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  4. Perkins

    A certain World Series MVP was more popular than expected.

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  7. berselius

    Miles Mikolas:

    β€œWe’re not exactly a low payroll team, but you got the Dodgers playing checkbook baseball. We’re going to be the hardest working group of Midwestern farmers we can be . . . it would be great to stick it to the Dodgers.”

    Put your money where your mouth is and give some of your contract back to the cardinals, Captain Red-Ass (dying laughing).

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  15. berselius

    Man, I thought Jordan Montgomery was a long time Cardinals guy, I forgot that he came up with the Yankees. Only pitched 2 partials seasons with those midwestern farmers

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  21. BVS

    Rice Cube,

    berselius,

    Yeah, but what’s the rub? That Boras’s clients didn’t get $300M each? Ohtani got paid. Yamamoto got paid. Nola, the Japanese CF who signed with SF, Sonny Gray, Eduardo Rodriguez, etc all got more than expected.

    If the Boras 5’s contracts are the rub, it just reinforces the idea that he runs the union.

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  22. BVS

    By the way, I got 170/256 on the blackout sporcle on my first try. Not too bad for me. Got almost none of the NL MIL column those, because they never have good players that are memorable. Ha.

    And I picked Purdue to revenge last year’s major upset and win it all. Adam, you’re welcome.

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    Rice Cube

    BVS,

    berselius,

    Who are we getting rid of? Tony Clark? Boras (who I assume is not actually part of the union)? The union pretty much got screwed the moment to switched from the Type A/B to the QO system methinks, getting rid of draft picks and having teams hoard prospects probably didn’t help them any since those are now disproportionately valuable since you’d rather take a shot on a cheap kid than blow $200MM+ on an aging veteran. The whole system is stupid.

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  24. berselius

    Rice Cube,

    I think Tony Clark is a clown. Knowing that this formerly unknown guy was the one who did the actual negotiating work gives me even less respect for Clark.

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  26. berselius

    berselius,

    QOs bother me about the same as the franchise tag in the NFL. It’s bad for the guys it affects and has some knock-on implicit effect on other deals but at the end of the day it’s a small percentage of players. The fact that the union has gone to bat for their younger and formerly non-members is huge imo.

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    Rice Cube

    berselius,

    Yeah I think they’ve recognized that the Ivy League FOs are hoarding young talent due to the new stuff with aging curves etc and are trying to pay them accordingly so they’re not completely exploited, at least.

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  28. BVS

    berselius,

    Except that Tony Clark did the bulk of the negotiating during the previous contract talks and got spanked backward and forward. Bringing in Meyer, who put some teeth into the NHL players contracts seemed like a good idea both because it gave MLBPA someone more competent than a mediocre first baseman at the table, and because it showed that Clark, or his advisors, recognized his limitations.

    The current contract was a win for players overall. This off-season is a huge contrast to last year, but the TV rights and the Boras strategy seems to have played an outsized roll. I think this is an over-reaction on the part of the players unless they have specific inside info. If it happened again next year, then I’d be more concerned.

    Now that the minors are unionized and repped by MLBPA, if the union ever wants to get serious about holding owners to account/opening the books, they should reincarnate the Players or Federal League and take the players in the majors and minors to a new organization. The lack of anti-trust law would help the owners, but if the players unions were sufficiently united, it would work. Boras could finance a lot of it. (Ha).

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  30. andcounting

    BVS:
    Rice Cube,

    berselius,

    Yeah, but what’s the rub? That Boras’s clients didn’t get $300M each? Ohtani got paid. Yamamoto got paid. Nola, the Japanese CF who signed with SF, Sonny Gray, Eduardo Rodriguez, etc all got more than expected.

    If the Boras 5’s contracts are the rub, it just reinforces the idea that he runs the union.

    Ohtani WILL get paid eventually. If I’m part of that union, that contract is my biggest beef. The guy who was supposed to set the FA market essentially cut the head off it.

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    Rice Cube

    Relevant:

    Some player leaders inside the union are aggressively pushing for Marino, who briefly worked at MLBPA, to replace Bruce Meyer, the union’s deputy director. If Marino and his supporters are successful, it looks increasingly likely that Meyer’s exit would also mean executive director Tony Clark would be out as well. Clark convened a video call that lasted nearly three hours on Monday night where player leaders fought over Meyer’s future and Marino’s viability.

    They have a couple years to figure out their leadership situation before they have to negotiate the next CBA but it does sound like Marino and Clark aren’t going to get along.

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  33. berselius

    BVS:
    berselius,

    Except that Tony Clark did the bulk of the negotiating during the previous contract talks and got spanked backward and forward. Bringing in Meyer, who put some teeth into the NHL players contracts seemed like a good idea both because it gave MLBPA someone more competent than a mediocre first baseman at the table, and because it showed that Clark, or his advisors, recognized his limitations.

    The current contract was a win for players overall. This off-season is a huge contrast to last year, but the TV rights and the Boras strategy seems to have played an outsized roll. I think this is an over-reaction on the part of the players unless they have specific inside info. If it happened again next year, then I’d be more concerned.

    Now that the minors are unionized and repped by MLBPA, if the union ever wants to get serious about holding owners to account/opening the books, they should reincarnate the Players or Federal League andtake the players in the majors and minors to a new organization. The lack of anti-trust law would help the owners, but if the players unions were sufficiently united, it would work. Boras could finance a lot of it. (Ha).

    How dare you offer cogent points to rebut my unresearched and vibes-based analysis (dying laughing)

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    Rice Cube

    Reds be breaking

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  49. BVS

    berselius: How dare you offer cogent points to rebut my unresearched and vibes-based analysis (dying laughing)

    I guess the Prevagen that I’ve never taken worked for a change. πŸ™‚

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  50. BVS

    Perkins: Probably gives Cooper a better chance of making the roster.

    As much as I enjoy a Wisdom homer, I unenjoy his K’s even more. So if he’s on the DL and we get to see more Dom Smith and Garrett Cooper to see if they better, it’s a net win to me.

    Or just keep Alcantara up instead.

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  51. berselius

    BVS,

    I’ve given up on predicting that Wisdom will get DFA’d, I’ve thought it was imminent for over two years and he keeps surviving. So maybe that I’ve given up means it will finally happen (dying laughing).

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  58. Perkins

    Cleveland 20 game winner was tough on rarity but at least I did well on the White Sox.

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