Scott White

Fantasy Baseball writer for CBS, regular on @FBTpod and host of NES podcast "All That's Fit for 8 Bits." Fan of all sports Atlanta and/or Georgia.

[Scott White @CBSScottWhite]

@PatThiede N ... no ...

Did I make an unintentional reference?

[Scott White @CBSScottWhite]

Woof

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Diamondbacks ace Corbin Burnes has setback in his recovery from Tommy John surgery with a lat strain and will be shut down. Diamondbacks are hoping he can return in September

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@BallplayerSATX Sure

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Latest Prospects Report puts James Tibbs and River Ryan at the top of the stashable heap: https://t.co/7pUviUMDYb

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@lombardo2424 Oh, come on. He doesn't become a better pitcher if that last out is recorded. He got 34 more starts after that to prove he belonged.

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Made for a really touching story about accountability and grace, though. I'm moved every time I think about it and, thus, grateful it happened.

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16 years ago, the worst call in sports history

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@tbowmonster507 Cost him money? Only in a theoretical sense. There's a reason why Armando Galarraga is more well known than Philip Humber.

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@lombardo2424 Sure, but there's no going back in time. There's only admitting fault, asking forgiveness, and extending grace. And so rarely do those redemptive steps happen, particularly as heart-wrenchingly as they did here. To err is human, to forgive is divine. We saw the divine.

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@mlbbowman Ronald the conspiracist.

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@tbowmonster507 Care to explain? Because it seems weird to me to find that weird.

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@Philly_Phill_ Exactly. That's where the accountability comes into play. He was in tatters, not just the next day but that night. How often do we see a game official take ownership of a mistake like that? Just like that, the sympathy shifted from not just Galarraga but both principle figures.

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@RexEnigma Umm ... what feed are you looking at? Any chance it could be a chaching issue? We've continued to record on a regular schedule.

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@revongorges Ah, yes ... relishing a sincere demonstration of humility and grace is so contemptible than you can no longer abide anything I say. A sensible position.

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The IL is so jam-packed with fantasy-relevant talent now that I had to go 60-deep in the latest stash rankings: https://t.co/abCrz7X4Ye

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Is Trevor Megill back to being the Brewers closer? Is Louis Varland still the Blue Jays closer? What will the Royals do about Lucas Erceg? I look at 10 of the most volatile closer situations in the latest Bullpen Report: https://t.co/udhmu2Yjht

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@RobSilver @BCB_Sara I don't think avoiding poverty is the only standard of wealth management.

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Just like I can afford a bigger house and a nicer car, but there are tradeoffs to these things. I've decided I'd be stretched too thin in other areas if I pushed to the max of what the bank says I can afford (or anywhere close, really), so I don't. And then when someone asks why I'm not driving *that* car instead, I say "can't afford to."

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To be clear: The Tigers can absolutely afford to pay Tarik Skubal what he is worth. They are CHOOSING to trade him for prospect value rather than pay him.

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That's not really *my* point, but just to entertain the idea ...

Google tells me the Ilitch family is worth about $7 billion. Let's say the average 45-year-old has a net worth of $500,000, which is reasonable if they have some home equity and have been consistently feeding their retirement accounts (the mean is quite a bit higher, actually, though it's skewed upward by outliers).

Let's say Tarik Skubal will command a $500 million contract. Well, that's 7.1 percent of the Ilitch family's worth. What's 7.1 percent of the average 45-year-old's net worth? $35,500. I think the average 45-year-old would be very reluctant to sink that much money into anything, particularly an asset as volatile as an MLB pitcher.

Obviously, that's a rudimentary way of looking at things, but when gauging the reasonableness of something -- not whether it's "best" but whether it's "reasonable" -- the rudimentary gets you pretty far.

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@jkrodgers Or the lack of salary cap, rather, but you know what I meant.

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@jkrodgers Yeah, I don't think the salary cap is to blame. I may have missed that connection. Sounds more like posturing if that's the claim they're making.