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Post by Oregon Norm on Jun 27, 2020 8:29:02 GMT -5
On a more positive note, Passan proves himself to be a seriously good journalist. That write up is as professional and well researched as it gets. He's not going to make himself loved inside the Rangers organization which is the way it should be.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jun 27, 2020 8:52:52 GMT -5
They weren't penalized this year, so I'm not sure why they would next year. It was then reported this morning that teams will get reimbursed by MLB and MLBPA for players whose advances wind up being more than they make. Don't the penalties increase for a third consecutive year ? Wasn't that the reasoning behing trying to get under the cap last offseason ? Not with draft pick penalties. That's only if you go over the third tax threshold.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jun 27, 2020 9:24:24 GMT -5
Players starting to make their way to Boston.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Jun 28, 2020 0:03:46 GMT -5
Bill James Online @billjamesonline · 7h In order to keep the feeling of their games intact, the Tampa Bay Rays will fill their empty seats with cardboard cutouts of empty seats.
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Post by incandenza on Jun 28, 2020 11:59:32 GMT -5
People talk about how young healthy people only rarely die from covid, but here's an article about how some survivors are experiencing strokes, long-term brain damage, and paralysis, among other ailments. I just hope that people in baseball aren't making their cost-benefit calculations based solely on the (un)likelihood of people associated with the game dying from covid. Even players and coaches who get sick and recover could have their careers and their lives severely affected. And there's so much we still don't know about those long-term effects.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Jun 28, 2020 14:35:41 GMT -5
Thanks for the link. There are numerous stories from other sources that mention the same symptoms. No one knows how long the damage will last as you mention. It is, after all, only just over 6 months since the virus started cutting a swath through societies around the globe. It probably seems like a few lifetimes to those affected. It's going to take a tremendous amount of careful thought and planning for any sport to be safe.
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Post by p23w on Jun 29, 2020 7:37:22 GMT -5
One of the "problems" as I see it, is the "rush" to judgement by damn near "everyone" The rush to publish, to report, to forecast. Pick your experts and your sources with care. Good research is being done, but the correlation is not there yet. Prognosticating the virus effects on a myriad of factors within the population is documented but not very well understood. I cannot fault Governments, business's, or science for being conservative with respect to quarantines. The conundrum is can life before the Wuhan virus return to "norma"? Will governments experience regime change? Will business expand or contract? Will science deliver an understanding and a cure in a timely manner?
MLB is a business. It has contracted. It will continue to contract. it will be slow to make up for the losses created by the pandemic. The business has too much infrastructure to "go away". The game (and the business) will persevere.
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Post by redsoxfan2 on Jun 29, 2020 8:49:06 GMT -5
What happens when a player, showing no symptoms, sneaks their way on the field and take a fastball to the chest or upper back that is then exacerbated by having a respiratory virus?
As far as, "can life return to normal after COVID-19"? The answer is, eventually. We returned to normal after the Spanish flu in 1918 (named not for where it originated, but that they were the first country to accurately report it during WW1 to avoid either side showing any weakness).
I think the biggest problem with COVID-19 is the perception because no young star actor/musician, major politician, or athlete has seemingly died or had their quality of life severely impacted by COVID-19, or that has been reported. It makes it seem like sports can return to normal and we can restart businesses and life can return because it hasn't become relatable.
Von Miller, Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, Marcus Smart, Ezekiel Elliott all have had COVID-19 and it seems all had mild to no symptoms (well, Globert had loss of smell), but all seemingly will be healthy and will remain healthy (again, seemingly).
I'm afraid of getting a dose of reality on the field of play when players are pushing their cardiovascular systems through the rigors of professional sports and when some of these older managers with underlying health concerns like Terry Francona contract it.
Edit: Correction
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jun 29, 2020 9:45:03 GMT -5
FWIW, saw a piece last night that Gobert still has symptoms. It's only loss of sense of smell, but still.
