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Good lord, I would be scared shtless standing on top of that thing
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Tom Hallion retired after the WS. One of my favorite MLB umps.
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managers arguing with umpires is one of the best 3 things in all of sports and a big reason why I don't want to go to robots for balls/strikes
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Maybe when they get a 20 year old that can put up 3.5 war in half a season, they’d consider paying out for a long term deal.I don't see the Pirates signing players to contracts like that and the Rays are considered a small market team?
I guess this isn’t a scenario that teams are in very often, so not sure why this is an indictment on the pirates?
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Plus the deal is backloaded, so the rays will probably trade him when he starts making 20mm per year
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Maybe I'm missing something but how is signing a player for 15.4 mill/year a steal compared to signing someone 12.5 mill/year?Rays sign Franco to a 12 year 185 million deal (max of 223). Quite a risk, but this deal will end up being a steal compared to the 8 year 100 million Acuna got from the Braves.
it’s a longer term yeah but I absolutely cannot see the Rays having Franco on the books for after 2026
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Marte 4 years 78M with the Mets.
Great for him, always one of my favorites.
Great for him, always one of my favorites.
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That scherzer deal is hilarious. And you would think the rangers would have learned about 300mm to a shortstop
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That Scherzer deal is insane. I get that he had a great season but the dude turns 38 next summer. Not everyone pitches like Randy Johnson into their 40s
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Baseball is run by morons.Major League Baseball's expanded playoff proposal, as part of a new collective bargaining agreement between owners and players, includes the ability for division winners to pick their wild-card opponent, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.
The format would call for 14 teams -- seven from each league -- to make the playoffs, four more than currently play in the postseason. The three division winners in each league would be joined by four wild-card teams to make up the playoff field. Here's how it would work:
• The team with the best record in each league would get a bye into the best-of-five division series.
• The remaining two division winners would get to pick their wild-card opponent from the bottom three wild-card teams. The division winner with the second-best record would pick first, then the No. 3 seed in the league would pick its opponent from the final two wild-card teams. The wild-card team with the best record would play the wild-card team that wasn't picked by a division winner.
• Once matchups are set, the higher-seeded teams would host all three games in a best-of-three wild-card round.
• Winners in the wild-card round would advance to the division series and the playoffs would continue as they have in the past.
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Why have a billion games and let everyone into the playoffs? It will make it (even more) unwatchable in the regular season, like the NBA.
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Baseball's saving grace, with their long regular season, was that it felt like the games meant something because it was tougher to make the postseason. This is a stupid idea, especially the part where teams pick their own opponents
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Oh, darn.
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If I am reading the tea leaves, the players want to attack the initial control years. That would hurt the low spending teams, who will fight for that. The rich teams also benefit from this setup, so will align with the cheap teams against the players here.
This is of course a crock of ****. Definitely on the players side here. Using “small market” mantra to defend a situation where players aren’t benefitting from revenue growth is trash. If the owners are willing to burn it all down to maintain the vast payroll disparities, and allow teams like the pirates to just become a shadow franchise, then great, I’ll just stop watching baseball.
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