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Do you still get paid?

Although many long term deals are not good for teams as it relates to value provided. As to whether the decline in performance of those mega long term deal players relates to their motivation is impossible to measure as no player readily acknowledges they are less motivated after becoming financially wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. But it is there nonetheless. Davis is just a bit easier to come to that conclusion given his behavior eschewing change or attempts for improvements.

I think he works out about as much as I do. Why should he? Give me one reason why he has any motivation whatsoever to go to the daggone gym every day?

This was my thought exactly. I think he watches it really well all the way to the glove. He lets it travel on in there. Hitting it though...well, forget about it.

I am amazed the union has not been able to change this rule in all these years. Long overdue. 2020 is not 1973.

I think Davis finishes his entire deal right here on the roster. I have been saying that every February since 2017 and it is as likely as any of the early release scenarios, imho.

If I am Hyde, I don’t soon forget the disrespect of his open aggression in the dugout. He sits as much as I can get away with, no matter what ownership does. But mainly because winning is an attitude and an expectation that starts even when losing...i.e. see end of 2011. Although, if I am Hyde, and Davis is indeed bulked up, I might think about hiring Gregor Clegane as bench coach in the dugout.

Then at least we have a better chance of winning with him just an ornament on the bench. I am halfway serious. I would give him zero playing time this spring and into the season. He can get his money but I am doing what is best to win as many games as possible. With a 26th slot, we could do it with zero difference from last year’s 25.

I would have him on the bench every game until he said uncle to a buyout of the rest of his deal.

So I guess we will have to call him Crash right? Long term minor league catcher with a sense of humor? All we need now is Nuke LaLoush.

No autographs at White Marsh, Flying Dog or Calvert Brewing Co. Too bad.

Yes, but he played a few games there for Seattle last year and maybe even his knucklehead ego has begun to realize...ummm having a baseball job is better than not having one.

Beckham has also played occasionally at 1b - he really could be a reasonable multi utility type.

Ty Cobb...In 1960, asked by a reporter towards the end of his life what he thought he would hit playing today and Cobb said “Probably around .290” The reporter said “why so low?” and Cobb said “because I am 74 damn years old”.

Tell it to Ray Chapman or Don Zimmer.

Of course. They were all a bunch of girls.

If they survived the beanings when they got to .350. Without helmets.

Baseball, for all its reliance on statistics, also has mythical and historical truths. Saying that Abraham Lincoln likely would struggle with the current modernity is a similar argument. Some might say that dropping today’s pampered MLB millionaires into 1897 would see their performance drop as well. But , fortunately.greatest of all time titles are only mythical and subjective titles, not solely statistical ones.

I would get rid of the Veterans Committee process and the only person, maybe, maybe I think sometimes should be in that isn’t is Dale Murphy. Certainly over Harold Baines and Alan Trammel. But I would remove a number of individuals. Or just have the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown for the ultra and build another Hall of the Pretty Good over in Elmira.

The guys who I think are either essentially done or too terrible to give a MLB deal to Anderson, Bettis, Bucholz, Chen, Estrada, Hellickson, Holland,Jackson, Miller, Ramirez,Richard. I would think Walker, Cashner, Chacin, McHugh, Sanchez, Salazar are in the more possible realm and lesser likely but maybe are , Vargas, Cahill, Harvey. My best guess is Walker. But I would be OK with any of those I suppose.

Never said that my feelings about the Yankees were rational. And I would have proudly kept any and all entrants to the HOF from being unanimous. Is Jeter better than Ty Cobb (98 percent) or Babe Ruth (95 percent) Honus Wagner (95 percent) or Christy Mathewson (85 percent) or Walter Johnson 83 percent? Or Cy Young not making it his first year of eligibility? Unanimous votes are just this modern media and generation’s own narcissism.

130.4 WAR to Jeter’s 72. 8 batting titles. First induction class in Hall of Fame.

Honus Wagner says hello!

Me too. I would have voted against him to keep him from unanimous in a heartbeat. I have no problem dissing Jeter and his whining at the plate and the MFYs.

Jeter and Larry Walker.