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  1. Laika
    Most of these other "two way" guys like Lorenzen, Gose, etc. don't do enough of the other thing to meet MLB's definition of two-way player.
  2. Laika
    Teams can also designate players as two-way players if they meet certain criteria. Two-way players are able to pitch in any situation but don't count toward the active roster's pitcher total. Players qualify for the two-way designation if they have met both of these conditions in either the current or previous MLB season: • Pitched at least 20 Major League innings • Played at least 20 Major League games as a position player or designated hitter, with at least three plate appearances in each game
  3. Laika
    But what if the offers are identical And then Kyle Tucker remembers that one time the Astros executive said negative things about him at the arbitration hearing
  4. Laika
    Hard to see that. Look up shortstops with 450+ PA. Bo might be like... 20th best defensively. Even if you put him ahead of say Correa and IKF he's barely top 20.
  5. Laika

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    Laika replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    nothing I guess
  6. Laika
    I kind of doubt it Darvish is no Scherzer or Verlander and he's not projected to repeat 2022, or anything close
  7. Laika
    anyway, connorp is right and you can basically ignore the last two years for baseball reasons and just think of this as a 3/90 commitment after 2023 and BTS is also right. throwing that money at Darvish right now seems pretty dumb.
  8. Laika
    that has nothing to do with what I said
  9. Laika
    "Beyond the sheer need for long-term help in the rotation, there’s surely an element of financial creativity at play here. Darvish’s preexisting six-year, $126MM contract came with a $21MM luxury hit (based on the contract’s AAV). Since this new deal is being tacked onto the end of that old contract, it effectively becomes an 11-year, $216MM deal. That comes with a reduced luxury hit of $19.64MM. It’s not a major savings, but the Padres were right up against the third tier of luxury penalization, so any newly created breathing room is quite welcome. Once crossing into that third luxury tier, a team is penalized not only in the form of steeper tax rates but also by having their top pick in the next year’s draft dropped by 10 places." mlbtr wrote that can't really think of that as the primary motivation for this though. extending an old pitcher until he is 41 in order to save $2M in luxury tax space this season seems... funny
  10. Laika
    Okay, Doug.
  11. Laika

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    Laika replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    I think it's because OG and Scottie Barnes are somewhat redundant
  12. Laika
    Swing man. Probably only in the booth when Buck or Dan can't do a game. With Buck's health they need to stretch Joe out in spring though.
  13. Laika
    ZiPS overcompresses these projections You can almost just add ten wins to the team who will win the division and take ten away from the Red Sox Maybe with the new schedule we see Toronto and the Yankees eclipse 100 wins
  14. Laika
    Saves resources and time in future years Also some benefits to the player so they can just focus on baseball for the next three seasons And a bit of an icebreaker. They've now "done business" successfully together twice. Business relationship generally improved. Now 0.5% more likely to reach common ground on a free agency extension
  15. Laika
    that's the f***ing point dude Bautista could've had a six figure (or near six figure) contract but he was greedy and it cost him most of that
  16. Laika
    Probably a personal-level thing Maybe he reacted poorly to being DFAd and him and his agent soured the relationship Just speculation of course
  17. Laika
    But is OBP is mostly AVG driven. His walk rates are just average.
  18. Laika
    It's an interesting thought problem. It shows how easy it is for people to get fooled by numbers. Most people aren't great at thinking about things in, like, an economically and statistically wholesome way, with weight given to the constraints of the system (scarcity) and what the underlying statistical distribution might look like. You just give people the absolute difference or absolute number, and for most people contextualizing it properly is difficult and they fall short. You see similar problems in health media and public health discourse where the gen pop just struggles on the numbers. And/or the media knows they struggle on the numbers so they take advantage of that.
  19. Laika
    yeah those are fine they are blue
  20. Laika

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    Laika replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    And Philly was HORRIBLE for like 5 years. Nobody wants that; you start to bleed fans.
  21. Laika

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    Laika replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    Isn't the Celtics quick rebuild kind of just them getting insanely lucky on pick trades? Like, the huge Brooklyn blockbuster netted them 2016 3rd overall (Jaylen Brown) and the right to swap for 2017 3rd overall (Jayson Tatum). There is the entire rebuild. Of course, if some stupid franchise that could legitimately be dogshit soon is willing to trade multiple unprotected firstround picks for all the Raps good players then maybe they should do it but that is not going to likely happen. I feel like most of the teams who take packages of picks for stars end up being a bit let down. And because of trades like the Celtics-Nets one, orgs are more guarded about moving unprotected picks multiple years away. But I'm a moron I barely even watch basketball and don't even follow the sport I can't even name a player on most other teams right now
  22. Laika
    Okay but that's stupid It's like saying the difference between 5'10" and 7'0" (a 20% difference) isn't that significant A player who can hit .300 is so good at getting hits that they can more or less suck farts at everything else on the field and still be good. See e.g. Luis Arraez.
  23. Laika

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    Laika replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    "blowing it up" is rarely a viable strategy though, given the nature of the draft and the developmental league like, you just end up with a bunch of repetitive late or mid round first round picks and okay-ish young players... it's not like baseball where you can just stockpile infinite actually good prospects and then hope an elite farm system blossoms for you to "blow it up" in the NBA you need to basically tank and try to draft a franchise cornerstone. I guess.
  24. Laika
    Like, they probably would have given him a three year deal or something right. Hahaha Jose.
  25. Laika
    lol Jose I wonder how much the Blue Jays would have paid him if he were willing to negotiate down
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