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Justin Turner was an anomaly; an under-recognized player who obviously took a huge discount to stay in LA. Yoenis Cespedes signed for 4 years, $110 million in that same free agency period and Donaldson is even better than Cespedes. Donaldson is a pretty safe bet for a contract that approaches ~$150 million IMO.

Shapiro let Antonelli make a blockbuster trade in Cleveland that he admitted he wouldn't have done, yet you think he's here making all the calls to sign Jaime Garcia to a one year deal? Yeah, sorry, but it didn't happen. "More involved" doesn't mean what you think it does. Most Presidents are "more involved" than Beeston was. By the end of his tenure, Beeston was an outlier, not the "norm". Very few teams have Presidents that are completely devoid of any duty in actual baseball decisions.

Its already started among the rabid-activists, hop on Twitter and you'll see that just changing the logo isn't enough for most of these people. Its all "cultural appropriation". Unsurprisingly, no one really gives a s*** about Notre Dame's stereotypical leprechaun logo or culturally appropriating St. Patrick's day for instance.

The logo was offensive and needed to be removed, but no way in hell should they be forced into changing the name. "Indians" is neither racist nor offensive. Is "Boston Celtics" an offensive name? How about the "New York Yankees" (which does have negative connotations)?

Olivares is a lot more intriguing than this blurb makes him out to be. There is real upside there, albeit with obvious swing/miss concerns.

What? His best tools were all in his bat coming out of HS (power, bat speed). He was a big boy (ballooned up to like 220 pounds at one point) so the assumption was that he would eventually grow out of SS as his defensive actions were always behind his bat anyway.

Aaron Sanchez put up 3.8 WAR at roughly the same age, and he was nowhere near as consistently dominant or impressive as Ohtani.

Most of the top Braves guys signed today, not with the Yankees. The Yankees are supposedly looking at the Cuban CF who defected recently.

We out

Its a joke. There was a story recently about a group of female nurses in Denver who were gawking at the large size of an incapacitated (but alive) patient's penis. When the man died, they went back and opened the bodybag to gawk some more (seriously). Needless to say they were overheard talking amongst themselves and reported, with their punishment being a couple weeks suspension, and their identities weren't even leaked. Imagine a male doctor or nurse doing something similar, they'd be tarred as registered sex offenders and publicly shamed, with zero chance that they'd keep their job. The basic procedure is to treat women like children for the same crimes that men commit (seriously, their sentences are a joke compared to a man committing the same crime). All these stories and firings about "inappropriate behaviour" yet when the Summer Olympics were on you had dozens of published and promoted articles from female and feminist outlets openly discussing "The Best Bulges at the Summer Olympics" (seriously). Imagine Men's Health penning an article titled "Best Olympic Camel-Toe's", no way that s*** flies. There was even a live segment of some hag reporters oiling up and rubbing down an athlete's chest, but again, females objectifying male sexuality is a-OK and not at all inappropriate.

I wasn't aware that there was any rumour about Tinnish hating AA. AA brought Tinnish up and both are Canadian; pretty sure they were close. Either way, this sucks as Tinnish was heading the Latin American operations and seemingly doing a good job at it.

Jeter was at least still a capable SS, whereas Maitan is just pretending at that position and by all accounts his body is ballooning even more rapidly than people had hoped. He's going to have to hit at an impact level, whereas someone like Jeter could at least still provide value by simply being a SS.

Sure, but we've already got $3+ million committed to the kid we're linked to for next season, and I get the impression that teams would rather sign the guys they've scouted themselves.

