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He's another Pedro Martinez!

but even if he is right about Rodriguez and Turnbull, non-difficult players might perceive him as difficult to work with and avoid him. I am not saying that he should let difficult players take advantage of him, just that I don't think having the reputation as a tough GM is necessarily a positive.

Patientce. An injured pitcher making a come back and a multi-position guy are going to sign any day now.

Is that a good reputation to have when trying to attract talent from outside the organization?

Actually, if they just gave guns to everybody and locked all the doors, no more good people would get shot.

Scott Harris scouting report: Smart guy. Very thorough. Can trust him not to do anything stupid. The final step is for him to find his balls.

And Brent Clevlen is the next Al Kaline.

They are officially named the Athletics. They were officially the A's from I think 1970-1980, but have always been the Athletics otherwise. That name has been around for the entirety of the modern major leagues, so I hope it stays the same. They'll probably come up with some cute new minor league type name though.

They probably don't want CDC finding out that people living in households with guns are twice as likely to be shot to death than those who live in households without guns.

11 per 100,000 gun deaths sounded high. But I did the math and it looks about right.

The new manager is Pete Rose.

There is no clear cut winner in the NL. You can make a case for Snell based on ERA, strikeouts and home run prevention. You can also make a case for Strider and a couple of others.

I don't remember that. I thought they were regarded as a franchise that had some talent but spent money haphazardly.

Sure, just blindly looking at WAR, is not recommended. If you take dwar out of it and just compare his offense to other first basemen, he's a below average hitter at the position. You can bump him up to average taking his durability into account which is really what WAR is doing by using "above replacement" as the base instead of average. In that respect, WAR helps him rather than hurts him. Then you have to decide whether his defense hurts or helps his value, again compared to other first basemen which is the lowest bar for defense. Finally, you have to consider the value of a first baseman compared to other positions. I think you have to say that the ability to play more of a skill position would increase a player's value. How much of a difference? You could choose your own positional value if you don't like the one Tango and others suggest.

Extroverts get all the awards in life.

As I've said before, the media is going to do what it can to legitimize Trump leading up to the election. They need him.

No, it's not a big deal, just an opportunity for me to complain about how media evaluates players.

I've got mine too. Thanks!

When are Biden and Trump going to get into it? Let's find out who the real men are. Start at the top.

yup.

I think Rodriguez was the most valuable player on the team over the course of the season. I don't think Torkelson was close. I'm not diappointed with him. He made good progress over the course of the season, but his overall season was not the best on the team.

If the middle of the line-up 1B has a 140 OPS+ then it doesn't matter so much. 105 is not enough for a one dimensional hitter.

I was going to say that, but I didn't want to start a WAR sucks discussion.