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  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh man, I forgot Liriano peaked that high. I knew the other four but forgot about him.
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    If baseball is going to keep playing 162, I'd much rather see a 4/10 start with more doubleheaders every season.

    1. wsnydes

      wsnydes

      I've been asking for the return of scheduled double headers for a long time.  I think a creative marketing team could really exploit them too.

    2. Richmond Dude

      Richmond Dude

      March baseball, in particular, is a disaster.  Even in good years, it is unpleasant.  Personally, I agree with you.  But whatever date the season starts, the first week should, as much as possible, not be in the harsh weather states.

  4. Brock Beauchamp
    A floor is needed but it needs to be high and MLB's offer of a floor came with some pretty big strings, IIRC. I think they wanted a CBT way down at $180m with draconian penalties, and a host of other changes including expanded postseason. The thing about a salary floor is that it needs to be high - I'd argue for $120m - and it needs to come with substantial revenue sharing, which only owners can agree to implement. The players have limited ability to "force" the owners to share their revenue, the owners need to do that of their own accord. If the owners agreed to increase revenue sharing to the point the Pirates can afford a $120m payroll, they could then ask for a $220m salary cap in trade. And if the players rejected that offer, they'd be absolutely in the wrong for doing so. But talking about a salary floor without mentioning required revenue sharing - which will be substantial and fought fiercely by 6-8 clubs - we're only talking about symptoms while ignoring the problem itself.
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    I'm not the editor, I'm the community manager. I'm not really involved with the news section of the site other than the code that powers it. And the poster you're referring to had been warned by at least four separate moderators over the past year previous to my post so let's not pretend this is anywhere close to the same thing. Feel free to disagree with Ted's assertions all you want - pick them apart piece by piece if you like - but I'm not going to get involved.
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    Excellent piece!
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    Indeed, and the level of corruption in the system is very high. A draft would hopefully be aimed to mitigate the exploitation of these kids.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    An international draft is long overdue for many reasons.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Don't even get me started down that path. Both sides have some really simple quality of game fixes but both are too busy hitting the other over the head with a foam mallet to implement those fixes.
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    The universal DH is good for the sport, IMO. I wish the players and owners could agree on this type of thing with more frequency. But I also don't give either side credit for agreeing to such a no-brainer decision because both sides benefit. The players get more money and extend careers while owners get more protection for their fragile and highly-paid arms. It's a win all around for everyone and it should have happened years ago.
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    Half the teams in the AL don't even have a dedicated DH, what makes anyone think the NL is going to be any different?
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, please.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Is anyone actually making this argument, though? All I've seen is condemnation for how the MLBPA treats its young players, both the pre-arb guys and the minor leaguers. It's literally the biggest (and probably most valid) complaint I see about the union.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    The players wouldn't have walked out in April but they almost surely would have walked out in August. But no matter what the players would have theoretically done, the owners locked them out. That is a fact. Mike is correct that players would be in Florida and Arizona right now had the owners not locked them out.
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    As soon as owners do this, I will support them whole-heartedly. While we're just making up fairytale scenarios, I'd also like to be able to fly. That sounds fun.
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    Sure, the owners that are pushing hard to preserve tanking, want less revenue sharing, would love to go back to indentured servitude of players, want to expand the postseason to include 50% of teams, while also implementing a hard cap have the sport's best interests at heart. You go ahead and keep believing that nonsense. Unlike your fetishization of the owners' motivations, I hold no pretenses that the MLBPA has the sport's best interests in mind, I simply realize they're not the biggest villains right now. You claim to want baseball back yet you're actively cheering on the side that locked out the players, then didn't negotiate for 45 days, then ran right to their own artificial deadline by making incremental moves of less than half a percentage point in a year when inflation is nearly 5%, all while demanding a really bad postseason plan that would devalue the regular season so they could put an additional $150m+ in their pockets. If the owners were even half as benevolent as you seem to believe, they'd offer a 50/50 split with revenue in trade for a hard cap and floor, just like other sports do. Except owners won't do that because the players would agree to it before they finished the sentence. Tell me again how you're such a baseball fan and on the side of light again, please.
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    This is exactly how I feel and far more politely stated than I care to state. Well said.
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    Why are you such an obvious shill for billionaires who don’t love the sport you seem to love? I would rebut most of what you typed but why bother? It only validates the gross nature of your opinion.
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    This is such a garbage take, Chief, and you should be embarrassed for it. Have you looked at what the owners have done for the past 2+ years through Covid and these "negotiations"? They've been straight-up union-busters, nothing more. As the MLBPA caved through concession after concession, the owners did things like raise the CBT by less than inflation and then asked for expanded playoffs in return. Yours is the worst of worst takes. If you want the sport to be better, crushing the union is not the way to get there. The players have their own issues, of which I've complained about ad nauseam, but right now the owners are the biggest problem in the sport and it's not close. They're so busy protesting and protecting their $80m payrolls and the lack of competition that they can't even see the fans that stopped caring ten years ago. And now you want even more fans to stop caring so those multi-billionaires can make a few million more. Huzzah and cheers for that.
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    I am so pleasantly surprised that the two sides are closing in on a deal. I thought the chance of that happening was close to zero.

  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Great job staying up late through these negotiations, Ted. I couldn't hack it anymore after 11pm or so.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, Larnach "graduated" out of prospect status with 301 plate appearances in 2021.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Thanks for keeping me up to date on this. What browser and operating system are you using? And are you trying to watch them from the forums or the video page? Is the page background white or black?
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    No problem, thanks for asking and prompting me to finally put a disclaimer on the video page explaining that this can be a problem if any user can't see our video content.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    It was so much worse than that. Guzman literally started his swing after the ball hit the glove. It was maybe 2000-ish so finding video is probably impossible.
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