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The trade is centered around Alex Verdugo

How long is going to take to finish this investigation? I hope it's finished before ST, I don't want to keep talking about for much longer

I like them, but they are a notch bellow the ones on the list, I almost include them, specially Wagner, at the end I just left them out.

BTW, I have no idea why Ted Williams has a number that low, I know that he was known for some jerky attitude towards the press, but that's no reason to not vote for him.

Out of the list, the ones that deserved the 100% IMO are the following: 100 Mo 99.3 Griffey 98.8 Seaver 98.8 Ryan 98.5 Ripken 98.2 Cobb 97.8 Aaron 97.6 Gwynn 97.2 G Maddux 95.6 Carlton 95.1 Ruth 94.7 Mays 93.4 Williams 93.2 Musial 92.7 Clemente 92.0 B Robinson

Derek Jeter 99.7% Larry Walker 76.6%

The ballot in 2022 will be interesting, Bonds & Clemens might finally be in the HOF and the first year for Arod, with the way he has worked in his image over the last few years, I'm assuming he will be in the hall in less years than Bonds and Clemens

Public Ballots: 204 Anonymous Ballots: 8 % of Ballots Known: 51.5% "Last Updated: 1/21/2020 at 07:00 PST" Derek Jeter 100.0% Larry Walker 83.5% Curt Schilling 78.8% Barry Bonds 71.7% Roger Clemens 70.8% At this pace, even Schilling will be out of the hall for one more year

Exactly, no different than other ways of cheating, who was first? we'll never know

Public Ballots: 149 Anonymous Ballots: 7 % of Ballots Known: 37.9% "Last Updated: 1/16/2020 at 13:20 PST" Derek Jeter 100.0% Larry Walker 85.3% Curt Schilling 80.1% Barry Bonds 74.4% Roger Clemens 73.1% Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens falling in the ballots

They need to investigate further, if the Yankees or any other team benefited from this, they have to pay the price. It's looking more and more that many teams were doing the same crap. If the commissioner is serious about this, he needs to investigate this matter all the way. My guess, is that the MLB stops at the Red Sox, unless some players who was/is with the Yankees or any other team comes forward and blows the whistle on them, I don't think anonymous sources will be enough.

If the MLB punishes the Sox with something similar to the lost draft picks the Astros got, then you'll have no choice than to deal Erod, the one you try to extend is Devers. With low draft picks in consecutive years, the only other way to get good prospects would be thru trades, if not, the "rebuild" would be longer

The problem with Eovaldi has never been the talent, if he's healthy for a full season he has the tools to be a top 5 in the Cy young voting. The problem again is health; in my opinion he should be converted to the BP full time, he might become the best RP in the league. He has a closer salary, he might be one of the best (if not the best) in that role.

I understand your point, most organizations will cut ties with Beltran, I have my doubts that the Mets will. Talking about technology, I don't really like the implementation of a lot of it, but it would be wrong not to recognize the the world has changed, most things in regular life are controlled by technology now, something needs to be done; the league needs to jump ahead of this and incorporate new things to some degree, how many? I don't know; somebody suggested the use of headsets between manager (or pitching coach), pitcher and catcher. It looks like a good starting point.

I wrote this before, sign stealing and the use of electronics device is a league wide practice, same as PEDs in the 90's. Whoever thinks their team is/was clean on those matters are delusional. The question is to what degree they were using the electronic devices? and then the league can decide if it's "illegal" or not.