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  1. John_Havok
    I hope for decimals, fractions and exponents.
  2. John_Havok
    Take it to the NHL thread you apes.
  3. John_Havok
    he was the first big bonus baby! Per wikipedia.... He was known as the "Wizard of Whiff." As an amateur—in high school, for the semipro Signal Oilers—he pitched six no-hitters, three of them in a row, and struck out 945 batters in 549 innings. In one 12-inning high school game, he struck out 27 batters. In 1949, movie producer Frederick Stephani was looking to make a baseball movie but could not afford the story of an established star. Instead, Stephani scouted high school athletes with major league prospects, and eventually signed Pettit for $85,000. Upon his graduation in 1950, Pettit was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates, who bought his contract from Stephani (though Stephani retained film rights), plus an additional $15,000. So technically, i guess he got 85,000 then an additional 15,000. The equivalent of 1.126 million today
  4. John_Havok
    https://www.mlb.com/cut4/today-in-baseball-in-history-tigers-sell-hank-greenberg-to-pirates-c162203656 Looks like he originally signed for 85,000, but Detroit's owner sold him to Pittsburgh for 35,000 and Pittsburgh agreed to increase it to 100,000 for that season.
  5. John_Havok
    Countdown to his first oblique injury... 5.... 4.... 3.....2...
  6. John_Havok
    Still only marginally better defensively with Teo out there, but yeah the offense would be pretty hard to beat Would have really interesting to see what the team would look like right now if they had landed Bogaerts, as that would have happened prior to the Varsho trade also
  7. John_Havok
    Hank Greenberg in 1947? Paul Pettit in 1951, got a $100,000 bonus, but it wasnt salary.
  8. John_Havok
    Their pitching depth is not great for immediate help. Gil is already out with Tj surgery from last season, though should be back later this year. Late July/August - surgery was announced May 21 last year though I didnt bother fidning the actual surgery date, so it was probably in June. Will Warren isnt ready, Clayton Beeter might get a shot though he's wild as f*** with nasty stuff. Gomez has only pitched 15 AA innings so probably isnt ready Jhony Brito might soak up some innings but he's nothing special. Deivi Garcia seems to suck If anything, the yankees would probably try to swing a trade to get a SP involving at least 1 of their IF prospects.
  9. John_Havok
    The thing with video replay is, they should be prepared for a possible challenge and have the stuff ready and queued up for the ref to look at and make his decision quickly. It's pretty obvious when a very close possible offside occurs, so have the guys in the replay room be prepared. I think there was a rule update for MLB this year on the replays that with the new pitch clock, Managers have to indicate if they want time to have their team replay room look at the play, they have to hold up their hand or something and they only get 15 seconds now to indicate if they want a challenge. The new wording has to do with the pitch clock, because it won't start until that 15 second window for indicating a challenge is over. Umps apparently have also been instructed to be very strict on this, and wont be allowing managers to put up their "wait for 15 seconds" unless its a really close play since the managers could abuse it to get extra time for their pitchers between pitches.
  10. John_Havok
    The three batter rule for relievers started to address that even though it was more intended to keep game flow going instead of having three pitchers come in to face 1 batter each in whatever inning.
  11. John_Havok
    I think that’s just largely due to timing, not because they don’t actually care. I don’t know how to solve that problem either, the MLB season + spring training + playoffs is just so damn long and pitchers especially would have difficulty altering their routines to make it work. I think it might actually work better at the end of the season rather than the start.
  12. John_Havok
    whatever category of logical fallacy it falls into...its dumb
  13. John_Havok
    https://www.tsn.ca/mlb/toronto-blue-jays-george-springer-feeling-healthy-again-comfortable-moving-to-right-field-1.1919365?fbclid=IwAR2AY1TEUlyzDiwBzlnzyt1YV256wvs9wlKS4w3_jPOvPsPD1XQuIFwtP-k Long and short of it. Springer feels great, is fine with moving to RF.
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  15. John_Havok
    According to the Jays page on MLB.com, it's 25 but not sure if that's like officially official yet. Plus his twitter is @DaultonVarsho25 so educated guess it will likely be 25
  16. John_Havok
    yeah, DFA Lukes, save Bernard for a bit... it could happen.
  17. John_Havok
    That's why i dont think there's a realistic shot for a position player to make it, it would require a significant injury or losing a guy like Lopez off the roster, which i really doubt would happen. Lopez is actually a great bench piece with his IF/OF defensive versatility and baserunning. He's about as perfect a bench piece as you can get on the Jays team that clearly values positional flexibility. I can't see a scenario where they DFA a guy like Lopez in favor of any of the other non-roster guys. Could a DFA of a pitcher be done to add another position player? Sure, but that might be a short term thing since I think the jays will always be carrying the max 13 allowable pitchers.
  18. John_Havok
    One of the lefty relievers has a shot, Eisert maybe. I think there's 0 chance of a position player making it out of camp unless there's a series of injuries
  19. John_Havok
    https://www.mlb.com/bluejays/roster/nri
  20. John_Havok
    It's not you im directing the psychosis angle at. Providing useful info is awesome. Other posters yelling at clouds about baseball purity is nauseating.
  21. John_Havok
    But they can do so now, as long as they declare themsevles eligible prior to the play starting and lineup in an eligible receiving position. At least the theory of the # rules makes some sense in football. There's literally zero reason to mandate #'s in the NHL, MLB, NBA, pro soccer other than " because reasons" To be all militant about the # on a jersey in the MLB and think it has some drastic impact on the sanctity and history of the game is probably evidence of a psychosis forming or having already formed.
  22. John_Havok
    Gordie Howe was his hero, wanted to wear #9 because of it.
  23. John_Havok
    Strawman arguements don't help your case.
  24. John_Havok
    I love that you feel you can speak for what other people care about. Chances are youre somewhat right though, but only that players care more about the team that is signing their checks and don't want to jeopardize their life's work, not that they dont care at all about the WBC. It obviosuly matters to the shitload of MLB players that are playing in it
  25. John_Havok
    Is that the actual reason though? I think it was more for the players, not the refs. Even a lineman can line up as an eligible receiver as long as the formation is legal. And they also made changes to the rule regarding jersey #'s starting in 2021.
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