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Post by controne on Jun 29, 2020 12:17:42 GMT -5
Not sure where to ask this but is there any news on the DSL starting?
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jun 29, 2020 14:04:36 GMT -5
Not sure where to ask this but is there any news on the DSL starting? Can't imagine they're playing this year.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Jun 29, 2020 19:05:53 GMT -5
According to BA, MLB informed teams that it cannot prevent minor leaguers from playing in independent leagues this summer. A few independent leagues plan to start in July (for now). www.baseballamerica.com/stories/milb-players-given-green-light-to-play-indy-ball/ADD: The final word on the MiLB season is expected tomorrow after MiLB's Board of Trustees meet. The expectation all along has been that the season will be cancelled.
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Post by jimoh on Jun 29, 2020 20:11:30 GMT -5
I think the biggest problem with COVID-19 is the perception because no young star actor/musician, major politician, or athlete has seemingly died or had their quality of life severely impacted by COVID-19, or that has been reported. It makes it seem like sports can return to normal and we can restart businesses and life can return because it hasn't become relatable. ... Here's a 41YO Broadway actor my daughter knows a lot about: deadline.com/2020/06/broadway-actor-nick-cordero-better-week-amanda-kloots-update-1202942530/The 41-year-old Nick Cordero, who appeared on Broadway in Waitress and Bullets Over Broadway, was admitted to Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai medical center in March with a respiratory illness later diagnosed as COVID-19. After being placed in a medically induced coma, Cordero underwent a leg amputation operation and experienced lung damage before waking from the coma on May 12. UPDATE, JUNE 28: Amanda Kloots was upbeat on the condition of her husband, Nick Cordero, in her latest Instagram story. The actor has been struggling with complications of COVID-19. … UPDATE, JUNE 25: COVID-19 stricken actor Nick Cordero communicates mostly with his eyes, and occasionally moves his jaw, according to wife Amanda Kloots. … Cordero has spent 85 days in the hospital with COVID-19 complications. “He interacts with his eyes, answering questions by looking up for yes and down for no,’ said Kloots in an Instagram post. “When he is alert he can also move his jaw.” U UPDATE, JUNE 6: Actor Nick Cordero has begun a stem cell treatment to aid in his long battle with COVID-19. UPDATE June 3: Nick Cordero has gotten “slightly, slightly better every day” despite the odds, says wife Amanda Kloots in her latest Instagram update on the Broadway actor’s COVID-19 battle. “I’ve been told to say goodbye,” she writes. “I’ve been told it would take a miracle. Well, I have faith…Like my dad has said since day one, every day he’s still with us is a miracle.
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Post by p23w on Jun 29, 2020 21:04:53 GMT -5
Well that just plain sucks. Wishing the best for Nick and Amanda. Hang in there. I was once told to say goodbye to a sibling with a brain aneurism. She lived another 20 years.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Jun 30, 2020 7:23:47 GMT -5
Kyle Glaser @kyleaglaser · 18h MLB officially announces rules changes:
- DH in the National League - Extra innings will start with runner on 2nd - Arguing/brawling and spitting prohibited - No pregame lineup card exchange - Three-batter minimum remains in effect - Any player may appear as a pitcher
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Jun 30, 2020 9:02:51 GMT -5
Jen McCafrey on "Summer Camp". theathletic.com/1901057/2020/06/29/red-sox-summer-camp-plans/It's $$ so I won't go into as much detail as Jen's usual great work but: Sox are negotiating for a second Boston location for drills until the season start. Teams can play up to 3 exhibition games but unlikely that any team without a crosstown team will do that. Lecroy is expected to iron out a few minor contract details and be there on time. McHugh is still an unknown, will pitch for the Sox Friday to make a determination. Some Sox starters have been ramping up their workouts over the past several weeks. Rotation plans are pretty much what everyone here guessed earlier in the year. Roenicke thinks everyone will report.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jun 30, 2020 15:21:19 GMT -5
Fyi, those are from Roenicke's call with the media yesterday,at least mostly. The plan seems to be BC, as Bloom said on the call last week.
