Balta1701

Please tell me what is incorrect about that statement. You cannot mention service time, you have to tell me how Eloy does not deserve a callup and how Kopech does not deserve a callup, and how waiting for next year is actually better for their development.

No, that's not what I said. I said everyone is assuming that it won't make a difference. It probably won't. But that's an assumption.

So dude, you're saying that there's no examples of a team not calling a guy up in September even though they were ready, and that guy totally flopping or getting hurt when he was called up the next year? Which means...you went through all of the failed prospects in baseball history to check? Either that or you're applying one of those totally unproveable standards.

If you were doing what was best for these 2 guys' development you would have called Eloy up late-July and you'd call Kopech up after his next 2 starts or so. Everyone's just kinda assuming that doing things that aren't best for their development won't be that big of a deal, so we'll take the service time as more important.

Really dude you pasted the tweet link but you couldn't post the short text excerpt that we care about? I guess at least I get to pad my post count by fixing this...

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I'm not a platinum member so I don't quite have access, but some things of note - their sample size is 1500, so if you take the 13% of Americans that are African american you would guess they polled about 200. That's a low sample right there, but their methodology also says they're polling likely voters, which is going to exclude people who are too young to vote and those who have been excluded by voter ID bills and so on who are now unlikely to vote, so the sample size of actual african american voters is probably less than 100 people in that survey. At that size, a well done survey would have a margin of error of more than 10%. If the survey isn't swinging by 20% up and down amongst a population that small in a tracking poll over time, then that means it is being done wrong.

For the most part there will be very little legal liability for those involved as most of these have passed the statute of limitations. The bishop or whatever who was in charge of the Diocese of Pittsburgh during some of that stuff above has moved on and is in a leadership position for the church in D.C. This is basically a summary document and a lobbying effort - trying to get the state of PA to update their statues. Also worth noting that when Pennsylvania has tried to update their statutes of limitation in the past, they run into lobbying from, well, the Catholic church. For example, in 2016 a bill passed the state senate doing some of the work, but any civil liability was stripped out, for obvious reasons. The Bill then died at the end of the session without a final vote in the state House.

That fact that he had every right to a major fit or frustration and never did is why I feel so bad for him now that he's no longer having that kind of success while pitching.

In Class A Derek Jeter once committed a SAL league record 56 errors in 1 season.

In the 3 years prior to reaching free agency, Cain put up 12.6 fWAR. If Pollock doesn't get hurt again this year, he'll have put up something like 6.5. He still missed a month and a half of the season. Cain put up 4.3 fWAR with the Royals in 2017 the year before hitting FA, Pollock is on pace for something like 3-3.5. If they get the same contract, it's because the contract drought that happened last offseason has totally ended, because those are no where near comparable records.

Right now I think Pittsburgh is to the point of saying that neither Meadows nor Glasnow are going to hit their potential while in Pittsburgh, so even then they'd be ok with the move.

I'm ok with a high pressure situation definition that includes the regular season. Name one this franchise had. They were dead and out of the race by June. I guess opening day is a high pressure situation?

Ok, seriously, what high pressure situations was Sale in since 2012 with the White Sox? That team was out of the pennant race by June every year. I will note that for those teams that were already out of the race he wasn't that great down the stretch, but in part I think that's his arm - skinny guy getting tired out in the 2nd half because the manager completely burned him out in June every year. 2012 down the stretch was probably the peak of that, as Sale was (stupidly) put in the 2011 bullpen by the Sox and so anything he did down the stretch in 2012 was just stretching his arm out, Quintana hit the same innings wall in September of that year. You are absolutely correct he was a part of that drama, but an equally important part of that drama was that he spent 2013-2016 in an organization where the manager had checked out, and that drama finally blew up in the end.

Congrats on causing this.

If they're drafting a catcher in 2019 are you expecting their window to be like 2024? Catchers take forever to develop. The ones who have dynamite bats get moved away from that position a-la Harper, Schwarber, the others are given years to work with pitchers.

If the Sox were going to call Eloy up this season there's no reason it shouldn't have been done already. Dude had earned it by mid July. Kopech, I can make September make sense. He didn't really earn his callup until his last few starts, and keeping him in a groove and letting him build his innings and arm up for a 6 month season all seem reasonable to me.

I think sometimes teams do these moves strategically, if they have a guy like Shields that no one on Earth would claim they go on their rapidly, but other guys who might have some interest teams will wait and chat around and see if a team that he might actually get to might call.

I know all good centrists stopped caring about classified information in November of 2016, but seriously, how the F*** does someone get a recording device into the White House, into the room where the US makes military and intelligence decisions, record the Chief of Staff, Get that recording out of the White House, and live? My word.

He's a free agent after 2021 and a Boras client who already has been a tough negotiation for this franchise, if he's good enough that we want him to stay then someone will probably offer him $200 million+. Will they hold onto a guy who might only be there for 1 year while the team is competitive, if that? Should they?

The good news is we'll be shutting him down at 145 innings this year so that this groove won't continue next spring.

With the lack of progress from our first wave, if you give the guy an opt out after 3 years, that's 2019, 2020, and 2021. Feel like we're ready to compete in the first 2 of those years? I'm not even sure about year 3 right now, not until we see some progress.

My memory of this is somewhat different. Lieberman's goal was to make sure that no one actually was able to improve their health care coverage, so he thought that saying "We'll make medicare open to everyone who is 55 years old" was a great way to sabotage passing a health care bill. The rest of the Democrats immediately said "OMG YES ABSOLUTELY WE WILL DROP EVERYTHING WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON AND DO THIS RIGHT NOW". The second Joe Lieberman realized he had suggested something Democrats would like, he quietly let it fade away.