Bob Sacamano

I'm gonna go with no.

Sigh...as expected I suppose.

He actually makes sense for the Rangers if they want to bring him back for less than they gave up.

I don't think they will move Keuchel but I bet Kimbrel gets moved. It might be enough to bring in Conforto. I feel like he will sign for 4 years in the $64-$80 mill range, unless he gets a high AAV one year deal (higher than qualifying offer) somewhere.

At the current payroll? No, I don't think they would increase the payroll where they currently are at. I think they deal Kimbrel though and that will open space in the budget.

Defense defense defense Definitely not one of our strengths.

Conforto for RF and Simmons/Iglesias for 2B. Let’s go.

Depending on who else they sign, I could be open to number 3. Definitely no to the first 2.

This sucks

Then get rid of 2 teams and then realign. Either way you can’t do no inter league with the current setup.

Was waiting for this response. Didn’t take long.

I was thinking the same thing when I noticed it lol

This about sums it up from an MLBTR chat earlier this week and pretty much how I feel: Urban Shocker 12:02 After this week's labor discussions, are you more optimistic a deal will get done by mid-February? Steve Adams 12:04 I'm less optimistic. The more people we talk to in and around the game, the less likely it seems. It's great that the two sides talked, but what actual progress was there? MLB said OK to a bonus pool for pre-arb players, but they countered with $95MM less than the players wanted in that pool. (Admittedly, the players' $105MM pool seems ... aggressive.) MLB is willing to up the minimum salary, but barely at all. The proposed increase doesn't even match inflation. When you consider that the min. salary should've been expected to rise to ~$580K this year anyhow, in keeping pace with the prior CBA, they're offering about $35K extra -- less than a 6% increase. That's in no way proportional to the increase in MLB revenues since the onset of the prior CBA. 12:05 That doesn't even get into the league's apparent offer of a lottery pick for the top three spots in the draft, which is mostly a nothingburger. No team that tanks right now is doing so under the guarantee it'll get the top pick. Tanking teams are happy to land in the top three, so that changes nothing really. 12:06 It just doesn't feel like there's been anything meaningful other than the fact that the two parties actual sat down Monday and weren't SO pissed off at one another that they refused to do it a second time. The "progress" that's been made is extremely minimal.

Yeah. It was cool they talked earlie this week but in all honesty, nothing was accomplished.

I picked 2/8 as the date an agreement would be reached (MLBTR had a contest to predict the date). I am not optimistic on that pick.

I don’t man. I feel like they could be stupid and do it. It wouldn’t really shock me.

There was talk of expansion prior to Covid so if they eventually add two teams, each league could have 16 teams. Still, I don't think they would do away with interleague play. I would keep it consistent though and just have it be the same every year (ALC vs NLC, ALE vs NLE, etc.). There probably have to be some re-alignment to make it work though.

So let me get this straight, you believe with no changes right now, with 15 teams in each league, they can do away with inter league play? You’re clearly not understanding why this does not work haha

But with odd number of teams in each league, there is a team that doesn’t play for a few days without making changes. I don’t know how you’re not grasping this concept haha

Can’t do it with the current alignment as I stated.

Odd number of teams in each league so can’t do that. Unless you move one team to the other league or add 2 new teams to the MLB.

What do you do about interleague play in a balanced schedule?

Reading the Twitter thread, it doesn’t look like the article is even suggesting this to be true.

I wonder why he took so long to come over. I'm suprised he didn't try to come directly over before his time in Japan.

It was what, $210 mill last year? Meet in the middle at like $230 mill.