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  1. John_Havok
    The two weeks prior to ST are easily the worst two weeks of the offseason. Hurry up and wait
  2. John_Havok
    Probably the best umpire in MLB was fired. Pat Hoberg had a gambling account, shared his info with someone, and that person used his account to place bets on baseball, including 8 games Hoberg umpired in, but zero evidence Hoberg's calls were influenced and no bets were ever placed by Hoberg's device, just his account. He did apparently delete some messages that had to do with the investigation. Sucks.
  3. John_Havok
    I don't presume to speak for others, just me. If I want to read an article, I prefer clicking to the place where the articles are. If I want to read discussion posts about general blue jays or baseball topics, I would rather click there and not have to sift past the stuff I don't want to read. It's just an extension of the same logic as to why the minor league portion of the forums is separated from the the others, why the non-baseball is separated. Articles here. Forums there News over here.
  4. John_Havok
    Is it possible to have the articles separated from the forum threads? I get that content generation is key in driving traffic, but I don't want to have scroll through all the articles to get to the non-article threads. And honestly, the volume of articles already is irritating, but that's just "old man yelling at clouds" syndrome Is that available in customization?
  5. John_Havok
    Whitt i think was one...
  6. John_Havok
    Vukovich?
  7. John_Havok
    The Yates signing isn't official by any stretch, from reading between the lines it was a "agreement in principle if......." and they hadn't even formally agreed to those ifs yet.
  8. John_Havok
    Would you take these things off already? I don't deserve this shabby treatment. *buzzer* If you know, you know.
  9. John_Havok
    Ffs I missed another circle jerk? I need to adjust my notifications....
  10. John_Havok
    I sure hope it was porn. Jacking it to a grocery list would be weird.
  11. John_Havok
    Missing a high contact hitter with good baserunning? You mentioned Ernie Clement. That's basically his entire offensive profile.
  12. John_Havok
    Doubtful. Both MLB and the PA would be against it.
  13. John_Havok
    Careful comparing Kim and Clement, the pitchforks will come out, despite the statement being incredibly accurate
  14. John_Havok
    Not bad, gave him what he wanted in both length and AAV, signing bonus, and gave him an opt-out, but after 3rd year rather than 1st, and deferred money. Atkins read my memo and made it better. Can't really hate this at all
  15. John_Havok
    I'm now fully convinced that with the frequency and quality of Davy's articles, he is 100% a robot.
  16. John_Havok
    Shkuldnt be long then for Sherzer to the Dodgers for 1 year, 20 million with 15 million deferred and 4 million signing bonus
  17. John_Havok
    Yes, one of them plus Bregman is also a fine alternative for this situation.
  18. John_Havok
    Certainly true. But, at this point, even if we assume a Vlad extension, the lineup has virtually 0 power outside of Vlad. They need thump and they need it badly. The one wildcard in all this is Orelvis, but one cannot expect anything out of him yet. Sign them both, give up the picks. If all goes well. They make.noise in the playoffs. If s*** goes south, trading whomever you can at the deadline recoups the 2 lost picks with players they didn't have to draft and spend 2-3 in the minors developing. If they want contention, they have to take risks at this point. Status quo isn't good enough. Playing it safe is the wrong strategy for this situation IMO If they don't want to take risks now for 2025, may as well just start the retool/rebuild early.
  19. John_Havok
    My vote goes to signing Santander and Alonso. Easy DH rotation between the 2 of them plus Vlad, though primarily I'd have Santander in LF, Alonso DH and Vlad at 1st. Clement at 3rd most days. As for contracts, I'd just offer short term deals, front loaded with 1 year opt outs. Like, if Santander wants 5/100, fine. But it's a 10m signing bonus and 30m for 2025, then 60 over the last 4. Basically begging him to opt out because you don't really want him for another 4 years anyways. Same style for Alonso.
  20. John_Havok
    Yes. It would be the most magical abomination/combination of Terrible D/big bats and elite D/pool noodles ever assembled.
  21. John_Havok
    But at least there's an argument to be made in acquiring Straw along with the pool money. It's a Straw man argument, but.....
  22. John_Havok
    If anything, without a Vlad extension, the teams should absolutely be open to short term deals. May as well stack the team as best you can for 2025 with the uncertainty surrounding that situation
  23. John_Havok
    Every team hopes their pen will be better than the year before. The pen is nothing but hope for virtually every team
  24. John_Havok
    I heard them talking about this a few weeks ago also. It was mentioned that his endorsements in Japan would likely be much higher if he signed somewhere as the only Japanese player rather than a team with Ohtani, which...makes sense Of course, if depends on what he ranks higher in importance. Clearly the teamwith the best chance to win is LA. The team where he can play with his idol/mentor and still have decent shot at post season play is SD. The team with the highest endorsement potential is likely Toronto, but easily the lowest real shot at winning over the next 6-7 seasons, but you can still squint and see some positives.
  25. John_Havok
    The f***? When did you learn to read? Are my UNICEF donations finally having an impact?
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