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I just sent an email about this. Not a question but more like sad news. Ken Holzman has passed a away at the age of 78.
Didn’t see ah article on this yet.
Log – It’s Holtzman, and the news just broke about two hours ago.
Please give the MLBTR staff some time, they will come up with a nice tribute. Quality over speed.
RIP Mr. Holtzman, thoughts and prayers to your loved ones.
Thanks for the correction. I didn’t realize I misspelled his name.
Log – You’re welcome and no worries.
Normally I don’t bother pointing something like that out, but with an obituary announcement I feel the deceased is worthy of having his name spelled right.
The whole pitcher injury thing is crazy to me. People who are suggesting pitchers throw softer don’t seem to have a solution based in reality. Teams aren’t going to tell guys to pitcher slower to Bryce Harper in the 9th.
MLB should expand rosters to compensate for the modern game. This isn’t even a new trend, this is the way baseball has been going for over a 100 years. The only reason baseball is fighting this is to stick it to the union and keep costs down. But losing multi million dollar pitchers ends up costing them way more.
Isn’t this a bizarre and silly situation?
Related to last question, do you guys think increasing minor league roster size for non luxury tax payers would be a good way of increasing competitive balance?
The smaller markets need to find more ways to produce homegrown talent and the organizational roster shrinking and loss of minor league teams the last 5 years has made that more difficult.
What are the Red Sox options at SS for the rest of the season? Mayer needs a full season in AA/AAA, the current 4A contingent isn’t gonna cut it. Any trade options that make sense?