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  1. John_Havok
    Well, if it's not, it is now.
  2. John_Havok
    True, except you don't get invited to minor league spring training when you are signed to a minor league contract. It's your job to show up
  3. John_Havok
    The only factual error here is that there can be no invites to spring training right now, simply because there is no spring training without a CBA. They cannot invite anyone to spring training until there's a CBA in place. Nitpicky, I know, and I'm sure they've agreed in principle that he will be invited to spring training when there is one... but details are important.
  4. John_Havok
    Alpha Beta. The Lambda Lambda Lambdas will be his downfall.
  5. John_Havok
    Pretty much. If you're willing to give them a contract to play, then you cant turn around later and say "no we dont think you should be in the Hall Of Fame because you're an *******." I feel the same way about PEDs. Unless you get banned from baseball based on multiple offenses which is in the current agreement, if you played well enough to get in, you get in, juiced or not. Basically, anything up to the point of being banned from baseball should not exclude you from the Hall.
  6. John_Havok
    Nicky Lopez at 21 in Rookie ball - 62 games, 2 HR, 12.4% Walk rate, 10.6% K rate, wRC+ 132 triple slash .281/.393/.429 - 21 extra base hits Leo Jimenez at 21 in A ball - 59 games, 1 HR, 21.1% walk rate, 14.5% K rate, wRC+ 168 triple slash .315/.517/.381 - 9 extra base hits Jimenez is Nicky Lopez lite. Before now I couldn't even fathom Nicky Lopez having a "lite" version of himself. For Jimenez to mirror Lopez's path, next season he would need to start at A+ ball and hit his way to a wRC+ of 125 at that level, get promoted to AA halfway through and then hit like a limp noodle for the rest of the season.
  7. John_Havok
    Sweet! the next Tony Gwynn
  8. John_Havok
    The player's union doesn't represent minor league players though, only players on the 40 man roster. MILB needs their own union.
  9. John_Havok
    Meh, his contract was up, he was not offered to be re-signed. So what? They have no responsibility to keep him employed. The reason is pretty s*****, but still
  10. John_Havok
    Its possible. As I understand it, right now he's on paid administrative leave and has been since he last pitched on June 28th. So he's already missed a huge number of games, while being paid his salary. So, if he get's suspended, any suspension he gets would have to be retroactive to his first day of admin leave. If the Suspension is less than the games he's already missed, he just has to fork over his salary for that number of games (since they don't get paid while suspended, the money goes to wherever it goes), and he's good to play right away.
  11. John_Havok
    I think it will entirely depend on the outcome. If he doesn't even get suspended or gets something very minor, then there will definitely be teams that line up for his services. It will be as simple as "the investigation took place, punishment taken, the matter is closed... back to baseball" If he gets suspended for any length of time though, yeah he'll be blackballed and forgotten.
  12. John_Havok
    Pretty far from it TBH, i don't get what he doesn't get. It's just like math, order of operation is important.
  13. John_Havok
    If they are answering a direct question from a reporter... sure. If they put out a press release that nobody asked for, answering questions that nobody asked that says they will not be seeking to sign Yasiel Puig or other FA's due to reasons, THAT would be the virtue signal. I'm not sure how much clearly I can put this.
  14. John_Havok
    It's entirely possible that previous iterations of the PA felt that way. But..., the PA want's everyone to get paid what they are worth, and what they are seeing currently is that superstars get the big money, and everyone else is getting squeezed. They can't possibly try to get everything they want in one negotiation, so concentrating on smaller, more easily accomplished goals would make sense. Using the numbers I provided, that's a pretty easy place to start from.
  15. John_Havok
    It's not a problem to believe he would be a negative acquisition. I made that fairly clear above. If Rogers goes out of their way to let everyone know why they don't want to try and acquire a player who isn't even on their team because of it, unless they are directly asked by a reporter (however unlikely that would be be in a Bauer scenario)... THAT would be the virtue signal.
  16. John_Havok
    Among all players to step on the field in 2019, 63.2% had less than three years of service time. They accounted for 53.6% of days of service time accumulated, but they combined for only 9.8% of player pay. That's the problem the PA needs to be focused on right there.
  17. John_Havok
    That's moreso what I was getting at. Like, there's no need to Rogers or any other team to proactively go out and say "we aren't interested in X player because "insert virtue signal here". Someone like Yasiel Puig for example. When something happens on your own team, yeah of course you're going to condemn it publicly, like what happened with Osuna or the idiot who put the gay slur on his eyeblack. That's something that happened as a direct result of actions by a player on your team that you have to address. But it seems that with social media, moreso with individuals rather than companies, it's like a competition to see how many causes they can be seen supporting so everyone knows how amazing and inclusive they are and there's like some sort of social points scoreboard being kept somewhere. Raising awareness of an issue is also different than screaming "look at me and how I support X"
  18. John_Havok
    It would be easier and ideal. I doubt that he would suck since when he was drafted he played SS, but after 3 years of catching exclusively it wouldn't hurt to get a few hundred innings at 3rd in the minors before anointing him at the big league level. Having someone already in house as a stopgap 3b/2b until they can evaluate his 3b readiness would be ideal. OR, they need to scrap the Moreno 3b idea, bring in someone else for the position, wait until he's fully ready as a catcher and then deal with the catcher problem later.
  19. John_Havok
    It changed from having principles when everyone thought it necessary to proactively state publicly what their principles were. Then it became a game show
  20. John_Havok
    Any suspension they levy now would be retroactive to his admin leave. So if he gets 15 games now, all he would have to do is fork over 15 games of salary from last season and he’d be free to play right away since he’s already missed way more games than that
  21. John_Havok
    Could be, though I don’t think Walker is all that up to date on all the arms across baseball that he thinks are underachievers. His plate is probably full enough with all the arms in the Jays system.
  22. John_Havok
    I always figured he’d end up managing. I know he was managing in the minors but the NY-Penn League is no longer around so maybe he’s off into the sunset at this point. Pretty cool to be a World Series champ and an Olympic Gold medalist.
  23. John_Havok
    I think Rodon will be this year’s Semien in that he ends up with a 1 year deal for the exact amount of the qualifying offer. Whether he puts up the results will be the question
  24. John_Havok
    I’m already on board with signing Rodon. That’s why I used the words “dark horse”
  25. John_Havok
    Dark horse candidate for the #5 rotation spot… Dan Straily. He’s coming back from Korea. Had a pretty great 2020 over there, and a not so great 2021. Threw 195 and 165 innings so wouldn’t be worried about innings limits and he would be fairly cheap with a decent chance to not suck. Since he is coming back Korea he’s also free to talk to teams during the lockout even though he cannot sign a major league deal until it’s over
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