Balta1701

https://marker.medium.com/forget-shutdowns-its-demand-shock-that-s-killing-our-economy-3062e94c122e This was my preferred read of the day.

I assume the first one should have been Hinch? Because yes, if Hinch was ordered to break rules and refused and was overruled he should have left. Let Luhnow manage his own scheme then.

If you really have a problem with it and you are told no you don’t get to make that decision, the right call is to “retire to spend more time with your family.” In reality, he was every bit a part of it.

At least early in Molina's career a lot of it probably came from Dave Duncan.

Is rapsodo banned by the league?

I'll admit I can't find the article where he spells this out, but when Hinch was interviewing with the Astros, he was hesitant about taking that job because he was worried he wouldn't be in charge, that he'd constantly have management second guessing him on every call he made. He was pleasantly surprised and encouraged at the fact that management said they were hoping it would be a collaboration, but that he would be in charge and management would not be coming down to second guess a decision of he made one. This is literally the thing the manager should be in charge of, and as I've said before - if he isn't, if he's being ordered to violate MLB rules and he has no authority to control his own locker room, he shouldn't want the job.

See that’s why you don’t have spreading in the schools and teachers getting infected, your building is 10% full. The size of the district is not a helpful number except as a denominator there to tell how vacant the place is. Teachers only get sick if 1 of the 2 kids in that room can transmit and they’re not taking the right precautions (open windows/ air flow / masks).

Well that leads to all sorts of other lines though. Luhnow overrules his manager and is clearly in charge of the clubhouse, ordering cheating that the manager objects to. Why on Earth would the manager stop there rather than taking additional actions?

This game is on pace to last > 4.5 hours and end at 12:45 Eastern as of right now.

I know the Mets ones look like great fits, but I figure a new owner there will also prevent them from selling. But...I'm guessing there will be some surprisingly big names who are available for trades cheaply in late November prior to the arbitration deadline from teams that are actually trying to cut payroll. If it wasn't for a new owner, I would have thought the Mets would be one of those teams. You might even get some guys of that quality who are non-tendered.

Guys who are barely going to get big-league offers, if they do at all, usually don't sign until January or February in a normal season.

I would think he would want to go to whatever team was willing to pay him the most, and that will probably take the whole offseason to figure out.

Beyond "He's a 70+ year old man with other comorbidities", I have no idea what else we could believe right now from the messages that have been put out, so I have zero clue. I'm pretty sure Pence is not currently the President?

Would you trust Carlos Rodon to pitch to a guy with runners on 2nd and 3rd after he put them there, with how bad he looked?

If you offer him arbitration, his salary in 2020 was $5.56 million, and they don't go down in arbitration, they go up - by a sliver if they struggle, but still up. If you offer him arbitration, you're offering him a $6 million deal, give or take change. If you non-tender him in late November, he becomes a free agent - you can still sign him then, but he's also free to sign elsewhere.

So be clear here, are you ok with Mazara being offered arbitration and a minimum $6 million deal next year, or do you want Mazara but only if he's signed as a free agent?

Well, that's not certain? Some guys take 14 months to be back to pitching after TJS and others are pitching but take additional months to years to return to effectiveness. IF a guy has TJS in the spring, he may not be ready to go by opening day of the next year. If he has TJS right now, he should at least be ready for spring training 2022, if there is one.

If you're giving an argument for why McCann is a better player than Grandal, why would another team trade for Grandal rather than signing McCann for more money?

They aren't moving Eloy to DH any time soon.

A lot of the time they have to wait a couple days for swelling to go down before things can be fully examined, if there is any.

Crochet is no where near ready for the innings load and stress of a big league starter. Kopech as well. If you got 200 innings between both of them that wouldn’t be a bad year. You need at least another arm in there, maybe two, just to have enough for innings.

The press went ahead and said f*** it and burned the source on this quote since it disagreed with what the doctors said in their press conference. It was White House Chief of Staff Meadows.

they’re all going to have gotten it this week.

I will bet you that the people who knew that would happen included "Ricky Renteria, Don Cooper, Rick Hahn, Garret Crochet, and Dane Dunning". I would bet an awful lot that Dunning knew he was out if 2 men got on.