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#2 is one of the breakout stars of Ken Burns's Baseball documentary -- Buck O'Neill.

=smg58 post_id=54680 time=1611512702 user_id=62] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=54674 time=1611462382 user_id=68] I'll tell you this much, the Realmuto whiff never made much sense to me, especially the line that they wouldn't have been able to trade for Lindor if they had signed Realmuto instead of McCann.

Mexico's in Central America as far as I'm concerned. So is Madagascar.

=bmfc1 post_id=54684 time=1611528447 user_id=73] The previous two comments are logical and can be read together: they didn't want to be committed to Realmuto long-term when Alvarez might be ready during that period;

I'll tell you this much, the Realmuto whiff never made much sense to me, especially the line that they wouldn't have been able to trade for Lindor if they had signed Realmuto instead of McCann.

Because you dont know how the Mets are defining "value". How fluky do they think Mccann's improvement is? Or do they think that maybe he Daniel Murphy'd his way into a new and better level of good? And how much of the price or salary is included in value. It might be more for one team than for another. So how true is it that the Mets are gonna focus on quality instead of the price? Also, Realmuto and Springer are off the board so I'm not sure how relevant it is to compare Bauer's potential contract to the contracts of those two. And maybe the Mets were counting on getting some of their cumulative team value from Realmuto or Springer but now are trying to make it up through Bauer. Also, we might never know, but maybe the Mets fucked up the Realmuto and Springer negotiations by playing too cute or too hard to get or by not acting with enough urgency and now regret it.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It's not so hard to understand. It says that by the time Cleon Jones was born, he had already been friends with Hank Aaron for eight years. That's what I was afraid of. Here's my very first strong Hank Aaron memory, which I still remember vividly to this day: It's 1970 and it's the first year I'm following baseball and collecting baseball cards. I walk to the neighborhood candy store to buy a few packs of baseball cards. I've already collected practically the entire current series and I'm down to needing two or three players to complete that series. So now I'm walking back home with my packs and I begin opening the packs in stride. The first player in the pack is a "double". I already have that card. I don't "need" it to complete the series, so I throw it away as I'm walking home. I do the same with the next card. And the next card. And the next 10 or 20 cards. There's a trail of brand new mint condition bubble gum smelling baseball cards with sharp pointy corners on the sidewalk in my wake. Eventually I come across a brand new 1970 Hank Aaron card. I stop for a few seconds to linger over this card. Stare at it. I'm a baseball newbie but I somehow know that Hank Aaron is one of the great ones. Still, I already have an Aaron card so I throw this double on the sidewalk, too, like I did with every other card from that haul of packs. That card, in that condition would be worth close to $1,000.00 bucks today.

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: That's up to him and his accountants. Doesn't mean that as a fan, you can't root for or against. It's also up to Cohen and his accountants whether or not to set the budget at $90M, as it would be up to the owner of any baseball team and his accountants whether or not to set the budget at $90M. Or $200M. Or $250M I hope for the team to be well run both on and off the field. That's not the same thing as rooting for the payroll of the 25-man roster to be at of above any specific number. Sometimes, it's impossible to separate the two. Anyone who, for example, was hoping that the Mets would've signed Springer was necessarily rooting for the Mets to exceed the luxury tax, whether they realized it or not.

Frayed Knot wrote: That's up to him and his accountants. Doesn't mean that as a fan, you can't root for or against. It's also up to Cohen and his accountants whether or not to set the budget at $90M, as it would be up to the owner of any baseball team and his accountants whether or not to set the budget at $90M. Or $200M. Or $250M

Fellow Mobile native Cleon Jones, other Mets react to Hank Aaron's death Anybody here who could decipher this lede is a better man than I. Cleon Jones, the Mets legend, was born in Mobile, Ala., eight years after Hank Aaron and the two became friends. https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-cleon-jones-mets-hank-aaron-20210122-2hva3g5gl5e7zivv773styvu6a-story.htmlhttps://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-cleon-jones-mets-hank-aaron-20210122-2hva3g5gl5e7zivv773styvu6a-story.html Hank died 20 years to the day that fellow Mobile Alabamian and legendary Met Tommie Agee died. Little know Met themed Hank Aaron trivia: In 1974, Aaron traveled to Japan to face off against Sadaharu Oh in a home run hitting contest. When Aaron realized that he forgotten to bring his bats with him, he borrowed one of Ed Kranepool's bats to use in the contest. Kranepool's bats were very similar in weight and length to Aaron's bats and the Mets happened to be touring Japan after the '74 season. [FIMG=444]https://i.redd.it/6fqop8tgeqa51.jpg[/FIMG]

=nymr83 post_id=54634 time=1611369515 user_id=54] I still think the luxury tax is a fake line. A negotiating tactic sort of line.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: He was only 34 when he hung it up. Plus, despite what he says in the article he was a free agent, but nobody hired him. I thought the same thing when I first read that. But then I wondered if Krane meant that if there was free agency earlier in his career, like say in the early 70s when he was in his prime yet a part-time or platoon player, he might've went somewhere else and been able to prolong his career by putting up good seasons over 500+ PA's.

