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They're both bad at catching. I feel like Sisco has a better chance of upside with the bat, though the likelihood is low. Hopefully it's all moot as the 2022 starter is in Bowie right now.

Maybe he doesn’t want to get booed by the opening day crowd.

I bet if we had it to do over we keep at least one of them. 60 game season plus expanded rosters makes it easy. Oh well.

Have to be on the 60 to be traded. Obviously once they got into first place they wanted another trade chip to make a run this year. Edit: not in first anymore I guess, but still in contention of course.

Yeah, how about: if a bunch of your teammates test positive, maybe slow down and figure things out before going full steam ahead.

Ah, apparently they paid $75M for their 10% stake. Not too bad.

And whatever it took to start up MASN.

$173M invested in the S&P 500 in October 1993 with dividends reinvested would be worth about $1.7B at the end of June 2020. A lot less fun though, and despite the article I'm sure he took profits in some years.

I'm not sure if day 1 is considered Thursday or Friday when we started. So today is either day 5 or day 6. I believe he needs 6 days off the roster to avoid accruing a year, so could be any day if that's the only consideration. Things are kinda a mess right now though so who knows.

Because lots of old people already had antibodies for h1n1, and because SARS did not spread very much.

Red Sox get 2021 #1 draft pick, followed by Nats and Blue Jays ? But flags fly forever!

Someone who was service time manipulated could opt out and not really lose anything. Vlad Jr. is probably making about the minimum so would only lose a few hundred grand. In just a few days he should get himself over the 1 year of service time line, whereas if he played the whole year he still would be at less than 2 years.

Does anyone know if it's too late for players to opt out? Wouldn't be surprised if some were changing their mind right now especially if they were on the fence. Of course you might just wait and see what happens since there is greater than zero possibility the season falls apart in the next week.

So if all 900 major leaguers catch it only 3-4 will die. Pretty good odds.

This is why it's not a matter of being "scared." It is simply taking precautions to do your best not to catch/spread this thing, because even if you believe the virus is harmless no one is going to play if they test positive, so if it runs rampant through a team the chain reaction starts and the whole season is in jeopardy for everyone.

Vlad Jr. hit .272/.339/.433 with 15 homers and poor defense mostly at 3rd with some DHing, was worth 1.5 bWAR and 0.4 fWAR, so that shows a base value for that line. I can't really get a handle on how good Ruiz's defense is, last year BR thought it was a negative but fangraphs a positive. Ruiz was actually worth 0.4 fWAR as well batting only .232/.306/.376 so of course his defense was way better than Vlad's in their eyes. If he can get to that line he may be around a 2 WAR guy which would be great for a waiver claim to become.

Fewest balks?

He only has to be better than any one of Hess, Lakins, Phillips, etc. I'd take a shot based on nothing more than 2 minutes on baseball reference.

While this thread has gone on for far too long IMO, on the plus side it's interesting to learn who some people are here. The typical moderation really covers up a lot of personalities.

It's hard to complain a guy didn't get a shot when he starts his age 27 year hitting .202 at Bowie. I wonder if he's a guy who is abnormally helped by the ball changes. A warning track power type of guy where suddenly he has an 18% HR/FB rate in the majors after being under 10% for the vast majority of his minor league career. A funny thing, if the CBA doesn't change things he won't become a FA until he's 35. We often wonder if Mancini will be on the next winning O's team, and he's 1.5 years younger than Yaz.

I agree that I don’t care about Trey Mancini’s political beliefs. That’s why I don’t care if he wants to express them. If he wants to stay quiet that’s great too. People just get all bent out of shape IMO when players they like suddenly come out with views they don’t like, and now they aren’t sure if they still want to like the player or not. If you think baseball and politics should be separate then you should be able to root for Trey Mancini even if he has disagreeable views about the 27th Amendment, or whatever your cause of choice may be. Or if that makes you like him less that’s fine too. But we don’t have to pretend these guys aren’t real people with opinions. I think I’m probably in the minority here but that’s alright. This is a different issue btw than whether I think we should talk about such things here. Heck no, no way should politics be discussed on this board, it’s one of the best things about this board and prevents it from being the cesspool that’s the rest of the internet.

I'm really happy that you reminded me of The Great Schedule Wallpaper Fiasco.

Brandon Drury was basically the same player. Was able to stand at a whole lot of positions and do poorly, and couldn't quite hit as good as Stevie. Probably made twice as much as Wilkerson though so there's that. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/drurybr01.shtml

Yeah this is an intensely personal decision for everyone. For all we know (and we likely never would) maybe he and his wife had it already. Or maybe he just loves working and it’s worth the risk to him. Who knows.

According to the internet he’s 68. That seems reasonable, he’s been around Baltimore sports since the mid to early 80s if I recall correctly.