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Yeah, we will find out how good he truly is.
I like him, but we'll see if he truly is a "superstar".
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I like him, but we'll see if he truly is a "superstar".
Can someone help me understand how you send your best player and $50 million for the pleasure of doing it? Then basically getting nothing back? How is this good for the Rockies in any way?
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They'd have had to get a better haul of prospects for this to really make sense. Maybe it's step one in reducing payroll then selling the team or something. It's a weird as fuck trade.
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Most if not all small market teams are going to be adopting the Rays model for their roster for the next few seasons. The combination of TV money going down and a full year of 0 crowds at the ballgames are the main factors driving the matter.
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Even big market teams do this to some extent now. They reset luxury tax when they can and try and homegrow a core and not have the 6 free agents and 3 rentals thing every season. Obviously it's still a huge advantage to be able to resign your guys and fill holes threw free agency and rental pick ups.
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Yeah, it's usually a reset season before going wild. Yankees reset, then got Cole, Dodgers reset and we know what they did. That's just the tax thing though, the actually building a home grown core takes awhile.
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Twins Sign Andrelton Simmons
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Pedroia retires after 14 seasons with Red Sox
Pedroia retires after 14 seasons with Red Sox
Dustin Pedroia announced his retirement following a 14-year big-league career spent entirely with the Boston Red Sox.Pedroia, 37, last appeared in a game in 2019 and played just nine times between the 2018 and '19 campaigns due to a left knee injury originally suffered in 2017."Dustin is so much...
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Pedroia was the main reason I won my fantasy baseball league in his MVP season. 2008... holy shit that was a long time ago. I always liked the guy.Pedroia retires after 14 seasons with Red Sox
Pedroia retires after 14 seasons with Red Sox
Dustin Pedroia announced his retirement following a 14-year big-league career spent entirely with the Boston Red Sox.Pedroia, 37, last appeared in a game in 2019 and played just nine times between the 2018 and '19 campaigns due to a left knee injury originally suffered in 2017."Dustin is so much...
Supposedly the Card kept all of their best prospects. The Rockies got fleeced here.
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Yeah, it was all mid level prospects, nothing special. Trade is crazy.Supposedly the Card kept all of their best prospects. The Rockies got fleeced here.
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That Rockies trade is just straight puzzling. Just a really bad assortment of prospects. To make it worse, I don't think this is even a group of prospects that are just "under age/really young but they have tons of upside". That Pirates package they got for Taillon at least had really young, big ceiling guys. Even if their current prospect ranking wasn't "stellar".Supposedly the Card kept all of their best prospects. The Rockies got fleeced here.
Cardinals Acquire Nolan Arenado
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I know the Rangers love Trevor Story, I would not be surprised at all to see them go try to grab him next offseason. Especially if the Rockies are getting Goodwill prices for their stars...
Kolten Wong to the Brewers for 2 yrs, btw.
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Probably not. They're already talking about delaying the start of the season.
Reds are a fucking lame duck franchise. What they did with their SS situation was just fucking pathetic. Ownership is not committed to winning. Sure they spent a lot of money last season, but the spending didn't make much sense. Yet another season where I'm looking forward to the A's more. Who will also disappoint.
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Just read an interesting article.
ok baseball nerds.
what position in the majors has only had a couple of lefties in the past century? and why?
ok baseball nerds.
what position in the majors has only had a couple of lefties in the past century? and why?
catcher- however someone did the research for batters being thrown out at 2nd, etc, and the numbers for batters -left or right- were exactly the same percentages, so technically, there is no reason WHY a lefty can be a catcher...just that noone is-even in the minors, only in hs or lower are their a few lefty catchers.
most lefties with strong arms..get converted to pitcher.
most lefties with strong arms..get converted to pitcher.
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It's because throwing to 3rd is harder even if throwing to 2nd is roughly the same. You also don't really have left handed throwing infielders besides at 1st because of the awkwardness of throwing to 1st. Also tag plays at home would be more awkward.
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