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No, YOU can’t. Other people with eyes and a brain can.
Is there an Option C for the poll?
Wasn’t a smart decision because it no way that team will find a replacement player now,just send to minor league work his swing and bring it back,he can hit ,
Nothing will kill either sport because the public needs them to gamble.
SLC? Wow
Yes, let's think for a second:
Atlanta will
NYM will
Philly will
Washington will
Miami might
Cincy will
Milwaukee will
ChiC might
St Louis will
Pittsburgh who cares
Colorado will
SF will
SD will
Arizona might
LAD will
Zero that won't. It could be a benefit. However, I think the guy you called a moron was being sarcastic. Just a wild guess from Wild Bill.
Not sure either of these teams could beat, Chico's Bail Bonds.
I agree, play ball but drop the NBA crap, nobody watches it anymore.
Why not Portland monkey? You want another team on the East coast?
No you can't
Fair and balanced, no? Lol
More insane that they still wouldn't protect him given three more spots...and would protect Cessa instead.
Maybe he thought this about the stay at home protests and not what is happening now. Not everyone is against the cause.
The notion that the Yankees would protect Luis Cessa over Mike Tauchman renders this entire exercise moot. That is pure, indefensible, unfathomable insanity.
I can’t in good conscious think that the lumberjacks roster is better only because you picked shawaryn....have you seen that guy pitch? Holy hell...what a pile of garbage.
Meaning, you're infected with the virus but but it's either not widely spread or the impact on the individual is low.
For example, one can have a blood infection that is treatable or septicemia which can be fatal.
You can definitley tell the visual difference between a bad framer and good framer.
Not when you're from Jersey.
What's a low infection?
Chris Carpenter and Jaime Garcia are NOT success stories. Garcia fell into mediocrity after the surgery, while it essentially ended Carpenter's career.
It probably means low infection.
Yeah, decent, but nobody ever seems to fully recover their previous ability after this surgery, and many don't even return to be decent. It basically ended Chris Carpenter's career.
They went talent first for exercise
Free agency+ trades avail later. This is how a real expansion draft would pretty much go as well- You might not make your 1 st two picks stand-alone Ss but your really not factoring in positions that much when making the picks-
They favored upside and control years as well with the picks
2b as well lately
Starlin Castro just signed a 2/12
Mr. Byrne and Mr. Dierks, you should set your lineups and pitching staffs too. Give the folks a better idea of the teams you selected.
This was interesting. I liked it.
Yea, my first thought was "Are either better than the 2020" Orioles?
I dont think so, but remember they get a free agency and trading opps and start with a 0 budget and not much money to pay out on those two lists above so far-
Methinks Portland gets a ton at the next trading deadline for Deigo Castillo.....monster arm....
Just watch Willson Contreras catch, I swear is he taken more strikes and turned them into balls then any catcher I have seen.
But his bat makes up for that major flaw at least.
Was very surprised as well, we can assume Tauchman would have gone top 10 if Los wasnt picked (making him inelig for Rd 1 after)
I knew Sp would be coveted dearly early but I had Tauchman as the best Position player going and a Top 5 overall pick as well
Everything about him reminds me of Charlie Blackmon minus a little speed. CB broke out at 28, Tauch was 28 last year
Diamond in the rough FA.
Pitching first, younger with potential. Position players later and fill in with free agents. Look how many First basemen with all the same skills and limitations have ben available these past two Off-seasons. Better than accumulating position players who are probably not any better than a diamind in the rough.
I don't think either of these teams win 50 games....either could rival the 62 Mets
Surprised Duvall wasn't selected
I would say all players have to be here in quarantine for 14 days and then test after
of course, that ignores the hundreds of millions spent to get his kid a governorship (after failing to buy a senate seat).
man, if you are gonna swallow whatever the ricketts tell you as gospel, at least get paid to be that out of touch with reality.
WiffleBall
And then you compound that error. Why post if that's what you think of your own effort?
If you meant the mock draft, the point is entertainment. That the point escapes you is surprising since, at this time, why else would you be here?
Is "traces of the virus" the 2020 equivalent of "a little bit pregnant?"
I am on it.
Catchers today don’t know how to frame a pitch, they just jerk everything back in the strike zone, cause, you know, the umpire can’t see that...
True framers set their mitts are the best extreme edge of the strike zone, and hoped their pitchers could hit it...
Hahaha. It also makes me think of that, and I'm the guy who named the team. My Vipers would never allow their boxes of wine to get stolen, though.
