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https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/02/details-on-nick-pivettas-contract-with-padres.html Yesterday, Ronald Blum of the Associated Press provided some new details that had not been previously reported. "The new details revolve around contingencies for the Padres if Pivetta gets injured. Pivetta’s $14MM salary in 2027 becomes a club option “if at any point through 2026 he has a specified injury or surgery related to the injury and is on the injured list for more than 130 consecutive days in any season or in a one-year period.” Blum mentions that Pivetta spent time on the injured list in 2024 due to a right elbow flexor strain, implying that the contract provision relates to a significant elbow surgery."

"The end of ESPN’s relationship with Major League Baseball is not limited to television. ESPN Radio will no longer carry national Major League Baseball after this season, ending its 27-year run as the exclusive national radio parter of MLB. The last national MLB game that was not carried by ESPN Radio was Game 7 of the 1997 World Series, which was broadcast by CBS Radio. While ESPN Radio does not attract as much attention as the flagship ESPN TV network, the radio contract has given the company a presence at every World Series and MLB All-Star Game dating back to 1998." https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/02/espn-mlb-split-includes-radio-streaming/

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/12/indians-carlos-carrasco-feeling-baseballs-love-after-cancer-diagnosis/ And his teammate Carlos Carrasco at that time...

KEY POINT “Because people are are talking about this (the Clevinger-Pogofsky relationship) as established fact, it needs to be pointed out that is a completely unsubstantiated Twitter rumor from an unverified source, propagated by individuals with an axe to grind. A Twitter use who advocates for Olivia Finestead (Clevinger’s ex who accused him of abuse during their custody battle) posted a screenshot she claimed that Finestead had received from an anonymous texter, which related a story the texter claimed to have heard (they didn’t even claim to have witnessed it firsthand). So for all of this to be true, we are assuming not only that all of the parties involved— the Twitter user, Finestead, and the anonymous texter— are all acting in good faith; we are also assuming the anonymous texter actually got the story correct and isn’t just misinformed. Sure, it’s entirely possible that it’s true, but there’s absolutely no way to know. It’s pure gossip at this point. Bernstein and Holmes always rep themselves as actual journalists; and the fact that they keep hinting at this rumor on-air and leaving breadcrumbs for their listeners just shows how low they’ll sink when it suits their narrative.”

Pretty darned close to the plot of Major League...including a rickety plane compared to the rest of MLB. We don't even get a bikini cutout and crusty manager Lou Brown.

Investing significant money in a pitcher (Sunshine) who’s had a history of injuries likely isn’t what the Padres front office wants to do. And the bottom line is he pitched just 2.2 innings, allowing seven earned runs in his two postseason games this season. Of course we all know he wasn’t able to get a single out in Philadelphia after the offense gave him the luxury of a four-run lead before he even took the mound. While he didn’t perform in the postseason, I did feel for him when he said the day of Game 4 was one of the worst days of his life. He wanted to help this team win so bad so it sucked to see him struggle (as it does to see any Padre struggle). I would be fine if he returned on a team-friendly deal but money could probably be better spent elsewhere this winter. This was Clevinger coming out of 2022... https://www.gaslampball.com/2022/10/28/23425641/2022-padres-player-review-mike-clevinger

https://sports.yahoo.com/video/mlb-26-under-rankings-big-000955609.html Teams 16-20 20. Minnesota Twins 19. KC Royals 18. Oakland/Sacramento A's 17. Chicago Cubs 16. St. Louis Cardinals Obviously, the biggest teams for the White Sox to be concerned with are going to be the Guardians and Tigers. https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/mlb-26-and-under-power-rankings-nos-20-16-bobby-witt-jr-lawrence-butler-pete-crow-armstrong-already-making-an-impact-170152887.html

Looking beyond the obvious contenders (Comcast--used to have exclusive Sunday AM broadcasts, Peacock/NBC, Paramount, FOX, Apple, Amazon), the broadcast “netlets” are both hungry for sports programming and legitimacy, and as such may be more willing to pay to get their foot in the “Big Four” door. Nexstar’s CW just attracted 1.8 million for last weekend’s NASCAR Xfinity Series season opener, the first race of its new $115 million/year rights deal and the largest audience for the series in three years. Scripps had success with Friday night WNBA last year and is expected, along with CBS, to renew for upwards of $100 million/year. Ultimately, leagues tend to get the kind of money they are looking for, and one imagines Manfred would not be so bold if he did not have a suitable replacement for ESPN waiting in the wings. Yet given how baseball has handled its national rights negotiations so far, one cannot completely rule out the possibility that the league has simply botched the negotiations. https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/02/mlb-espn-split-blame-media-strategy-roku-apple-deals/

They've already paid this guy $15 million between 2023 and 2024...and he's recorded 2.2 and -0.1 fWAR's. 2.1 isn't a terrible payoff for a FA contract based on that amount, but the public relations and clubhouse chemistry hits alone aren't worth that level of performance. And then you want to reintroduce him to your clubhouse of lots of young players just breaking into the big leagues for the very first time??? WHY????? How does he represent White Sox culture that Venable and Getz are so desperately trying to inculcate??? 2020 0.7 $1.5 million CLE/SD (traded for Austin Hedges, Josh Naylor, Cal Quantrill and prospects Joey Cantillo, Gabriel Arias and Owen Miller, not one of Preller's best moves.) 2021 0.0 $5 million SD (injured, out for whole season) 2022 0.4 $7 million SD 2023 2.2 $8 million CHW 2024 -0.1 $4 million buyout, another $3 million contract ($7 million total) CHW Average=0.64 fWAR (3.2 fWAR total) over those last five years for $28.5 million ... the Padres couldn't move on fast enough, but the White Sox were so quick to INCREASE his salary after a 0.4 fWAR campaign in 2022. The guy has made $30,670,000 in his career already...do we need to contribute even more to his family? Finally, the entire baseball world must be laughing at the White Sox, yet again...why do we continually make ourselves a national laughingstock?

