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I've always thought that teams should be allowed to hamstring their rosters by having overly narrow roles for players.

I think he's tradeable, he just won't bring back much of anything. Think Jim Johnson.

I'm curious why you think that is true. I do know that when I was attending the Defense Language Institute, enrolled in the Korean program, they had Japanese listed as a category 3 language and Korean as a category 4.

I'm not even sure Peter writes his own stuff at this point.

The team would recoup some money if Davis agreed to a buyout at less than his full guaranteed contract. It was always a longshot but it at least appeared to be a possibility at some point given some of his statements.

I thought that was a worthy gambit when he sounded all upset about his poor performance. He seems resigned to it now. I don't think we have any chance of him not collecting every dollar.

MLB.com guys, looks like he was on the National's beat in 2013, had some health issues if it's the same guy. https://www.mlb.com/news/nationals-beat-writer-bill-ladson-thankful-on-thanksgiving-despite-awaiting-kidney-transplant/c-64245126

But hundreds of more fans might attend games.

Or she's a huge HR derby fan.

Probably folks that looked at his FIP and figured he was more lucky than good. I think he finished in the right spot.

I am trying to figure out how Alyson Footer thought Vlad deserved a second place vote.

I think it would be incredibly short sighted for the O's to alter their plans to account for the Ravens.

Not in those exact terms. I can do subtle, I just don't find it works well on online forums. Most of the time part of your audience misses blatant sarcasm.

We all know I think it's ownership.

Oh no, pay me all my money years early. Force me to retire a multimillionaire at 34.

What option do they have?

Payroll is a Cobb and a Davis from being comically low.

Comp A pick.

Exactly, Manini was 23-24 in AA and Mountcastle was 21.

I can't assume he can but it isn't a good look when he stops trying.

It doesn't help that I've never been a Tate fan.

Fair value < more than fair value.

Sounds like the Britton trade. Except the part about getting more than fair value.

The question I have is how did they manage to look good in the first game?

OFFNY had made note of it in the game threads.