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...announces his retirement. Broke into the bigs in 1998 as a 19-year-old with the Dodgers, and has been equal parts awesome and hilarious since then. Just don't touch his head. 16th on the all-time hits leaderboard. 14th in total bases, 11th in doubles, 30th in HR, 24th in RBI.

It's not going to happen - he's going to cruise in - but it would be HILARIOUS if he missed this year by a few votes.

...announced today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2018/11/19/baseball-hall-fame-ballot-mariano-rivera-roy-halladay/2056114002/ You can vote for up to ten. PLEASE VOTE FOR "I VOTED" IN ADDITION TO YOUR VOTES so we can try to get a percentage. (This never works, but we always try.)

Josh spent a number of years here in Rochester; he grew up here and did Wings games for a number of years. I don't know if his family is still here or not.

Wil Myers' contract is super weird. 6 years/$83M (2017-22), plus 2023 club option signed extension with San Diego 1/17/17 (avoided arbitration, $4M-$3.4M) $15M signing bonus 17:$2M, 18:$2M, 19:$3M, 20:$20M, 21:$20M, 22:$20M, 23:$20M club option ($1M buyout) I'm assuming those first three years would still be arb-eligible years? That's a really weird backload.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Duquette said that Tatis would be ready to be promoted about a month in to the regular season. I don't know... he's 19 years old (turns 20 in January) and has not yet played above AA. And yet, guys like Soto and Acuna have done it. So it's not impossible.

d'Kong76 wrote: Did we have a Citi Field Fire thread? Yep viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27042

Benjamin Grimm wrote: He seemed to be implying that if they can't extend Jacob during this offseason, that they may very well trade him before Opening Day. brb getting my pitchfork and torch ready to storm citi field

Edgy MD wrote: Wait a minute ... where are the other two Seavers? For that matter, what happened to Dickey's arm?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: They were a .438 team behind him... and .485 when not. Right? Hell, ten wins almost led the damn staff.

41Forever wrote: Love The News calling the guy out on the cover! Reminds me of one of my favorite tweets: [tweet] [/tweet]

MFS62 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Booooooo, John Maffei of the San Diego Union-Tribune! BOOOOOOO!!! I've known for years that Californians didn't deserve to get major league baseball because they didn't know anything about it. Later Seriously. Dude was probably like "OOH that's the guy with the different-colored eyes. I'll vote for him."

Missed this one. Voted.

Looks like the three teams who haven't allocated are all non-CPFers.

You're right, it's not. Click on the "Arbitration" link on the left side of the top nav, and then there's an "overview" drop down just under that. Click through each team in the drop down one by one, allocating $1-3 per team.

I do understand the issue, but at the same time, if the Mets offer the most deal to a Boras client, he'll take it. Not worried.

The Rochester Red Wings were promoting this heavily today, pushing their "Mets Pack" for when Syracuse comes to town.

I was also surprised that Zunino was that young. I feel like he's been bouncing around as a prospect for years.

MFS62 wrote: (big) IF he's handled properly and given rest when needed. May 14, 2019 BREAKING: Mets LHP Andrew Miller, who has pitched in 40 of the team's first 45 games, will miss the rest of the season because his arm fell off.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: no. I think I heard Chili Davis will get an interview. Chili Davis! Chili Davis, looking at his numbers, was actually way better than I remembered. * In sixteen seasons from 1982 to 1997, he played less than 137 games only three times. Then he was hurt, I guess, in 1998 for a bit, but then played another full season in 1999 and hit .269/.366/.445. * In his eighteen full seasons, only once did he finish below the league average in OPS, and his career OPS+ was 121. * He has three rings - 1991 with the Twins, and 1998 and 1999 with whoever won those years. He's nowhere near the Hall or anything, but he was a damn good player for a really long time. And for what it's worth: * He coached the 2012-2014 A's, making the playoffs all three seasons and scoring more than 700 runs, which they didn't do again until 2017 And in 2013, Josh Donaldson had 7.7 WAR, and in 2014, he had 7.5 WAR. * In 2015, he jumped to Boston, and they went from 3.91 R/G in 2014 to 4.62, 5.42, then 4.85 R/G in his three seasons there. And won the division two of those seasons. * The Cubs last year made the playoffs, at least. So the dude's coached seven seasons, six of them to the postseason. I think I'm all in on Chili Davis.

Absolutely. Zunino can't hit his way out of a paper bag, but he's still relatively young. But Smith is younger and better. Weird trade, but catching is ephemeral.

Mex17 wrote: a) Can you realistically move Frazier (and his $9 million)? Absolutely, yes. A team in need of a 3B who maybe doesn't have a lot of money to spend because their owners suck would love a guy like that. Good guy, team player, solid with the media, doesn't make waves, isn't great but will get his hits. Say, the Mets, for examp---ah, shit.

Vic Sage wrote: if the film isn't successful, it will be ironic that the most popular use of "Bohemian Rhapsody" in a movie won't be in the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody". Even if this film *is* successful, the most popular use of "Bohemian Rhapsody" in a movie was never going to be in the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody". Wayne's World has that award locked up in perpetuity.

How the ever-loving frig is Will Clark an option and Keith Hernandez isn't?

smg58 wrote: I'm not sure if Trevor Rosenthal was even on anybody's list, but the Nats just signed him for one year and $7.5M plus incentives. He missed all of 2018 due to TJS, and I had totally forgotten about him. That much for a guy who didn't even *pitch* last year? Yipes.