One of the finer points of the MLBPA's proposal last week: the union asked MLB to publicly release some financial information, including how much each team gets in local revenue sharing.
On "opening the books," in this @chadjennings22 mailbag:
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Exactly. Tampa made the WS in 2020, they are the best team in baseball this year. The Brewers were the best team in baseball last year. Mets are top 3 payroll and are one of the worst teams in the league. The Jays are top 5 payroll under .500 right now. The Dodgers winning back to back broke peoples’ brains.
@JeffPassan Please no salary cap. Fix the owner spending issue. Cap penalizes players for their earnings rather than forcing owners to spend. I was a fan of it initially for the NHL for competitive balance, but over time, it’s just crushed the ceiling for player earnings.
@mark818874@theknoxhill I also really like the production and his delivery is fun, but there is not much complexity to what he says or how he says it at all. Nothing Was The Same is still peak Drake for me and no album in the last 10 years of his has convinced me otherwise.
@laurynslounge I really didn’t like the voice switch ups in his music and it turned me off of a lot of his early music until he found a way to apply it differently on his later albums.
@CRedd11 I enjoyed this thread of valid critiques of Kendrick and his catalogue before butthurt Drake fans entered the chat. Both fanbases have become entirely insufferable since the beef.
To the Toronto Family
The person in this photo is Yoshinobu Takahashi.
He is a former superstar of the Yomiuri Giants—the same team Kazuma Okamoto played for in Japan. After retiring as a player, he became the Giants' manager.
It was under Takahashi’s management that Kazuma Okamoto truly blossomed as a home run hitter. In fact, when Okamoto became the youngest player in NPB history to hit .300 with 30 home runs and 100 RBIs in a single season, Takahashi was his manager.
While this is my personal view, I believe Takahashi played a key role in nurturing Okamoto’s talent.
Currently, he works as a baseball commentator for a television station.