Yea I have no problem with that but Z might since he kinda just did the same thing in the other direction -
Spotrac doesnt show Miggy having a NTC.... I dont think Det should do it but who knows how owners would react after losing all Rev this year. It would take quite a prospect to take the 3/94 left though.
Lotta guys would qualify here, as a Dodger fan Im really down to attach Pollock with someone!!
The Vegas Vipres with a pair of interlocking V's as the logo.
Not much else to write about. Good on them to create content at this time. Or would you rather they go on Unemployment too?
Did anyone else laugh at the name Vipers? It makes me think of the episode in the last season of the Sopranos..."oh, we're with the vipahs..."
Now, load those 2 teams into OOTP and sim a 7 game series!
Still don't get Drew Pomeranz being a lock for SD.
More likely they just trade for Longoria with prospects coming with him.
Wow....I counted 15 that I'd ever heard of...not counting the two from my hometown Royals.
This was such a pointless exercise.
Your definitely onto something, at a time where money will be soo scarce, coming into a league with a balance sheet of 0 has a lot of leverage if used correctly-
I indeed would buy a couple prospects attached to bad contracts. Hell, even the publicity I get from the "Big Bad contract player" is a free net gain in most cases.
Angels might give their left leg to get outta JUp right now....I have no use for the leg but send Marsh on over too and we got a stew going
You’re a moron, not EVERY team will benefit immensely from this. Some teams do not have bench/DH options considering they weren’t ready for a DH, and some teams even if have a decent bench option is just that.. decent. So yes.. the reds will benefit immensely from this.. other teams will benefit immensely from this.. but not EVERY team will benefit immensely from this just because it took away the pitcher. Think before you comment.
Why did the Cubs trade for Miguel Montero and sign David Ross before the 2015 season? There’s more to catching than just framing but Montero and Ross were light years ahead of Wellington Castillo when it came to framing. It is the most important measurable component of catching.
As a lifelong Pirates fan, I was dumbfounded when the trade was made. Whether you liked Huntington or not, this trade was so out of the ordinary for him. It was not the type of trade he normally made, but so many Pirate fans were whining about how the Pirates were a contender that Year (they weren’t but many fans had their fantasies) and Huntington gave in and made a terrible trade.
Joc Pederson and Jake Arrieta as faces of a franchise...riiiiight
honestly with how guys were protected i could have seen Brown be exposed
i could see an expansion team agreeing to a deal to take a Longo type with the guarantee that they get traded a prospect as well to take that player. Longo is a good candidate here because he is recognizable and isnt a hugely bad contract
There's no way the Pirates would have left Moran unprotected over Polanco and Archer. Even before the injury, those contracts were dumb. Neither will be here if we get successful again, and Moran is cheap with a lot of control, and our primary third basemen, who can move to second or be traded when Hayes comes up, but to leave him unprotected would be crazy.
Before Covid half of America couldn’t change the smoke detector battery and now everybody’s a doctor
Greed will kill major league baseball and politics will kill the national football league
shocked anyone would take an OF from Toronto when most of their OFs suck and they have some solid young pitchers exposed.
But that’s wrong because people’s parents are dying of cancer and people are getting in car accidents and the coroner is stamping all the death certificates as Covid
Tauchman is also not that young, hasnt shown much outside of last year, and hard to tell if he is the same player outside of New York.
Anybody who relies on a networks opinion is a fool.
honestly as the 30th pick i dont think Alexander is all that bad.
Mike Tauchman was worth almost 8 bWAR per 600 PAs in 2019 and has four years of control left. Absolutely insane to take Loisaiga over him, especially given Loisaiga's injury history
1. No, you really wouldn't, and 2. I'm strictly looking at the $600K game loss as a yes/no type thing in generalities. Each team will be slightly different. I guess what I'm saying is how "open" do the books need to be to tell if what the owners are saying is remotely true or not.
Despite some brief stretches of success, the Pirates have been a poorly owned, poorly run operation since about 1910. That’s not an exaggeration. If you’re counting championships, they’ve been better than the Cubs. Overall, they’ve been nearly as miserable.
Joined less than a year ago, so I've never had to change yet! I'm turning 14 soon, though, and 14yearoldbaseballfanatic just doesn't have the same ring to it. I'll probably end up changing my profile name.
Do you change your profile name every time you age? Or do you just create a new account?
Took me a bit to figure it out, then I laughed
@GeoKaplan- generally I agree about loan terms for a MLB franchise.
HOWEVER, I also think you've got a somewhat rosy picture of humanity in that scenario. Some small business owners did what you say, however, those were poor long term business or personal finance moves likely to lead to the business folding by placing unnecessary debt load.
