Harold's Leg Lift

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They're definitely trading him. My guess is it will be for a package of minor leaguers then they will use those players as part of another trade.

Why indeed.

Of course they are. MLB planned it that way (they're good at this). Drafts are fun! and no one gives a shit about a bunch of latin teenagers anyway. Just agree to it and give me my baseball back!

but they never tied it to the elimination of the QO before today.

The owners have a long history of this. The players didn't agree to the cbt to act as a hard cap, they didn't agree to service time manipulation, they didn't agree to teams pocketing revenue sharing money, they didn't agree to FA compensation that restricts FA spending, etc. These are all loopholes the owners exploited because the players didn't think of the consequenes. Hopefully they finally learned their lesson.

Well then the owners should stop trying to sneak shit in at the last minute so they can manipulate it down the road.

There's never an egg timer around when you need one.

I don't know. For 97 or however many days this damn thing has been dragging on the owners had zero interest in negotiating anything but now all of a sudden they're willing to negotiate everything. Sure we'll raise the cbt limits! Sure we'll raise the min salary! Sure we'll raise the pre-arb pool! You want us to remove draft pick compensation...sure we'll do that too! You get a car! You get a car! You get a car! I'm not buying it.

No one knows but there sure is a lot of pressure on the players to accept this deal before the owners newest arbitrary deadline expires. It's also curious why the owners are suddenly so motivated.

The MLB propaganda machine is earning it's money today.

The Sox avoid prep pitchers in the 1st round but this might be the year to jump in especially if this big bastard is available. They desperately need an influx of talent so they should be drafting for ceiling. Ferris, Barreira, Schulz, Ford, Ritchie, Dutkanych, Porter. It's a good, deep group of prep arms with very high ceilings.

A floor is an unrealistic ask. It would come with outrageous concessions.

Happ said teams don't want to bump up against the cap in case they're contending at the deadline so instead of signing that veteran OF or reliever they'll just pay a rookie the league min. Raising the cap gives teams more room to sign veteran players.

If you don't like a player as much as someone else you're a "hater" and if you like a player more than someone else you're a "stan" whatever the fuck that means. This place is really weird.

The higher cap is for the middle level players. Ian Happ explained it in a podcast. The top guys will always get theirs but the middle guys are getting squeezed out because owners would rather pay a rookie league min than bump up against the cap.

Yup

Dirty your guy Brody Brecht was at it again yesterday.

Not a lot of people want to hear this, but if they sign Castellanos, Vaughn is likely to be traded.

Union Buster is full of shit. These boot lickers have no shame.

No shit, Bob.

My daddy wasn't a crook.

The obvious difference being those two actually created something while all baseball owners did was buy into a legal monoply.