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The two other “lower” players on that graph, Vernon Wells and David Wright, didn’t come close to realizing their potential for different reasons. Carlos Gonzalez also fell apart in his early 30’s.

The average of those other 10 players is 951. That’s a 25% falloff from everyone else. It’s not even close to Vernon Wells, who signed one of the worst long-term contracts in baseball history with the Angels. Yoan Moncada has 76 homers in career 2276 at-bats. Juan Soto now has 120 homers in 1988 at-bats while roughly four years younger.

Nope. He won't be paid for the next 80 games though, which is only going to amount to about $3 million?at this point in his contract. They might start having conversations about the motorcycle crashes and covering up his wrist injuries, but those were not prohibit originally. Maybe they negotiated an agreement after not going after his signing bonus for the deal that was already paid out, something like $10 million...remember he owes a good chunk of that to an agency that invested in him and loaned him money earlier in his minor league career for a cut of future big league earnings.

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2022&month=0&season1=2022&ind=0 Carlos Rodon should be breaking his 3 way tie with Alcantara and Gausman at 4.4 fWAR…11th win, 7 k’s, 2.95 ERA. Around 135 IP, with at least 8-9 more starts to go.

You didn’t even spell that one name right. Did you not read The Catcher in the Rye during high school lit class…? Oh, our fallen youth. “Bullet Train is infuriatingly pleased with itself. And ground zero for this implosion of self-satisfaction is Pitt.“ It’s not as clever as it believes itself to be, but the action alone was almost worth it. Too many characters/cameos, too many doubles crosses. Probably about 15-20 minutes too long. Too much Thomas, not enough Japan.

Yes, because that’s exactly how I discuss movies… So let’s ask Brian to come up an example of one movie where I vehemently disagreed with him? One name. Brian. Fellow SoxTalk member. Am I allowed to write a poster’s name or is that some type of sacrosanct violation. Also, please provide supporting evidence or examples of cursing at other posters. Thanks, I’ll hang up and listen.

"The woman’s attorneys objected to dozens of Holley’s questions, but most were overruled by Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman. The judge allowed questions about the woman’s sexual relationships with San Diego Padres players Fernando Tatis Jr. and Mike Clevinger. Both players were mentioned in text messages sent by the woman to a cousin." https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2021-08-17/trevor-bauer-hearing-second-day-fernando-tatis-mike-clevinger https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34390882/san-diego-padres-star-fernando-tatis-suspended-80-games-here-everything-need-know

"Well said the Padres have a festering situation that isn’t being addressed, It started with the groupie girlfriend he passed around with Clevinger and Bauer. Then he hurts himself, doesn’t even get medical attention or obviously take off-season bp. One can only rightly assume he was hoping to pass his physical and blame the injury on spring training. This is a team leader? What else Don’t we know about this guy.?. It was my hope the Pads if they were to trade for Soto would have swapped Tatis for him and used the other trade capital to take down Castillo instead of watching Seattle get him. Even before the latest this since Westgate Park fan has been thru with him and would never want him taking a guy like Kim out of our lineup or anyone else." SDUnionTribune.com/sports Article comments section Had to throw in the "groupies" angle as well to add to the salaciousness of it all.

Caminiti is quite dead. Steroids related from all indications. OOPS! Oops below! "Padres expect to cap season-ticket sales for first time in 2023 The trade that brought Juan Soto and others to the Padres sparked a Wednesday sellout at Petco Park. Surging fan interest in the Padres, accelerated by trade-deadline moves that included the addition of 23-year-old superstar Juan Soto, is expected to cause the franchise to implement the first season-ticket-sales cap in history. CEO Erik Greupner told the Union-Tribune the club already has eclipsed the sales record of 18,808 established in 2004, the season Petco Park opened. New ticket requests for the 2023 season pushed that total to more than 20,200 since news of the Soto trade broke. “The fan response has been exceptional,” Greupner said. “Right now, people are realizing, I don’t want to be on the outside looking in.” https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/story/2022-08-04/padres-season-ticket-cap-juan-soto-trade-deadline-record-attendance

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/sports-columnists/story/2022-08-12/padres-fernando-tatis-jr-drug-suspension-juan-soto-homecoming Column: Fernando Tatis Jr. shows generational immaturity, selfishness with drug suspension Didn't inform Preller personally. Overshadowed Soto/Bell homecoming to Washington. Padres just changed zip code of ballpark area to Cloud Nine, lol. New Public Enemy #1 to replace Machado

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/story/2022-08-12/fernando-tatis-jr-suspended-80-games-for-ped-violation-padres https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/08/13/tatis-suspended-costs-padres-dream-season

Before he had even played a game stateside? Wouldn't it have made more sense to do it earlier (age 15-16) in order to increase his original paltry signing bonus? Steroids helped him grow 2 1/2 inches too?

Just impressed someone can actually identify Frank and are they ones or hundreds? Need to take lessons from Floyd Mayweather if that's the case.

Surely they can send that out with season ticket renewal notices... 1) Most publicity for Padres in franchise history in one week...well maybe 1984 World Series. 2) Team will rally together..."this is my team on the court/field" effect. Kim, Profar and now Grisham playing with confidence. Nobody will wait for Tatis to come back and save the franchise. 3) Tatis will have to work harder than he ever has because of the cloud of suspicion hanging over next season and even the validity of his contract. 4) Team has easiest schedule in baseball the next three weeks. Fathom asked for "spin," lol.

See other thread in Diamond whatever section. Two threads concurrent.

Did another team claim him first? Hard to imagine who, but they had the chance to work out a trade if they were legitimately interested.

Prince Fielder's wife. That's the next box to tick off for Tatis this year. Maybe there's an ethics clause to negate his deal.

Invite Avi up from Miami. Davey Martinez, too.

He would just claim those are the three area codes where his groupies are...

Let's go Tony/LaRussa!

Or water vapor...

Emeritus. Stipend? Blame him for poor Ron's cursed Madrigal year with the Cubs too. Tainted by association.

Robert battling for most time missed in early career of any player east of the Mississippi.

Signing Elijah Tatis was brilliant.

DiegoDuder 42 minutes ago You know who's having a worse day than all of us? The kid whose parents named him after Tatis. thumb_up1reply share flag remove el-mariachi-mike 33 minutes ago reply In reply to DiegoDuder BAH I already regret the Tatis shirt I bought my son a few weeks ago. thumb_up2reply share flag remove DiegoDuder 31 minutes ago reply In reply to el-mariachi-mike I just realized Tatis fulfilled the Madden cover curse, but for MLB The Show. thumb_up1reply share flag remove diverik 28 minutes ago (Edited) reply In reply to el-mariachi-mike I bought a Jersey 2 months before the Padres played in Florida for n August . It arrived during the postseason after they had dropped so far. Never wore it. Was gonna break it out this year now it will be at least 2 years old when I first put it on.If ever. thumb_upreply share flag remove CrAzYtheDj 22 minutes ago (Edited) reply In reply to diverik This is why I will only ever buy retired players jerseys or my own custom. They can't be traded, they can't go elsewhere, and disappointment has already been processed (unless it's an O.J. or Tony LaRussa situation). thumb_up1reply share flag DiegoDuder 19 minutes ago (Edited) reply In reply to CrAzYtheDj I would hope if Tatis killed someone people wouldn't blame Preller for that too