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I've only experienced one lockout as a fan which wasn't even that bad but baseball coverage has been reading enough like WSJ as it is, with trades being evaluated as assets worth x amount of $ etc... I'm not interested in following any of this in depth. Hope the PA rakes the owners over the coals but the talking points will be unbearable

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12-02-2021 , 04:45 PM

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12-02-2021 , 04:45 PM

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I'll go the +400

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12-02-2021 , 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by 72off

the meeting that could have been an email to end all meetings that could have been emails

Ha 7 minutes
It's like both sides had Michael Scotts in charge who threw tantrums

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12-02-2021 , 05:45 PM

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Rob Manfred: "This defensive lockout was necessary because the Players Association’s vision for Major League Baseball would threaten the ability of most teams to be competitive."

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12-03-2021 , 12:19 AM

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I'll go the +400

which one?

I wonder how bad missing spring training would be on the regular season? A lot of wild pitching the first month - or can modern players practice enough on their own to stay pretty close to being ready?

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12-04-2021 , 04:11 PM

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https://dkpittsburghsports.com/2021/...-salary-cap-dk

This article makes a bunch of great points about small market teams and a salary cap imo.

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10. More than half of all teams in the majors have, over the past decade, adopted an approach that most describe as "tanking." Meaning they allow their payrolls to plunge to low levels, rebuild their roster by moving veterans for prospects, then push to win again once those prospects are in the majors and cost little more than the big-league minimum wage over their first three years.

The Pirates are doing it right now. The Cubs, Astros and Braves have done it in recent years on their way to World Series championships.

11. Three years ago in Bradenton, Fla., I asked Clark why the union, which had just filed a grievance against the Pirates and three other teams, wouldn't just agree to a salary floor. His response: "If you agree to a floor, you agree to a cap." That's been the standard union line on that subject for decades. They see the floor as a slippery slope.

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12. That stance is held most vocally by super-agent Scott Boras, who currently has five clients on the MLBPA's eight-player executive board, one of whom is Gerrit Cole, who'd follow Boras off a cliff.

Boras last month derided the Braves' first championship since 1995 as "the Easter Bunny delivering rotten eggs," adding, "We have seen the championship in 60 days. The rules allow them to be a less-than-.500 team at Aug. 1 and add four or five players from teams that no longer wanted to compete and for very little cost change the entirety of their team and season. And we saw this unfold to the detriment of teams that create at vast expense, planning and intellect and won over 100 games."

That's how he sees this. The teams that pony up for his clients, like Max Scherzer just getting a $43 million annual salary from the Mets, are worthy winners. The rest are undeserving.

13. The Boras Corporation -- and that's what it's called -- employs an army of workers constantly staying in touch with reporters, most of them at non-local outlets, and feeding them information. Boras himself will even attempt to instruct reporters on what they should write. I'm speaking from firsthand experience.

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19. They also regularly cite this claptrap as evidence of parity:

Make it 21 years without a repeat champion �� pic.twitter.com/odNy904FCs

— MLB (@MLB) October 24, 2021
It's extrapolating the haphazard results of the final round of a playoff and nothing more.

The pertinent facts: The Yankees haven't had a losing season since 2000, averaging 94.1 wins per a full season, a span in which the Pirates, Reds, Brewers and Royals -- based in the four smallest actual markets -- don’t have 20 winning seasons combined. One out of that bottom four -- Royals in 2015 -- won the World Series. And only one team in that entire time — Marlins in 2003 — won a World Series without being in the upper half of the payroll rankings.

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12-21-2021 , 03:55 PM

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Early returns (48 ballots) make it look like Ortiz will easily make it on his first year which makes me feel like this guy:

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12-28-2021 , 12:57 PM

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Interesting list some crazy stuff I never thought of like the Indians biggest contract 3/60. And I forgot about the lolRangers throwing 325mil at Seager.

Largest Contract In Franchise History For Each MLB Team

Angels: Mike Trout – 10 years, 360MM. Signed 3-21-19.
Astros: Jose Altuve – 5 years, $151MM. Signed 3-20-18.
Athletics: Eric Chavez – 6 years, $66MM. Signed 3-18-04.
Blue Jays: George Springer – 6 years, $150MM. Signed 1-19-21.
Braves: Freddie Freeman – 8 years, $135MM. Signed 2-4-14.
Brewers: Christian Yelich – 7 years, $188.5MM. Signed 3-6-2020.
Cardinals: Paul Goldschmidt – 5 years, $130MM. Signed 3-24-19.
Cubs: Jason Heyward – 8 years, $184MM. Signed 12-15-15.
Diamondbacks: Zack Greinke – 6 years, $206.5MM. Signed 12-8-15.
Dodgers: Mookie Betts – 12 years, $365MM. Signed 7-22-20.
Giants: Buster Posey – 8 years, $159MM. Signed 3-29-13.
Guardians: Edwin Encarnacion – 3 years, $60MM. Signed 1-7-17.
Mariners: Robinson Cano – 10 years, $240MM. Signed 12-12-13.
Marlins: Giancarlo Stanton – 13 years, $325MM. Signed 11-18-14.
Mets: Francisco Lindor – 10 years, $341MM. Signed 3-31-21.
Nationals: Stephen Strasburg – 7 years, $245MM. Signed 12-9-19.
Orioles: Chris Davis – 7 years, $161MM. Signed 1-21-16.
Padres: Fernando Tatis Jr. – 14 years, $340MM. Signed 2-22-21.
Phillies: Bryce Harper – 13 years, $330MM. Signed 2-28-19.
Pirates: Jason Kendall – 6 years, $60MM. Signed 11-18-00.
Rangers: Corey Seager – 10 years, $325MM. Signed 12-1-21.
Rays: Wander Franco – 11 years, $182MM. Signed 11-27-21.
Red Sox: David Price – 7 years, $217MM. Signed 12-4-15.
Reds: Joey Votto – 10 years, $225MM. Signed 4-2-12.
Rockies: Nolan Arenado – 7 years, $234MM. Signed 2-26-19.
Royals: Salvador Perez – 4 years, $82MM. Signed 3-21-21.
Tigers: Miguel Cabrera – 8 years, $248MM. Signed 3-31-14.
Twins: Joe Mauer – 8 years, $184MM. Signed 3-21-10.
White Sox: Yasmani Grandal – 4 years, $73MM. Signed 11-21-19.
Yankees: Gerrit Cole – 9 years, $324MM. Signed 12-10-19.

