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  1. shaggydog2000

    Cam Booser called up and added to 40 man. Joe Jacques optioned

    I was thinking more of that pitcher from Woody Allen's Radio Day's who kept losing body parts and then went blind.
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    What to do with Yoshida?

    I don't want to turn this into a Raffy thread, but only 7 players had a .900+ OPS and 30 HRs last year. If you extend that range to an .850+ OPS and 30 HRs, you get 10 players, including Raffy. If you extend that to .850+ OPS and 20 HRs, you get only 18 players, and it includes Triston Casas...
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    Cutting The Cord on Cable/Satellite TV Service?

    A water park in Kearney NE you say? I think we can make in 24 hours from here, maybe 22 if Ol' Smokey is asleep at the wheel. Who wants to split gas?
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    Cutting The Cord on Cable/Satellite TV Service?

    There is something fun on I-80? Like you would spend a half day in Des Moines or Cheyenne?
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    Cutting The Cord on Cable/Satellite TV Service?

    I did it back and forth in 3 1/2 days each way. I-80 is not a joy.
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    Red Sox, Ceddanne Rafaela agree to contract extension

    Yes, those years would be more expensive than they needed to be if his bat is no good. But not by all that much, and within the normal range of a bench player. And if he hits enough to be an everyday CF (which has a relatively low bar) he's going to be worth more than they're paying. I think...
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    Red Sox, Ceddanne Rafaela agree to contract extension

    What sort of player do you think $6.25 mil will buy 8 years from now? It seems likely that Rafaela can already play plus defense at any outfield spot, and scouts have said he could do the same at any infield spot. That is worth a lot even if he puts up a .600 OPS. I think it makes anything...
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    A’s have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a future ballpark in Las Vegas.

    So the place will set 4k more than the A's averaged last year? Sounds like they're just right-sizing the park.
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    Arsenal 23-24: Watch this Space

    Arsenal absolutely smothered them in both home and away. I think things would have looked different for Arsenal offensively if Saka and Martinelli had not both been injured. A lot of their offense is set up to get the ball to them wide and far up the pitch. With Martinelli not starting and...
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    When Is It Okay To Worry About Triston Casas: An Attempt at the Reverse Jinx

    Like @Salem's Lot has noted, it's easy to see how a good pitcher can beat you, but expecting every pitcher on every team be able to mix multiple high quality breaking pitches and keep them all in the zone enough to not walk a batter with as good an eye as Casas is asking a lot. Others will mess...
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    Anchor Investment or Distressed Asset? Where the Red Sox Fit in the FSG Portfolio

    The economics of the EPL and MLB are also completely different and not directly comparable.
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    Arsenal 23-24: Watch this Space

    I was concerned about them for a bit there because of that same pattern of injuries and performance sagging coming back, but this run allays some of those fears and makes me feel like they're right back in it. Big win against a big team that was playing well, and the best part is that they...
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    ESPN Is Pathetic

    Hey, my friend Heywood Jablowmie worked his ass off to earn his statue, and I won't stand by and let that effort be denigrated in this manner.
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    ESPN Is Pathetic

    Well, first they check to make sure the name doesn't belong to an on-air personality. Then they just stop caring.
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    Teoscar to the Dodgers (1 year, $23.5M)

    The one year commitment helps drive that up.
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    McAdam: “Full Throttle” may mean business as usual

    The Penguins (and NHL teams in general) have a lot of certainty to them. They have a salary cap, but the NHL national TV deal kind of sucks, and their is little to no international money from what I understand. Local ticket revenue and owning the local sports network (which he does) are the...
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    McAdam: “Full Throttle” may mean business as usual

    He's done nothing but expand his sports holdings over the last 20 years, I don't see why he would reverse that course now. If you want to point to his Liverpool purchase as saying he wants to get out of baseball, that was 13 years ago and it doesn't look like he needed to sell one team to make...
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    McAdam: “Full Throttle” may mean business as usual

    So if you're not going to build by developing prospects, what is your plan? Buy a complete team of free agents? Trade all of your prospects for established players from other teams? I don't think either of those are viable.
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    McAdam: “Full Throttle” may mean business as usual

    Yes, prospects fail. Probably at about the same rate as big money Free Agents. And when prospects fail, you can move on without a big hit to your budget. You just bring in the next kid. Another team might even give you something for him just to take another chance at making the prospect work...
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    Wander Franco Is In Trouble (Grooming/Pedo Warning)

    I thought players only got paid during the season, so not in spring training or the offseason? I think that changed for the MiLB players, but I didn't think it had for the major leaguers. Service time would be the same right? If they put him back on administrative leave at the beginning of...
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