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If the story is that AJ was against it, ripped TVs off the wall in protest of it, but it went on anyway despite him, how do you square that circle?

Fork yeah, benches!

Since Correa was one of the main public apologists of the incident afterwards so probably a clubhouse ringleader, and therefore one of the players AJ presumably couldn’t control, I have to wonder how that affects Correa’s chances of coming to play here.

How much better do you require a third baseman with a 125 OPS+ over his last 830 plate appearances to hit? Do you really think Jeimer’s defense is so bad that his level of offense can’t cover for it?

I think a three-year deal with two team options would be an acceptable risk, and a motivating factor for Jeimer. The alternatives to plan for, as I see them, are to get two more good years out of Jeimer and let him walk, or get two more good years out of him and pay him 3-4 more years to keep him around. Planning as of today, I don’t love either of those alternatives, necessarily. One might counter that the two years we get out of Jeimer may not be good at all, to which I might reply, why plan on keeping a not-good 3B around for two years, then? After all, we just got a 3.6-win season out of him following a shortened season that projected out to 5 wins. That should allow us to project nine or wins for the next three seasons, shouldn’t it? If that’s the case, it might be worth locking him down for the year we plan on contending, then having him earn the following two years through performance. After all, we just committed to two more years to 30- and 31-year-old Jonathan Schoop, who just had his first two-win season in three years. Why would committing three years to a younger, better player be nuts?

It’s that accent. That sexy-as-**** working-class accent waxing eloquently.

I am now forced to root for the National League, dammit.

Why not, why not, WHY NOT!!!!!! We're going to have Jeimer for two years, his age 28 and 29 season, and given that our horizon to return to serious contention is probably three years, I don't think it would be a terrible idea to lock him up for that third year versus him leaving because we won't accede to his demands for multiple years at age thirty, with our having to start all over at 3B. Because if he's above average in 2022 and 2023, he's not going to come back on a mere one-year contract as a free agent. At that point, the deal to keep him would have to be years and years. I wouldn't want to guarantee anything to Jeimer beyond that right now, but I think a three-year deal with discretionary team options to take him through age 31 or 32 wouldn't be a terrible risk, and at more favorable money than if he were to have any All-Star seasons in the next two years. Despite that we've basically drafted or traded for just about every position player as a third baseman in the past few years, it's not as though we have anyone projected to be as good as he is banging on the door to take his job away anytime soon. All this said, I don't have strong feelings about it. I'd also be fine with letting him play his final two arb years and then taking our chances on the system or the market. But if the Tigers' preference is to boot Jeimer after two years no matter what, then not extending him is probably the right non-move.

That's essentially Tom's point.

Wood was the active pitcher when Longoria hit the home run. Tom's question is about the logic, not the rule. Wood obviously pitched longer and more effectively than Rogers, so by logic, he was more deserving of being assigned the win.

Good question.

New day, same ****.

Down 5-0, the Rays close the deficit to 5-3 with three innings left. This is baseball. Never say die until they’re dead.

I’ll grant COVID was going to suck no matter who was president, but it wasn’t going to suck at the same level as when Trump was president, throwing every obstacle he could at people trying to get it under control, especially in the early days. I would like well-qualified health officials, like Dr Fauci, making public health decisions. Call me crazy.

All depends on bad we want to lock him up through age 32. I don’t know how well he’s gonna age, given how immobile he is right how at 27. I might give him three years with team options.

What I said is true. I neglected to add that it didn’t work so well.

At this point I’ll take anyone who will just show up, or not go dark after they tell you they’ll put a price quote together.

Trump did handle COVID seriously: i.e., serious about exploiting COVID for political advantage, not about fighting and defeating COVID itself. In fact, the difference is that in the first instance, keeping COVID alive and kicking is the goal.

I think the main issue with the call last night is that, left to its own devices, the ball would have bounced back into play. It’s not as though it one-bounced over the fence on its own. It went over because a player pushed it over. So I could envision Baseball revisiting the rule on that basis. On the other hand, when a ball bounces off a fielders head and over the fence, it’s ruled a home run, even though left to its own devices the ball would have bounced off the fence or warning track. So there’s that precedent, too. I don’t have a strong opinion on it either way. I’d be fine with it bring either 100% ground rule double or replay umpire discretion.

Jeimer deserves to get paid.

Abject collapse at the end, here.

I don’t see how allowing COVID to run wild by denying its very existence, shedding tens of millions of jobs from the economy, opening cozying up the foreign dictators, denying his own administration’s intelligence services, appointing obviously dangerously unqualified people (including family) to top jobs in his administration, openly encouraging violent racists to act, accepting emoluments because of his position as President, calling political opponents middle-school insult names, pitting states against each other for government relief, withdrawing from key international treaties, openly undermining an election still in progress, and promoting a general policy of maximizing cruelty toward people different from himself, qualifies him as being “the lesser of two evils”.

I believe moderate Republicans, such as they are, are looking for any way to excuse January 6 as a mere protest, so they can get on board and vote Trump with their consciences clear.