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Rose says it's overall body soreness, not his knees. #botty

i'd draw the line at ads on players' uniforms

reasonable man says reasonable things

hey old timer we use moving pictures here

anyway the point is you should admit now that you've been absolutely wrong and that the only honorable thing would be to commit hara kiri. which of course would be an excellent look with your robe

the folly is assuming that my/his/your version of rational is meaningful given that none of us are actors in this market. the market is absolutely behaving rationally

you are most certainly wrong Then it is a startlingly different era of baseball that we are stepping into. look around, we've been in it for several years now. the decline of ped's and the rising average age of prime free agents has absolutely changed the way front offices should approach free agent acquisitions. you're absolutely right that the sheer level of injuries and rapidly declining performance is uncanny and unpredictable, but only insomuch as how *quickly* those things have happened So won't the game just adjust accordingly based on past practices as opposed to ideal ones? It seems unlikely that you'll be able to snag guys like Castro and especially Rizzo on such team-friendly deals real soon; we'll probably just see prime free agents becoming available at younger ages as their agents and the union talk them out of waiting. And the pitching thing especially just feels more like the fluky timing of a bunch of injuries in close proximity to each other as opposed to an actual trend. sure, just as the pendulum swings one way, we can reason that it will swing back. i'm not sure what value that knowledge is though, since it has little bearing on the here and now of the baseball labor market. furthermore, a signing like albert pujols to a 10 year contract starting his age 32 season reinforces the current trend. until those contracts stop coming, the market for younger players won't change. in that it mostly won't exist

you are most certainly wrong Then it is a startlingly different era of baseball that we are stepping into. look around, we've been in it for several years now. the decline of ped's and the rising average age of prime free agents has absolutely changed the way front offices should approach free agent acquisitions. you're absolutely right that the sheer level of injuries and rapidly declining performance is uncanny and unpredictable, but only insomuch as how *quickly* those things have happened

I didn't know he was catholic. what on earth

you are most certainly wrong

this is all over the place. rosenthall has cubs, yankees, and phillies out of it. olney has cubs as "favorites". gammons (lol, i know) said yesterday it's between the phillies and yankees. i'm inclined to believe rosenthall, but i don't think he was in on cano (the other deal done by jay-z's group) so who knows where he's getting that

That is the Kyle-est thing ever written on this site, and it didn't even come from me. :( not really

at some point it stops being luck and the product of sound decision making

#nee

the traditional stats do sort of mask the true gulf in his value year over year, which is the point of what umfan is saying i think

Kinda comes with the territory. i wasn't sure how to make this joke, so i'm glad you at least saved me from the attempt

wtf is a 95 loss outfield?

they will likely want Castro or Russell, and that's what they'll ask for to start with. They have Andrus signed through 2022. I don't think they'd demand a shortstop. that may preclude castro, but not russell

not like it matters, but it would seem unlikely Texas value Hendricks and Villanueva very highly umm

lol nice

yeah, i was thinking about that just now looking at the roster. there could possibly be reasons why they would want those two up, but nothing compelling that i can think of. what would soler have to gain developmentally by another three to four weeks in the PCL? ssr mentioned potential arbitration year after the current deal runs out iirc based on known contract details, but any time up with the team this year would likely negate that path, no? he would seem to be an obvious case of promoting before the 300 AB benchmark

miguel tejada had 27 hr's over his two seasons. one more season and he would have that record. that's gotta really eat at him

... and it took him 7 seasons to do lmao

You realize those two pitchers are nothing alike, right? They both looked great at first then sucked. So not totally unlike. Hill was awful his first 2 months. till rothschild had him read everybody poops or w/e

it's hard to imagine it is anything more than the lack of roster space atm. there may be some benefit to having him down there for continued work w/Manny or to have him in a "playoff race", etc., but the benefit of figuring out how to wedge him onto the big league roster (a few weeks before it becomes way easier to do so) is probably not worth the work