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Post by johnsilver52 on Nov 2, 2020 19:32:58 GMT -5
Oh jeez.. I see where some who may feel slighted want a change, but also what has transpired since the very beginning is nothing but nothing more than rioting and looting run wild. Anyone calling it differently has blinders on. Nothing like this is occurring, except in certain parts of the country where we know what types of leaders allow it.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 31, 2020 21:47:02 GMT -5
He might of had the grounds to do so, but according to various articles have read on the NYP both before and after the sale was approved by MLB, Cohen had already had lawyers looking over the citi field contract between the Mets organization and the city and deblasio had no grounds to turn the deal down, was just attempting to hold him up personally for various "donations" to neighborhood causes, which fits with how hizzoner operates regularly.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 30, 2020 16:32:21 GMT -5
I believe Charlie Morton lives around the Tampa area and has said he would probably retire rather than pitch anywhere else at his point in life. Then again money talks so we'll see. He's lived here in the Tampa area for awhile now, been in the local news multiple times proclaiming how much he loves the area. Not sure just because he was originally from the NE that would influence him going back. Same reason many come here is hard to beat and no insult intended. moderate weather most of the year and low taxes. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 29, 2020 19:49:49 GMT -5
Ahhh, that's just it. I think his value must be at/near 10m and the Tribe just didn't want to pay it. Britton just had his option picked up at 14m for next year and I'm not sold he's that much better at this point.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 29, 2020 18:59:57 GMT -5
Which Hand are you getting? The 2017 and 2020 guy or the 2018 and 2019 version? The value is all about what the market is like and what happens with Hand will be telling. First Wong, now Hand, it's not looking very good. My thinking is regardless, Hand is worth the 10m and O'Day the 3.5m if the Sox had a chance to add both. Look at the build-a-pen example from last year? See much there from all those castoffs? Here are 2 proven veteran relievers with solid track records and really.. Not making all that much $$$. Add with Barnes, Hernandez, Brasier and whatever castoffs are brought in then. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 28, 2020 17:14:40 GMT -5
Of course he would. Everyone else in that lineup is a no-brainer. Except for Baldwin at first. Seriously, it's interesting that the lineup (excluding the two relievers) is 60% guys who are among the top two available at their positions (Rosario, York, Decker, Bonaci, Jordon, Groome) and 40% guys not in the top 50.
Consider that Baldwin missed all of 2019 too, basically, and he desperately needs at-bats. FWIW, there was also an intrasquad happening during this game. Stalling of Baldwin is the one which has surprised me. I remember watching him at Ft Myers few years back over a week and a half span and he was just killing it, good effort behind the plate, just hustling all over the field. Understand injuries have played some part in it, but it's like going past rookie to A- level he hit a wall. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 28, 2020 16:22:05 GMT -5
They weren't over in 2019, so not in the sense of avoiding the year 3 penalties, at least. That's brilliant planning. Year 3 would be 2022, and by then there will likely be a strike and the rules regarding the penalties are most likely to change. Just another reason why I think Andrew Friedman is the best GM type (or whatever they call them now). I'm also glad he was "validated" by a World Series title. The Dodgers are very much the "model" the Sox should be looking to emulate (as opposed to the Rays). I hope Bloom is the next Friedman. I seem to remember a time when that was said of a young Theo Epstein. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 25, 2020 19:50:13 GMT -5
Will see and have seen Sox prospects propelled into greatness for no reason currently and in the past for who knows what reasons. One currently getting huge hype that has many things about his game hard to see hold up.
Take with grain of salt with many writeups, but do enjoy reading them is best advice.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 23, 2020 15:26:14 GMT -5
I don’t like that they waived him The nonsense over keeping the wrong ones begins. Get ready for it. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 22, 2020 17:37:21 GMT -5
What about the market on both Robbie Ray and Taijuan Walker this offseason? Both of those guys been favorites of mine for a long time. I get that the rotation in general is a question mark from top to bottom, but isn't this entire team a question mark?
