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Isn't Bellinger getting paid more, and very possibly, much, much worse?

As could Engel, Garcia, and either of your first basement playing the outfield in a pinch

Pollocks health is certainly a concern, but the thing is, the Sox do have a lot of RF depth, they were just lacking a starter.

They've been doing it this way since like at least 2016

You didn't, this isn't new.

They have been playing 6:10 games in April for years at this point. It's cold in april man.

No I agree, it’s just the worst possible way for a manager to express a totally understandable position

I mean this is said with standard La Russa tact so it’s not good, but he’s not gonna say we don’t have the answer in-house two weeks before a season.

Paying 50 mil for a bullpen and haggling you’re best starter over a rounding error is certainly a choice

Friendly reminder that the arb numbers the submit are almost always closer to what the other party was asking for than what they we’re trying settle for. edit: it appears I was wrong on this one

"prospects" Also, Arenado was already 2 years deep on that wasn't he? This is a pretty disingenuous way to frame the math.

My question is why did they trade Arenado if they were just going to turn around and give it all to Bryant????

And my immediate reaction being wow that's an awful lot

just based off how baseball works, I don't think a lottery is all that much of a disincentive. There's not THAT much of a value difference between 1 and 7

Idk why anyone's shocked there was disagreement within the union and is mad about it. That's all natural.

All those guys listed I think

Kind of impossible though, the board is always going to end up being long-tenured, well respected guys who are typically paid well

Seems like they could just drop it and follow up with another suit no?

I've entered the "Here's how Bernie can still win" stage

https://twitter.com/nick_ggtb/status/1499005090774007808?s=21 lol

I meant more the on behalf of the people losing wages. Speaking of, what does like Delaware North think of all this.

The states where taxpayers own the stadium should be filing suit honestly

I saw someone saying Scherzer should have to pay the stadium workers for lost time with his 40 million dollar contract. And my only thought was "How are you so close to getting it, and still this far off" Would be a cool move though I guess.

Very cool that my escape of choice is suffering from identical institutional rot has everything else.

High end prospects don't care and roster chaff have no power.