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Right - so obviously there is risk there as it will be difficult to ensure all parties involved strictly adhere to the protocols. That said, there's always risk involved. We have concussion protocols and if someone gets seriously hurt, we could get sued (whether or not the organizations/coaches are following the protocol or not). Is the difference simply that for concussions (in this case), the organization would be covered through insurance? Are they covered by insurance even if they aren't following the applicable protocols?

Would a waiver then work for youth sports and protect the organization, executive, coaches, etc?

What if certain people or teams don't the protocols? I wonder if there's some understand that people won't follow all the protocols to the letter of the law and that by signing the waiver, you accept that. I'm curious about this as I don't think most employers are asking staff to sign waivers and such. They may have protocols in place, but if people don't follow them and someone gets sick and dies - is the business at risk for not enforcing the protocols? I'm also curious from a minor sports perspective. They have insurance to cover injures during play, but if the organization, coaches, etc. don't follow protocol (think concussions) and someone is seriously hurt - are they still 100% covered by insurance even if they are negligent? Now with COVID, there will be call kinds of protocols put in place, but we all know it will be challenging to strictly follow them. Will the waivers protect the organization and coaches in the even someone is seriously ill or killed (will they even be able to link it back to the sporting event)? or will that breakdown and they will become personally liable it can be proven they didn't enforce protocols "enough"? Perhaps this belongs in the OT thread, but I'd love to hear opinions/thoughts.

I have a question about liability and COVID. Under 'normal' conditions, MLB and the teams have insurance to cover baseball related injuries and incidents. If someone gets seriously injured and they feel it was caused by the negligence of the league or team, they could sue. Take for instance, Justin Morneau and his concussion. If he felt as though the team didn't follow the proper concussion protocol, he could sue. If it was proven the team was negligent and didn't follow the proper protocol - would insurance still cover the cost of all the damages? It's my understand you can't get insurance against COVID, so with the baseball season resuming, I would assume all players (and everyone involved) will have to sign a waiver form holding the league and the team harmless if someone was to get COVID. However, if someone where to get COVID and get really sick, or die and they believe it was because people weren't following the proper protocol - I would assume they will sue. If successful, would the league/teams end up paying out big gobs of money? Or will the waivers be rather ironclad?

Never downplay the importance of grammer...

Interesting, although it's 6 years ago, so this may have changed some.

Is this true? I thought BBCOR bats were designed to mimic wood bats.

Isn't he smart enough to hire someone to kidnap/kill the sicko (if true)?

Fangraphs has his ETA as 2023 - same as Groshans, Kloff and SWR. Although I'm sure a couple of those guys will bust - can you imagine how exciting it would be to have Martinez, Groshans, Kloff and SWR all breaking in during the same season?

It's pretty clear that Martin's best comp is Dustin Ackley... and I'll show myself to the door.

f*** - who awoke Gruber? I knew that draft talk of the guy who was compared to Goins would get his spidy senses tingling...

Orelvis Martinez needs to be added to this conversation boys.

Do we see the NFL following suit and letting more teams in too?

Sweet - that's the type of signing we needed.

f*** me - more expanded playoffs? I really hate the business side of baseball.

Has anyone noteworthy signed for $20K?

Does anyone know what's they've done for golf? Did they drop the 'purse' down significantly to account for the loss of spectators? Did golfers complain about this? I'll admit - I have no idea how much impact the spectators have on the purse/revenue/profit.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thescore.com/mlb/news/1977021/amp This shouldn't shock anyone

That's contrary to people reporting the Owners keep offering the same thing - about 33% of the players total salaries. I don't think the players see 'working less' for more $/hour the way the rest of the world does.

MLB proposes 70+ games at 80-85% prorated salaries...I wasn't far off. Let's get this done.

SD has a massive draft if they can sign everyone....wowser. Robert Hassell III Justin Lange Owen Caissie Cole Wilcox Levi Thomas Jagger Hayes If Baltimore was wondering, this is how you take an under slot guy with your first pick and use it to secure some huge talent afterwards.

I was all pretty bizarre. You'd have thought they would have taken Cole Wilcox/JT Ginn/Kelley/Jones in the 2nd and Tanner Witt in the 3rd.... Kjerstad, Westburg, Wilcox (or Ginn), Witt, Mayo, Baumler would have been a good haul and a strategy you could defend.

Man - he throws across his body a ton and lacks balance. No doubt forearm injuries ended his season

meh - whatever. I guess this is the price of getting Martin

I support this move. I read someone who said we have 'some' upside over other MLB teams because we're one of the few that's going to pay minor leaguers more than others. If we do have a slight advantage, we could use it to sign some non-drafted guys for $20K to replace the 4th and 5th round picks.