Take Ray for example. 1 and a half poor seasons. Velocity maintained, will still be only 30 next year. Can he be that expensive? Walker may be kind of a different animal after showing he's healthy again following TJ, but someone always liked with Seattle and if the team throws any serious FA money around? I hope it's his way.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 17, 2020 5:25:56 GMT -5
For what it's worth, I feel like a number of posters are currently using NRI when they mean MLFA, right? NRI just matters for spring training, and it doesn't make sense to have more than 20 or so because there's only so much room in camp. Yes, for me at least, the usual scenario is minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with or without a major league provision attached. There are five fields at Ft. Myers I am guessing the Sox could find room and if they go into year around XST, the players wouldn't necessarily need to go to AAA, I assume scouting will be allowed at the sites. Don't forget the number of teams which play "A" and "B" games. Pretty sure if enough teams decided to hang onto a fairly large group, instead of calling up bodies off the minor league fields to play those last couple of innings the last half of ST, there could be "A" and "B" games for several teams multiple times per week, allowing for more legit competition among the type you are talking about. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 15, 2020 19:43:49 GMT -5
I hope they take the best player available, but if it's too close to call, that they take a pitcher. I'm still not sure why you wouldn't want to draft middle infielders. Who in the Red Sox organization is a "can't miss" SS on the way up? Xander could opt out after 2022 or his range over the next couple of years could deteriorate to the point that he needs to move off of SS. Why wouldn't you want to draft a highly rated SS if he becomes available in the draft? I can get why you wouldn't be anxious to draft a 2b atop of the draft after drafting Cannon and Yorke first the past two drafts, but again - if the top draftee clearly was a 2b (which I don't think is the case this year), you make the pick. Hesitating to answer this.. Risk of being deemed something am not again, but here we go.. Have been watching kids play MiLB ball for decades. My 2c, is the Caribbean is flush with kids that play the positions of SS/2b now, or will after 1-2y of pro ball. It's like having 2 positions don't have to worry about wasting a Rule 4 draft on because so much talent is available down south and always has been, like even during the 1970's I remember it was the same in the FSL was seeing slick gloved kids from the Dominican. Now, add Venezuela, Asia, rest of the Caribbean and it makes no sense to draft a middle infielder with a high pick, unless the particular kid has some above and beyond tools IMO. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 15, 2020 14:59:08 GMT -5
Oh, I hope he's available at #40 and please, please, please draft him. Just hoping they take a lot of pitching at the top of the draft instead of middle infielders. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 13, 2020 7:32:50 GMT -5
Never went away for me either. Last time warned was 10/12. Seems to be more frequent after "dirty" entrance to site.. Like visits to multiple other websites before landing here and as mentioned previously, hitting a tab, player profile even.
One thing have done and seems to work is run ccleaner before opening browser, then come straight here. Pretty sure have -0- issues using that system.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 12, 2020 4:05:58 GMT -5
They don't need a shark, they need crazy smart people with long-term visions. They need to be able to read the owners and how they will react to the changes, like the current tax issues. Most importantly that need true leadership that has a plan and that plan needs to be embraced by the players. That being said, good luck. Fixing baseball is like trying to fix a broken design. The system is broken, so it just makes everything ten times harder. They really need to fix the system, yet that can't happen. The real blame for this mess if former commissioners not acting like every other sport and having a universal TV rights deal that is split equally. Then they made it worse by allowing teams to own the companies that show their games. Allowing teams like the Yankees and Red Sox to hide revenues. Yet at the same time it's crazy hard to feel bad for the players either. They are still the top 1/10 of 1% of workers and get way more percentage of profits than any other workers. It just highlights the bad part about Unions, they will never stop fighting for workers. They will never get enough, until they basically bankrupt companies. Look at right now, owners taking massive losses and they players aren't. Agree with much of this. Companies do not share profits among competitors must add as do MLB teams last few CBA's forced few teams to to keep some others above water and financially stable instead of bankrupt. Some of the owners may be looking at it as this alone is sharing some % of profits. Letting these less viable ones go bust.. Taking the jobs with them should be enough of a bargaining chip alone and save money by not having to share % of revenue, less jobs would save the game's owners on media rights right off the top and one of the unions gripes.. Team owned media sharing they want shared and some teams balk at for good reason to share. Onto Unions and what UMass mentioned.. All Unions IMO started off as great ideas and for the good of the worker. It's the always having to have something else to strive for that made them nuance they are today, same reason they are bloated and have offices.. Fully staffed.. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 11, 2020 4:16:03 GMT -5
I don't see whether or not getting a so called "shark" to help the mlbpa will matter at all. Union membership has been going down all over the country. Power of unions has been waning in all not governmental union employee and let's always, regardless of which side of the political spectrum one sits, not forget that companies are the ones responsible for the bottom line and are ALWAYS going to leave a safe space in salary negotiations to protect itself.
I don't intend to demean people and am taken wrong often, tho it shocks me at the amount of people who fail to look at economics from the view of companies and how business is handled. I wonder how many who knock them, always are 100% pro employee, union have ever either owned a small business, managed, or accounted for same. Even a larger company instead of sitting in some far off office, or been strictly blue collar and caused trouble.
Once again. not intending to shame, nor give grief to those. My experiences in the real world tho.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 10, 2020 4:38:29 GMT -5
That might make more sense. When Tom Yawkey passed away, Jean did take over, only she was convinced to form a partnership with LeRoux and Sullivan. Maybe Henry himself is thinking it's possibly time after 15+y of ownership, or looking to get out.
Newspapers are done and digital access ones not too many years away from the same, they did it to themselves. I've read several stories where won't be that long until so called "go to" news.. Like NBC, CBS will just not exist. Redundant in a world of online news.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 8, 2020 0:33:19 GMT -5
This is something gets over looked and tho not a lawyer, have to wonder how many states can be cherry picked out which could be lenient to the complainants cause.. Leading to nearly endless litigation.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 6, 2020 11:19:59 GMT -5
Major League Baseball, when times are normal, is a 10+ billion dollar industry. This lawsuit will not bankrupt them. I understand that Chris and am not always lockstep pro business, like in this case. These kids deserve to get paid fairly and I wonder if owners having to make millions in restitution could be used as an excuse to slow down on other salaries. We've seen it happen before. yes, they were caught eventually, but when a group of people get together and large amounts of money is at stake I believe anything is possible. |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 6, 2020 0:17:55 GMT -5
Could be even worse with the class action suit brought forward by those 29 being decided in favor of the former players. From what I've read.. Every former kid, the past decade is now eligible to join and that's some 10k. Think owners will attempt to suppress MLB salaries some to pay for what will probably be millions eventually paid out there?
