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Going with feelings over odds repeatedly is the quickest way to fund that casino expansion.

If JR told Hahn its TLR, then he is hiring TLR. That's what being a middle manager is.

Deal.

Obviously this is taken to the usual extreme, but I don't think JR makes every decision, but at the same time if he tells Rick to take TLR seriously as a candidate or flat out tells him to hire Tony, is he going to say no? Does he really want to opt for unemployment when pretty much every front office is on the chopping block?

A lot you all have never worked in management, and it shows. Hahn may be A boss, but he isn't THE boss.

This is why casinos stay in business.

Everyone's ratings were down this much this fall. It was the pandemic. The guy I am responding to seems to believe... And NBA ratings for the finals were down just as much as the MLB's were. NHL was down 67% YoY. Pretty sure JR didn't ruin MLB, NHL, and MLB all the same amounts. Dude needs to quit letting JR live in his head rent free.

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Let's be honest here. If you are worried about Hunter Biden and his foreign entanglements, there is no chance you can vote for the President then.

Now what did I do with that surprised reaction?

I think with the financial losses the teams are looking at, cost controlled players will see expensive prices on the trade market. I think prospects will also be worth more than usual. It will be the guys with bigger and/or longer term contracts that will give the best bargains this winter on the trade market. If the Sox are willing to take on dollars, this could be a big winter for them. I do hope with their low payroll, they will try to add, though obviously not nearly as much as they would have under normal circumstances. Maybe taking on a Max Scherzer from Washington? Is Jake Arrieta done? Maybe a Ryu from the Jays? Eovaldi from Boston? Not sure what teams need to cut the most matches up with what pitchers could be moved, but those are some off of the top of my head ideas.

The bolded is the key. I am OK with someone saying that they want to bet on Nomar's potential at the right price. Granted that price is probably something like a million or two with no job promise coming into 2021, but that is an OK scenario for me. But if you are argument is that is a good player already? Nah. Can't do it. Nothing supports that as of today.

To recap: Nomar Mazara is a good RF No But his batting average is .275 It isn't But he hits a lot of homers Not particularly He plays good defense for a RF HIs dWAR is terrible But he gets lot of assists Leury Garcia had more in a partial season He hits a lot of homers if you only look at the years he didn't suck Still no He hits a lot of homers if you leave out his bad year, and eliminate half of the RFs in baseball Uh, still no But he had a good OPS one year, or maybe it was another year Uh, not if you compare him to other similar players

The idea of trading Grandal really is a non-starter this winter. The idea of trading Vaughn for a pitcher makes a LOT more sense, as teams will be way more in the market to dump salaries and take on cheap cost controlled talent versus an $18 million per year catcher still owed for 3 more years.

What? You don't say.

This is more like holding White Star lines stock.

You have yet to post one single statistic that supports it. Even your narrowly nitpicked counting stats proved you wrong. 100% wrong.

The one thing we have done for a long time is lock up young talent early. Sale, Quintana, Eaton, Santos, etc were some of the earliest ones.

If you are looking for the 2016 to 2019 RF leaderboard by OPS, Nomar Mazara is 57th overall and 32nd if you narrow it to just the AL.

Something I have been hinting at, but am going to just flat out say now... If you have to actively disqualify half of baseball and entire seasons of baseball to try to argue that someone is a good player, you aren't really proving that they are a good player. The National League is still major league baseball, and what they do, does count. It also doesn't help to disqualify one guys worst season, but not anyone else's. The numbers have been posted over and over again, and no matter how you move the goalposts around, even if you try to isolate down to just a single counting stat, Nomar Mazara has not been a "good" or even average RF. It just isn't true. None of what you have said actually proves out. o matter how many times you wrongly repeat it, it won't be true.

Its deja vu all over again.

The interesting change to me is that all of the last minute "bombshell" type of stuff totally failed to this point. It seems like most of the country learned from what happened the last time around. It really also seems like pollsters have adjusted to what happened with the turnout late last time around. It might be wishful thinking, but it is looking like the Democrats are going to have a big victory next week. I think the GOP believes that too, hence their rush to get a Supreme Court justice done, but not anything for COVID relief.

I get the feeling that if you don't get your money early this winter, you don't get it.

That makes sense to me, but it would be awesome to have a path to both. Any feel on when the contract dispute in Japan will be cleaned up? Any feel that Cespedes could be ready to play RF for a major league team in 2021?