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12-28-2021 , 01:36 PM

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The Rays really are geniuses with this Wander Franco deal. Get plenty of performance from him for cheap then flip him to the Yankees when he hits the 25mil seasons.

2022 21 Tampa Bay Rays $1,454,545 0.104
2023 22 Tampa Bay Rays $2,454,546
2024 23 Tampa Bay Rays $2,454,545
2025 24 Tampa Bay Rays $8,454,546
2026 25 Tampa Bay Rays $15,454,545
2027 26 Tampa Bay Rays $22,454,546
2028 27 Tampa Bay Rays $25,454,545
2029 28 Tampa Bay Rays $25,454,546
2030 29 Tampa Bay Rays $25,454,545
2031 30 Tampa Bay Rays $25,454,546
2032 31 Tampa Bay Rays $25,454,545
2033 32 Tampa Bay Rays *$25,000,000 $25M Team Option, $2M Buyout
Earliest Free Agent: 203

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12-28-2021 , 05:53 PM

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LOL Athletics. Or maybe LOL MLB because they always compete.

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12-29-2021 , 06:01 AM

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LOL Athletics. Or maybe LOL MLB because they always compete.

As always compete so they get a pass but it's a joke when you have teams like the Pirates who gave out their biggest contract over 20 years ago

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01-10-2022 , 10:51 AM

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Another Kyleb win.

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Rachel Balkovec will manage New York Yankees' low-A minor league affiliate

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She then worked for Driveline Baseball, a data-driven baseball center that has trained numerous major leaguers, before being hired by New York.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...ague-affiliate

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01-10-2022 , 12:02 PM

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Where do you draw the line on numbers? Do you want to see a stat like BA? Do you want to know who scored more runs on a given game?

I'm genuinely curious about the anti-analytics takes here.

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01-10-2022 , 01:06 PM

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I'm not anti analytics. Like, I'm interested in a player's WAR, but I don't care that much about how much $ a win is worth in free agency, what a pick or prospect is worth in $ etc. I know it's done in an attempt to objectively judge transactions, but when I think of something like a deadline trade, player A having x surplus value and potential to help bring in playoff revenue and can get you a compensatory pick worth y, in exchange for prospects worth this and that many dollars is not how I think about it

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01-20-2022 , 06:03 PM

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Hell Yeah!

Robot umpires at home plate moving up to Triple-A for 2022, one step away from major league baseball

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Robot umpires have been given a promotion and will be just one step from the major leagues this season. Major League Baseball is expanding its automated strike zone experiment to Triple-A, the highest level of the minor leagues.

MLB's website posted a hiring notice seeking seasonal employees to operate the Automated Ball-Strike system. MLB said it is recruiting employees to operate the system for the Albuquerque Isotopes, Charlotte Knights, El Paso Chihuahuas, Las Vegas Aviators, Oklahoma City Dodgers, Reno Aces, Round Rock Express, Sacramento River Cats, Salt Lake Bees, Sugar Land Skeeters and Tacoma Rainiers.

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01-20-2022 , 06:17 PM

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very cool

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01-20-2022 , 08:47 PM

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Cool, might be available for the next major league game then, in 2023

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01-20-2022 , 10:44 PM

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Hell Yeah!

Robot umpires at home plate moving up to Triple-A for 2022, one step away from major league baseball

How will Angel Hernandez single-handedly ruin baseball games now?

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01-21-2022 , 12:29 AM

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the robots calibrate to his strike zone obv

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01-21-2022 , 12:55 PM

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They should use it for the All Star game to introduce it to the fans that way.

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01-21-2022 , 07:13 PM

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I may be crazy, but I'm still predicting a full season. Guess more will be known after second meeting Monday, so I'm getting in some dumb bets this weekend.

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01-21-2022 , 08:58 PM

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I would be pretty shocked if there were less than 150 games played. May start a bit late and ST may get squeezed a bit.

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01-24-2022 , 01:42 PM

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That over/under line is way too low.

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01-25-2022 , 06:58 PM

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Almost HOF reveal time. I'm watching the show until they announce it is only 1 person elected and that is David Ortiz and then I am burning everything down.

**** him.

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