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Yes, but not a real ring (the phone answerer). There are two tiers of rings, all players get the real one. Non baseball employees, and GM rank-and-files get replica/costume. But I would imagine GM himself and maybe top assistant get real rings. Dont think scouts do.

And do you think youre helping that by needling him?

My issue is that I seem to hear / read that defensive player x has fallen off a cliff defensively based on advanced metrics when they look the same to me and I wonder if theres sample size issues or other weird variables are skewing data.

Careful. He will punt on the season.

I lean towards Narvaez being good because he was only a rookie last year, he has a short/stout body with tree stumps for legs, and he grades well defensively.

I feel like I could construct a player prototype to manipulate WAR

Yeah, TY for the details, I just remember his defensive metrics being a mixed bag, then somehow, they all flipped (so still a mixed back, but inverse to the previous mixed bag). Which I found weird. And I feel like defensive stats , even the complex ones are wonky and I feel like WAR is wonky.

Is Craw healthy?

Why is that a pipedream? Baty sucks.

I would pay money to see gary sanchez footrace triston casas. In a 40 yrd dash, we'd prob have time to watch the beginning, go get a beer, and make it back for the end.

Jerry the King, Jordan is not

Not Drohan because he went to florida state, and my friend is a seminole and i like that friend and he likes drohan.

well there will prob be some lefty starter overflow into the pen right?

Wait nevermind, hes dead RIP hold on..... Nobody is going to catch Barry Bonds HR record in his lifetime (career, single season might get got) but that doesnt mean....

Nobody is going to catch Rickey Hendersons sb record, but that doesnt mean that hes an elite player in 2026.

Tough thing about catcher position is that we dont know if Narv dropping off at the end was him reverting back to the player he is, which is still solid but not like a no-doubt starter. Or if he just fatigued/rookie wall, and what we saw from him prior to the end of year drop off was the real Nav (which would make him a no-doubt starter) In either case you prob want to plan for more reps for the other catcher, but Im not sure Wong isnt a solid backup C in his own right. He is quite athletic for a C so hes not without tools. ANd I think on the D side (which is prob most important for backup c) - his metrics seem to be all over the map, which makes me distrust the metrics.

Well catchers usually do have big ass(ets). Prob from all the squatting. How do you think Cal R got his nickname?

I agree that owning the TV station, shouldnt prevent a team from having to share tv revenue. But I really think local revenue is shared https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/mlbs-revenue-sharing-model-has-two-big-problems-how-can-they-be-fixed-r3929/ Granted brewer fanatic can be wrong, but when people are talking about an unfair advantage for the dodgers tv: 1. they get 50% vs everyone else who gets 1/29 of 50% 2. dodgers get more than 50% (unlike anybody else) becasue theres a cap of how much they have to pay in (unlike anybody else) but local tv revenue is split. Im pretty sure. Unless all this is wrong, but it smells like the author knows what they are talking about.

Only the buyout matters in a mutual option.

Okay, but reality mutual options never get exercised and you should consider them invisible. The structure may change the allocation of the financials for CBT (and maybe even cash) purposes - but there is a 99% chance that the buyout is the only thing that matters here. It will be 41m for the 2026 season. Maybe 10m of that gets allocated (or even paid) to 2027, Im not sure. But there is a 99% he wont be here for 30m in 2027. And even if somehow makes mutual sense to exercise a mutual option (never happens, never does), theyll prob still rip up the contract and sign a freshie for 2027.

Im a little fuzzy on this but I think all local TV revenue is shared, but the dodgers have some weird exception that has been in place for 14 yrs and time to revisit. I also can see how maybe the accounting can get a little fuzzy with related party transactions, e.g. if dodgers own the tv station, they pay the dodgers practically nothing (because that revenue would get split) and keep the dollars on the tv side which same owner but prevents it from getting split. I always use pockets to illustrate. Might be a situation where same owner , so same body, but if i move money from right pocket to left pocket, that gets it split, so ill just keep it in my right pocket But Im sure better accountants than I (havent been one 20 yrs) can figure out how to audit against related party shenanigans.

Why Cedanne second over Story vs RHP?

Strike outs are better than groundballs when there is a runner at first and less than 2 outs. If Anthony shows an improved launch angle, Im fine with him third. I hear you on the L-r-l-r thing, and this is probably why duran hits third as opposed to second where hes prob a bit better suited for. So if you want Anthony 3rd, we are just going to have get aggressive, and from this POV Story actually works well because hes underrated at stealing bags. If you wanna go Duran, Story, ANthony - I dont hate it. But I dont want Anthony coming up with runners on first. Second and third with RA at the plate, im great with. First and second, not so much. Because second and third , you either walk RA to load the bases for Contreras (not bad) or Anthony smashes the ball into the dirt that gets fielded (Anthony out, Duran scores from 3rd). Or even better because its RA, the ball will be smashed into the dirt, and Story is fast and smart enough to get home from 2nd should it get through (and many many will and do get through the infield). What I dont want : Duran, Story, RA batting order playing station to station.

Im always warry of sophmore slumps for position players, especially when they are as young as Roman is. Im not expecting especially bad things for him or predicting them. Like I said, Im confident that the ops will be good, im just not sure hes ready to be a superstar at the plate with an OPS above .850 at what 22 years old? Very very rare for 22 yr olds to mash like that. I know he is a very very rare 22 yr old and im not disputing that. I just think his age is one of many reasons why we need more hitting.

Ive got some ideas: 1. If your payroll is north of 285m, you lose your ability to defer money on any free-agents signed until you are back under 285m 2. If your payroll is north of 285m, you HAVE to send out more money in a trade than you get back (borrowed from basketball) 3. IF your payroll is north of 285m - change penalties to loss of draft pick (rather than move back 10 spots) and obviously this effects your signing pool 4. If payroll north of 285m - slash international FA signing allotment (and lose ability to trade your int'l FA signing pool money or trade for more) Like in basketball, they were about to lock-out/strike over a salary cap, but what they did was make too hard to swallow basketball penalties in addition to too hard to swallow financial penalties to effectively make a salary cap without calling it that. In baseball the financial penalties are major for spend/spend/spending, but the baseball penalties could be made more severe which is what Im trying to do here.