Jimcanuck

no and there's never a valid reason to us it, either

It is in fact very common to trade players due to their clubhouse or off field behaviour. The Bo comments do suggest that element was at play.

The Bo stuff IS pretty strong evidence

Plenty of serious latino players out there. Soto and J-Rod are probably two of the best students of the game, and hard working as well. Teo and LGJ are talented goofballs. Been some white goofballs on the Jays, names escape me. One was a redbull demon and another apparently fought Gibby. Ah - Lawrie and Shittenbrand.

Agreed the "white jays" thing is BS, but IMO the dismantling of the barrio was intentional.

Sign a long term with a pitcher with 5 yrs of control. Nah. Pitchers, man.

DiManno column today alludes to what some of us suspected: There’s a more serious mien on a team that is done with making whoopee and callow shenanigans in the dugout, committed to grown-up ball. By design or happenstance, the Barrio — a mostly Latino component of merrymakers and pranksters — has been broken up with Teoscar Hernández and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. shipped out of town, swapped for a more sober-minded crew. “I think that everybody can look back at last year and realize that we probably needed a bit more professionalism and a little bit more maturity,” Bichette allows. “Not that we were immature, but that is part of the growth for us as players and young players. “I’m not sure if that’s what they were intending with (Hernández and Gurriel); that’s not my job. Those are great players that we lost, but we replaced them with good players, too, guys who are here ready to compete and working as hard as they can, ready to do everything possible to win. So, sad as we are to see those guys go, some people that I’ve made great friendships with, I’m really excited to see what this group can accomplish.” Somewhere, Teo is laughing about this.

I agree with you about Merry Whitfield.

4th rounders are basically throw aways. Too light IMO

You don't think Bauer did anything wrong and will be back in MLB, do the f***ing deal. Or two faced.

Useful to know you only follow your own prospects

It's connor. At least he hates everyone equally, including himself.

If Bauer loses the civil action, with the balance of probabilities threshold, you can say he likely sexually assaulted without consent. If he wins, you can say the opposite. Since we don't have the factual record, until then this is all just speculation.

Canada not winning if luck is not on their side

Grayson had TJ?

lmao

Who are these people? Bauer is not banned, no one wants him. He's toxic to a team and its fanbase. I know there are others, but the only ones banned from baseball that come to mind are Pete Rose and a bunch of Sox including Shoeless Joe.

"Luis Rivera makes too many bad calls", is fine.

There's no risk/reward issue here. IIRC, he can be had for league minimum, Dodgers are paying his salary. The issue is a business one. What percentage of a fanbase would be put off by and boycott a team signing Bauer, only the beancounters know.

Bauer not relevant for any contender. A league of any size, a non-contender would value him.

I'd take Josh Jung for Kelenic in a heartbeat

Josh Jung?

Getting this in before Greenwood - Danny Jansen stays injury free, hits 30+ HR, wins Silver Slugger

The only relevant part of your personality in this instance is your repeated disregard for SSS

I like that c-pee and King possibly avoid one another in dynasty. Advantage for the rest of us.