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Imagine the ‘89 Sox in a league full of 2024 Sox. Guys like Daryl Boston, Scott Fletcher and Dan Pasqua would have been perennial all stars. Ozzie would be the Ozzie Smith. Baines, Calderon and Fisk would have been like Ted Williams, DiMaggio and Campanella on the same team

92 losses? Sounds like a pretty good team at this point

I didn’t see the ‘70 team, but just looking at the baseball reference page I think its safe to say they’d wipe the floor with this team

1 pm on a Thursday. Is MLB just trying not to make money or what

Incorrect. Gaslighting is the new national pastime. I hardly ever see anyone out playing football

If a good organization dfa’s someone that means a good org thought they were good enough to have on their forty man in the first place. Just because the astros don’t have room for him doesn’t mean the worst team of all time doesn’t

If a good organization dfa’s someone that means a good org thought they were good enough to have on their forty man in the first place. Just because the astros don’t have room for him doesn’t mean the worst team of all time doesn’t

This sucks for Ramos at the moment, but they can just add him in a few days anyway. I don’t see what’s the big deal. This improves somewhat the young controllable infield depth

A .240/.300/.400 hitter would be an improvement with this team.

That’s always been the problem with the WC though

Why’s it a problem? Worked pretty well for Tiger Woods

Burger has a career .800 OPS. Eder was never ranked that high as a prospect, ever, not sure where you are getting that from. He has pretty much always been the definition of a B-, back of rotation ceiling type prospect

Tell Brooks to add another zero to that number and he’ll have a buyer over here

He doesn’t have a contract. Next year is his first arb year

Right, but why’s he still on the 40 man? Makes no sense

Yeah soccer limits substitution but it doesn’t prevent you from removing a player. Icing? Come on man! This is like having a rule that goalie couldn’t be removed until the third period

What sport doesn’t allow a player to be removed? The only one I can think of is Buzkashi, although you have at least a decent chance of being removed by death or paralysis there

I just don’t see how you can have a rule where a player can’t be removed from the game. I thought the three batter rule was questionable to begin with, but six innings? That’s ludicrous

I’m guessing the 30% of major leaguers who earn their bread pitching in relief wouldn’t be too thrilled with this proposal

I kind of agree. Either go back to having the best two teams in each league face off straight away in the league championship, or reduce the season and go hogwild on playoffs. What’s the point of a 162 game season when you can lose to a team that you were twenty games better than in that massive marathon of a season. You’d think 162 games would be enough to determine a 105 win team was better than an 85 win team. If you’re going that route, cut the season to 112-120 games, expand the playoffs to like sixteen or even twenty teams, then have a series of round robin pool play to eliminate teams until you arrive at the league championship series. Would make for way more interesting baseball with teams constantly facing elimination for two months

After the Renteria to TLR to Grifol turn of events, I have to say I have come to the conclusion this is 100% the top consideration. Like many others, I was critical of Renteria for his in game decisions, but let’s face it, manager’s tactics come down to a lot of luck anyway. In retrospect, I’ll take the questionable moves every day of the week if you have a manager maintaining a cohesive team with a winning mentality. Like Berra said, 90% of baseball is half mental. Give me the psychological therapist. Half these ball players are nuts anyway

Where did you get respectable offers out of that? It mentions a couple prospects that were not offered, a prospect offer rejected due to injury, and that Benintendi was included in talks for salary relief in exchange for lesser offers

Trading a productive major leaguer under long term control for a solitary B- prospect is never a good idea IMO. If they got two Eders I could buy it. Straight up? nah

Cito Gaston