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Phew I was kinda sorta starting to get worried after that whole tejada jr thing.

Someone needs to tell Lucas the truth that he is not good at naming things before this gets out of hand.

So this was basically answered. The Angels are only paying Fowler 2.5 million of his salary.

South Dakota would be a counter. But also rural tends to skew older, which is at odds with the current tiers that are prioritizing (rightly) 65 y.o. plus because of the higher risk of hospitalization and death. I'm not sure any of the considerations are wrong, but there are trade-offs. And I do feel 100% positive and confident that what vaccinations look like in April where it is in a phase 1c or phase 2 are going to be much more mass scale than today, where it is threading a needle on targeting.

interesting stuff. I think I do believe that something like real-time settlement would be less beneficial for those currently clamoring for it than the current system. The no fees, cheap options trading world that made GME possible also are what led it to blow up. https://www.dtcc.com/dtcc-connection/articles/2021/february/04/why-shortening-the-settlement-cycle-will-benefit-the-industry-and-investors

I think there may be some cases where this is true, but a lot of the issues are stemming from rationing a limited supply. The private enterprise solution to this would be auctioning or price discrimination. That is not a solution here. Governments are having to deal with a perishable item by guessing efficiently getting the right amount of vaccine for their targeted populations. IL has mostly relied on appointments to make it easier. But they've had two issues - populations in the eligible group denying their right to vaccine, and people not showing up for appointments. That's where you end up with the random people getting it in stores. They are trying to "be fair" and get it to the right groups first, but then sometimes those groups aren't there, and then the vaccine may be about to expire. That's where in some places first come / first serve is better. There are long lines, but you are giving the available vaccine to those who show up. But it's not easy or convenient. Or you allow people to ensure a spot around their schedule, but end up with daily waste where you aren't allowed to just give it out to the people in front of you. The fairness is a big obstacle, but it's also what people expect of their government. A private corp could just prioritize large population centers in the beginning (it's easy), and move out. But that's not fair to rural areas. Interestingly, most anecdotal evidence I know of people in places like Adams county is there are plenty of appts every day, while there are non months out by us. Anyway that's why I hate the "so and so skipped the line!" stories. The end result would just be slowing things down more. 100% of the focus should just be on getting it all out quickly as possible and putting all pressure on production and distribution.

AstroZaneca/Oxford vaccine 75% effective against UK variant. good vaccines

I do wonder if part of this is where the division we're in makes Jerry the worst version of himself. If we are instead staring at the Dodgers or the Yanks/Rays every year does it change? When you have the dodgers in your division you can't say "well an injury here or there". The Indians overwhelmed with star power most of these years. Same with DET. Sox haven't had to face the teams that try to hack the regular season with that kind of depth. Instead we are recreating the star model. And we have a lot of em. But a few injuries could crush this season.

BA top 30 sounded like Weaver had made some progress last year at instructs. The interesting question to me will be - is hi-A or lo-A at the typical talent level we expect most years? Or with every other team facing same placement issues on their prospects new gap year will what would have been an aggressive assignment in previous years be relatively on point.

I’m surprised cards didn’t have to send a player with tbh

Oh hell yes they would. They lost their damn mind when Lucroy was good and made some ad to boost his all star votes that “disrespected” Yadi and they lost their damn mind

50 years / $66 million

Can all the St. Louis people please troll their neighbors that TLR chose Lucroy over Yadi plz thnx

I concur with author on Andrew Perez. He was on a super low level though so who knows.

Pretty sure he was being tongue in cheek

bluhhh I can't wait for these dudes we've been talking about for 2 years to get on the field

I mean sure I hope she has a great career but if she makes it a trend for all agents to make these state farm commercials with their clients I will never forgive her.

I'm going to guess it's the team that didn't ask the free agent to bend over backwards to fit their plans and instead is the teams that respected the players value.

I'll always fall in love with dudes like these ever since our breaking bad boy loaiza. Rodon was basically the stake in the heart of my offseason, these are all the margin stuff. Still fun.

My money is on Rays.

Interesting guy who has good basketball feel but also does not at the same time. Maybe he sees the court so advanced nobody else is with him.

He was actually really good before that ha

Yeah I would say even trading May for Colome will be a net-loss. I don't feel like qualifying every comment on Colome, he was great, replicating what he did in terms of overall success will be hard, but it would have been harder for Colome than it would have for Hendriks.

It was super frustrating, but it's a confounding draft class to me. I think I agree that it's likely sox had planned on some additional cubans to make the jump, but it was reversed by Trump admin. Sox may have had a bunch of extra budget at that point, the rest of players under previous agreements, so they just made sure they got Sanchez away from some teams in the previous year who still had money (orioles, etc). And the other part of it is that class has some really interesting pieces, moreso than many previous years. Bailey is the obvious, but it plucked a very interesting year as a 16 year old with really great K rates. Veloz was 18, but has chance to fill out and dominated the DSL that year. Christian Vera we'll see this year, along with Wilfred Veras. And then Tatis showed little, but keeps getting mentioned by sox. So maybe we'll find out this year that despite missing a real top 30 talent when we expected one, that it was a good class. I mean 2018 we had no idea would produce what it did, with Ramos and others.

So just back to Kade McClure here. The write-up re-summarized what they had written previously, that he's now a mid-90s pitcher, but his secondaries aren't amazing but just average. That said, their previous report said he was just super effective at getting outs. This is where I'm hoping that despite stuff maybe not looking amazing, his 6'7 frame ends up creating more deception and ability to get outs than appears in a scouting report. I'm just hoping for a really big surprise somewhere in system because damn does it need one.