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If he had the benefit of a normal minor league rehab assignment he would start by DHing, playing partial games, and he'd be held out of games with inclement weather , etc. They are basically just doing that in MLB games because the minors are still not active.

It's going to be insane. There will be so many "breakouts".

It's not that weird. He is basically doing a rehab assignment at the MLB level.

Questionable pitching. But the offensive core is good and Sale is coming back at some point.

Ian Anderson is pretty sick. If he has his stuff this one will be tough. He can get into walk trouble sometimes though so they will have to be patient

AL East standings are weird. Red Sox playing free and easy with low expectations and 17 wins. Everyone else has 13 wins.

Mexican food Here's my point, Rosie DiManno. Taking someone's name off the 500 level facade and not engaging with them anymore does NOT equal "erasing them from history". Robbie Alomar still existed. Everything still happened. The 92 and 93 teams can still have a reunion sanctioned by the organization without Alomar being invited.

What point are you trying to make with this post? Be as specific as possible.

Years long pattern of disingenuous lying, s*** disturbing, and purely negative board contributions. I'd stand by the permaban even if others disagreed. Do us a third party favour and weigh in on the merits of the petty logical fallacy s*** here Jim. You'll agree that this guy is a f***ing loser and completely wrong. He always is. At some point you have to squash the bug.

There is not an ounce of truth here. Lie again and I will f***ing ban you permanently.

1) you literally said something was a "logical fallacy" when it is not. Everyone can see your initial post and your first response to King. 2) your initial position was that the man should not be removed from the LOE for something that happened after his playing career. You said this while having no idea what he actually did. Nobody cares about this thing between you and King/I but if someone did it would be obvious to them how you've moved the goal posts and changed your position now. 3) MLB has a solid history of covering up or suppressing some massive s***. I'm not going to assume that Alomar just committed some routine workplace sexual misconduct, like asking her out on a date too many times or brushing her arm suggestively. For all we know he squirted his AIDS filled jizz into some woman's morning coffee every morning for an entire year.

Ooo, not even close. Best available hitters in LoD are backup catchers with 10% own rates. Here you've got some decent hitters

Don't link assumptions to assumptions. You don't even know of there is any hush agreement so it's extra irresponsible to start assuming terms. I actually find it very unlikely that a term like that would make it into any agreement between her and MLB. Her counsel would strongly advise her to not agree to waive any claims against Alomar; it would be an unpalatable term in an agreement between her and MLB. I'm not sure MLB would even ask for it. Very inappropriate. I'm not even sure a term like that would have legal effect since Alomar would not be a party to the agreement. Source: am a lawyer.

Okay, thought you meant Alomar and her. I guess it's possible there was some sort of agreement between her and the league. I mean they are likely at least paying her legal fees

The person's lawyer said they are not pursuing a civil claim. Alomar's statement said he invited them to pursue a claim in an arena where he can defend himself. This is not a matter of opinion. You're just making stuff up and living in some weird fantasy? Not sure what the point is.

You have this exactly backwards, actually. Reductio ad absurdum is a way if destroying bad positions by showing the extreme example. If you say "no player should be removed from the level of excellence for something that happens after their playing career" your position is quite flimsy and easily reduced through an extreme example. Maybe you should go back to school? You seem to be getting stupid as you age. Right now nobody can judge if removing Alomar was appropriate because we don't know what he did, but you have already taken a position on this. So you get squashed like a bug. Have a nice weekend.

Lots wrong in here. Holy s***, Jim. For starters, there was absolutely no settlement here. This person did not advance any claim. There was nothing to settle. They brought the allegations to MLB to get Alomar punished professionally.

Lmao

Hard if not irresponsible to have a strong opinion on this. On one hand, the third party law firm investigation and the strong reactions of MLB and Toronto make you think there must be a lot to the allegations and they must be bad. On the other hand, we have seen institutions overreact to minor or benign things in these situations. The "external law firm" investigation may have been a joke, or a conclusion first process. Toronto may be overreacting as a PR move because Shapiro and Atkins got dragged a bit about doing nothing in the Mickey Callaway fiasco back in Cleveland. We really know nothing. I don't know what to make of the fact that the accuser does not want to advance a civil claim or criminal complaint. I feel like he probably did do something very bad that would warrant all this, but we just don't know and we can't rule out the possibility of this punishment not fitting the crime. If he did commit some egregious sexual misconduct offense than I absolutely support removing his name from the Level of Excellence. I don't see a strong argument for leaving him up there in that case. Any extreme hypothetical proves this position. If Dave Steib confessed to being a serial rapist would you just leave him up there because of uhhhh history? No, lol.

Yeah, sometimes you should. It's not an objective vs. subjective binary where objective info is always better. Batting average in high school is an objective measurement. You would not use that over a subjective scout's opinion on hit tool. You would not use a gulf coast league wRC+ over scouting consensus.

The congruent data point of them both being #1 prospects in the scouting community is probably worth more than the data point of Franco's wRC+ figures in A+ and below.

It's not a comp. Wise ass cat is just showing you guys the lower end of all realistic possibilities

I super like this post

If they are in the postseason picture there is no question. He is at least in the bullpen later in the year.

I thought his numbers would be way worse. 72 wRC+ with more walks than K's - he'll be fine.