Edgy MD

No reason to guess when you have a device in front of you that has access to all information ever. And ... https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34570910/tampa-bay-rays-reliever-brooks-raley-unvaccinated-covid-19-miss-series-torontoyup.

I just played that video and two guys walking down the street past my house stepped into the bucket.

Mets are kind of conducting themselves like the Yankees this week, plugging holes with short-term solutions from guys on the back end of their careers. Down side is that it's all about next year, future be damned. The upside is that they are easy moves to pivot from.

Except he might follow deGrom's and Judge's leads, and spit at the very thought of extensions, lusting ravenously to see what his skills are worth on the open market.

Five innings, you say?

I'd like to humbly nominate "Plan Q" as a working nickname for José.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: That would give us Scherzer, Verlander, Senga, Carrasco, Megill, and Peterson, backed up by Lucchesi, Yamamoto (is he still around?) and... Butto? Yammy is a minor league free agent at the current time. Megill's brand took a lot of hits the second half of 2022 from his extended rehab and his non-competitive appearances upon his return. I don't really see a scenario (apart from injuries forcing the team's hand) where he opens 2023 in the rotation, and the Mets are possibly still thinking bullpen for him.

Edgy MD wrote: Capable pitcher, but sort of the archetype of the five-and-fly guy in this five-and-fly age. Benjamin Grimm wrote: 165.2 innings in 2022, with a 2.93 ERA and 32 starts. 165.2 divided by 32 gives us 5.18 innings per start. Looks like I owe José Quintana 0.18 apologies!

Capable pitcher, but sort of the archetype of the five-and-fly guy in this five-and-fly age. Not sure I can abide two years and $26 milllion for him, since I don't really see him finishing that contract. In line to follow Dilson Herrera as the second Colombian Met.

I dunno. That's a pretty meaty shot for LATE SHOW.

I guess it'll be interesting to see how many St. Louis Pujols years they get and how many Anaheim Pujols years they get.

My main memory is a doubleheader sweep early in 2021 on the backs of him and Marcus Stroman. It was a sweep of these very same Phillies, I believe, and helped the Mets jump out to their early lead in the division. Good times. I may be remembering selectively, but I think he did a lot of his damage against intradivisional opponents.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Heaney was mentioned in some Met chatter. Hoping now they come away with Senga just because I want to see him pitch Seriously. If you're an agent, and you want to offer the services of a Japanese pitcher to MLB teams, just make up a pitch that nobody's ever heard of, give your media connections mysterious — and possibly mixed — information, and watch the bids go up by 25%. It worked on me when I heard about the gyroball. It worked on me when I heard about the shuuto. I should seriously know better by now, but as soon as I heard the words ghost forkball, I was all in on Senga.

And the other one is ... not so much.

It's not really an idea. For every other industry, it's just life. It doesn't need a test, any more than breaking up any monopoly or cartel needs a test. Either we believe in our laws and values or we don't.

Yes, we can know for sure.

=MFS62 post_id=114089 time=1670349766 user_id=60] Thank you for filling in the blanks. I have a concern that if minor league teams are no longer owned (and subsidized) by major league teams, many minor league teams, leagues and jobs would be lost. To me, that would be like saying everyone has the opportunity to attend college, but we're getting rid of many high schools. Later

While Mets Roster Central has legitimized yesterday's reported Justin Verlander signing with a roster update, the team still hasn't made it official. They have, nonetheless, announced the following impact signings. 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Infielder[/ptext][/th][th][/th][td60][fimg=60]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/w_180,g_auto,c_fill/v1/people/660652/headshot/milb/current[/fimg][/td60][td60][fimg=60]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/dini-nick-2022.jpg[/fimg][/td60][td60][fimg=60]https://www.milb.com/images/670548/generic/180x270/670548.jpg[/fimg][/td60][td60][fimg=60]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/d_people:generic:headshot:67:current.png/w_213,q_auto:best/v1/people/605421/headshot/67/current[/fimg][/td60][td60][fimg=60]https://www.milb.com/images/668545/t506/180x270/668545.jpg[/fimg][/td60][td60][fimg=60]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/d_people:generic:headshot:67:current.png/w_213,q_auto:best/v1/people/663905/headshot/67/current[/fimg][/td60][td60][fimg=60]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/w_180,g_auto,c_fill/v1/people/665872/headshot/milb/current[/fimg][/td60][td60][fimg=60]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/d_people:generic:headshot:67:current.png/w_213,q_auto:best/v1/people/571918/headshot/67/current[/fimg][/td60][td60][fimg=60]https://www.milb.com/images/667828/generic/180x270/667828.jpg[/fimg][/td60][td60][fimg=60]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/d_people:generic:headshot:67:current.png/w_213,q_auto:best/v1/people/595375/headshot/67/current[/fimg][/td60][th][ptext=8]Name[/PTEXT][/th][td60][ptext=7]José Colina [fimg=30]https://thecranepool.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/venezuelan-flag-small.jpg[/fimg][/ptext][/td60][td60][ptext=7]Nick Dini [fimg=30]https://thecranepool.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/US-flag.png[/fimg][/ptext][/td60][td60][ptext=7]José Mena [fimg=30]https://thecranepool.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Dominican_Republic.jpg[/fimg][/ptext][/td60][td60][ptext=7]Michael Perez [fimg=30]https://thecranepool.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Puerto_Rico.png[/fimg][/ptext][/td60][td60][ptext=7]Raúl Beracierta [fimg=30]https://thecranepool.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/venezuelan-flag-small.jpg[/fimg][/ptext][/td60][td60][ptext=7]Travis Blankenhorn [fimg=30]https://thecranepool.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/US-flag.png[/fimg][/ptext][/td60][td60][ptext=7]Gregory Guerrero [fimg=30]https://thecranepool.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Dominican_Republic.jpg[/fimg][/ptext][/td60][td60][ptext=7]Deven Marrero [fimg=30]https://thecranepool.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/US-flag.png[/fimg][/ptext][/td60][td60][ptext=7]Wilmer Reyes [fimg=30]https://thecranepool.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Dominican_Republic.jpg[/fimg][/ptext][/td60][td60][ptext=7]J.T. 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https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1600171138193453056 FOX social media team, you're killing it.

