Laika

I think he served it all last year and pitched in September

precious prospects! didn't know you were the type

Dinger didn't want to give up multiple good prospects for Frankie Montas but now that I've extended his name I'd be happy to field offers on him and teammate Sean Manaea. Don't offer me any s***; I don't want your second rate prospects.

Expecting one city to cough up the cash to build an MLB stadium is extremely stupid, yet it happens all the time. Don't ever put an upper bound on the amount of realized stupidity, man.

I'm 12 but I absolutely do have an imaginary girlfriend and you better leave her (Yuki) the f*** out of this

She only dates black guys

Nothing really made sense for Toronto. I would have been bummed to see OG or certain other young players dealt for a marginal upgrade. No pressure on Toronto to make a big move either. They are kind of playing with house money right now as defending champs, so they have the luxury of staying responsible. Fans will love them no matter how deep they make it this year.

Wow.

Sheryl Ring, Esq., again polluting the internet with some of the worst legal analysis possible. It doesn't even sound like Baldwin was charged, so Alex Verdugo categorically cannot be an accomplice or an accessory to crime. There was no crime, from a legal perspective - just an accusation. Even ignoring that, the stated facts basically only say that the stuff stopped when everyone else (Verdugo too) entered the room, so he probably wasn't even there during whatever happened. You can't be an accessory to something you didn't even know happened. It's worse though because s/he even considers him being an accomplice to the non-crime, which really would only be possible if he had some form of knowledge about it and let it happen. None of the facts as stated would support that in any way. Ring says "if the reports in question are accurate, Alex Verdugo was legally culpable in a sexual assault." This is just so irresponsible. S/he must be a terrible actual lawyer. Ring isn't just jumping to a conclusion, she is jumping to a conclusion and then jumping from that conclusion to other conclusions. We can call this "jumping to delusions" (Copyright Laika 2020).

They could also have been recommending the surgery but Paxton opted for the essential oils first. Agreed that we just don't know the context of the decision.

whoaaaa let's not commit in advance. i think Boxy might want back into the LOD now that I'm in it and having fun. carlos seems like a good enough dude but do we REALLY know him yet? I mean, the word "danger" is part of his name.

See this is why hockey f***ing sucks now. How is any of this fun for fans? Sorry, people with your faces painted - we just didn't have the space within our dumb socialist equality cap thingy to pay for that s***** backup.

There is a limited window for high end free agents to maximize their earnings. If Paxton the surgery earlier and then had a mostly healthy 2020, he would have been positioned for a big payday. That's out the window now because his 2020 will be mostly on the DL. And even if he takes a pillow contract before 2021 and tries to bounce back to get a big payday he will likely be too old for that to pay off. Kind of screwed at this point. I mean, he'll still be loaded and he might get a good deal but the ceiling has come down quite a bit.

Well, I hope nobody quits. You never know though. There are a few owners who are less active than others. Send a copy of your resume to our league secretary, Boxcar, and we will keep it on file.

I already said that I understand why James Paxton himself might not have wanted it, but I've already been proven right that he should have had the procedure earlier. The conservative treatment didn't work. It was a s***** decision in hindsight to waste time on it. He is going to miss ~half of the season if he is lucky, and perhaps most of the season. This is his last season before free agency. He is 31. Missing a big chunk or 2020 will potentially cost him millions and millions of dollars. High level athletes simply do not live in our normal world when it comes to surgical decisions and interventions. You are not an elite athlete. I've never been gung-ho about anything in my entire life, so don't you dare accuse me of caring.

I don't think James Paxton's goal is to barely make it through another season or two before becoming terrible and ending his career.

The three way deal makes it a mess. Twinkies probably thought of Graterol as a reliever anyway so from their perspective he is what he is. Hard to imagine them ponying up more for Maeda when Graterol for Maeda was already arguably a bit of an overpay.

LOD is a true dynasty where you keep everybody, forever (the definition of a dynasty league). DDL is a super deep keeper league but technically not a true dynasty. But we voted to change it to a true dynasty starting 2021.

Marco Estrada's back issue shave been recurrent and career dampening. Not exactly a success story for massage and pilates.

Well, the Yankees. I'm essentially just saying that I bet the team wanted him to have the surgery earlier but Paxton did not want to so I agree with your personal sentiments from Paxton's perspective. I'm really not sure what conservative treatment he could have even been trying. The effective treatments for disc issues basically just = opioids and injections. Physical therapy might alleviate some pain for normal people but for an athlete? Big doubt.

Not sure it should be the Twinks. It might be the Dodgers that have to wiggle a bit. I bet they just absorb a bit more of Price's salary - seems like the easiest fix.

That doesn't make much sense. It's a herniated disc and a cyst - yoga or whatever is not going to fix it. That article says discectomy procedures have a 96% return to play rate in baseball, which seems like an excellent rate. Nothing has a 100% success rate. Return to play from a hangnail probably only has a success rate of like 99.9999%

The question then becomes - why the f*** did Paxton just have the surgery now?

Several things going on with Verdugo. Most importantly he wears earrings, has a s***** beard, and people don't seem to like him. I think the projections are a bit high. There is also bust risk here right - he's a young player who is still not entirely proven since his playing time was so protected/structured with LA. So the projections have huge error bars in both directions.

senseless