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Just here so I won’t get fined

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@EmeraldYard3 @TJStats @Jtalkhawk This should bother you less. How the Scout the Statline guy rated Sloan in May will have zero impact on his development or chances.

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@suchnerve Most large European countries are amalgamations of historical kingdoms with their own culture and languages, many of which are still spoken (Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Catalan, Occitan, Basque, Breton, etc.). Ever taken issue with someone referring to French/Spanish culture?

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@jayhaykid This isn’t basketball, where many of the best players earn more from endorsements than from salary. If anything not having baseball might drive more people to buy The Show, which would increase the licensing fees that fund the war chest.

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@jayhaykid Not sure players care as much about the PR battle as people think. The players don’t have anything near the owners’ operating costs, they’ve got a large war chest, and ultimately fans souring on the players enough that it turns them off baseball also hits the owners’ bottom line.

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@dezcaughtit99 @NYR_DYNMSK @AngryMariners Anything can happen in a short series.

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@dezcaughtit99 @NYR_DYNMSK @AngryMariners 3 of MLB’s 5 best records this year belong to Milwaukee, Tampa Bay, and Cleveland.

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@AngryMariners And the owners are motivated by altruism?

Screw that. I watch baseball to see the players, not the owners. My city funded a 9-figure stadium so I can watch baseball, not to line the owners’ pockets more. This is about control and paying players less than they’re worth.

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@noneofy4885416 @cast71289 @TridentTrue There is a floor. It’s just laughably low.

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@thejagepage If push really came to shove, players also have the option of breaking away and forming their own league. This was discussed at length back in ‘94-‘95. It wouldn’t be an easy path but it’s not impossible either. 1995 showed pretty conclusively nobody’s showing up to watch scabs.

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@thejagepage Counterpoint: players have way less reason to care about the court of public opinion than owners do. Players dont have massive operating costs, and ultimately a big hit to players’ images hurts the owners at least as much if it turns fans away from the game.

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@hi_ba_chi @TJStats @rockmeannadeus The floor the owners proposed was about 66% of the cap.

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@TJStats @hi_ba_chi @rockmeannadeus This is exactly what will happen.

The only floor that makes sense is increasing the league minimum to a level where young players aren’t so much cheaper than veterans that teams are incentivized to stockpile them.

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@SeahawksForever The proposed floor includes benefits - about $23 million per team.

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@sgraham03 @MarinerMuse The $171m number includes benefits, not just payroll. The real payroll cap in the way fans think of payroll’s around $150m give or take a few.

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@MarinerMuse "Including benefits" lowers that to about a $155m payroll floor. Still way more than teams like TB and Pittsburgh are going to want to pay. Hard to believe the owners will have a unified front on this.

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@keithlaw @TheAthletic How skeptical are you of Celesten's power? I saw you noted that all 4 HR have come at home and the only one I saw personally was to the right-center power alley, which is only 340 ft out. Evaluating Everett prospects must be maddening.

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@mike_petriello For sure. Just saying the folks who muse “if high-k pitchers are good high-k hitters must be bad” are kind of missing the boat on both counts. Punchout stuff’s necessary but not sufficient for Ps, much like poor contact is a dealbreaker for some hitters but not others.

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@mike_petriello To a lesser extent this works for pitchers too. Strikeouts are great but it's still not a great single metric to judge pitchers on. Eury Perez has a top-20 K% but he's been a below-average pitcher because he's given up a ton of walks (10.6% BB%) and HR (1.58/9).

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@mike_petriello Another way to look at it: of the 5 teams with the fewest strikeouts, only one (MIL) ranks in the top-10 in runs (7th). Of the teams with the 5 most, 2 of them do: PIT (5th) and CHW (8th).

Pretty good indication that Ks alone are a terrible way to judge hitters.

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@KyleLoney1 @Lyle_Goldstein Losses are fine. They happen. Dumb losses caused by terrible bullpen management aren't. This was the baseball equivalent of drawing to a low inside straight. It would've been dumb if it had worked, too. You don't use your 6th best option to protect a 1-run 9th inning lead.

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@KyleLoney1 @Lyle_Goldstein You do know that a guy with a .902 OPS against when facing batters for a second time is a terrible option to close out a 1-run game?