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9 minutes ago, scOtt said:
I don't agree catching. Just mho, not a big fan tho.
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.
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Maybe he doesn’t want to get booed by the opening day crowd.
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7 minutes ago, SteveA said:
Bailey made the Astro's Opening Day roster. And now they have Velazquez too.
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.
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2 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:
A suspicious soul would wonder why they waited.
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.
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Just now, 25 Nuggets said:
Memo to players: whatever the Miami Marlins players did, don't do that.
Yeah, how about: if a bunch of your teammates test positive, maybe slow down and figure things out before going full steam ahead.
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3 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:
I thought MLB paid for all of that?
Ah, apparently they paid $75M for their 10% stake. Not too bad.
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2 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:
Like the repayment of those loans.
And whatever it took to start up MASN.
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8 minutes ago, tntoriole said:
Angelos, Dewitt and 15 minority investors bought the team for 173 mil in 1993...so lets say Angelos himself say put up 40 percent of that...70 mil tops..
Over the years, he has bought back much of the team stock....but he never even financed that himself probably.
And niw the estimated value of franchise is 1.2 billion.
Pretty good investment. .
$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.
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19 minutes ago, scbalt52 said:
Hoping he is called up before the week is over
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.
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12 minutes ago, Satyr3206 said:
Ok a little history. Coronaviruses have been around for a fair amount of time. The most recent were 2002-2003 SARS. Then 2009-2010 H1N1. So why the panic now? This one has a far lower fatality rate. And if you don't believe me look it up yourself.
Because lots of old people already had antibodies for h1n1, and because SARS did not spread very much.
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6 hours ago, esmd said:
So if the season WERE to end from this and the O's don't play any other games.....could the O's declare themselves 2020 AL East Champions? Asking for a friend.....
Red Sox get 2021 #1 draft pick, followed by Nats and Blue Jays
But flags fly forever!
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5 minutes ago, BohKnowsBmore said:
And again, he caught it away from baseball, it's not particularly intellectually honest to use him as an example of the dangers of baseball activities. For that matter, had he never reported for baseball, then he might not be receiving the care he is now.
It's honest to use him as an example when people say "Young people don't die, healthy ball players shouldn't be scared."
It is true that they are getting tested far more than the everyday population, but testing doesn't seem all that hard to get now. My wife was sick last week and was able to go to CVS the next day to get a test.
I don't think it's possible to argue you are safer hanging out with 30-60 people in close quarters every day, traveling in planes and staying in hotels, vs being at home. Even if you are getting tested every day. I just don't see it.
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8 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:
Sure, if they are prepared to forfeit their salary.
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.
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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.
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7 minutes ago, orioles119 said:
Such overreaction... just swap the B squad and go on with life. You can't stop living for something that has a 99.6% survival rate.
So if all 900 major leaguers catch it only 3-4 will die. Pretty good odds.
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15 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:
If the season is going to happen, players need to take the social distancing more seriously during the game and avoid going out at all other times.
It is a big ask for guys in their 20s and 30s even if they are well paid, but it is going to take close to 100 percent cooperation to complete the season.
11 minutes ago, Yardball85 said:That's gotta be it for the season too, right? Marlins played Phillies, who are all now very much at risk. Marlins were in the clubhouse that the Yankees are coming to tonight, so that game will probably be postponed. I wanted baseball so so bad and was so happy about the weekend results, but this is reality.
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.
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7 minutes ago, Roll Tide said:
Seems to me that the best we can hope from Ruiz is 15-20 home runs, .270/.330/.450.
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.
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On 7/23/2020 at 12:54 PM, dorfmac said:
Washington Football Team it is! Must be having a difficult time wrestling away the trademarks. Usually, you just pay the patent owner and it all gets resolved pretty quickly. I know that Apple has to do it pretty regularly for naming trademarks and web domains and it never seems to be that hard.
The thing about trademarks (not patents) is that you have to actually use them to keep them. You can't just sit on a name and stop anyone else from using it. They are also specific to your particular industry. So, for example, you can have Delta Airlines and Delta faucets. So if someone grabbed, say "Washington Warriors" they'd have to specify the industry was a sports team, and they'd actually have to start using that name for a sports team within a certain amount of time or the application would go away. They would also want to own the trademark for clothing etc., so they'd have to actually make and sell shirts etc. or the application would go away. You generally can't just have de minimus use, sell a shirt here and there, you have to show that it is real commercial use, you're really running a business selling shirts.
Since no one actually has such a sports team yet, I.e. they haven't actually used the mark in commerce, they would file an intent to use application. They would have to show some objective evidence that they really had an intent to use this mark for a sports team at the time they filed. This may be hard given they were all(?) filed for right after it became clear the name was changing. Snyder could file his own application and fight the earlier application on the grounds that they didn't really intend to use the mark, they were just filing it to reserve it so they could sell it. It could be easier to just negotiate with the guy depending on what he wants, but Snyder is the guy that sued his own fan for trying to back out of season tickets so who knows.
ETA I'm a lawyer that works at the USPTO, though I'm in patents and only have basic familiarity with trademarks. Here are a couple links that seem consistent with the above.
https://www.foley.com/en/insights/publications/2020/07/the-washington-tbds
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On 7/23/2020 at 2:10 PM, Ruzious said:
I predict he will be leading the league in something tonight. Maybe somethings. I hope there's at least one positive stat that he leads the league in. It may take some creativity to figure out what it is.
Fewest balks?
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42 minutes ago, Philip said:
No. He’s out of options. I can see mike signing him to a minor league contract If he becomes a free agent, but no.
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.
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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.
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8 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:
His AA/AAA OPS is about .760 in 2300 PAs. He's 30. Dwight Smith Jr has a AA/AAA OPS of about .750 and he's two years younger.
It's nice that Little Yaz is having his moment, but there are a million corner outfielders who can OPS .750 in AAA.
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.
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31 minutes ago, Philip said:I really hope that whatever caused this announcement, it’s not me. I think in MLB becoming involved in various political movements is terrible for the sport it’s terrible for any sport. We are sports we’re not politics. Trey Mancini isn’t running for Congress and I don’t care about his political beliefs.
i want baseball. No stupid patches, especially stupid patches that are restricted to only narrow subjects.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.
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50 minutes ago, Enjoy Terror said:
Well of course not. "Pitching well" and having movement on your fastball are probably related. But plenty of people on this site have commented on Chris Tillman's fastball early in his career and even up to his break out 2012. Hess isn't the prospect that Tillman was, but I find it bizarre that you don't think Tillman having a straight fastball was ever once brought up on this site and elsewhere?
I'm really happy that you reminded me of The Great Schedule Wallpaper Fiasco.
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He is sloooow. 12th percentile in the league last year, 22nd the year before. While that isn't necessarily dispositive it doesn't bode well for his athleticism imo.