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Massive scout layoffs. Continuing to antagonize/disrespect the best player in the game in trout.

Eh, I think it will be determined based on how well our tracer program is up and running at that point. And if I’m two weeks we are hovering around under 3%, I imagine the regions will inform it - chicago still has room to fall. Also if we have two weeks of under 500 new cases the capacity will be really strong. Also great news today : https://apnews.com/89d963958b042cc921e64ab3eff5a74d?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

So we are over two weeks from the initial protests but still only about 8 days from the biggest protests. But so far so good.

Illinois has another best day. 2.5% pos rate, less than 500 new cases. Also a three day stretch of less than 30 deaths. For so long IL was on this horrendously slow decline while other states seemed to solve it. It’s very weird being now one of the few states still seeing falling rates.

explicitly lose owners money in the short-term.

cut it out.

the thing about my company and many public companies is I actually would be negotiating knowing the revenues and state of the league. The league does not provide that to the players, and has frequently mislead them about the state of the financials. So if I'm a player and I know I stand strong in any legal setting that you are owed per game, and they are asking for fairly marginal declines, I'd likely stand strong too.

Is anyone looking forward to Tenet (is it tenent?) I respect Nolan for creating original movies though I find them to be an incredible chore similar to someone reading a board game manual (but while seated in an exotic locale). That said...he makes great trailers.

maybe signaling that you actually valued your minor leagues had a benefit.

Royals starting to sign some decent guys. still - most of the signings today are the guys you’d expect in rounds 11-30...not 6-10

Correct. The mlbs own lawyers clearly acknowledged that the players interpretation is correct.

None of the ALC teams have a guy yet. And the BA500 guys who have gone are in the 400-500. Not really missing that much.

I don’t se show you came to that conclusion, but the owners will get rolled in arb as it seems pretty clear the March agreement did not have language that explicitly supports the owners position. I think the theory that manfred misrepresented the March agreement to the owners and its ability to force renegotiations and has been trying to fix that mistake since.

go npb go

Only 2 BA500 guys signed this far

Well I personally don’t want Detroit to be able to clean up in two of the better draft classes of last several years

If I’m a marginal guy do I really want to go to yankees who routinely over sign and have 40 man crunches? I don’t think it’s as straightforward as you think. While you could feasibly be blocked at the MLb in Sox system, they are unlikely to be adding tons of quality prospects every year now, so you may have a longer period to hone your craft in minors before getting cut. And showing off to clubs is the most important part, you can’t look at the MLb roster for a decision.

I feel for them though. The money angle is pretty straightforward in that it is likely they will sign for more than 20k next year. But the time is not straightforward, and the competition. If your dream is to play affiliate ball, you are staring at a situation where you could take that spot now, or risk that you had a good year next year competing against double the players in an environment where there will likely be even fewer milb teams. Just a really sad situation for kids on the cusp of something really special and they were the ones everyone was willing to sacrifice.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2020-mlb-undrafted-free-agent-tracker-agreements-for-all-30-teams/ No signings yet for Sox. 4 players total reported.

to be fair that was a single thread and literally everyone laughed at the person who made it (and every pitcher promptly got tommy john)

Illinois with only a 2.3% positive rate today and under 600 new cases (25k tests). It was a full week of new cases/day never exceeding 800. the Northeast region even as things opened up was still pretty high in % positive, now that's down to 8% (was 15% in early may), and hospitalizations are down 77%. Happy to see such a large testing day. I really hope starting tomorrow we see high tests as those that were at the largest protests hopefully get tested. Next week will be a big week on that front.

Well, what if what they have is not good enough? Ask the cubs how quickly the cupboards go bare. Same with Red Sox. Both had incredible cores and redundancy. Now, they got the ring and that's all that matters. But what if we are just going to be playoff good - the depth will be crucial without elite payroll.

the teams I think had better drafts had something in common: comp picks. Considering we only had 5 and a modestly good position at 11 I think getting two guys the sox may have well rated top 15 or 20 is a pretty good plan. Now it was a deep draft. And it may be one of those ones where in a few years we look at each round saying "we could have had X!" if neither dudes pan out. But would much rather sox go hard for top talent than when we actively wanted to get already cheap talent for even cheaper.

The big excitement that Kelley may be different is the ease of his velocity and his command. If it was just a big texas dude throwing 98 and a need to learn how to harnass it, it's more worrisome. We saw with Giolito how good a fastball/changeup approach can get you. So he needs to find some version of a breaking pitch as he develops but he has time.

Well they don’t ever draft them honestly. Gio Gonzalez was a big success and enough to make it a good success rate