Hypothetical: You’re the owner of an MLB team. I offer to take $0 salary and sign a minor league contract and go to Low A.
If the “he sucks now” crowd is right and I get lit up, you cut me, lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.
If the “clubhouse cancer” crowd is right, you see it immediately at Low A and cut me. You lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.
If there’s massive negative PR, which we already know there won’t be, you just cut me and move on. The story is dead in a couple days, you lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club.
But, assuming none of those things happen, which they obviously wouldn’t, if you like what you see, you can promote me to AA and re evaluate me there. Then AAA. Then the big leagues. If I earn it, which you’d be 100% in control of deciding. If you don’t think I’m good enough, you lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.
You could take away my “antics”. You could take away my social media. You could ask anything of me. If I don’t comply, you cut me, lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club.
What logical reason is there to not do this? At worst, you cut me and there’s no risk to the big league club. At best, you get a Cy Young winner for $0 who you know can still pitch and could help the big league team if and when you see fit.
Is there a better life to live after baseball than the one Ichiro is living? show up to the yard, Play catch, shag BP, launch nukes & then watch a MLB game in the best seat in the house. If there is a HOF for HOF’rs based on how cool their life is after baseball-Ichiro is in it!
I believe Alex Cora did such a strong job in Boston that anything that went wrong was always going to fall on him. Boston is a city that can’t stand being out of the hunt… just like Philadelphia. I would call it the curse of the East.
Yaxel Lendeborg se convierte en el cuarto dominicano en ganar el título de la NCAA. Se une al exclusivo grupo integrado por:
Charlie Villanueva — 2004 — UConn
Al Horford — 2006 y 2007 — Florida
Eloy Vargas — 2012 — Kentucky
Alec Bohm's parents used money from his own charitable foundation to pay their personal bills.
Not just his MLB salary. Not just the investment accounts they set up without telling him what was in them. His charity. The Alec Bohm Foundation. They took from that too.
And when Bohm finally asked for account statements and login info in January, they hired a lawyer instead of answering. Seven years of this. LLCs they controlled, accounts he couldn't access, millions funneled away from a guy who trusted the two people you're supposed to be able to trust. The lawsuit is asking for $3 million minimum.
Now I'm seeing people online saying he should be grateful because they raised him. I genuinely don't know what to say to that. They raised him and then allegedly robbed him for the better part of a decade. That's not a defense. That's the whole point. It only worked because he trusted them.
Theft is theft. The people who did it don't get a discount because they're family.