Beltran was so intimidating the front office developed Codebreaker the year before he got there and the players kept cheating the year after he retired.
What I hear in Astros clubhouse: they were convinced by a very veteran star player that “everyone was doing it.” “Steamrolled” is way too strong a word. Star struck might fit better. Feels like they’re not sure what to make of that now. They were a young, impressionable team.
- 82 games at sliding scale = ~33% salary
- 50 games at prorated pay = ~33% salary
- 76 games at 75% prorated pay = (drumroll) ~33% salary
It all comes back to the same place. MLB keeps making the same offer in different forms.
MLB has made proposal to Players. 75 percent Prorated salary. 76 game season. Playoff pool money. No draft pick compensation for signing player. Season finishes September 27th. Post season ends at end of October. Significant move towards players demands and effort to play more.
Too much TB discourse and not enough praise for SD behaving like teams should behave. Spending money (Hosmer, Machado), trading for high-end talent when available (Clevinger, Snell), not manipulating service time (Tatis, Paddack). Bravo. Wish more teams were like this.
Giancarlo Stanton is making his 81st consecutive start tonight despite nursing a tight hamstring for over a month now. He's hit .298/.369/.554 with 21 homers in the previous 80 games. Been a monster while playing hurt and never missing a game. Feels weirdly underappreciated.
Gary Sanchez gonna hit 30 homers somewhere else next year while the Yankees talk about all the things their Kyle Higashioka-Jason Castro platoon do that don't show up in the box score.
Jarred Kelenic on players he admired growing up. "I really liked Bryce Harper, he plays hard. Mike Trout, he plays hard. Robinson Cano I love how smooth he is."
#Mariners
Every Yankees series the last six weeks is two nail-biting wins and a soul-crushing loss that would be the worst loss of the season in any other season.
The Yankees have a lot of talent and will win a lot of games in the coming years. Still feels like they're really missing a chance to become THE TEAM this offseason.
Can't help but notice the juxtaposition of one team playing its talented rookie shortstop and the other continuing the run the known mediocrity out there.
Trading Adam Warren for Starlin Castro, then Castro for Stanton, while getting Warren back in the Chapman trade and re-signing Chapman is a hell of a thing.
One of my biggest complaints about baseball today is how many old school broadcasters continually tell us the game was better back in their day. Ruocco's been a breath of fresh air.
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@RyanRuocco
’s wild July ride will end on Wednesday when he calls the Yankees’ game against the Diamondbacks for the
@YESNetwork
, but no matter where he goes from here it has been an experience that he would not trade: |
@sportswatch
It's mildly funny the Yankees traded Adam Ottavino because Boone didn't trust him, and used the savings to sign another reliever he doesn't trust and never uses.
My boring take is the Yankees will trade Voit, but they should keep him because someone's going to get hurt like five minutes after they trade him, and also they're going to have to pinch-hit for their catcher basically every night.
I see Ohtani fatigue is setting in and we're going to spend a few weeks pretending a transcendent season that is redefining valuable isn't the easiest MVP call of most of our lifetimes.
The Yankees aren't in the same class as the Orioles. One of these teams is old, slow, and unathletic, with players on the downside all over the field. The other is young, energetic, hungry, and on the upswing.
The thing about the "don't sign Machado now because you sign Arenado next year" is that you can just wait one more year to sign Trout, or one more year after that to sign Lindor, or one more yea
BREAKING: Texas Rangers plan to open to full 40,518 capacity for 2 final exhibition games and Opening Day, with plans to have social-distanced sections available in subsequent games.
Kevin Long is going to the World Series with his fourth different team in the last 13 years. They don't put hitting coaches in the Hall of Fame, but he has a hell of a resume.
Eduardo Perez says that the five-round draft has "crushed the dreams" of Puerto Ricans hoping to play professional ball, noting not a single PR resident has been selected through at least 140 picks this year.
Since the mound was lowered in 1969 (min. 5,000 PA):
1. Bonds - 182 OPS+
2. McGwire - 163
3. Votto - 158
4. Thomas - 156
5. Manny - 154
Feels like Votto is one of the least talked about all-time greats, and he just finished second in the MVP voting.
The Yankees not signing Seager, Correa, or Turner a few years ago is one of those things that was obviously dumb at the time, and looks even worse now. Worst case is they would have wound up with that player at 3B and Volpe at SS!
It's still weird Hal Steinbrenner spent all winter saying the Yankees couldn't sign Machado or Harper because they needed pitching, then they signed Happ over Corbin.
Been more than a week since they were eliminated. If it you have to spend that long deliberating whether you have the right manager, you don't have the right manager.
Source: Despite the coaching staff moves today, the Yankees are still undecided (as of this moment) on Aaron Boone's fate. Part of the equation may be whether he wants to stick w/ the coaching staff the Yankees are going to dictate to him.
On a night he didn't have his best command, Gerrit Cole threw seven shutout innings against the team that scored the most runs in baseball during the regular season, and he did it in their building.
Watching the Americans and you can tell this show takes place in the 80s because the radio announcer in the background said the guy hitting .249 had a low batting average.
This is not trolling. This is union solidarity at a time when the players are trying to get a fair share of the revenue they generate and the owners are trying to crush them and take every last penny.
Some A+ trolling here from
@itsFatherJoe44
,
@JTaillon50
and
@MeLlamoTrevor
changing their profile pictures to the blank avatars is using in lieu of player images, which it has scrubbed from its website in the wake of the lockout.