Laika

lol

what does this mean

More to the point, I bet ST games would draw more viewers than whatever else they plan to have on at 1pm most days in March.

He's not going to the highest bidder no matter what, lol. He probably wants to win a WS more than maximize his money. The allure of competing for a WS in a lineup with Donaldson, Tulo, Martin, and Edwin for the next few years will be intense. Maybe if the highest bidder happens to be the Dodgers or Mets or some other very strong contender then he'll go there.

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Alex Gordon is just as good (or better), significantly younger, and he just got 4/$72.

I still think Jose and Edwin sign nearly identical companion extensions at the same time.

So he's getting significantly more than a stupid contract that turned out horribly for the team? I could see him asking for the V.Mart deal. That would be fair.

I feel like that would be an unprecedented contract for someone entering their age 36 season

what did you trade Stanton for again?

The fact that Jose is so old, but still so good, works heavily in the Blue Jays' favour. They should be able to get him extended on a reasonable 3 or 4 year deal, and he should end up being worth it. There's really no reason to expect him to demand some ludicrous contract. Beltran was good at 36 and signed for 3/$45. Zobrist was good at 35 and signed for 4/$56. If Jose doesn't retire as a Blue Jay then either his camp has insane contract demands or Toronto is f***ing stupid.

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shut up

who?

he's not in Yahoo yet either

Yeah there's no official signing yet so he won't be eligible. His situation could fall under the following sentence from the MLB Roster Management portion of the rules: "International free agents that are not subject to international spending restrictions and sign during the season are eligible to be claimed as soon as Yahoo adds them to the system. International free agents that were subject to international spending restrictions but are added to Yahoo's system during the season will be treated like prospects who did not his AA in the previous season - that is, they cannot be added unless they are called up to the big leagues."

*Norfolk

I wonder if the hops will be noticeably different between the turf and dirt. Buck Showalter will probably complain about it a bunch regardless

It's not like baseball would have died instantly when PR was swallowed by the draft. The culture has slowly declined. It would have taken a generation to happen, because you'd need a new crop of youngsters who, when faced with the new system, either fail or decide to do other things. Most of the guys on your list here were teenagers when the rules were changed, so they were already invested in the baseball route to whatever extent.

oh.

naming a dynasty team after Taylor Jungmann seems like a great idea!

I think MLB can avoid the issues that maybe contributed to the decline of baseball in Puerto Rico. There are a few reasons. By being included in the MLB draft, Puerto Ricans had to wait until the typical draft year (conclusion of high school), so they competed with all the North American players. This wasn't really fair to the kids since high school baseball is almost non-existent there. Teams also no longer had any incentive to invest in academies for cultivating talent in PR, since any other team could just draft the players. Teams also had other countries that they could simply move to - DR, Venezuela, etc., and they did so. If the international draft is separate from the rule 4 draft and lets players be selected at 16, then I don't think there would be any negative impact. What would make it even less likely to have negative impact would be to simply have a money slot system where players can still pick which team they want to sign with - this would keep incentives for MLB teams to cultivate talent with academies, etc. I'm suggesting that teams be granted slots with specific dollar values like in the MLB draft, but these are treated like limitations on allowable agreements, so there is no draft per se. If the team has slot 1 with a value of $8M, then they are permitted to sign any one player for up to $8M. Heck, PR could even be thrown back into the international draft. There's also the chance that PR's baseball decline had nothing to do with the MLB draft, which you allude to.

Cleveland has a similar structure. "Principal Data Scientist, Baseball Analytics" = Keith Woolner "Senior Director of Baseball Research and Development" = Sky Andrecheck "Analyst" = Max Marchi I think it's just those three and then interns / seasonal guys, etc.

I was wondering that. I'm guessing there is a plan to hire more junior / lower level analysts, and maybe increase student programs since the team likely profits greatly from the endless stream of cheap talented labour.