I'm not sure why people assume that "Trump" would scare away a player from Japan. I see this posted all the time, and it really doesn't make much sense if you know anything about the Japanese. Japan as a whole is fairly conservative (especially compared to the modern leftist lunacy of most white Western nations), and they are EXTREMELY xenophobic when it comes to protecting their borders and nationality. The chances are significantly more likely that someone like Ohtani has immigration views that are considerably more in line with Trump than they would be with someone like Trudeau. Because of their isolation, Japan has not succumbed to the PC culture which dominates Western popular culture. Hence why when every self-hating white blogger was outraged when they cast Scarlett Johansson to play a "Japanese" character in the live-action Ghost in the Shell remake, the popular opinion in Japan was that it was actually really cool that a famous white actress was going to play a Japanese anime character. They love when foreigners take interest in their culture (you know, what is now referred to as "cultural appropriation").

It doesn't have any defense, but dont think for one second that Ohtani looming around in the background didn't influence the severity of this punishment. This is a warning shot to any front offices that were even thinking of circumventing the rules in hopes of landing Ohtani; which was probably every single one considering that there is absolutely zero logical reason as to why a player like Ohtani should be bound to the same rules used to deter the bonuses of 16 year old Venezuelan and Dominican kids in the first place. A player like Ohtani breaks this whole system, so you know full well that teams would cheat to get someone of his talent. The precedent of a lifetime ban changes the dynamic.

RHP Jol Concepcion, LHP Naswell Paulino, and RHP Juan Jimenez popped for Boldenone and suspended 60, 72, and 60 games.

"The players will have restrictions on their free agency. They will be eligible to sign with another club for another signing bonus beginning on Dec. 5 up until Jan. 15. After Jan. 15, the player is still allowed to sign but cannot receive an additional signing bonus. Only the amount of the signing bonus beyond $200,000 will count toward a team’s signing bonus pool. Players are allowed to re-sign with the Braves, but if they choose to do so, they must wait until May 1 to sign with them and can’t receive an additional signing bonus."

How much cap have the Yankees already acquired? Seems strange seeing them right there with the Rangers in available cap space when the Rangers really weren't players in the IFA class this year (they signed BA's #24 prospect with the rest being unranked), whereas the Yankees did drop a several mill (probably at least $4 million from estimation).

Neither one of them are SS's moving forward. Maitan was more hyped ("best prospect in years" label being thrown around before he signed), but as we are seeing that doesn't always translate. He certainly didn't look like a "special" talent this past season. As mentioned, there doesn't seem to be much logic in him waiting until next July anyway as only 1 team can sign Ohtani (if he can even come over) which means that there WILL be teams left to pay out Maitan.

It is allowed. They have to turn 16 by a certain date (before the end of the year?) to still be eligible in this class. Every year there are a few 15 year olds who can't officially sign on July 2nd because they aren't 16 yet. The Yankees already signed Ronny Rojas for $1 million and he didn't turn 16 until September I believe.

Yes.

Have the Yankees officially signed all of their kids that were still 15 on July 2nd and therefore had to wait until they turned 16? I knew that Ronny Rojas was one of them and he signed in ~September, but I thought there was another one or two of them?

Look at this swinging from my nuts again, "low-key" LOL. High-key, I'll f*** you till you love me.

I knew some clown would chime in with this. Exploiting a loophole and drafting well are two entirely different things. The poster I was responding to outright said that his DRAFTING RECORD was "elite"; thus I was responding to that statement and ONLY THAT statement. Even the worst drafting team in the league can draft well if you give them enough picks, that doesn't make them an "elite" drafting team. It is incredibly important to differentiate between those two realities, because in our case there was a clear correlation between when we had an ass-load of picks and when we were pumping out results. When the picks went away, suddenly our success was no different than anyone else's. How can you possibly argue that our drafting was "elite" when almost every position player we drafted with a top pick flopped (Thon, Sweeney, Hawkins, DJ Davis, that OFer that was permanently injured, etc)? Yes, we hit on some pitchers, but we missed on just as many (or more) than we hit on (which should be expected, I'm not knocking them on that). Overall, we were a good drafting team, but far too flawed to consider "elite". Teams like the Cardinals who enjoyed no extra picks and picked much lower than us every year yet still produced MLB contributors were better "drafting" teams than us.