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  1. John_Havok
    It is, but then... there's teams that are in it right down to the last couple games of the season, so... they would earn 0 "draft points" when they were trying the entire time vs a dumpster team that was eliminated with a month left in the season and picked up a few meaningless wins. How would that benefit the team that was in it right to the end when the premise of the system would be to encourage the dumpster teams to be more like the teams who already push to the finish line and just barely come up short? Its an interesting idea, but would need some tweaking. Perhaps, you take the win total for the worst team in the game, as in the team that is eliminated mathematically the soonest, and use that wins number on the day of their elimination as the cutoff for all teams that don't make the playoffs. Any non-playoff team gets their "draft points" based on how many wins they end up with above that number.
  2. John_Havok
    the 2.75 they traded away in Espinal looks even more important then in addition to the fact that he sucks.
  3. John_Havok
    Can't even imagine the media shitshow. It would be incredible
  4. John_Havok
    Adding a correction to my post here. Apparently they can ask him to agree to a 45 day window in which they can outright him and then he forfeits whatever remains on the 2 million guaranteed annual salary. Something called "Advanced Consent" That's one piece of the CBA I'd be looking at getting rid of in the next round of negotiations if I'm the head of the PA. That's a really bad look when teams do that. here's a decent breakdown from mlbtraderumours in 2014 about it. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2014/04/the-45-day-advance-consent-form.html
  5. John_Havok
    Naw, its all clickbait really. Anything like this article is just picking tiny examples of things that might look weird without any larger context.
  6. John_Havok
    No doubt. Defense doesn't get paid in arbitration... ever.
  7. John_Havok
    Kikuchi will be cut because he's been bad in spring training...... Gonna let someone else handle that one.
  8. John_Havok
    Agreed. He also happens to have the most power potential of the 5-9 hitters as it stands, unless they put Vogelbach there in for his DH days.
  9. John_Havok
    I don't think a player can give up a guaranteed salary. I know they can forfeit a guaranteed salary if they refuse assignment to the minors and choose to become a free agent, but I don't think a minor league signing who gets 2 million guaranteed if he makes the club can then agree to have that 2 million "unguaranteed". That kind of situation would create extremely obvious ways to exploit players by clubs. THe blurb in Davidi's article just means they have 2 choices... add him to the 40 man and he gets his 2 million guaranteed, or dont add him and he goes to AAA on his minor league salary. There's no third option to add him to the 40 man with an unguaranteed salary. They just punted 2.75 million by trading Espinal so the 2 million for Vogelbach and possibly up to 4 million for Votto, is really just a net cost of up to 3.25 million over the whole season. If Votto's incentives don't trigger, it's 1.25 net. Not a big deal cost wise.
  10. John_Havok
    Kikuchi is dead in your scenario?
  11. John_Havok
    They could, but they likely won't unless its just a game or two in a weird situation. Pen arms are too important these days in maximizing wins.
  12. John_Havok
    Yeah, and then lets pretend that accessory to wire-fraud while youre trying to help a friend pay off gambling debts is even remotely close to the same thing Pete Rose did, or even the same ballpark as wife-beaters. Ignorance isnt a defense of course and he should be punished accordingly, but this doesnt appear to be a gambling issue with Ohtani himself. It does, however, seem to be a gambling issue with illegal books if the rest of that stuff about the bookie being at the team hotel taking bets on other sports from guys on the team turns out to be true. That's a far bigger issue than what Ohtani himself did.
  13. John_Havok
    Good stuff. Didnt read the article but i guess that means they would be able to get him to 80 pitches in his first MLB game without missing any and just have a longer-ish guy lined up to go after him, though Gausman could go 5+ on 80 pitches if he's chucking good that day.
  14. John_Havok
    Vogelbach doesnt have the same opt out choices as Escboar and Votto has since he doesnt have 6 years of service time. He cant refuse an assignment to AAA since he signed a minor league deal. Being a vet though, all he would have to do is ask and theyd probably release him if another team had a spot for him, or he would get traded for cash like Austin Adams did today from the Mets to Oakland.
  15. John_Havok
    Yup. One of the best..lol.
  16. John_Havok
    Blue Jays manager John Schneider told reporters today, including Kaitlyn McGrath of The Athletic, that catcher Brian Serven has made the team as the backup to Alejandro Kirk. Serven is not yet on the 40-man roster and will need to be added before the season begins next week.
  17. John_Havok
    Taijuan Walker to have an MRI for his shoulder.
  18. John_Havok
    I'm glad I stuck around for the Little-Dingler faceoff.
  19. John_Havok
    Absolutely. Still don't get the Holliday demotion for Baltimore. The kid belongs.
  20. John_Havok
    Good question. He only threw 1.
  21. John_Havok
    Lets say he does. What's his FA contract look like in that case knowing he'd be going into his age 31 season in 2025. Something similar to the SS deals from a couple years back in AAV just a bit shorter? 8/250-275?
  22. John_Havok
    Dillon Dingler. Outstanding baseball name.
  23. John_Havok
    Lets see how Pearson's splitter looks today
  24. John_Havok
    Attaboy Turner. THat's what we need all year
  25. John_Havok
    Vlads 3 EV's today: 67.7, 74.5, 74.9. All hits. LOL
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