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quote:After his subpar 1999 season, the Mets released Bonilla, but still owed him $5.9 million. Bonilla and his agent offered the Mets a deal: Bonilla would defer payment for a decade, and the Mets would pay him an annual paycheck of $1.19 million (the payment is made on July 1) starting in 2011 and ending in 2035, adding up to a total payout of $29.8 million.[16][17][18] Mets owner Fred Wilpon accepted the deal mostly because he was heavily invested with Ponzi scheme operator Bernie Madoff, and the 10 percent returns he thought he was getting on his investments with Madoff outweighed the 8 percent interest the Mets would be paying on Bonilla's initial $5.9 million. As a result, the Mets' handling of the payout was a subject of inquiry during the Madoff investment scandal.[19] MLB.tv Sharing Thread Jose Oquendo posted:Well guys, I'm gonna live on the edge another year: CLICK THE COOL THING FOR .GIF THREAD        
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Also here's Sano's bomb from today for the new thread https://twitter.com/AroundBasesPOD/status/881231654299107328
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Sano apparently likes playing in KC http://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2017/07/02/1562262783/1498961555646/asset_1200K.mp4
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I'm sad that Sano lost the 3B lead but Ramirez definitely deserves it so it's not that bad.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Keuchel hasn't thrown since going on the DL, why pick him for the ASG? If he wasn't injured he would be on the team, and all-star selections can be contract incentives (or used in negotiations). I think there's just a general bonus given out to players that make the roster as well.
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mcmagic posted:Also 80% of HRD participants hit less homers in the second half of the season than in the first. This is either a really bad troll or you don't actually realize that the second half has 10-15 fewer games than the first half. Either way you should feel really bad and dumb.
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seiferguy posted:Another thing to consider: how could Angel Hernandez see race if he can't see balls and strikes? Oh my god
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Julio Cruz posted:Is Jim Joyce still umping? He was the only guy I could identify at home plate through sound alone. He retired at the end of last season
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N: Logan Morrison is mad that he's not in the Home Run Derbyquote:"I remember when I had 14 home runs,'' Morrison said. "That was a month and a half ago.'' V: Logan Morrison owns and I agree with him.
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Julio Cruz posted:While it's true that LoMo has more homers I don't think many people would choose to watch him in the HRD over Sanchez. With Judge already in the derby, Sanchez isn't really moving the needle. Morrison probably gets more people that weren't already tuning in to do so as a result. I don't really care either way but I do remember him being a pro twitter follow in the past so it would have been a cool nod for him.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I will give you one (1) slightly used Jim Johnson. The Twins signed Bartolo Colon so they might be interested
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Intruder posted:And in a division with actual teams And the Giants
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Intruder posted:Even though Devenski had a 1-2-3 inning, the first batter he faced smoked a line drive right at Alonso and the final batter faced his a very sharp ground ball right at Alonso Springer gave a cool interview and so is absolved of all failures at the plate.
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I don't know who any of those prospects are
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Did I just witness Keith Law murder a dude?
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Bryant during his rookie season, a year older than Happ is now, led the league in strikeouts and had a 30.6% K rate. Last year it dropped to 22% and this year it's 20.4%. Rizzo's K rate was 30.1% his rookie season and now it's 11.1%. Young guys strike out a lot when they're first introduced to big league pitching. I don't see any reason why Happ wouldn't be able to make adjustments like his teammates have. Bryan't BB% in his rookie year: 11.9 Rizzo's: 13.7 Happ: 8.4 I think that's an important thing to takeaway from his point. Not that 8.4% is a particularly bad BB%, but a high walk rate indicates that you're recognizing pitches well instead of just swinging at everything.
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I remember watching game 163 in the workout room at my apartment complex because I couldn't afford cable. It owned.
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I'm pretty sure you have to start with Javier Baez
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Joey Freshwater posted:I got my copy the other day and the mailman had put it perfectly in my mailbox so that the cover was facing out and I got a facefull of naked Javy when I opened it. (s)he knew what (s)he was doing
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Intruder posted:I've been making GBS threads on Beltran but he actually got off to a hot start! He was at one point slashing .308/.308(lol)/.385 Fun fact: that second slash line has a higher OPS
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I'm going to the game today I'm excited to see Berrios pitch, hopefully the Astros didn't break him
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N: Miguel Sano has hit a home run in the last four Twins games I went to V: 
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It's not a true rivalry until you send someone to the hospital and ruin their life in the stadium parking lot because they're a fan of the other team
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Paracaidas posted:Whatever happened to the MiLB prospect thread, anyway? Any time someone wanted to talk or be happy about their prospects a bunch of assholes raced to see who could assure them that actually they would bust horribly just like every prospect. I think eventually mods shut it down and nobody bothered to make a new one.
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Altuve probably isn't going to statpad for like five years at the end of his career though
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Sano had one a week or so ago that statcast missed as well, they just hit the ball too dang hard
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I'm never happy when my team loses
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Wonder if it was Tyler Jay or Nick Burdi
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Farchanter posted:HELLO, I AM HERE TO DATE YOUR DAUGHTER one of my favorite avatars
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Sydin posted:Well more and more people seem to be jumping on the robo-ump train lately, maybe we just go whole hog and make robo-players too? Also we should give the players jetpacks and put land mines on the field.
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Didn't someone on the Rockies injure himself trying to carry a deer up his stairs or something once? Or maybe it was just groceries?
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It's great of course but what really puts it over the top is adding "The All-American Boy" at the end
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Intruder posted:Jose Altuve has surpassed Aaron Judge to take over the league lead in WAR  I don't know why I didn't cut off the last number, it's total bases IcePhoenix fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Jul 25, 2017 |
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Sydin posted:The best I can find is this, which does not include the parking lot comment but for some reason includes a guitar riff over Hawk getting really mad: That's the Ultimate Warrior's theme you uncultured swine
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bewbies posted:Is there some sort of cool tool that allows one to see what a player's stats would be if they played their home games in another ballpark? https://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/neutralized-stats.cgi?t=b The second box lets you change the "home" park and even has a convenient auto-fill for the 2000 Rockies.
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Poque posted:We haven't made the postseason in three straight seasons since 1906-08. That'd be a nice milestone. How many shits will you actually give if you don't make it?
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Carlosologist posted:That Marlins-Rangers game/series really made everyone heated for some reason this is exactly how this sort of poo poo is supposed to work
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It's gonna be really funny when the Twins end up flipping Garcia to another team at the deadline after they lose two of three in Oakland and get a worse prospect than Ynoa in return.
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