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They are playing 72 games without fans. The mlb could have played more. They didn’t want to so they could cut costs.

Listen, the reason why super teams exist now is the max deal. But there have always been super teams. The Lakers were a super team, the Celtics were a super team. They took advantage of the lower revenue teams being idiots and desperate just like now. At least now there is a lot of churn. But it doesn't have anything to do with competitiveness. Barkley forced his way out of philly, almost went to the lakers.Drexler forced a trade to the rockets. It was a different flavor, but players still forced themselves to teams they wanted. FA just made it easier for players to get out of it since teams are constantly in the "we can't lose this guy for nothing" window.

They are about to. They aren't planning on having fans this year but they hope to, just like MLB did. And yet it restarteded without antagonism between the NBAPA and NBA baseball was dominated by.

He'd give it to TLR.

The NBA just re-started though and again didn't have problems and does not have fans now.

Even though we are lapping up our own takes regurgitated back to us from a huckster... Gotta say they taste good and I want more.

We really ought to go all in on some player there is no way would get rumored about and see if it takes. Wait maybe that's the jose de leon thread. Hmmm...maybe Petit. Realistic yet not mentioned a lot.

OKC is really bad but bulls had a lot of good things tonight. Zach has really been putting in effort. Coby is just gonna have some games where he takes over. Williams looks great, and the screen action between the bigs is helping out Markannen. Carter Jr. still timid. And my take: fat euro players >>>> skinny tall euro players. aka Poku looks awful to me.

Cishek catching up on soxtalk

If the White Sox sign La Stella I 100% believe soxtalk caused it to happen. We also forced KW to sign Iguchi so there is precedent.

My bad, thanks Josh.

Would depend if Mariners kicked in cash on Kikuchi.

I have said it multiple times, but I believe if the sox pass on Colome it's because they didn't believe in his health moving forward.

ah, that's right. I drafted him in Fantasy that year. Dodgers - very good at scouting. But kinda bad at 2b scouting on other orgs. TP I feel like if we were co-gms we'd end up with an offseason of Springer, Yates, McGee, Kikuchi and Jose De Leon, a very confused fan base. That'd be a fun team though.

I agree, but this is my hope if we get health eaton. Likely diminishing production: - Anderson - Abreu That doesn't mean they won't be great, but they were MVP and MVP caliber last year. That doesn't happen every year for non-Trout people. But, the addition of Eaton and hopefully Vaughn specifically adds guys that are (in theory) lower strikeout, higher walk players. That replaces a low contact player in EE, a nothing player in Mazara. And then you hope for good Moncada. You hope it adds up into probably less power, but maybe better obp/sequencing to overcome it. But yes. La Stella seems like a great play to me! Becaue man, nobody mentions it, but if Tim or Yoan go down we have Tim Beckham.

That's definitely true, and this is all correlations. In looking at 2020: -Having a top anything got you into the playoffs but for a full season, if you can only have one, it seems like you definitely want Top offense. But I'm wondering if you could only pick 2 is the answer actually Top Offense/SP or Top Offense/Bullpen? The Braves did offense/sp, bullpen was pretty trash. It seems like it makes it a lot harder with bad rp though.

I don't know what to think about this, since a lot of bad teams purposely don't invest much in bullpen, but: 2020 10 of top 11 bullpens made playoffs. The mariners were last one out, easy to say a better bullpen puts them in perhaps. The Astros/Yanks/Cubs were at a huge disadvantage for much of year, and Astros would have never made it in in any other division. 2019 2019 - 8 top 10 made playoffs. The Braves and Nationals didn't really struggle to get in, and the Mets improbably tried to build a great bullpen and sucked at it. There is much more divergence in SP. But hitting? Top offenses made it in. I gotta tell ya. If I'm sox - I got a great offense. I have the makings of a great bullpen. Do I try to load up SP? I kinda think bullpen is attractive.

I don't want any lip about this, there's nothing to talk about right now. I mentioned a flyer on De Leon a while back. You may remember him, the Twins wanted more than him for that one second baseman I forget, and so the dodgers instead just traded him for that other second baseman I forget who was terrible. This was years back. Rays trade. Anyway he basically has been injured for four years. He got back to the Reds last year and pitched for a handful of innings, walking everyone. But there were some encouraging signs there in ye olde baseball savant website, as Cooper goes on to point out: Is he the solution to all lifes problems? no. But if I saw a "sox sign Jose De Leon to 1.5 Mill contract if he makes it out of ST will I be strangely pumped? You betcha, soxtalk.

10 biggest AAV pitching contracts all time: Gerrit Cole, $36 million Stephen Strasburg, $35 million Justin Verlander, $33 million Zack Greinke, $32.5 million David Price, $31 million Clayton Kershaw, $31 million Max Scherzer, $30 million Roger Clemens, $28 million Jacob deGrom, $27.5 million Jon Lester, $25.8 million That's a pretty good hit rate imo.

Maybe if we had them throw it at an earlier age we'd weed out the weak baby arms. I just want one of these

"would like to engage in talks" is so rockies.

This is an argument for not worrying about a 4 year contract!

Hector Santiago for life.

Yes. With the MLB on a 25 year run of relative CBA peace, it's hard to say its set up is worse than NFL and NBA or NHL that have had a lot more cba confrontations. However, the NBA/NFL % of revenue model specifically helped during the pandemic as there was no gap of trust in what was being made. But, yes in addition they had better revenue streams.

I think Hendriks is for real. But the funny part to me is essentially they are going to pay the guy the money that goes to players that can be multi-inning fireman, essentially so they can keep Bummer in a multi-inning fireman role.