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  • best comment i read so far about the contract length.   "There are Phillies fans not yet born that will be throwing batteries at him in the later years of this contract".

  • From Levi Weaver's column in The Athletic:  

  • Gammons rambles way too much and it's like his editors are afraid to touch his work, but I like him because he loves baseball.  Not just MLB.  Gammons loves BASEBALL. And he hit this one out of t

NYC native Adam Ottavino to the Yanks. I actually have heard of him before so he must be good. Will be even better away from Coors

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8 minutes ago, Helobious said:

NYC native Adam Ottavino to the Yanks. I actually have heard of him before so he must be good. Will be even better away from Coors

Check his splits -- he's pretty much Coors-proof, which is why he has been so good. 

Arm dangling dildo will go back at some point

Cody Allen to the Angels 1 yr deal 8.5 mil + 2.5mil incentives 

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Steamer projects only 7 starters to clear 200 innings in 2019. That’s pretty nuts. In 2000, there were 37.

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4 hours ago, spystud13 said:

Martin Perez to Minn, good luck. 

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Plus, he seems to get hurt easily. 

2 hours ago, spystud13 said:

 

 

did Dan Snyder buy the Reds? because everything they've done this offseason is straight out of his playbook.

The Gray trade has changed. 

 

Sonny also gets 3/$30.5M added on after this season. 

On 1/15/2019 at 4:48 PM, spystud13 said:

mlb.com has every team’s projected lineup if the season started now. Check out Balt’s... 

1. Cedric Mullins, CF
2. Jonathan Villar, 2B
3. Trey Mancini, DH
4. Chris Davis, 1B
5. DJ Stewart, RF
6. Renato Nunez, 3B
7. Joey Rickard, LF
8. Richie Martin, SS
9. Chance Sisco, C

 

That is not the best. 

https://www.mlb.com/news/each-mlb-teams-projected-opening-day-lineup/c-302718516

 

And here is their ZIPS projection.

 

Renato Nunez will make Andujar’s defensive #s look stellar. He luck-boxed into a few plays last season. 

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JCPenney's apparently didn't even notice:

 

 

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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

They must have said something when they got approached or signed the consent forms, no?

Wouldn't they have put something in the description about "Future Hall of Famer Adrian Beltre shops at Penney's?"  Instead, they put this: " We partnered with Jacqui Saldana of Baby Boy Bakery to surprise JCPenney shoppers with the gift of giving and to spread the holiday cheer."

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1 hour ago, Seasick Sailor said:

Pollack to the Dodgers:

 

Seemed kind of low to me at first, but Fangraph's crowdsourcing predicted 4/64 back before FA began.

It’s just weird. In an ad about penny’s being great by giving stuff away, they include a family that says hey great but can we give your gift away?  

4 hours ago, Seasick Sailor said:

Pollack to the Dodgers:

 

Looks like we're out of the Harper sweepstakes.  Kluber next?

Any of you dudes ever been to Spring Training in Arizona?  Considering spending a weekend there this year.

 

 

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39 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

Any of you dudes ever been to Spring Training in Arizona?  Considering spending a weekend there this year.

 

 

Several times. Always have a blast. DOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWIT.

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Major League Baseball has proposed going back to a 15-day disabled list and increasing the time optioned players usually must spend in the minor leagues, a source told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The moves are aimed at reducing the use of relief pitchers and reviving offense.

The minimum length of time an injured player spends on the disabled list was cut from 15 days to 10 in 2016 as part of baseball's new labor contract. As a result, DL placements rose from 563 in 2016 to 702 in 2017 and then again to 737 last year, the commissioner's office said.

Advanced analytics have shown team executives that starting pitchers are less successful the third time through the batting order. Increased DL and minor league option use has led to a strategy of teams rotating their middle relievers with their minor league affiliates in order to have more available pitchers each day. Teams even began using relievers as "openers" to start games last season, a trend sparked by the Tampa Bay Rays.

As part of the plan, a player optioned would have to spend at least 15 days in the minor leagues, up from 10. That limit has been waived when a player is recalled to replace someone going on the DL, gets suspended under the drug or domestic violence agreements, or goes on a paternity or bereavement list.

I’m good with this, the 10-day DL sucks. 

Wouldn't they have put something in the description about "Future Hall of Famer Adrian Beltre shops at Penney's?"  Instead, they put this: " We partnered with Jacqui Saldana of Baby Boy Bakery to surprise JCPenney shoppers with the gift of giving and to spread the holiday cheer."

In completely unrelated news...
“J.C. Penney Struggles to Avoid Same Fate as Sears”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/j-c-penney-struggles-to-avoid-a-fate-worse-than-the-sears-scenario-11548072000
Gondolas!
 
But is the drugged out dude who sits in the corner of the BART playing horrible fake gangsta rap on volume level 11 allowed on? If not then I'm out

In other A's news.... they signed Marco Estrada

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Tried to watch MLB channel's Top 100 prospects show.  Their "experts" were Jim Callis (Baseball America), Jonathon Mayo (who does the rankings for MLB.com) and Harold (WTF???!?!)

At one point, Harold said that last year's Futures Game was "the best game I've ever seen Taylor Trammell play."  Lulz.  As if. 

reinheimer's such a spare i bet even spystud hasn't heard of him.

Sure he has, we even discussed him here. 
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1 hour ago, Vic Mackey said:

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That’s sad. That was one of ESPNs best shows in the 2000s. Obviously it’s gone downhill the last decade along with their general baseball coverage

Yeah it sucks, was great when Gammons was on it. MLB Network is so good that it stood no chance with ESPNs layoffs.

6 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

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Good. Back in the Peter Gammons days BT was awesome, but MLB Network has lapped them for years now. 

On 1/24/2019 at 1:22 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

It’s just weird. In an ad about penny’s being great by giving stuff away, they include a family that says hey great but can we give your gift away?  

He says, “how about we buy the gift and give it away”.   He works with his own and several other foundations 

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Brisbee is leaving SB Nation.  Cross them off then.

Really wish Adam Morris would follow him. In the leaving part, not the reappearing elsewhere. 

ESPN’s Top 10 Prospects:

1) Tatis (SD)

2) Vlad Jr. (TOR)

3) Wander Franco (TB)

4) Whitley (HOU)

5) Jimenez (CWS)

6) Senzel (CIN)

7) Gore (SD)

8 Adell (LAA)

9) Lewis (MIN)

10) Robles (WAS)

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