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They implode when they sign a minor league free agent. Those implosions remind me of this Gene Wilder line in Blazing Saddles. https://youtu.be/KHJbSvidohg?feature=shared

Also, Rodriguez will make a whopping $700 a week in Dominican complex league this year.

I was making 40-50 per 1.5-2 hr game umpiring at that age. Good work if you can get it.

BP has... Jobe 4 McGonigle 6 Clark 31 Rainer 56 Liranzo 58 Briceno 64 Jung 97 7 out of 101 is not bad at all.

Randy is correct. No trade clauses can be included in contracts, but the automatic ones come from 10-and-5 rights. From Major League Rule 6(e)

The Dodgers lost a second international "commit" to another team. The writing is on the wall that they are the team, IMO.

Just regurgitating from the BA Paywall.

Stavenhagen has access. His buddy is just a fan with a microphone.

I honestly don't know if Toronto actually is in the running for all these guys or that they just leak that they are.

This, or try to get another prospect or two for some spare bonus pool money.

Governors don't unilaterally slash budgets.

So glad the right is trying to score political points here. Congrats. You must be proud.

I will agree with him that he was treated unfairly. Most people convicted of 34 counts of what he was served jail time. He gets a slap on the wrist because he ran for President and the American People were dumb enough to believe his bull****.

If baseball does expand, it will be to the cities/states who shell out the public money to make it happen. Everything else will fit in around that.

Harris nerded out in there pretty good. I thought they did a good job getting him to discuss things other entities haven't gotten out of him.

There was similar rhetoric this time last year about how they wouldn't be doing that kind of stuff, but attrition happened and they ended up doing it. I don't think you plan for bullpen days, but know that in a pinch you can do it over signing an abundance of veteran pitchers. Between Skubal, Webb, Jobe, Olson, Mize, Manning, Hurter, Madden, Montero, and Maeda, chances are you have five starters somewhere in there.

I agree but they have 7ish starters as is, with one due back mid-season from injury and a few prospects on the farm close (Hamm, Melton). From a pure numbers standpoint you can never have enough, but I will say there are plenty, especially when the worst case scenario is buffered by that break glass emergency strategy. You are better off with the bullpen day than throwing out a 40 grade pitcher. The risk with Verlander and Scherzer is they may be Maeda without the humility to accept a role demotion.

If it ain't broke...

I'm 100% out on Santander. Career OBP of .308. That just reeks of somebody who is going to fall off a cliff.

First down arm punt?

Yeah our meeting was finally spiked

Meeting starts Tuesday elsewhere in Maryland. My supervisor says he's okay with me opting out even if others want to make that drive from the airport. I'm assuming the flight gets cancelled.

My grandfather did that for years in the Detroit area. He's been gone for almost 30 years now, otherwise I'd ask if that was the case.

I mean you can. I still wouldn't do it, because he would be first on the chopping block for the next addition.

I have to fly into DC for work on Monday, and... well... if the weather forecast this weekend is what it was four years ago, history would be a whole lot different. Jan 6 wouldn't have happened.