Sergio Mitre Gets 50 Game Suspension

post them off to the side. i like to know, but hate the headlines of the PEDs! Thanks Tim!!

Make the posts. Like you said, PED suspensions have roster implications; they're important.

Tim,

While the reports of PEDs are a valid thing open for discussion, I think PED reports are not within the spirit of your blog. You tend to stick within information that is directly related to the transactions of baseball and it's somewhat related news tidbits. To go outside of that and be a straight "news" blog would open yourself up to a whole new world of information and conjecture. I think you should stick with what you do best and leave the PED stories alone unless they directly impact the roster and makeup of a team. Sergio Mitre has almost no relevance for the Yankees in 2009. The Romero story however is a tad more relevant. It's a tough call. I would leave the PED stuff alone.

I'd say keep it to a small mention, with maybe a "sin bin" off to the side, like you do with the rumors by team.

It's worth noting rather than ignoring.

Great work!

Run suspension news like this that could have an impact on rosters. Do not run every last legal tangle of the case that no one wants to read. Maybe just a "one mention per player" rule.

I think a lot of times it is good to make a small post about these things. Especially in this kind of case, a guy like Sergio Mitre being suspended, I might not have heard about that for a while, it isn't exactly ESPN breaking news/lead story material. Plus, like you said, it sometimes has implications on other roster moves.

I found it interesting that he can serve a suspension while he is rehabbing. Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose, since he wouldn't be playing during that time period anyway? On another note, MLB needs to get its shyt together with this whole situation. It is becoming messy with the whole is it legal/ is it banned thing.

I think it really is up to you, to determine which cases require a brief post, and whether you want to post about PED's at all. I'm sure there are some people who want to hear about these things, since there are now a lot of people that get their baseball info exclusively from MLBTR. The one's who don't care can skip over those posts.

Really, ESPN is going to beat to death the the PED use of a minor league player? I would doubt that ESPN would bother to mention a word of this. Maybe you get a little glimpse of something on their bottom line, or possibly a nice 10 second story at the end of Sportscenter, but I would think ESPN is to full of itself to stoop down to minor league news.

tim, I think it is important to run the stories. As much as I would love to never see them, they do in fact, have a direct implication on a teams roster, possible free agency signings, and potential trades. All of which make up the spirit of which you report about.

PED use has implications on roster construction (more in the case of Romero than Mitre). So I say run just a small post on them.

I would say not to run the stories, it would cause more problems than it's worth.

I say make it a short post with roster implications. The Wall of Shame is cool, but I don't know that your site is really the place for it.

This is totally off subject, but it would be cool to see a GM power rankings based somehow on the transactions they have made.

I too am dismayed by the way MLB allows Mitre to serve his suspension while he is injured. MLB should institute a policy like the NBA where a player's suspension doesn't begin until he has played 1 game after returning from injury.

Hey Tim,
I think that the site should stay "MLB Trade Rumors" and not become "MLB Roid Rumors". I visit this site because of the specialized topic of baseball trade rumors and not for the generalized info on steroids abuse that will be on every major sport networks site anyway.

Tim -
because of the roster building implications, you should mention this kind of thing in passing. A sentence. Two. Or a line in a summary post. It doesn't deserve any more thought than that.

Post them only if you're going to keep them brief.

Any suspension should be reported PERIOD

"The Romero suspension does affect the Phillies' major league bullpen, while Sergio Mitre probably doesn't affect the Yankees. It's purely a judgment call on you, but say Giambi suddenly tests positive or something, that certainly is going to affect the way the A's or anybody else does business."

But see, the way I think of it is, if Jason Giambi tested positive, then you would hear about it on ESPN, and every local sports and local news station nation wide. A guy like Mitre is less likely to make headlines, and therefore should be mentioned here (if Tim decided he will write up brief stories on PED related suspensions).

I'm not sure I understand the responses strongly against reporting PED suspensions. I don't think Tim is intending to discuss PED rumors. His post seems to indicate he will do a short mention of official suspensions. Hopefully those will be relatively few and far between. Don't take the blog name too literally. He already covers subjects that are not "trades." Yesterday a post was done on a manager's contract being extended. I did not get that information from other sites I visit. To me that is the value of this site: getting info quickly and reading the discussion in the comments.

Tim,

My two cents: post what you find relevant. We'll do what we already do: read the ones we are interested in and ignore the others.

Keep up the good work.

Bill

i like the Wall of Shame idea

I would say post them. But only for stories that are verified and not based on speculation. If a guy gets suspended, it will have roster implications, and should be reported. If it's a he said/she said thing, I don't want to hear about it.

Please add a section that lists all verified suspensions or other reasons that a player may not be active (or maybe a listing of players like you have for free agents)

Thanks for all the good work

Post them. People who don't want to know can just scroll past....

I get 90%+ of my baseball info from here anyway.

You should post the roster implications. I don't want to hear about who is suspected or who is complaining about it unless it affects the roster.

I think it's worth a mention when an offical suspension comes down for major leaguers. I don't like the wall of shame idea.

Its important to mention them, especially in these types of cases where Mitre and Romero are getting screwed over by MLB

I say you definitely post them, Tim. It effects the roster and trades and signings so definitely put them in.

If you guys don't wanna see it, just don't click on that post.

If you are going to post team ownership items (Cubs....Tribune....snooze), you should post player/roster impact items also.

These cases have an interesting element to them so are worth reading about. Other than that unless it is a really big name I enjoyed not hearing about it. Also if its a really big name one post at the most unless something really big changes/develops. I enjoyed this being a haven from some of the clemens and bonds obsessions of previous years on other websites. Even if you skipped it all together the other sites would cover it ad nauseam and most of the time its irrelevant to trade rumors anyway.

I say include it as it affects rosters but to list it as a "wall of shame" is ridiculous. Every case is different.

Posted by: philsWSchamps | January 06, 2009 at 08:48 AM

Sorry buddy, Romero was wrong for doing it, you need to get over it.

What about JC Romero? Maybe you should have realized that there was a post regarding Romero, which generated a ton of discussion on the matter. Maybe you should realize this type of stuff before jumping down Tim's throat, and making your self look like a foolish little baby in the process.

Posted by: nrmax88 | January 06, 2009 at 09:51 AM

Is this towards anyone in perticular? Seems like it came out of the blue.

next week headline:
yankee signee admits taking steriods to help his team

since when a finese sinkerball pitcher need roids, he never goingto blown anyone way

Tim my opinion is this: As long as you deem a story credible, lets hear it. Who can get enough baseball?