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I was wrongfully fired by being fired for being too loving stupid to know that the team I literally run is cheating
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dahl is a great pickup for a team that isn't really super expected to contend at a 3 million price point. If he gets hurt (like he always does) w/e he's 3 million, but if he ends up good he's still under team control until 2024. but if you're the rockies well, there just comes a point where you cut bait even if keeping them is theoretically a good idea because you just get tired of 60 games a season of "potential"
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this is not mets style incompetence, this is intentional. They want the good PR of changing the name, while also getting all the money from the pro-indians fans who will (hopefully, in the teams mind) spend even more money on merch this season knowing that it's going away. Then, once they actually change the name they get all the money from the non-shithead fans who are happy to buy new, not racist merch. this is money grubbing to a serious level
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Dec 14, 2020 21:11
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go back to the longtime name of the atlanta minor league franchise the atlanta crackers.  that would definitely go over well
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Unquestionably the best Negro Leaguers were as good (or often better) than the average major leaguers. The further you get from the best players the more complicated it gets, because even if the average numbers look worse, how much of that is actual talent and how much of it is having to play on worse fields, with worse equipment, in the middle of a brutal road trip where you'd go on a bus for 12 hours, maybe get to spend a night in a local house, before playing a double header and having to hit the road again that night.
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because MLB revenues are so much lower! The NBA made 8.3 billion to the MLB's tiny 3 billion! In fact, MLB has claimed that even in a regular season they'd have lost money this season. How? Well, when you account for the fact that somehow; despite increasing revenues year after year, MLB has claimed that, magically, at most, over the last like 5 or 6 years the most profit the league has made is around 250 million more than they spend. How? well, when you define what is baseball revenue and have accountants who can turn 4 million in profit into 2 million in loses, and don't have to open the books to the players union, well, it's not hard. TheFlyingLlama fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Dec 22, 2020 |
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to go into more detail, some of MLB's favorite tricks are including things like "stadium depreciation" as loses, even when they don't actually own the stadium they play in, or including all costs of owning minor league teams in their numbers, but somehow or another not including any of the revenue that those teams make.
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honestly baseball could go so far by just like, paying all minor leaguers like, 40 grand a year or something vaguely resembling enough to pay for rent and not dying at the lower minor league levels instead of like, 20 bucks a day, 2 peanut butter sandwiches and a host family so they don't loving starve in A ball or w/e but somehow even that is too much for owners to bear. Or, more accurately, if they did that they couldn't lowball latin american talent into taking vastly below value deals like eugenio suarez or ozzie albies took because life changing money doesn't equal the money they should be making TheFlyingLlama fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Dec 22, 2020 |
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Dec 22, 2020 09:43
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bell is cool and I hope his good half in 2019 is more indicative of the rest of his career than the second half of it or 2020. but at the same time, I'm not super shocked that he was traded for what appear to be magic beans
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Dec 24, 2020 22:11
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Keuchel was 87.3 average last season so he was either 2nd or 1st, but I have no idea who the other one below hendricks was
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is paying a replacement level LFer 5 million for 2 seasons probably not the best teambuilding idea? yeah is it a massive mistake that's seriously worth making fun of? Not really
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Julio Cruz posted:am I right in thinking that Joey Lucchesi used to be a pretty highly-regarded prospect? he was a padres top 10 prospect back in 2017 in the general sense of "4 reasonably good pitches, almost certainly going to stay a starter, probably never going to be better than a 3/4 unless his fastball really improves (it didn't). He was a lot more exciting as a college kid with a fastball that "touches 96" than a pro with a fastball that's about 90 on a good day tbh.
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Jan 19, 2021 23:15
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is anyone but the phillies even in on realmuto anymore?
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clearly, the braves will sign Realmuto and then move d'Arnaud to LF. I mean, how bad can he be out there?
