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    You kinda allude to it, but the answer to this question is Edwards. If you're excluding anyone on the current roster, then there's no one this year who is going to make that type of impact.
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    Picking hairs a bit, but a team can trade for up to 75% more too. Some teams will be able to offer him 10ish. Given how rarely the draft pools have been traded, I'm skeptical that any team is going to trade for more than a few more dollars of their international pool. Especially this first year when everyone will be feeling out that market. But yeah the same point applies even if someone offers him 9-10 million.
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    This is the 'oh no we traded Robinson Chirinos' argument for a different team. It doesn't how matter how good the players are at baseball, they're not old and they're under team control for a while!
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    Gonna start muttering "David..." to myself every time I screw something up now
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    I think you can make an argument that dollars aren't going to mean too much if Otani comes over this year. Unless I'm misunderstanding the rules, the spread between teams isn't that large, the most a team can offer is basically 6 million. That's barely anything compared to the money he'd make in arbitration alone. It wouldn't be a difficult sell to say that Otani is more marketable as a Cub than most other places too, getting to be on a young team at the top of the league in a huge market. That alone probably bridges the 5 million gap, and the Cubs being a bit more generous than average with pre-arb awards(with Bryant as precedent) further puts a dent in it. Other teams like the Dodgers(who also can only offer 300k) and Yankees can make similar arguments, but if the Cubs win a ton of games and maybe another title this year, they'll have the team quality that is hard to argue with.
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    oh Mexico has a problem with gamesmanship, how tragic for them
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    Jett Bandy is the new name given to every member of a cult that worships Principal Belding as the one true god
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    No one cares about the long relievers that bear the brunt of extra inning games. Also, a long extra inning game or two isn't going to be the difference between a pitcher breaking or not, it's a negligible difference between the manager's discretion of just using that guy an extra time or two over the course of a month. But the impact lasts longer than a game. The bullpen is taxed, so the next game we have to run the starter longer. I'm not saying any pitcher is breaking just because of lengthy games...like you said, it doesn't happen frequently enough. But I just don't see the upside. What's to gain? By the 13th inning, fans are just ready for it to be over...players are tired...call it a tie and move on. Save the marathon games for the playoffs, like hockey does. By this logic MLB should also have a slaughter rule to shorten games to 5 innings if one team is up by 5 runs or w/e. This is a solution in search of a problem.
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    "Pitchers get injured way too often" "Make em pitch 19 inning games in April!" No one cares about the long relievers that bear the brunt of extra inning games. Also, a long extra inning game or two isn't going to be the difference between a pitcher breaking or not, it's a negligible difference between the manager's discretion of just using that guy an extra time or two over the course of a month.
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    "The problem with baseball is that there's too much dead time and not enough excitement" "yeah but if there's a tie after 9 innings you play sudden death innings until there's a winner, even if it means pitchers hitting or hitters pitching" "no thanks, a tie will do just fine"
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    Babe Shaw was a bit cliche, but Roidy McBeardface redeems it and then some.
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    I'm not so sure I share his exact conviction about Davis given the data at hand(b/c of the numbers themselves and their reliability), but I also have zero to complain about Davis so far and share the sentiment that the bullpen is in a pretty good place with Davis and Rondon not looking actively broken.
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    The velocity thing would be a bit of a concern, but the PitchFX/Trackman migration makes it impossible to tell how real the velocity dip might be. Hendricks isn't lying about being a slow starter though: 2015 ERA thru 3 starts: 5.74 ERA after: 3.78 2016 ERA thru 3 starts: 4.50 ERA after: 1.88
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    What if they had called a penalty and red card on Germany in the '02 quarterfinal? https://www.si.com/specials/greatest-sports-what-ifs/planet-futbol/2017/2002-world-cup-germany-us-handball In short, the US at that point would have been slightly favored to make the final.
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    You would think that Jesse "are the 6-6 Cubs just mediocre" Rogers would be all over the 400 point gap in OPS between Happ and Torres.
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    it seems like the problem worth solving is understanding what exactly is being challenged, even broadcasters in the booth aren't sure at times. Have the umpires headset tell someone in ballpark ops that and it can be done over the PA after New York gives its ruling, no need to mic up the umps.
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    The rest of the bullpen looks jealously at Strop.
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    That guy's favorite teams is basically just a list of teams who were really good when he was in high school.
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    CARL GOOD TO SEE YOU
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    #MEKKESWATCH
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    Duensing's extended family prolly getting real nervous watching this game.
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