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  1. John_Havok
    It’s to protect players that have never been optioned from being optioned for no reason other than to f*** with service time.
  2. John_Havok
    I don’t think he can refuse, but since it’s been more than 3 calendar years since his first appearance, he cannot be optioned to the minors without clearing optional assignment waivers. Basically, the Jays would have to put him on the waivers, and if any team put in a claim they’d have to pull him back. Then, they can’t try to option him again or it becomes irrevocable and he either gets claimed by another team for no return, or he goes to the minors and remains on the 40 man roster.
  3. John_Havok
    Since when is Bo’s defense sub-par? It’s not elite sure, but he’s no ham fisted butcher. Yeah, he’s gonna sail a throw or two every once in a while, but he’s still a decent defensive SS. Also, he’ll probably be closer to his career 120 wrc+ by the end of the season than he is to league average with the bat. Horrendous April is behind him.
  4. John_Havok
    Yeah, but he should never be near the top or middle of the lineup with the other bats on this team. Hit him 7th-9th. The top 6 (assuming health) should be about as close to being written in stone as it gets. Springer, Bo, Vlad, Kirk, Teo, and Lourdes are all superior hitters and a pretty solid case for Biggio also. Chapman is also a far more dangerous hitter overall, though he’s a bit volatile. And for the love of Christ on a cracker can we stop hitting Tapia 6th?
  5. John_Havok
    Yeah that. Probably made any team interested just back right off right away
  6. John_Havok
    If I remember right, it ended early with some sort of slight strain or something to the same hamstring area that he had injured previously.
  7. John_Havok
    Good god Kirk is on fire
  8. John_Havok
    Espinal down to about exactly a league average hitter now. Still amazing D. Give the guy a friggin day off though
  9. John_Havok
    There’s something you don’t see everyday
  10. John_Havok
    Bad example with Burnett, even at the height of his non-injured-all-the-time years from 2008-2014 he surpassed 200 innings 4 times, and his highest 221. From 2006-2011 Halladays lowest total was 220.
  11. John_Havok
    200 points - Tellez
  12. John_Havok
    I wonder what the actual follow up process is for these guys. Like I know we'll never see it or really even hear about it, but there has to be some kind of mechanism that would require someone to go over a game like this with the ump after the fact and point out how very clearly wrong he was on 35% of his called strikes in an effort to have him clearly see where his blind spots were so he could potentially improve going forward. But then again, Angel Hernandez. So obviously there is no mechanism. Ah well, most of their ball strike decisions will be replaced soon enough
  13. John_Havok
    Every day when I take a piss.
  14. John_Havok
    I don't think it will go up significantly though. 7 years at 30.5 per year starting in 2023 is probably still going to be about what he ends up getting. Maybe some team adds an option year, maybe some team tries to go shorter term for higher AAV... but I really dont see a lot of front offices lining up to pay that guy past the age of 38 at a significantly higher AAV than 30.5
  15. John_Havok
    Suspension isnt for the words, its for the contact. Hope he said it was a cocksucking strike zone and the entire conversation went exactly as it did in Bull Durham.
  16. John_Havok
    I definitely do not understand the appeal of someone wanting to look like that.
  17. John_Havok
    And because now everyone is curious...
  18. John_Havok
    Should check out recent pics of former pitcher and now bodybuilder Kyle Farnsworth. It’s beyond experimental for him, looks like he used every steroid on Earth
  19. John_Havok
    I think it’s too much also, but like I said, you know that’s what they’d ask for.
  20. John_Havok
    Catcher was halfway through throwing it back to the pitcher because he knew it was a ball…lol
  21. John_Havok
    My guess would be something like Orelvis + Tiedemann is what they would ask for, and the Jays would probably not want to do that. Groshans + Robberse + another?
  22. John_Havok
    I suppose that would be better than listening to 2 homeless guys argue about squirrels. But like... barely.
  23. John_Havok
    Well there's your first mistake.
  24. John_Havok
    We got J.A. Happ, Brandon Lyon, and David Carpenter from the Astros for Francisco Cordero, Ben Francisco, Joe Musgrove, Carlos Perez, David Rollins, Asher Wojciechowski and Kevin Comer.
  25. John_Havok
    Simply put, it's virtually impossible to compare players form today to players from 100 years ago. The game, while played under generally the same rules, is completely different. It's not ever really that arguable that todays players are far more highly skilled than players from 100 years ago, in any sport. if time travel was possible and you put Ohtani in 1920 to play baseball (and also made him white) he would hit a HR in probably 75% of his PAs. The velocity they threw back then would be like BP. Same as if you plucked Babe out of 1920 and magically transferred him to 2020, he would strike out so much it would be ridiculous. Then the argument inevitably turns into even more hyptheticals and ends up being a pointless exercise. That doesn't diminish his accomplishments in his own era. Hes still arguably the greatest player of all time. But direct comparing the two is, for the most part, pointless. And lets also not forget that there are near 0 people alive today that have seen both eras and how drastically the game has changed.
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