where baseball's racist past has actually been favorable. With MLB players, the stats get scoured over and compared to this guy and that guy and how long was the "period of dominance" and whether or not you were a compiler or a great player. The Negro League players have no real recorded stats, so they just go by the legends and it's good enough. I love that...
  13. notin
    Even if he carried a sign saying "I'm Hensley Meulens, Mets Bench Coach Looking for a Managerial Position with the Red Sox"
  14. notin
    ERod to Milwaukee for Corban Burnes, Freddy Peralta and Mario Feliciano (catcher) ERod to Cincinnati for Hunter Greene and Tony Santillan ERod to St. Louis for Anthony Reyes and Zack Thompson ERod to Atlanta for Touki Toussaint and Bryse Wilson
  15. notin
    Harold Baines?
  16. notin
    Yeah, I mean, technically, so am I...
  17. notin
    Molitor played 21 years with an OPS+ of 122. Biggio played 20 years with an OPS+ of 112. Molitor was better, but both are HOF second basemen who played multiple positions, got 3,000 hits, and only one was a first ballot HOF.
  18. notin
    Use your AOL account
  19. notin
    Not really. It does on the day they get inducted, but that's about it. Do you still really think Paul Molitor as being that much better than Craig Biggio?
  20. notin
    The one where we had a manager and he f***ed things up?
  21. notin
    Lou Brown is a better manager...
  22. notin
    Morejon's stock seems to be falling faster than a 90's dot com...
  23. notin
    Betts for Myers, Gore and Grisham. No money changes hands...
  24. notin
    The Padres are the better match. The Dodgers have shown they own the NL West for the past 7 seasons. They’ve lost 2 of the last 3 World Series to teams currently embroiled in sign-stealing scandals. They did all this without Betts. The Padres, on the other hand, have given out a few mega contracts and spent money, but gotten nowhere. Their upper management has basically demanded Oreller improve the team or find another organization. While he will probably have another job within minutes, he still has some motivation to not get fired. He’s under actual pressure to improve a team, not maintain the status quo or “get over the hump.” Having a stacked farm also helps.
  25. notin
    Eric Hosmer’s agent pried it open...
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