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This is pretty much where I am, although like @striker42 said I want the rules applied equitably regardless of team or marketing value of the player in question. I wouldn't even use Acuna as the example, although I'm sure striker is right that he'd get the book thrown at him. But I don't care...

It's more than fine by me. It would improve the health of the game, and take away the excuses the cheaper owners use to avoid putting a competitive product on the field. Now if we can just convince MLBPA to go along with it, that it would be in the long term best interest of the greater number...

This is a good point as well. Players are transient for the most part. Fan loyalty generally stays with the team rather than the player. What benefits ownership usually benefits the fan, provided that the team isn't run like the Pirates or Athletics as nothing more than a means for the owners...

Annual salaries would go up if teams had a way to get out from under horrible deals. Reduce the long-term risk of failure and the short term money would be better.

It's probably more to do with the fact that most understand billionaires and corporations will never willingly sacrifice their own profits. If they want to sign a player at a top of market rate, they aren't going to take it out of profit...it's getting added to ticket and merchandise prices, at...

One day I'm going to come down for a Hogs/Dawgs series. If any of you Dawg fans venture to Fayetteville to check out the second greatest venue in college baseball (I'm a homer but realistic) beers are on me.

See also: Soroka, Michael.

With the DH there is even less excuse for playing the core every day in the field. It's not going to kill us to have Ozuna stand in LF 5-6 times per year if necessary to let Acuna, Harris, or Kelenic DH every now and then while still keeping the lineup intact. Same for sticking Riley at 1st or...

I've always kind of liked Law in spite of his blatant misses on many Braves players. Snitching to someone's employer for mean tweets seems like kind of a bïtch move. Hopefully there was more to it than that for Keith to call you.

In a completely unrelated note, I am now the master of solving Captchas.

I’ll take starting catcher Travis d’Arnaud.

Yet they couldn't understand that Dale Murphy's knee problems were the cause of him going from being the second best player in the National League (behind Schmidt) to borderline unplayable.

I'm not bothered by Mauer getting into the Hall. I'm bothered by him getting in while Andruw Jones barely missed. The best defensive CF of all time, who also happened to hit over 400 home runs, should be in the Hall easily.

It's not even the fact that they all hit...add in that pretty much all the guys traded other than Contreras have failed to meet expectations. If a team hits on that many prospects they probably are going to have a Jeff Bagwell or two in there that they gave away for a rental or some other win...

Looking a little more in-depth it seems as if Riley's projected decline is more due to defense than offense, which I guess is understandable. The projection doesn't seem to believe in Riley's defensive improvements from last year. If it was simply averaging his performance it wouldn't make...

Olson and Riley are really the only ones that seem excessively low. Barring injury it's hard to see a drop off of over 2.0 WAR for Olson and 1.2 for Riley. There's a path for everyone in the lineup to exceed the projections for sure, but it's asking a lot for that many of them to do it for a...

Ozzie should slot in about 6th on that list.

Perhaps the new deal removes any incentives from Sale to try to hit certain targets to get the option to vest. So that he doesn't get pissed when we limit him to 15-20 starts in order to have him fresh for October.

The extent of my pitching coach experience involves kids aged 9-10 in league ball, so take it for what it's worth, but it seems to me like a good plan for Sale (and Morton for that matter) would be something like this. Never throw a 100th pitch in a game, and skip a start every 5th or 6th time...

Braves trade for Chris Sale, per Passan. https://x.com/jeffpassan/status/1741174548991553824?s=46&t=VKUX0KEsVDEwvBGk5nonyA