Chad ochoseis wrote: I still have the following day's Daily News with the 715! AARON DOES IT! banner headline somewhere. I think it's in storage. I'm just slightly too young to remember 1969, so it's the first time I ever saw sports on the front page. I saved that newspaper too, which might be the first newspaper, or magazine I ever saved. Still have it. [FIMG=555]https://secure-images.rarenewspapers.com/ebayimgs/5.55.2012/image080.jpg[/FIMG] There's another version, or edition, featuring a Bill Gallo portrait. [FIMG=555]https://iconicauctions.com/ItemImages/000043/43076a_lg.jpeg[/FIMG] Aaron and Seaver were close friends.

"Indian" Bob Johnson: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/johnsbo01.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/johnsbo01.shtml Better than Bonds and Clemens?

Well, this is unexpected. #3 - Barry Bonds

Frayed Knot wrote: ... without the fear of hitching yourself to an expensive six year deal where you wind up paying someone in his 30s based on the production he gave some other team while in his 20s So when that time comes, you dump him and eat the salary. That's what the Dodgers are doing. That's what the Yankees always do and they haven't had a losing record in 30 years. 30!. That's the advantage of having more money than just about everybody else. I can live without Springer on the Mets. Lindor was the best catch anyways, by far. And the upgrade from Amed and Gimenez to Lindor will be bigger than the upgrade from whoever would've been the odd man out from acquiring Springer to Springer himself. Springer won't be the same player at the end of his contract that he is today and he might not be able to play center well before he gets to the end of his new contract. And Lindor's a better player than Springer right now, as we speak. And write. And while we might not have yet seen the best of Lindor, we likely have already seen the best of Springer. Springer will decline. So will Lindor, eventually, but probably not before he gets better than he already is. What annoys the shit out of me though, is this apparent line in the sand drawn at the luxury tax. Oooooh! The luxury tax.

Anyone who is HOF eligible right now can make his list. That means no active players. He's got plenty of Negro Leaguers on his list and 19th century players, too. He's also got ineligible (banned) players on his list -- Shoeless Joe and Pete Rose. One category I'm not sure of is whether players who are still appearing on the initial HOF ballot without having fallen off that ballot are eligible for his list, but I assume no because he's named 97 players already and no one from that category has made his 100 yet.

I didn't know that Japanese league only players were eligible for induction into the HOF in Cooperstown.

A-Rod's not yet eligible, I don't think. He'll appear on the next HOF ballot for the first time ever. No active players. Clemens -- seven Cy Young awards!

#4 - Roger Clemens So who would rank higher than Clemens besides Barry Bonds?

There's no shame in losing out to the Blue Jays in the Springer Sweepstakes. The Jays might even have more money than the Mets. The Jays' ownership has long acted as if they're somehow a small-market team, but the truth is they play in Canada's largest city, in a market that is huge by MLB standards. The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) has 6.4 million people, which ranks sixth among MLB markets, and not only do the Jays not have to share their city with another team — three of the top five MLB markets have two teams each — they have a whole country of over 37 million people in their broadcast area, more than half of that in their exclusive zone. The team is owned by Rogers Communications, with assets of over $29 billion, which also owns their broadcast properties. This is a large-market team with the revenue potential to spend on any player. It's about time they flexed that muscle. https://theathletic.com/2333704/2021/01/20/keith-law-blue-jays-george-springer/https://theathletic.com/2333704/2021/01/20/keith-law-blue-jays-george-springer/

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#5 - Scott Rolen

Scott Boras represents Conforto. So if past is prologue, the Mets won't be signing Conforto before ST because Boras wants his clients to test the FA market, especially those as good as Conforto. Doesn't mean that Cohen and all of his money can't change the equation. And Conforto, as the client, has the ultimate say. TBD

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=54421 time=1611117990 user_id=68] =Centerfield post_id=54419 time=1611117229 user_id=65] 6 years. 120-125M was the Mets rumored offer.