Abomination

Ryan signed with the Yankees.

Right now I think everyone is trying to forget about Izzy. He shouldn't be quite as bad next year though (nearly impossible to be worse).

I meant with the url, not the post itself. The date on the post is fine.

The answer is ideally neither.

The font change looks much much better imo. Under the sabremetrics article, I'd suggest setting the actual sections (hitting, pitching, base running, etc) to be formatted as headers, made slightly larger, and with some padding above them. It should make it a little easier to read, and make Google happier in being able to categorize the content. You might also want to make "non blog" articles like this one (which I'm assuming you'll make in some way sticky or permanent) have more defined urls (don't include the posted date for them in the url), so maybe make it breakingblue.ca/analysis/welcome-to-breaking-blue-and-sabremetrics/ or something similar. I'd also suggest getting rid of "category" in the url for other pages.

I think they get some extra perks and stuff too (housing, etc). They certainly don't get much though.

Good initial work! I've been finding out the hard way how difficult it is to properly get a site up for the first time, especially the responsive menu system. In terms of constructive criticism, it feels like the color scheme is a little off, and the content on the front page feels a little cramped (not sure if the two are related). Some of the mouse-over stuff may also be a little over the top and be distracting for people. On the article pages, I would personally choose a different font and maybe increase the line and word spacing a little. I've been playing with the Google font 'open sans' and quite like it, although there's lots of other choices to pick from. The text column should probably be made a little narrower on the full screen desktop setting. I've seen some reports that suggest no more than 10 to 12 words per line (although I think that might be a tad low), as going beyond that affects people's concentration due to being forced to move their heads while reading. If you look at a site like Sportsnet.ca along with many of the news sites, that seems to be how they do it as well. It might also be a good idea to either use a different font or font weight for the block quotes, or put them in italics to help them stand out better. The color of blue in the links on the content could probably be a little darker, maybe closer to the block quote blue bar. Interested to hear what you think on some of the ideas, as I'm trying to improve my skills as well (non sports related sites) so hearing from various sources and opinions is helpful.

But there hasn't been a reference to a green-blooded Hobgoblin yet! Much work still remains. Why do I suddenly get the impression I'm going to be the target of that reference...

If that's true, why are they showing different join dates and dramatically different post counts? Jays4life19 is showing a join date waaaaay before Jays4Life. Or am I getting in the middle of a joke I missed somewhere?

The OP was Jays4life, not Jays4life19

Niemann was outrighted today. He could be an interesting target for the 5th slot in the rotation depending on how his rehab is going. If he fails, we have lots of kids that can step in, and he should come cheap.

Lind has now been "de-Murphisized". He should be fine going forward, as long as managers avoid having him hit vs late inning loogies.

He MIGHT be slightly overrated as a fantasy asset, but irl I don't think he is. The Rangers were mucking with him last year playing him out of position, but he should be an elite level defender at SS with the ability to put up .800 ops while only being 21 at the start of next year. Hard to overrate that.

I don't think it's justifiable. 80M + salary (probably more than 70M) would be the equivalent of paying an unproven (in NA) pitcher 25M / year. Where the money comes from (1 time expense vs baseball payroll) is just accounting tricks. I mean, that's the same as King Felix. Even Verlander isn't that high. Most people seem to feel Tanaka won't be an ace like Darvish. The only reason it makes sense for the Yankees to go overboard like that, is they wouldn't have to pay 40% overage on half the contract since the posting fee isn't counted against the cap, which would "save" them 32M over another highly paid pitcher while helping get them under the cap this year to reset it.

I just can't see any one team giving up THAT kind of quality and volume of high end prospects. If the Jays wanted to though, maybe Reyes + Hutch + Santos + Delabar = Miller + Taveras if the Jays throw in 1/2 Reyes salary. Bautista + ? = Profar + Ogando (possibly). Edwin + Nolin = Walker + Franklin perhaps. Janssen + Cecil probably lands Castellanos. Dickey might get Cowart, who could presumably be flipped to fill 1st or catcher. You could imagine a lineup of Lawrie, Profar, Franklin, 1b, dh, c, Castellanos, Gose, Taveras, and a rotation of Sanchez, Stroman, Miller, Ogando, Walker. It's never going to happen, but it's really nice to think about.

I have significant doubts that the Cardinals could add that much salary even if they were inclined to sell off that many top prospects (which I also doubt)

I have no idea if it's true or not, but people do incredibly stupid things all the time. Players stealing stuff out of teammates lockers for example. Just because it doesn't make sense to a rationally thinking person doesn't mean it didn't happen. Anyhow, my point is that if he was actively participating in encouraging or helping others to cheat as well, then MLB should absolutely nail him with everything they possibly can. If he was just a regular user like the others appear to be, then Selig needs to just give him the same fine and stop being an idiot.

I think something like 4/40 would be fair. That would still make him a FA at age 31 for a big payday if his numbers stabilize nicely, and the team could presumably backload the contract to help for this year and next year's payroll issues. Maybe something like 5,5,15,15

He made 4.675M last year and is coming off a 4.8 WAR season. He'll get a hell of a lot more than 5M in arbitration.

No kidding!

For me, it depends on exactly what A-Rod's involvement with the clinic was. If he really was some kind of partner and was actively recruiting players to the clinic (which I think I recall was suggested at one point) after MLB's policy was in effect, then I don't blame them one bit for trying to get him banned for as long a period as possible. If they're just trying to make an example of him and his level of involvement is the same as the other guys who got 50 to 65 games, then I hope A-Rod wins the appeal. Not to mention, I love the idea of the Yankees having to pay him as much of his salary as possible

Looks like some more fun in the A-Rod case. Looks like they're afraid of having him testify or he could get an even longer suspension... http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/9978742/alex-rodriguez-flu-not-interview-mlb-friday

Regarding Hanigan :

a few more:

one regarding Stroman (kind of interesting since KLAW doesn't like him as a starter overly):