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=nymr83 post_id=29695 time=1579036179 user_id=54]Luhnow may have other issues with the whole Taubman thing. Hinch is widely respected as a manager and the investigation found he didnt create or involve himself in the scheme and even tried (half-heartedly?) to destroy the equipment involved. he is being punished for not stopping it, but i think he is still pretty damn employable.

Oh and the 8 scoring categories are R, HR, OBP, SLG, K, HR/9, ERA, and WHIP.

It's a 12-team league. You will inherit a team -- I think there are openings still for this season, but I'm not the commissioner -- with a maximum total value of $400. Your first task will be to decide which of your players are worth their current salary, and which you'd be better off cutting to the free agent pool. There will be an auction draft of players in the free agent pool in March. (Major-league player salaries all go up $2 at the end of the season, plus individual salaries can be further jacked up by the "arbitration" process, in which your rivals decide which of your players deserve more money. So don't assume only bad players wind up in the free agent pool. Bryan Harper is a current free agent, for example.) You can only spend up to $400, and you can only fill 40 roster slots. Minor leaguers are eligible to be drafted as well. During the season, an owner nominates a player to be added from the free agent pool, and all owners will have two days (I think) to bid on that player. The highest bidder gets the player and pays the cost. Cutting a player during the season gets you half their salary back. Trades are allowed, and can include money as well as players, but to this point they've really been rare in our league. .

I'm not sure winning Ottoneu once qualifies me...

I have to think that Cora is getting at least two years out of this. Probably more, since he is more directly guilty than Hinch and has done it for two teams. The onus is now on managers and GMs to out anybody they know is doing this. That is probably the only way to enforce this, but their jobs just got a lot harder. So what do we do with Beltran, knowing he was a willing and active participant in this?

Wow, I figured they'd get a week. I have no problem with dropping the hammer, but the league had better be prepared to follow through if the situation turns out not to be unique.

Good defender, seemed to be a good clubhouse guy, but his hitting approach was not a good fit for Citi Field. I agree with JLB that he did what he was asked. He certainly played to realistic expectations this past season.

I don't think that agreeing to a contract before arbitration necessarily takes him off the block. If anything, knowing his salary will make it easier for prospective buyers to plan. The Red Sox might be concerned that they can't compete with the Yankees in the last year they'll have Betts, in which case trading Betts makes some sense. But they won't take their time rebuilding, so they probably don't really want prospects unless they will graduate this year. And I'm guessing they'd want established major leaguers under control for at least three years; trading one year of Betts for two years of Thor, one of which they'd be punting, doesn't sound like a fit to me. Diaz maybe, but they'd need confidence that he's a quick and easy fix. As for the Mets' side of things... how many likely good seasons from different players do you part with for one year of Betts? It could be a Johan thing, where you get the opportunity to extend him for quite a while, but that didn't work out the way we all planned. If I was sure Betts was the last piece, and worth downgrading our pitching staff to get for one year, I'd be more willing. As it stands, I'm more interested in him next offseason.

Laughing to keep from crying. Because politics apparently wasn't making me do enough of that.

They were New York City's one World Series team of the decade.

The Forbes article cites "baseball insiders." Not sure what that means. I also think it's more likely that the Wilpons are that deeply in debt than the team is, unless the stadium has been a far bigger money-suck than we know about. I've seen no evidence that team revenues are bad enough to cause that kind of issue, especially with payroll being relatively low.

Two player options, from MLBTR. Don't know the numbers yet. I'd be OK with that if the guaranteed money is relatively small.

I'm all in on Guillorme being an above average sixth infielder.

That's two pitchers (the other being Bumgarner) I'd have rated ahead of Wheeler who signed for less. Plus I think the Rangers got a huge discount on Kluber. Even if you you chose not to outbid the Yankees on Cole, there was value to be had on quality.

I figure that the Yankees realized that Ellsbury was willing/able to play this year, which meant that insurance wouldn't cover any of his salary, so they tried something desperate. Like I said in a different thread, voiding the contract over unauthorized treatment only makes sense if Ellsbury's actions made him lose more time (like Cespedes' actions did). So Cespedes basically flushed 35 million dollars down the toilet by doing something he had to know his contract didn't allow. (That or his agent at the time was comically incompetent, but we'll stick with the former for sanity's sake.) I realize he still has plenty of money, but Jesus Christ he flushed 35 million dollars down the toilet. I don't see Cespedes playing any place other than DH, although I suspect he's healthy enough to do that much. If an AL wants him for his current price, I see no reason not to talk trade.

Well it will be easy to root for one of us, at least.

He only has 3 WAR over his past three seasons, so there's a real limit to what I'd guarantee in salary for his upside. But he's been close to unhittable when healthy. I'd probably go $5M, with generous incentives.

Not that I'm aware of. I'd consider Posey to be the face of the Giants for as long as he wants it, Bumgarner's performance in that one World Series notwithstanding. I doubt seriously it affects MLB either way. That the Giants seemed to be OK with him pitching for somebody else (and a division rival at that) could simply be a business decision.

Bumgarner just turned 30 (as somebody else pointed out, he has less than a year on Wheeler). His numbers, other than the long ball, were very good last year. It might only take a real baseball to put him back in the upper echelon of starting pitchers, plus it's not abnormal for pitchers to move up their second full season after an injury. Getting him for $33M less than Wheeler was highway robbery.

Kluber would have cost the Mets as much money this season as Wacha and Porcello. The Rangers ponied up a glove-first centerfielder and a relief prospect. That was a more than agreeable price for a guy who was as good as DeGrom from 2014-2018.

=41Forever post_id=28247 time=1576160381 user_id=69] =Centerfield post_id=28246 time=1576160115 user_id=65] One year deal. Per Ken Rosenthal.

Awesome one season and eh for the other 10. Appears to be heading in the wrong direction. Well at least it makes the Wacha signing look like a good depth signing. But it doesn't come close to replacing Wheeler.

More than anything else, it's and indication that the Yankees are going back to the George Steinbrenner era of being the beast when it comes to spending. George's kids had been good soldiers, bringing the Yankees' payroll from 85% of team revenue to 35% (I forget the article where I saw that number) and allowing the rest of the league to keep spending down. Then (a) the players union noticed that revenues have skyrocketed but players' salaries have plateaued, and ( the Yankees noticed that the 2010s came and went, and the World Series came to New York City once and it wasn't to the Bronx. So now teams are throwing money at players again, and the Yankees are leading the way. The more things change... As for where that leaves the Mets? I see getting one of Ryu, Bumgarner, or Keuchel as a necessity and not a luxury, and the team had better be prepared to pay. The alternative is accepting fourth place in the division.

Marte's fielding WAR was 5.2 in 2018 and minus 5.7 in 2019. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/starling-marte/9241/stats?position=OFhttps://www.fangraphs.com/players/starling-marte/9241/stats?position=OF\ Maybe it was a down year. Or maybe he was playing through an injury. Or maybe a guy whose value is largely based on his speed makes for a dubious investment once he hits 30.

Marte's fielding WAR was 5.2 in 2018 and minus 5.7 in 2019. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/starling-marte/9241/stats?position=OFhttps://www.fangraphs.com/players/starling-marte/9241/stats?position=OF\ Maybe it was a down year. Or maybe he was playing through an injury. Or maybe a guy whose value is largely based on his speed makes for a dubious investment once they hit 30.