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Boyd will be out until June/July. Otherwise he’d be an interesting option…
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They wouldn’t go up if people didn’t pay for them…
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That’s why MLB labor agreements are a joke. It’s few hundred people struggling and fighting on how to divide up several billion dollars…
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It’s some new territory for Cohen. He’ll dial back once he’s paid a few tax bills..
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Also the Yankees could do worse at shortstop than Gerrit Cole’s brother-in-law…
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Trevor Story?
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It seems like many teams near or over the limit (Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox) that are normally quite active are standing part, probably because any new CBA is more likely to have repercussions with them…
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Scherzer’s trade requests mean nothing with regards to his free agent negotiations; his money wasn’t going to change. Apparently Scherzer has lived in Arizona since his days on the Diamondbacks. So clearly he does not let his location influence where he pitches, what with him living in Arizona these past seven years while pitching in DC. So yes, if the Mets offered $51 mill, he’d take out. He has to. It’s the only way he could be taken seriously as a board member for MLBPA…
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I didn’t know there were only two choices. Have you considered simply “Mike”?
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No. What you’re supposed to say, and do so by repeating after me, is “Holy flounder farts!! I remember when off-seasons used to be this fast-paced!! But I thought I’d never see it happen again!!”
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We now live in an era where $7mill is, at worst, a moderately priced dumpster dive.
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I’m never going to consider settling arb year pricing with the backup catcher should be a “major move.” But that the list has only 3 moves out of 9 that cost more than $3.1 mill really says a lot about the budget he’s working with.
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Oh you’re more guilty than the rest. Ink isn’t even dry on the contract and you’ve already given him a detrimental nickname
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Last year Drew Smyly was signed for a one year $11 mill deal after posting a 5.71 ERA over 126 IP over the previous four seasons combined. $10-12 mill isn’t impact pitcher money. These one year deals given to Wacha, Kluber, etc. are basically lotto tickets…
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And always remember, history does not repeat itself. But the History Channel does…
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Kluber is a better pitcher when he actually pitches, but that hasn’t been too often in recent years. The 116 IP he’s totaled in the past three seasons is less than Wacha threw last year alone.
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So like Gausman, Scherzer is apparently on the cusp. Scherzer is a little more predictable in that he will clearly just take the most money. He has to. He really has no choice. Apparently Scherzer is one of 8 players on the Executive Board of the MLBPA. This is the very board that delivers the message to players to take as much money as possible so as to increase the value of their peers. It would be hypocritical in a big way if Scherzer took a lesser offer for whatever reason after being part of an organization that criticizes players for doing the same thing. The only other free agent on this board is Marcus Semien, I believe. So when it comes to Scherzer and Semien, the signing strategy is very simple - most money. There will be no bargains or hometown discounts or “better chances to win”…
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Well, it’s not that. It’s that you openly criticize anyone who praises Bloom at all…
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Well, it was $7mill to get him to take a one year deal. He might have been asking for 2 years $10mill. Is he a better value as a $5mill AAV pitcher that you have to take a bigger gamble on?
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Helpful. But not going to get me to uproot my family, move back to Massachusetts and purchase season tickets…
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I can admit it doesn’t make my nostrils quiver…
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I personally think this is a load of crap. Most of the players who are deemed “unable to handle Boston” played on the Sox a very short time. Sometimes players just have bad seasons. Whether you’re in Boston or Tampa or Oakland, if you don’t perform, you could wind up a bench player or a minor leaguer. Or on the waiver wire hoping for one last shot before you tell your agent to contact the Chunichi Dragons. I think fans over value the aspect of what city that all happens in…
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Oooh I know!! I know!! Neither team! The Astros won the ALCS this year….
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Sale only pitched 42 innings. Counting him as an addition is ok. I’m not too on board with Wacha. Bloom does have some credibility in my eyes, but Wacha was all Lao on my “do not touch” list. So wait and see if my only approach. I suppose the good news is in the (unlikely?) event the Sox bring in another starting pitcher on an MLB deal, it’s good news for the current bullpen construction, since it would actually mean Houck and Whitlock stay put…
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When my sister and I were kids, we were thrown clear from a Scrambler in a local carnival. We were tiny things and this was back in the days when people were less litigious, carnival rides were just thrown together and often didn’t have working (and occasionally existing) seat belts, and child safety was “oh well, have another kid.” She was concussed, and to this day she can’t sit out in the sun because of that concussion. (I was unharmed, but that’s just how it always goes with me.)
