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He has a habit of pretty much dumpster diving, or searching the waiver wire for relievers and hitting on them on a decent amount. Will Bloom continue that? Brach may have been one, but he went today for cheap. Cishek maybe won't cost a fortune with his age. Strop shouldn't be that high and I'm loving the idea of getting Taijuan Walker, even if he costs as much(around 5m) as he made last year.

I fail to understand the baseball reasoning of trying to pay someone else to take both David Price and Chris Sale. Neither of those guys are what are termed as salary dump players, such as Choo, Chris Davis, Pujols etc.. Price, whose name gets thrown out the most is still a mid rotation starter, more than capable of giving 150+ innings of solid innings and while not worth 30m, it would cost several million to replace his spot in the rotation for a team that has no replacements.

The only expensive member of the rotation possible that could be looked at to move would/should be Eovaldi and he's not as bad of a dump type players as those mentioned above.

Still have Poyner also, however much good he will be with the 3 batter minimum rule coming.

Went over many of the waived last evening and lefty Caleb Frare caught my eye. mid 90's FB and slider. 2 options left, 26YO and was decent his MiLB career until handful of innings in the bigs 2019. Can't hurt to take a look in ST.

He'd be of more use than Sam Travis. Found a Brewers link from last S/T tho that showed he was out of options back then tho.

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Still, MLB Ref showed he only made tad less than 650k last year if roster could manage another RH hitting 1b/DH type entire season and hope for a 2018 type season out of him.

That mistake was on me for not fixing after noticing my mistake. Should have been 10/2m instead. believe is longest pitching contract ever given not counting for deferred money and one of the earliest FA contracts for pitchers period. remember Messersmith, Fingers, Hunter of course earlier and that winter garland signed was the 1st kind of big season, so FA contracts were something new. Bill Campbell signed with Boston that winter and threw nearly 140IP in RELIEF and was never the same again, thanks to the worst sox manager in my time as a fan.. Don Zimmer.

If it gets rid of that private medical team of boras.. it's worth it. how many remember when Ells disappeared without a word on his whereabouts that 1 season.. was it the year he ran into Beltre? Getting his "care" from the Boras team instead of Sox dr's and not returning calls/messages?

That fault would lie with team representatives and not with Tony Clark who seems to continually get hammered for the last CBA. Having intelligent, fairly well educated reps at the table who have some idea about the situation as a whole instead of looking out for #1 SHOULD have been top priority for every team in electing their respective representative.

It has to be understood that the negotiations are just that and everything the reps asked for, the ownership would ask for something in return and THOSE are business people who understand money. Electing non, or low educated reps due to popularity on a team is NOT how to help the game from a player's point of view. Will the MLBPA learn from this and not play the blame game is the question.

Selig was a spineless tool of the owners, just like every commish since Bowie Kuhn. Kuhn was the last one who had the guts to stand up for the good of the game and right vs wrong, like most of his predecessors did. Since him? Getting the job has been nothing more than how to vote for enriching the owners and voting for their way only and since Manfred? Siding with small market owners only, narrowly defining his role even more.

I'd love to see a real, independent businessman put into the role.

If he can't put it off can look back to fellow USN alum (and heisman winner) Roger Staubach whom served 4y of naval duty that included 1y of shore duty in Vietnam before going on towards his NFL HOF career.

Song will be what after 2y away? All of 24? It wouldn't be an end of world scenario towards his future as a ballplayer.

Strikes me as odd where Song gets disected over command for locating spots during the tournament, probably because 1st time he's been on broadcast for the most part except for think was 1 game believe saw him on via MiLB broadcasts, yet Dalbec and the holes/ long swing he has had since was drafted STILL gets a pass as to how he will fare at the MLB level, much less AAA where he'll be at in 2020 against better pitching.

This biased vs certain prospects has gone on for years and been noticed. So has not getting off the band wagon of them until the complete breakdown. Yes.. I can go too far sometimes and be obnoxious to some, but also call things out have seen over the years.

Agreed on Kelley, along with most every other roster choice. Same with why Reyes was ever put on the 40 man and why he remains there.

Travis, IMO without any options should be removed now. His spot can be easily replaced if needed by an Indy pickup, AAAA floater at anytime for an emergency backup. It's not like anyone expects him to produce now. Should Holt sign, that would go miles to help Chavis out at 1b if Moreland, or another utility type does not come onboard.

Poyner and Johnson are another pair who should be looked at as DFA candidates, especially the out of options Johnson.