Roenicke said McHugh was lined up to throw Friday, but I'm not sure that's some key session to determine his role so much as just part of the process of making that determination, if that makes sense.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Jun 30, 2020 20:16:47 GMT -5
Fyi, those are from Roenicke's call with the media yesterday,at least mostly. The plan seems to be BC, as Bloom said on the call last week. Roenicke said McHugh was lined up to throw Friday, but I'm not sure that's some key session to determine his role so much as just part of the process of making that determination, if that makes sense. McHugh was originally planned for a July return so I would imagine it's a lot of both checking his pitchability as well as determining a role if he's healthy now.
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Post by Smittyw on Jul 1, 2020 18:54:43 GMT -5
Today was reporting day, yes? I know we're in a whole different world than usual, but I'm kind of surprised by the lack of news and chatter...
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Post by incandenza on Jul 2, 2020 12:23:24 GMT -5
Something surreal about how we're still trying to go through with this. When we were talking about baseball coming back in April and May, wasn't it predicated on the idea that we would get the virus at least somewhat under control? Yet here we are with a record number of cases, and a rather terrifying rate of growth in CA, AZ, TX, FL, and GA, which collectively host more than a third of MLB teams. Are the Diamondbacks really going to be testing players daily while regular Arizonans wait in line for hours to get tested?
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jul 2, 2020 14:21:30 GMT -5
Something surreal about how we're still trying to go through with this. When we were talking about baseball coming back in April and May, wasn't it predicated on the idea that we would get the virus at least somewhat under control? Yet here we are with a record number of cases, and a rather terrifying rate of growth in CA, AZ, TX, FL, and GA, which collectively host more than a third of MLB teams. Are the Diamondbacks really going to be testing players daily while regular Arizonans wait in line for hours to get tested? Yup. It's like my grandmother always used to say. "Money talks and BS walks." Not surprising given where we are at, unfortunately.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Jul 2, 2020 17:33:29 GMT -5
Something surreal about how we're still trying to go through with this. When we were talking about baseball coming back in April and May, wasn't it predicated on the idea that we would get the virus at least somewhat under control? Yet here we are with a record number of cases, and a rather terrifying rate of growth in CA, AZ, TX, FL, and GA, which collectively host more than a third of MLB teams. Are the Diamondbacks really going to be testing players daily while regular Arizonans wait in line for hours to get tested? the whole world seems surreal. There won't be CoVid normality until herd immunity and who knows what that will look like and when that will be. On a baseball note, I am starting to feel terribly depressed with the realization that Mookie Betts is not going to be on our squad
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Jul 3, 2020 11:21:58 GMT -5
Christopher Smith @smittyonmlb · 2m Red Sox' Ron Roenicke: We do have some positive tests
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Jul 3, 2020 12:44:57 GMT -5
Bob Nightengale @bnightengale · 1h MLB will announce today the number of total COVID-19 positive tests among #MLB players and staff members for the 30 teams.
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Post by umassgrad2005 on Jul 3, 2020 13:23:09 GMT -5
Something surreal about how we're still trying to go through with this. When we were talking about baseball coming back in April and May, wasn't it predicated on the idea that we would get the virus at least somewhat under control? Yet here we are with a record number of cases, and a rather terrifying rate of growth in CA, AZ, TX, FL, and GA, which collectively host more than a third of MLB teams. Are the Diamondbacks really going to be testing players daily while regular Arizonans wait in line for hours to get tested? the whole world seems surreal. There won't be CoVid normality until herd immunity and who knows what that will look like and when that will be. On a baseball note, I am starting to feel terribly depressed with the realization that Mookie Betts is not going to be on our squad From everything I've seen there won't be heard immunity. Just like the Flu, you might have it for that flu season, but it doesn't last long-term.
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