In some cases the businesses did that to try and keep those employees locked up due to unique skills. Others did it as a pr move. Others still probably haven't thought through the longterm ramifications. I'd expect some even planned on rolling those costs into one of those forgivable SBA loans that turned into a debacle.
After the Mets payroll debacle needing to borrow from MLB, and the Dodgers running up debtload, MLB placed rules on how much debt a team can carry and how they do it.
We don't know all of what teams carry for existing debt loads. I DO know that mlb franchises have a limited window of revenue stream (not unlike retail businesses) that run/fight a loss most of the year.
Typically, such a business has some cash reserve from the previous cycle, then borrows to pay its employees and expenses until the next revenue infusion hits. Some of that infusion repays what was borrowed, the rest retained. In a for profit setting what's left is paid out as dividend and used as capital improvement.
Mlb/teams were at the end of the lean times when the virus hit. They were also faced with an unknown extended window of no revenue that doubled as cutting away the profit window/amount. THAT means less money retained into the next off cycle with likelihood of needing to borrow in next offseason due to lack of retained revenue.
Forget the yankees dodgers and redsox. Think marlins, rays, royals. I'm sure mlb wanted teams to take a unified approach to ensure viability for the league. How much can you 'borrow' against the rays business model? Or add to the marlins debt?
It's easy to say 'take a loan'... it's harder to actually use up that capacity, let alone have the fractured ownership interests agree to do it - and I mean even within some teams, not just 30 ownership groups in general.
Compared to what, other pro athletes? And the point is the mean salary is three times higher than the more realistic number. The reason they get what they get is they are the best at playing the game, and that's who we are prepared to pay to watch play. And keep in mind only a small percentage of pro players even get to the majors. Most of them toil away in the minors for poverty wages and many of those who are promoted get cups of coffee in the majors and are done.
When you can afford to purchase a MLB franchise then you’ll be able to see some of the leagues financial statements, until then keep trolling.
Pitch framing is as real as a stripper's chest.
I believe he is rather poorly rated as a pitch framer and robo umps should negate that as a skill
What's so laugh out loud funny? Did you just see yourself naked for the first time, Cito?
No, Jay should've been drafted second, and Greg Bird first.
NBA coming back. NHL coming back. NFL coming back. MLB still negotiating. Baseball is over.
I realize, but again the owners argument that they are losing money on every game played (but making it up in volume, as the old joke goes) has to be taken entirely on faith. If playing games was such a dead loss situation they'd have pulled the plug on the entire rest of the season already. Reading into the players argument a bit it seems clear that they suspect the owners are hiding quite a bit of revenue. They don't want to go into the next CBA negotiation flying blind and get the fuzzy end, like they did last time. This is what the maneuvering on this season is all really about. As for whether the sides are getting closer together or further apart, I don't think we can really claim to know based on the select details leaked to the media. That feels mostly like spin. My concern continues to be how this sets the stage for next year. More bad faith (arguably on both sides) has to portend more labor-management strife. Anyone who's been a fan for any time should know what that means for the game.
Yes, shows an understanding. However, no one will get to that detail. There's not enough time to obtain all of it, and also to digest it.
When I purchased my own business 21 years ago the most reliable piece of data was the tax returns (which I'm certain would not be available). I was then able to run my own cash flow analyses to come up with a cash flow picture. I also looked at the balance sheet -- also from corporate returns -- to be able to see the overall financial strength based upon history. Getting vendor terms, etc. would have been damn near impossible. Also had to look at executive salaries of the persons I would be replacing. Didn't need to examine everyone's wage as I did have total payroll number available.
This was the practical extent of the detail, with the point being you can make reasonable decisions without having all minutia available.
Arozarena and Cabrera were also easy picks.
How did Jon Jay NOT get drafted #1? He's a 5 tool player with leadership, DJ, and suck up skills like no other.
It's the GMs who could learn something from time to time
;-)
i didnt think much of Young prior to 2019, but he showed pretty well last year. he would have been one of my top 10 SPs.
Do you ever wonder if baseball players ever read our comments?
After 62 years of watching baseball, I'm about done. Quibbling about money is the last thing this country needs. Millions of people have lost jobs & businesses, & they don't want to hear this. They want to see America's favorite pastime. Keep the susceptible players/coaches on the side line for now. I'm 67 & a prime target for the virus & on a limited income. I'll stay at home, but this country needs to get back on track.. Screw the money.
considering the season is only seven months even $1.5M is a lot.
and most not even good...
