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Who thinks Marcus Stroman manipulated his own service time? By that I mean, faked his injury so he could spend just enough time on the IL to roll over the 24 days of service time he needed to be a free agent.

 

It's possible. My guess is he probably really did get hurt and then when he realized what he could do he milked it. Smart move.

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Blue Jays were given a C+ to B grade on that trade across industry editorials and fans were flipping out.

 

Simeon was one of the brightest teenage pitchers in A-ball and Anthony Kay was a backend top 100 prospect that got invited to the MLB futures game with Nate Pearson.

 

I liked the deal at the time, I love it now.

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Who thinks Marcus Stroman manipulated his own service time? By that I mean, faked his injury so he could spend just enough time on the IL to roll over the 24 days of service time he needed to be a free agent.

 

Say what you will about Stroman, but that's a dude who wants to be on the diamond.

 

Though, if he'd already decided to opt out of the season, it's possible.

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He'll still be a free agent this season actually. He accrued enough service time to become a free agent end of this season.

 

Brodie Van Wagenen has given up Anthony Kay, Justin Dunn, Jerred Kelenic, and Simeon Woods-Richardson within a 1 year span.

 

Yes, that’s what I meant

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Say what you will about Stroman, but that's a dude who wants to be on the diamond.

 

Though, if he'd already decided to opt out of the season, it's possible.

 

Evidently not.

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Link is broke or something? Hah... the one works where I quoted you, morons... Laureano's going to get a hefty suspension, that's for sure.

 

God those jerseys are so beautiful

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I'm wondering how two teams comprised of players that do not have the virus can pass the virus to each other if that is the big concern Glen is talking about.

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I don’t like Stroman but I don’t think he faked an injury of manipulated anything. This could very well be about being cautious about making an injury worse ahead of free agency. But apparently he threw 5 innings in a sim game. So he was ready to go and made this decision. Seems to me if the injury was worse than it is he could have milked it and still got paid. The opt out means the Mets were planning to activate him and he either didn’t want to pitch or the Covid concerns are legit. I’m going with the latter.
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Who thinks Marcus Stroman manipulated his own service time? By that I mean, faked his injury so he could spend just enough time on the IL to roll over the 24 days of service time he needed to be a free agent.

 

Yeah he seems like enough of a weasel to do that.

 

I kinda hope he contracts covid for the sheer irony factor.

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Say what you will about Stroman, but that's a dude who wants to be on the diamond.

 

Though, if he'd already decided to opt out of the season, it's possible.

 

He wants to be on the diamond? All things considered, things have gone pretty smoothly with the covid stuff. Two teams had outbreaks. The outbreaks occured not from players playing each other, but from players going out to clubs and stuff against league rules. Now that teams are really cracking down, I don't think we will see another Marlins or Cardinals situation.

 

Stroman decided to opt out AFTER all this. He's in zero danger. He obviously just doesn't want to play and is using Covid to cover his cowardly ass.

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Yeah he seems like enough of a weasel to do that.

 

I kinda hope he contracts covid for the sheer irony factor.

 

Teams do this all the time. Nate Pearson was just on the receiving end of it in fact. Kinda glad a player finally got to do it. Even better that it was against the Mets and not us after a big trade lol.

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Teams do this all the time. Nate Pearson was just on the receiving end of it in fact. Kinda glad a player finally got to do it. Even better that it was against the Mets and not us after a big trade lol.

 

Yeah but it's Stroman so I automatically have negative feelings about it.

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Teams manipulate service time = great.

Players do it = bad.

 

Yeah, don't feel bad for the Mets here.

 

I don’t think most think that service time manipulation is great. People want to see the best players play regardless of service time. The problem is the CBA as it currently is invites the manipulation so teams can exert extra control over said players. Speaking for myself, I don’t see it as great - merely a necessary evil given the current rule set that I would gladly eradicate if I could.

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Teams manipulate service time = great.

Players do it = bad.

 

Yeah, don't feel bad for the Mets here.

 

When a team does this it's in the best interest of the overall team, with one person in the organization being short changed. A player doing something like this only benefits one individual in the entire organization at the expense of everyone else. I'm not surprised in the slightest to see a prima donna like Stroman giving the middle finger to his teammates and organization at the instant he gains enough service time to become a free agent.

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Astros hitting coach Cintron gets 20 games for the brawl, Laureano gets 6 games.

 

 

This seems like the right amount for each.

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