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Unfortunately, true.We see it far too often.

Contract year has a way of helping players miss less time due to any injury.

They both do,that's the issue. They are competing to get it by the deadline at the end of the year .

There was a report that to stay in Chicago they wanted the money from the hotel tax. The reason this is all happening now is that the hotel tax or the issuance of new bonds for it needs to be completed by the end of this year otherwise it's eliminated when GRF is paid. One of the radio stations reported it.

People on the board were always screaming about TLR giving everyone too much rest. There is a fine line between the concepts.

Understandable. But until all the numbers are finalized you don't know what to like, hate, defend or anything. From what it understand they are still competing with the bears for public money so nothing is set in stone including if the project will even develop.

I don't disagree. But until it's official no one with any authority is going to comment. There is just advantage to it.

That is ambitious. It will be fun to watch if it happens. Improbable though.

The key there is if they come up with it through reasonable means. These are just leaked numbers nothing official and there are people all over the place. They can't explain how the numbers were reasonably or unreasonably reached until the numbers are finalized. Nothing has been officially announced so the numbers out there are speculation. Once the final numbers are out there then you can reasonably decided if they should go to Nashville. But until then it's speculation.

Agreed but disclosing information prior to the final deal won't help either. I agree once everything is finalized. If it is.

Why would they report what's going on in the middle of negotiations? I don't see how it benefits anyone to reveal the numbers until something is finalized. If the current prospective contributions of the Sox are lower than than the final deal everyone here will have added info to crucify the evil billionaire. Not something the Sox want.

You can't compare your company to a sports franchise. The public persona and impact are totally different. Just like trying to compare the problems between players or coworkers is different when it happens in front of the media. Unless you routinely have the media asking you questions and broadcasting your reposnses. I get you don't want this but that is just not a valid comparison. Plus having something built is a vacant blight of an area adds a whole different dimension to this specific scenario. That is a huge benefit here. Currently the city gets nothing from this area. Even if they make nothing in net revenue, it's a win because of the elimination of the huge negative area.

Lady A reference. Nice.

They said that the return to MLB was at 88%. He didn't get into velocity or PLOF. Reinjury was 17% for traditional no data for the internal brace yet. . Return to MLB after revision was 30%. Ohtani has an uphill battle. This is data from 2000 until now.

This year it is all about the innings. Next year when he can actually be a viable starter with the inni gs that's when it's important to get in the starter routine. It's fine to do it this year but it's not mandatory. If he and the organization want to, fine. But it would be fine to do the bullpen this year and the starter routine next year. It's not like he has a routine as he's really never done it.

Of course he had input from others along the way but he was manging it himself in a way he knew worked for him over the years. It wasn't an Oakland or Chicago team prehab program. Maybe a better way to say it was he came to the Sox with a prehab program and that's what he continued to follow. He may have tweaked it some based on ideas from new people. This is how it works when a players has any type of chronic injury or conditioning protocol.

That's fine if he wants to do that. Like I said it a fine option. There are just multiple ways it can be done.

Can't say that I agree. He was throwing long before the end date here and he really wanted to throw again that year. Considering all he went through and the team was out of it, if he really wanted to pitch, let him. He had been managing his own UCL issue for years so let him determine when he returned as the team was realistically out of it.

Not necessarily this exact case but in in a presentation with Dr. James Andrews and his stats are that we now get about 88% of MLB pitchers back to the majors around 12-14 months with the typical UCL reconstruction. However with the new internal bracing they are returning in just under 7 months

Is your point that they should disregard any feedback from the player? This just isn't the proper procedure especially in a rehab protocol that no one has any experience with unless you've seen patients with a partially torn UCL that they've managed for years after a chemo treatment.

Unfortunately, this is not how working with actual people works. Everyone needs to take the player responses into the continuum of care. We can can't see or know how the players feels. While we do have research there is a lot of gray area. Using a single outcome such as velocity is an poor way to look at the progress of a patient.

Contract year is the motivating factor, I think.

I think his issues last year were the small sample size. He has gotten them out in the past. I know you like the recency bias but he has shown it. If you think that he can't do it any longer than the whole process will end quickly. That will be discovered in the MLB and since they aren't going to compete, this year is already lost anyway. Like I said either way works and they both have advantages and disadvantages.

Like I said it's a valid point. But the key is to get up to the innings. He can get the regular work whether it's starting or as a reliever. In the minors it would be easier to do but he has shown he can get MLB hitters out so he may learn more about being a pitcher and not a thrower against the better competition. There are positive and negative about each situation. The innings are the most important in any scenario.

This would work but I don't think there is really a difference between this and him doing those innings in relief. Next year after he can pitch more they can get him into the starting routine. Either way works. But it's all based on him staying healthy which he hasn't shown he can do even with a light load.