Not reaching one bit, and its actually you who seem to be doing so to see something very normal as if it is abnormal.
No, it wasn't *only* park effect - he also changed the way he pitched to best benifit from that park effect. I said that too. Dont believe me though, just look up his name. Easy to find everyone saying the same thing...
"What made Schmidt so good in San Francisco? Undoubtedly, the ballpark had something to do with it. Schmidt was a fly ball pitcher (career 38.2% GB%), and the brand new, spacious Oracle Park (it wasn’t called that then) had just opened in 2000. The cavernous outfield let Schmidt pitch to his strengths. But it wasn’t just that. The Pirates wanted Schmidt to use his breaking pitches and sinker, trying to hit the corners and induce contact. The Giants, on the other hand, saw Schmidt’s great fastball, which sat in the high-90s, and told him to do what he was best at: throw gas."
Schmidt had 6 seasons in Pit, with 2000 being an outlier because he was hurt. The other 5 look like this
4.31 FIP, 4.06 ERA - 1996
4.13 FIP, 4.60 ERA - 1997 (bad lob luck)
4.17 FIP, 4.07 ERA - 1998
4.45 FIP, 4.19 ERA - 1999
4.17 FIP, 4.61 ERA - 2001 (bad luck on hr rate)
The consistent numbers? 4.05-4.20. That is what Schmidt was, a 4.05-4.20 pitcher while with Pitts. If he had one more season, 4.05-4.20 is what should have been expected as it is what he did most all of the time.
And what was he with the Giants? A 3.99 XxFIP pitcher on the road
That is just a 0.05-0.20 difference in his game.
If a pitcher drops 5-20 points over two period of times, that isnt note worthy, it's normal.
So why were his numbers better ERA wise? Well, he adjusted his game to benifit from SF more, and it meant he was k''ing more so he didn't allow as many baserunners to come in on his HRSs allowed. Also allowing more popups rather than long flies, which decreased the hr rate. Extremely normal stuff here.
And then we get to AT&T park - the most extreme and notorious power surprising park there is. Yes, Bonds obviously did it regularly. Everyone else tho, not even close. Your attempts to point to individual years park factors don't consider what goes into that park factor - the lack of HR power, but an increase in linedrive/grounder hits in the case of SF. The teams Schmidt played on where filled with those types of hitters as the team tried to take advantage of the field. That is why the park factors got any bump. That says nothing about how easy (or in this case hard) it was to hit a HR though ...and since Schmidt was an extreme FB pitcher, he doesn't have to worry about the LD/GB rates much. it was his team inflating the number to begin with, but he doesnt throw to those tyoes of hitters anyway. He's K'ing or popping up so many hitters; any GB/LD hits were going to be stranded in an ab or two, not score. His ERA is of course going to be lower than his FIP/xFIP because his game was perfectly suited for the park he was in ...but he was still a 3.99 pitcher, and would have been doing that in an average park
Its all unbelievably simple and easy to understand if you spend even a second thinking about it. In fact its one of the most logical big change in stats you'll find. Schmidt is 100% a product of AT&T park.
And as far as your steroid ranting; you apparently didn't read what I said. But look, testing started in 2002, and became much heavier penalties in 2005. If you were using after those times, we most likely know. And no, again, just using does not make you better. Even your own list proves that - Neifi Perez is one of the worst hitters the game has seen, and he was using. Sure did him a lot of good getting to that .267/.297/.375, 64 ops+ line. So sure, go ahead, cherry pick the best players who used and say "see, look" all you want, but the vast majority of users were not good players even while using. And that is because steroids don't make you better, they merely give you the opportunity to become better. In the way they were used most though, it was just to feel better as you went through the grind of a season. "I take these and my legs aren't as sore after a game" - that is why guys like Neifi, or the endless forgettable relief pitchers that make up most of the users, were using.
OK sue me it would take five years in court to settle the claim if then. Billionaires are not stupid they will sue if necessary.
Wasting early picks on relievers lol
Hernandez is head and shoulders above Palumbo
disagree its on the MLBPA and Union if the season is cancelled
You only write off loses when you have income to write it off against, daaaa
Sorry. Just not impressed by Franchy Cordero.
why exactly do robo umps help Collins? is it just it removes advantages other Cs have?
All negotiations can be changed nothing is set in stone. Its called renegotiating a contract happens all the time, same in baseball. The basic terms is amendment to the offer that was agreed to
Let it out man. That’s what these boards are for!
cant disagree with that #1 pick. no reason Lasagna should have been left exposed.
if you're going to be snarky at least learn how to use the site