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iceman35pilot
Baker’s an excellent tactician, until it actually comes to winning games, as the Cubs series proved……again. Complains about the Cubs playing “scared baseball” and completely ignores the fact that Zimmerman left 14 men on base behind Harper in one game, while Murphy continued to hit in the 2 hole.
And why won’t he change? Because that’s “not what fans come to see.”
Jeff Todd
Baker didn’t say that, Roark did. And reacting to the number of men left on in a single game would be ill-advised for any manager.
Ray Ray
“the Jays would’ve had priority over Philadelphia due to the Phillies’ surprisingly strong start. ”
Actually the Jays would have had priority over the Phillies even if the Phillies had the worst record in the league. Waiver priorities are split by league. An AL player gets waived and all AL teams from worst to first have priority over all NL teams and vice versa.
NotCanon
Er, yes, that’s why it says “The Jays would’ve had priority over Philadelphia due to the Phillies’ surprisingly strong start” (emphasis mine).
Also, the preceding portion of the sentence: “However, the Jays had an earlier crack at Paredes due to the league-specific nature of outright waivers at this juncture of the season.”
Jeff Todd
Nothing about the paragraph suggests otherwise. Immediately before the portion you quote, it says: “even if the order were based on record.”
soxfan1
The post mentions the league specific nature of waivers.