TheFutureIsNear

Lol wow. Just wow

Bennetti is good, not great. Certainly nothing to b**** about. Especially whatever character flaws OP is dealing with and trying to project... I do agree the chemistry with him and Stone isn’t the best though. They try to play up the new school vs old school shtick too much and need to drop the banter at times. Then again, we are talking about 3 straight years of pretty horrific baseball to watch in general so it’s possible the pair will be better when the team is actually playing meaningful baseball games in a playoff hunt. Also 10x better than what Hawk was his last 5 or so years

36-24...don’t doubt this team can score 300+ runs in a 60 game season, just a matter of not letting up more than that. Cease, Lopez, G. Gonzalez, Rodon, Colome, Herrera...I can see how well the season goes hinging on those arms. Unless someone else steps up

I still don’t understand why there’s no talk of adjustment by these owners. You’re telling me these guys worked their way up to being billionaire owners of sports franchises and now all they can do is just sit on their hands and cry poor? They should be trying to sell every inch of empty stadium space for advertising, creating new team products, set up a beer garden/restaurant outside the stadium during games, etc...I feel like nothing has been attempted what so ever so help the situation. Makes no sense to me

Kinda hard to imagine any teams are looking to add any kind of significant salary increases at the moment.

I got the complete opposite. Sounds like he knows something, but also knows he’s not supposed to say anything about the situation. But regardless, he didn’t need to say what he did at all. Coop has been around a long time and should know not to give the media anything they can run with. This just added more public speculation and gossip that I’m sure Kopech really doesn’t need

16 seems like a lot of pitchers. No thanks to Detweiler ever again. And I just don’t think Fulmer can hack it, although I understand that he will be give a shot to start the season. I’d like to see another athletic OF’er that can play D and run instead of Detweiler, but not sure that guy is ready and in the organization currently. Madrigal will take over for a P or Cuthbert eventually.

I remember a lot of posts on this board like 2 years(?) ago saying we need to make a trade because we had too many good young pitchers. Fast forward 2 years... Rodon is completely unreliable Fulmer is all but a lost cause Hansen isn’t who we thought he was Dunning got hurt And guys like Adams and Stephens just didn’t pan out Obviously our MLB roster is a lot further along than it was at that time, but still way too many variables to start counting chickens

To me the owners crying poor over the lost revenue from ticket sales is just lazy. Adapt or die. -Empty seats? Sounds like a ton of advertising space to me. -Fans stuck at home? Get more creative with your merchandising to target that. “At home ballpark experience bundle” (or something like that and more) -Sell more games to more networks -Have a discount sale on mlb.tv and the sales would probably skyrocket If anything the owners should be pushing to get back as soon as possible. Being the only televised sport at a time when people’s mouths are watering for any kind of sport to watch sounds like a gold mine if you ask me.

Not sure how I would feel if I were a resident of AZ...hopefully things will be under control by then, but 1000’s of people suddenly flooding 1 relatively small area doesn’t seem like the best ideas in general. Guys would be coming from all of the US + other countries. I want baseball of course...I just think if they can’t play in home stadiums by July (fans or not), we are unfortunately going to be in more trouble than we realize. But I don’t think that will be the case, I think they will get at least 1/2 a season in regular stadiums

Weird that Putnam seemingly never recovered from TJ...that’s pretty rare nowadays. Would be nice if he can get healthy and provide some useful innings again....obviously not even remotely counting on it

Send it to me too please, may be interested

Sox need to get on the curve before they can get ahead, but yes, nice to see more effort

.280/.330/.520 with 40 hrs and 100 rbi I feel like that is pretty realistic and would be great production for us

Yeah I get that he’s a cub and all, but the rules are clearly unfair for the players imo. I have no problem with Bryant fighting for $ from a billionaire owner. But the players did also approve the CBA so is what it is for now. Hopefully there will be a lot of changes coming up

Seriously, who’s willing to ship me a 12 pack

Would love to look up a thread from 2 years ago...1/2 of this board had Covey penciled into the rotation for 5+ years

While I agree that end of the day winning trumps all...BUT, what the Rays front office has done with their payroll is pretty amazing. Their scouting department probably deserves most of the credit, they are the kings of finding the most value other teams can’t. Wouldn’t shock me if this is another 1 of those cases. Of course they aren’t infallible either so this could easily blow up in their faces

Definitely a puzzling trade...but Jose Martinez definitely seems like the type of guy that will go to the Rays and have a career year for no apparent reason. I fully expect .800+ OPS with 40 bombs...for $2 mil + 2 arb years after. It’s just what the Rays do, I’ve stopped questioning them

I thought so too. He’s nowhere near dominant, but he’s been pretty consistently solid. K’s and swing and miss % took a pretty big dip last year, not sure if there’s more to it than we realize? Seems like most teams avoided him for some reason

Rondon to Dbacks for pretty damn cheap. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/01/diamondbacks-sign-hector-rondon.html

Sure...I was struggling more with the stud part lol

I’m surprised it took this long for someone to point out how crazy it is to call Mazara a young stud

Guess I’m alone that I would have been happy with this deal. Sure, maybe the 3rd year would be a waste, but I think Harris will have excess value at 2/16. He’s been consistently getting it done for a long time, I see no obvious reasons that he will suddenly fall off.