Would you have a salary cap ... God, no. I object to industries acting as cartels, so why would I be OK with them fixing salaries? ... or other controls (minor league roster sizes, the number of minor league teams a major league team could own) ... Minor league affiliation should be tossed along with the draft. This is also how cartels control costs. It's one of the worst things to ever happen to baseball. to make sure a few rich reams wouldn't sign all the good players? Go teams! Sign whoever will agree to sign with you. I'm not sure why a "rich team" should be a thing. Teams who manage resources and business well should get richer while teams who don't do that should get poorer. What about a salary floor and revenue sharing to keep teams alive (and employ more players)? If two teams play, there will certainly be revenue sharing, because both teams are contributing to the product. I disagree that one company has an obligation to keep its alleged competitors alive. Again, other industries aren't asked to operate this way. I realize there are only so many roster slots on a team, but eventually, those slots are filled. I'm not sure how this is relevant. What about a limit on contract length, or do you retain a player indefinitely? None of this is revolutionary, but if a team wants to offer a player a lifetime contract, with a lifetime salary, and the player agrees, good for both of them. I'll revisit that list as I have time. Maybe the concept deserves its own thread? Really, I hope it's not too much of a concept. I just ask that baseball operate as virtually all other industries are asked to operate.

There's certainly nothing combatative about inquiring. The draft is un-American. It isn't about the fairness in distribution of talent, but all about cost control. Young athletes have an ability that's in great demand for a short period of time, and the industry gets together and agrees only one team can recruit that athlete. It's wrong and incredibly ironic, as America projects free commerce through the world, and the world's sports leagues scratch their heads when they hear this nonsense about the Americans distributing talent through a draft. If the league is the employer, then the league is a cartel, and in virtually all other industries in the US, an industry conducting themselves as a cartel subjects themselves to criminal penalties under antitrust laws, or civil penalties when engaging in monopolization or resale price maintenance. Sports leagues, to different extents, do these things as a matter of course on every day that ends in a Y and it's just considered business. We protect baseball from the system we purport to believe in and it's unjust through and through. We accept this model because we see it as the way it has always been and assume it's kind of the same elsewhere. But it isn't and it's not. It hurts young athletes, it hurts baseball, it hurts small towns, it hurts big cities, it hurts the economy, it hurts America, and it hurts other baseball-playing nations.

New Coke is younger than Justin Verlander. The Ferrari Testarossa is younger than Justin Verlander. If you want more working ability than speed, the Toyota 4Runner is also younger than Justin Verlander. Shirley MacLaine's Oscar for Terms of Endearment is younger than Justin. https://arcadespot.com/game/elevator-action/Elevator Action is not as old as Mr. Kate Upton. The Mets' last world championship, it must be said, is younger than Justin Verlander.

Also, oven mitts will always cost you points with me.

You're stockpiling outfielders but sleeping on that Craig Swan-for-Ozzie Smith deal. Or Paul Molitor. You can let the Brewers and Padres bid against each other and maybe get them to throw in some incentives. More importantly, though, is which pitchers the Mets should trade now and who they can get. Because that's where we are. Or we can leave it be. Your point has been made as clearly as his own.

Yeah, this doesn't shake me. Phils are stocking up on players who made their names with clubs from within their division. It gives everyone a reason to play hard and root hard against them. Here's hoping they deal Stott to Toronto, despite his Germanic name, and he gets 3,000 hits.