What's more frightening is what now happens with the MiLB system in general? Will more teams be cut? Will players be forced into some kind of independent contractor status to avoid it? Indy teams I see as non viable, they won't be able to pay min. wage.
Think it's a good idea and kids deserve the money, but redirected from tens of millions other players get and media revenue, welfare streams poor mouthing teams are handed for nothing. It could work if done correctly.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Oct 2, 2020 17:32:56 GMT -5
Didn't think would see the Reserve Clause mentioned again in baseball. it's pretty much just a threat, but wow, what a whopper of one.
One of the major sports has to take the lead and clean up their act. While realize it's just the financial aspect more than likely being talked about here by manfred, it should go much further towards the negativity and divisiveness which has become it seems topic #1 for some athletes and cost the league(s) money and viewers on media.
How prepared are today's players for a major confrontation vs players of 20..30y ago with professional businessmen in a labor dispute? Please remember team representatives now are mostly a popularity contest, not who would be best qualified and why waste "bullets" over having salad chefs if the locker room the last CBA rather than ANYTHING else meaningful negotiated instead?
I would offer a suggestion it's like too many pampered kids around us now, but have used it too often already towards modern athletes.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Sept 28, 2020 21:21:29 GMT -5
Old friend Joe Kelly from a podcast he did earlier this year: "So what happened is you get people to snitch and become a rat, and the people who could afford to lose money get immunity," Kelly added. "The people who could afford to get their names tainted get immunity. I am very passionate about this because I played for a manager whose name is Alex Cora and this guy lost his job. … All this goes down, everything goes down on Alex Cora. Which if people knew the real story, (they) would actually hate the players even more. This guy had to go back to Puerto Rico where he’s from. His daughter is taken out of junior high from American schools because she’s getting verbally abused saying ‘Hey your dad’s a cheater’ etc. …you get to blast people, you can make stuff up, you don’t have to make stuff up, you tell the truth and then the people that take the fall are the people that don’t deserve to take the fall." Dunno how missed this Kelly article, unless was behind some paywall wasn't subscribing to and was Athletic until about 1 month ago. Kelly comes out with more intelligent statements than most other ball players and this 1, as most where he's not joking around is true in real life and most likely in the sheltered sports world also. Don't hardly ever see key personnel, or flunkies of a company take the fall when something goes wrong, but the manager, or the assistants, even if they were forced to hire unqualified personnel to begin with. Time tested the manager/assistant should take the fall, not the untrainable moron making the mistakes. In baseball, it's the no MLBPA union protected, low salaried and easily replaced manager/coach that's the fall guy and MLB can frame the narrative that way, not the more useful player, protected by some union and making millions they might not be able to get out of if rightfully "fired" for doing the actual cheating. People fall for this is what gets me. The narrative that's not hard to see thru. Hasn't anyone been in ownership/manager position before and witnessed how corporations operate? |
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Post by johnsilver52 on Sept 28, 2020 9:06:26 GMT -5
Varitek has been mentioned as a possible future Sox manager for how long? 15y? Longer? Family, fact he's one of the newer ballplayers that made a considerable amount of money and really doesn't need all the drama which goes with putting up with either coaching FT, or managing a club is why IMO he's a non factor before, now and probably in the future for a full time hire.
Just don't see many guys who made 50.. 100m dollars playing having to put up with the daily grind of working for 1-2m a year as a manager, or 500k as a coach.
Showing up for a month and a half in the spring, then maybe a few days each month to work with players is probably about all can expect to get out of the martinez/Tek types.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Sept 28, 2020 4:35:39 GMT -5
Have gotten hammered for my choice of words by some here, so maybe shouldn't post this in case isn't understood by all, or doesn't come out right.
Was a time when NYY were considered cheaters just for buying all those WS championships, division crowns.. everything and it started with the advent of FA when they were about the only team that spent unlimited amounts on team salary. That all lasted until pretty much George Steinbrenner stepped down. Let's not forget half a dozen players on steroids in the early part of the century.
I don't see any problem at all with former Sox infielder Cora.. Always a good guy when he was with them coming back as a player coming back as the manager after serving the suspension. No players got hit at all the last 3y for these violations, which is absurd, only people who could not fight back.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Sept 27, 2020 6:58:20 GMT -5
There is almost no chance of Houck being in the pen next year. He's going to be a starter. I'm pretty sure that Sale won't be on the opening day roster. The easy move for this team is to give Eovaldis spot to Houck and move Eovaldi to the Closer role. Eovaldis stuff has been too good this year for him to be moved to the pen. Agree. Moving him to the pen "might" save bullets for his arm, but he just looked to good, to often as a starter wasting away an inning at a time. Also don't see anyway, anyhow Houck isn't starting for the parent club come April.. Unless his ST showing is awful. |
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