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LCS & WS start times are scheduled around national tv more than local markets They'll happily make them start a game at 5:05 local time to reach more east coast eyeballs
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Feb 19, 2021 00:27
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Apparently some of the Rosenthal deal is deferred. I'm just now reading that, and somehow it's a better offer than what the A's figured to offer Semien ($10MM deferred over 10 years at $1MM per).
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Feb 19, 2021 03:58
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bees x1000 posted:OOTP 21 is $5 right now. What does it do better than 18? The changes made to scouting are pretty tight.
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Feb 19, 2021 04:26
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OOTP 18 still had the little peg-people moving around instead of the 3D animations, didn’t it?
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Feb 19, 2021 10:18
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General Bullshit posted:I'm just now reading that, and somehow it's a better offer than what the A's figured to offer Semien ($10MM deferred over 10 years at $1MM per). Why keep Marcus Simien when you can take on the Andrus contract!!!
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Feb 19, 2021 15:24
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Feb 19, 2021 16:25
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https://twitter.com/dennistlin/status/1362482376509513729?s=19 Yu having some galaxy brain takes that's still better than anything Manfred has proposed.
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Feb 19, 2021 16:36
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That’s way more than I would have thought he would get
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Feb 19, 2021 16:40
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College baseball is technically supposed to start today but a ton of series have already been called off for COVID protocols and my own university is in the middle of a case spike so it could be a bit yet. Will start a thread if it ever looks like a season might happen.
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yeah I'm OK with this, I'd much rather go for someone with upside as the 5th starter than blow $40M on Bauer to be the #2 a rotation of deGrom/Carrasco/Syndergaard/Stroman/Walker could be incredible e: Yamamoto and Lucchesi will probably get starts as well until Syndergaaard's back/to manage Walker's workload honestly I'm beginning to get real excited about this team
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This year is a real test of whether lol Mets  is limited to a specific set of incompetent people no longer with the org or is a more general cosmic condition.
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elentar posted:College baseball is technically supposed to start today but a ton of series have already been called off for COVID protocols and my own university is in the middle of a case spike so it could be a bit yet. JUCO started in January, but quite unevenly. DeSantis being so utterly unbothered means that Florida jucos have been going full blast since early January. Other schools have been staggered because they have at least minimum of protocols. Rain soaking the southeast has knocked out more games than COVID so far. With players getting a bonus year and uncertainties over scholarships and playing time, many jucos will be a bit deeper this year. I've heard of at least a few players deciding to ride it out and see if something better pops up in a year or two at the senior college level.
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I read that the Jays were going after Walker, so now I really don't know what they're going to do as far as SPs go.
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I think its more likely they make a trade rather than sign someone. I don't think they want to give Odorizzi a long deal and I'm not sure they have much more to spend this offseason to wow him with a 1 year deal. Ryu/Pearson/Ray/Roark/god please have some prospects ready
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seiferguy posted:https://twitter.com/dennistlin/status/1362482376509513729?s=19 Yu Darvish pushes for Rule 34 in baseball? Oh boy....
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Tatis used one of those payment advance companies that gives minor leagues cash in exchange for a percentage of their future earnings, and could be on the hook for giving up as much as $34M as repayment if he took the maximum upfront payment offered of... $500K.quote:As the company explains on its website, “Players choose what percentage of their future career earnings they want to give Big League Advance. For example, BLA may offer a player $50,000 for every 1 percent of his future professional earnings. If players wanted to sign a deal for 5 percent, he would receive $250,000, or if he wanted to sign a deal for 10 percent, he would receive $500,000.” It's the bolded part that really gets me. Because minor leaguers are paid like poo poo and Tatis was not some huge bonus baby, he had to sign away potential future earnings at a frankly absurd rate just so that he could have the money he needed to, you know, develop as a baseball player. The thing that the minor leagues are ostensibly there to help with. e. Turns out Tatis actually got a $700K bonus so idk maybe he was just bad with his money, but still the point stands that teams should be taking care of their MiLB players needs. Sydin fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Feb 19, 2021 |
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Is Tatis Sr also broke? Surely Jr could have gotten a few bucks from his Dad
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:I think its more likely they make a trade rather than sign someone. I don't think they want to give Odorizzi a long deal and I'm not sure they have much more to spend this offseason to wow him with a 1 year deal. Yeah totally, they have some attractive prospects that wouldn't be too upsetting to give up considering. I also wonder if they move an outfielder. It has been a strong offseason for the Jays they just didn't really plug the SP hole which was one of their main weaknesses, so we'll see.