But a source with knowledge of ESPN’s approach to the negotiations disputed the idea that the split was mutual. The source told CNN that ESPN opted out of the contract and was surprised by Commissioner Rob Manfred’s note to MLB owners that the league and network had mutually agreed to end their relationship. The source noted that ESPN had an opt-out clause in the contract and decided to exercise it on Thursday. The move amounts to a big bet by MLB on its ability to attract new investment by a different company, whether that involves streaming or traditional cable companies. The market for media rights to live sports contests has become increasingly lucrative in recent years as sports remain some of the only consistent ratings draws for cable and broadcast networks. The league believes it is riding a wave of momentum and interest that should improve upon that ESPN deal. MLB drew its largest live attendance figures in seven years last season, drawing more than 71.3 million fans into ballparks during 2024. It also saw jumps in television viewership, including on ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball,” which is typically the premier game of the week and has been a staple of the baseball weekly viewing schedule for years. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/sport/espn-mlb-end-relationship-spt/index.html

Cue up the "no way he even makes the team as an NRI," brigade, he's just rotation insurance...nothing here to see.

Jose Quintana has supposedly been rejected by the Mets and now the Pirates (signed Andrew Heaney instead)...wouldn't THAT be a much better story, ending his career with the White Sox, one that began 13 LONG years ago?

February 20th, 2025 at 11:03pm CST • By Anthony Franco The White Sox are in agreement with Mike Clevinger on a minor league deal, reports Robert Murray of FanSided. The ACES client receives a non-roster invite to Spring Training. More to come. The day the White Sox died...11:03 p.m. on a Thursday night. Not a Hahn Wednesday.

SSHM and Balta threatened to quit the board over this lol before..although have since seen the former name in the SoxMachine threads on Fegan Margalus Nelson articles. Same poster that always provided graphs facts background like Jay Cuda I guess. You go through all the trouble of casting out the so called bad apples from the 2022-23 25 man roster and THEN you disrespect your clubhouse and female fanbase by deliberately counting more controversy? This is dumb in so many ways they're impossible to count. What the heck is Venable thinking about all this? Surely he was notified? Too early for April Fool's right?

Well, he does at least have a PLUS RFer's arm. Madrigal...I guess he had a hit tool, in theory, for average/contact. More like 75% of one tool, lol.

The same reason the Boston Red Sox might prefer Benintendi over Yoshida...they might think he would be "reinvigorated" to play for the team where he used to almost be accorded "hero status," for example, a new lease on life for Colas, no longer an "indentured servant," can just be himself, etc. In fact, Andrew Benintendi was the ONE completely unavailable player that Boston refused Hahn from acquiring in the Chris Sale trade. The other arguments about that trade typically have been about including Devers as the 3rd player instead of Basabe/Diaz. Or magically wishing they'd acquired Devers INSTEAD of Moncada, that's yet another recrimination. Maybe the Cubs see something in him the White Sox don't (as pretty much every MLB playoff team did last year with any Sox relievers that came onto the market)....who knows? Reconverting him to pitching? Anything's possible I guess.

I don't know if I'm buying it so much as I never bothered to cancel it and it automatically renews every year....the video is very inconsistent in my new apartment here in China, but I still enjoy listening to all the games (listened to the Dodgers' feed this morning to go to sleep between 4-6 a.m., lol) and sometimes listening to DJ/Len when the spirit strikes me. They have GameDay Audio, but I look at it as my little small tiny insignificant contribution to MLB from afar.

Scared of who they pick from the lower minors who's not on the 40 man roster at present time. Wilfred Veras, not sure they'd have any interest. Is he even an outfielder, or more a corner IF guy at present? Maybe Eder, Carela, Nastrini?...Mason Adams might be too highly thought of by some in the organization.

Maybe trade Colas to them...or Fletcher. Although theoretically Colas MIGHT be able to play 1st...can't imagine him suddenly putting up the 850ish plus OPS numbers required for the position. Ofc, Vaughn's been lucky to post 700ish and he got rewarded for that season with almost a $6 million contract. At any rate, Colas Julks DeLoach and Fletcher all seem ticketed for Charlotte at this point.

Except to Getz's ego. Because McCarthy's 3+ fWAR performance last year has been beaten over his head. Mena's, not quite so much...but still has potential, like Yhoiker Fajardo will carry with him to Boston.

With SD...it's clearly a team overextended financially due to an abundance of $100+ million contracts attempting to fill in roster spots 16-25 with the cheapest players possible to make the number crunchers satisfied.

More importantly, Manfred cut to the core of the ESPN business model, saying that MLB does “not believe Pay TV, ESPN’s primary distribution platform, is the future of video distribution or the best platform for our content.” He cited subscriber figures for ESPN that are lower than any previously reported — 53.6 million homes as of December — and said MLB did not think it beneficial “to accept a smaller deal to remain on a shrinking platform.” Manfred’s broadside against cable is far from breaking new ground — it is likely that officials at all of the major leagues and conferences have said something similar privately — but it is worth noting that MLB still has significant ties to cable by way of its deal with Warner Bros. Discovery. https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/02/mlb-espn-deal-terminated-after-this-season-rob-manfred/