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  1. notin
    You need a winning team to enjoy a closer. Meanwhile the A’s did have one of the most exciting hitters in the second half last year who looks more like the type of young star you build around…
  2. notin
    Hey I just reported their results. Is there any reason you’re opinion on the subject should be given superior credence?
  3. notin
    I did check BTV. They say Oakland would be stupid to reject Mayer for Miller Of corse, they might not want a shortstop…
  4. notin
    Jurassic World? The World According to Garp?
  5. notin
    I hope they don’t expect more for a closer than a top ten prospect…
  6. notin
    The simplest way to remember is it if you’re dealing with countable nouns. If so, than use fewer. Fewer pitchers. Fewer hits. Fewer dollars. Fewer errors. Less is for those uncountable nouns. Less effort. Less attitude. Less money (see “fewer dollars” above)
  7. notin
    About time on Wagner, the undersized kid who threw 100mph with his weak arm…
  8. notin
    It’s going to come down to how many injuries they have and how well they can overcome them. The difference between 85 wins and 90 wins isn’t that much. It’s like saying this team isn’t going to win 55% of their games. 52% tops…
  9. notin
    Like Shugart…
  10. notin
    These projections have Ernie Clement outperforming Trevor Story and Bo Bichette (off a 0.3 fWAR season) outperforming Jarren Duran (off of a 6.7 fWAR season)…
  11. notin
    That’s becoming the case with too many teams. I don’t like the financial buckshot the Dodgers are doing, but not because the Sox won’t; I don’t like it because too many teams can’t. Teams like Pittsburgh, Sacramento, Tampa, etc are running out of reasons to bother trying any more.
  12. notin
    Sam Kennedy painted the window shut…
  13. notin
    Good early in the contract is best case for most free agents. The whole “our window isn’t open yet” feels like a self-fulfilling excuse. It turns into an endless cycle of “Our window to win won’t open until we get good players.” “But we shouldn’t get good players until we’re in a position to win.” Just get the good players and make your own window…
  14. notin
    Maybe they were tight. But that open doors that Ohtani knowingly gave him money to gamble with. And, yes, that could absolutely be a big deal. Of course that is just speculation. But there was always a lot of questions about this that were just accepted too quickly…
  15. notin
    Fun fact - they were teammates in Korea…
  16. notin
    Welcome to LA, Ha-Seung Kim…
  17. notin
    I’m sure many rich folks get ripped off by their employees. But let’s be realistic. The ones who do rip them off have some sort of access to their money. Assistant? Accountant? Sure. Gardener? Probably not. Shohei isn’t some single guy living with his translator in a luxury bachelor pad. He has a wife. He probably has an accountant. He might even have a personal assistant. (It is LA, after all) To think his wife, accountant, assistant, and bank all didn’t notice these transactions? And the one guy with complete access to his account was the guy whose sole responsibility was to translate languages for him (which is not a financial thing). The more one thinks about it, the less likely Shohei appears innocent…
  18. notin
    You’re confusing me. Literally just 3 posts above you compare Bregman to Nomar, highlighting the death spiral that was Nomar’s career from that age on. Now you’re calling for Bregman? I still think the Sox will sign him, but part of me thinks the Dodgers might as well…
  19. notin
    You’d think they didn’t win last year. I’ve never seen a defending champion have such a thorough rebuild before. I can’t imagine what it’s like for a lot of those players from last season. Management is literally telling them “we know you just won a World Series, but frankly, a lot of you are simply just not perfect and therefore are going to be replaced by more expensive and therefore more perfect players.”
  20. notin
    Make that 568 bullets as they just signed Yates…
  21. notin
    Infinitely more reasonable? Infinitely? Right, “it wasn’t me” is such a rare thing for the guilty to cry. So it’s obviously infinitely likely to be true. I wonder if Tucupita Marcano tried to blame his translator as well and how much MLB laughed at that. Some of us struggle to believe Ohtani’s money was just so accessible that anyone who knew him could easily access millions of dollars and just happen to have a gambling problem and happened to get caught immediately after Ohtani signed a record-breaking, headline-stealing contract that it would have been a huge black eye for MLB if they had to void a week later because they banned the player for life. Although even if Ohtani did get caught betting on baseball, MLB would probably change another rule for him…
  22. notin
    Big deal. Steamer couldn’t predict last year’s results…
  23. notin
    Criswell was a lot better than I thought he’d be. Of course, I thought he was going to be AAAwful…
  24. notin
    But to say you don’t see Bregman as one of “the guys” the Sox finally spend on is kind of silly as a reason not to. Right now, “the guys” on the Sox includes Story and Yoshida. I will say this - if Bregman is looking at $160mill over 6 years, I don’t think that as cheap anymore…,
  25. notin
    Yeah but spending and missing is at least spending. There’s a huge difference between making a bad decision and making no decision at all. And Story did make some sense. His fWAR was comparable to Bogaerts over the previous seasons. He was and still is a better defender. He’s just been hurt a lot…
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