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I mean, the rotation looks fine with fried/anderson/morton/smyly and wright, and hopefully will be getting Soroka back during the season, the bullpen is smith/martin/minter....and praying, yeah
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Jan 21, 2021 23:12
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Mustached Demon posted:Who exactly will the pirates field this year? PFC and his 8 friends? actually good player Ke'Bryan Hayes and...uh...colin moran...uh...sadness?
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FlamingLiberal posted:Is there a reason why the Yankees weren't interested in bringing Tanaka back? being cheap. Tanaka can make enough in NPB that he's not going to take a cheap deal in the states and no one wants to pay him
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Jan 24, 2021 21:17
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no. Cohen's firm invested 750 million of the 2.75 billion that Melvin Capital is getting after getting bodied over the gamestop thing. His firm wasn't the one to lose big. It does sound a lot cooler to say "cohen's losing tons of money because of reddit" than "cohen's investing in another firm who got owned by reddit" EDIT: Like, if Melvin Capital completely goes under and Cohen loses everything he has in the company, his net worth goes down to like...12 billion dollars. Oh no. TheFlyingLlama fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Jan 27, 2021 |
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clearly lester needs to retire an oakland a, after the magical...what, 10 games he pitched for them?
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his argument is that he did definitely send that letter, but quote:Let’s back up a bit. First off, the email is real, no “fake news” argument here. I sent it, and completely forgot about it until it was released by the media. It was sent as part of a plan to do advance scouting, a plan that never came to fruition, as the organization decided to all but eliminate in-person pro scouting shortly thereafter. The plan proposed was one of using cameras to be able to better see signals coming from coaches on the bases and in the dugout. Theoretically, this was to be done by scouts in the stands at non-Astros games. Once those signals were later decoded (unlikely, but if they were), that information was to be passed on to A.J. Hinch and his staff, who would presumably use their naked eyes to pick up said signals during games. There was nothing concerning catcher signals (which scouts couldn’t see anyway), live relays or anything like that. It was just an idea, sent by someone new to the advance world who was a bit green in that area, and who didn’t think that trying to better pick up signals was even a problem. I later found out that, at the time, it was a gray area, which in and of itself is a bit embarrassing. Which can basically be summarized as "yeah, I tried to cheat, but in a completely different way and also didn't realize it was cheating at the time". Absolutely poo poo argument, but I guess I'm more willing to accept "cheater has to go write about baseball" than "cheater goes off to run another team.
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but the braves are totally the favorite for marcell ozuna when he's getting a 3/4 year deal and the current GM has done that...ever.... who's ready for inciarte full time in LF!
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Marcell Ozuna is only 30 years old. How is he a DH-only guy at this point, did he lose all his knees or something? even when he was young Ozuna's best defensive trait was his arm. Then he had shoulder surgery, going from a canon to a noodle. Combine that with losing a step in speed and never really developing really good defensive instincts and you go from "he can probably play center" to "well you can hide him in LF if you have to".
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iirc the pirates have said that they like hayes's defense at 3B so much they've considered playing him at other positions. idk if that means SS or 2B or what, but it would be incredibly pirates as hell to make your only good player learn a new defensive position so you can bring in todd fraizer
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is mather's statement that the president of the team's views don't represent the organization stupider than Luhnow claiming to have no knowledge of the sign stealing from the astros?
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He's in his 5th IRL season of playing, but he only has 4 years of service time, so this season was his first in arbitration. 10 mil for a first season of ARB is pretty good; off the top of my head only kris bryant at 10.5 and cody bellinger at 11.5 outdid that. EDIT: Lolno last season was his first season of arb, but a 1.5 mil raise after covid season/his injuries isn't terrible either TheFlyingLlama fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Mar 4, 2021 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:That seems not good? if you're one of the like, 30 or so best players in the game (and you manage to make the majors young enough) you'll make a metric fuckton of money. If you aren't, or worse, god forbid, you get hurt; well you're just kinda hosed, yeah.
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