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N: https://twitter.com/Feinsand/status/1362840428903604224 V: 
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The Berzerker posted:Yeah totally, they have some attractive prospects that wouldn't be too upsetting to give up considering. I also wonder if they move an outfielder. It has been a strong offseason for the Jays they just didn't really plug the SP hole which was one of their main weaknesses, so we'll see. I don't think they should trade an outfielder. There's enough variance involved with Gurriel/Teoscar/Rowdy that I think you wait and see what shakes out before doing something like that. There's no ready replacement in the minors while they have a half dozen guys they can throw at the 5th spot and see what shakes out. If you're trading for a starter you start with sending out catchers and pitching prospects imo.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Is Tatis Sr also broke? Surely Jr could have gotten a few bucks from his Dad
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bawfuls posted:Yeah this is the part that confuses me here. Sr played 11 years in MLB with a lifetime pre-tax earnings of $17.8M. Surely he could support his son's development enough to not have to give up 10% of Jr's career earnings to these vultures? what if tatis sr also had to give up a big chunk of change to them? im pretty sure that service was also available in the early 90s
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Damnit Johnny but also I laughed at this reply https://twitter.com/JoeWBowles/status/1362822058665721862 Watch him get traded now
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Aye Doc posted:what if tatis sr also had to give up a big chunk of change to them? im pretty sure that service was also available in the early 90s
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Is there something specific that makes that kind of deal exempt from usury laws?
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When was the last time usury laws did anything in the US? You can sign people up for like 30% interest on a credit card and charge truly absurd rates on pay-day loans.
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The relevant interest rate is set by federal law and banks are federally chartered At least the ones that issue credit cards are
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Intruder posted:Damnit Johnny but also I laughed at this reply Someone should tell Johnny Trump can't pardon him
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mcmagic posted:Someone should tell Johnny Trump can't pardon him Probably good enough for desantis.
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how do arbitration hearings work? Effectively Wild mentions them and now I'm seeing them here. are these "arbitration years" built into everyone's first contract? the player says "I deserve X" and the team says "haha nah it's Y" and an arbitrator mostly agrees with the team?
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Yeah it's the final three years of the seven years of team control. The player and team each submit a number and the arbitrator must pick one, there's no splitting the difference. They are free to reach an agreement and avoid arbitration, whether that's a multi-year extension or simply agreeing on that year's pay, and that is pretty common.
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ketchup vs catsup posted:how do arbitration hearings work? Effectively Wild mentions them and now I'm seeing them here. That's pretty much exactly how it goes. If team and player can't agree on a contract beforehand, arbitration awards a one year contract choosing either what the player proposes or the team proposes; an independent panel determines which of the two numbers more accurately represents the player's value. They have to choose one or the other. It is kind of an interesting vestige of the reserve clause era. Salary arbitration was one of the first concessions the players won back in the day, when they couldn't leave the team they played for no matter what. It stuck around through several different subsequent CBA iterations as it was as good a system as any for gradually raising player salary while still giving teams some years of control. Nowadays you spend 3 of your 6 team-controlled years in arbitration (the first 3 are usually at league minimum salary), so it tends to land squarely on the best players in the game when they are in their prime years. I *think* players tend to win more often, although "winning" in this sense should be understood as winning within the confines of a system that isn't very favorable to them in the first place. I also could be wrong about that, it has been a while since I actually looked.
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Tom’s River Todd to the pirates apparently (Not confirmed yet) Edited to add: now confirmed https://twitter.com/alexjstumpf/status/1362884756380282884?s=21 GalacticAcid fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Feb 20, 2021 |
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generally before this offseason a lot of teams were hesitant to go to the actual hearing - there's one team (I think the Giants?) that went quite a few years without doing so standing up in front of a panel and explaining why your good young player actually isn't as good as they think is a good way to piss them off and is usually not worth doing just to save what is usually less than a million
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Julio Cruz posted:generally before this offseason a lot of teams were hesitant to go to the actual hearing - there's one team (I think the Giants?) that went quite a few years without doing so I was under this impression too, but there's actually fewer players that went to arb this year (13) than last year (22)
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huh that's not what I figured at all all the arb decisions seem to have come out recently, that's probably what made me thought that
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more players get dfa'd than before too - don't even have to go to arb if you just release the player
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GalacticAcid posted:Tom’s River Todd to the pirates apparently That feels like quite a fall off from him.
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isn't Ke'Bryan Hayes, literally the only actual good player the Pirates have, a 3B? I don't know why they'd want Frazier unless they're going to put him at first and literally everyone with an OPS over 100 has refused to sign for them
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