Mike Sixel
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UHG it's tricky right now. Insurance companies make more money during economic downturn, which is likely coming. But UHG makes insane money managing Medicare and Medicaid, which might get cut. The bipartisan bill to force insurance companies to sell their PBM business isn't likely to pass.... I'm any event, I'm likely cancelling plans to finish my basement, alas.
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How about Royce learn to play the OF and he's the platoon partner? He can play third against RHP. Miranda has third against lefties and first against RHP. Not that that will happen....
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Two weeks ago looked like I might not ever have to work again. Now? Sigh.
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And, if they don't try to make the team better, it should be lower. It's not like they are doing ANYTHING to attract the masses.
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It would work better if they couldn't protect anyone without a MLB deal....
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It's a totally different draft now. Zero comparison
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Crochet to Boston - The Dream for Kyle Teel is Dead
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There is no drag if they are willing to spend. This idea that winning doesn't have a cost? It has a cost. The cost in this case is the far future. They might not win, but they are certainly more likely to now.
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Great work by the Cleveland front office. WTF is Pittsburgh thinking?
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Sure. I get that. I think it's an overpay, but it's not like they don't have the money.
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Interesting
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Way too many years
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That's the way of half the league
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26 and older. If you aren't signed to a MLB deal, you are a free agent. So, even players on the forty man.
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100% have to have earlier FA for anything like this to work.
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I'm not all that interested in Casas, but I could be wrong. I'd need to think about this more. I think if you deal Ober, you are getting back the equivalent of 1 top 50 and 1 top 100 prospects, plus one more good prospect. He's a healthy number 2/3 on a cheap deal. That's worth an awful lot, given the scarcity of SP.
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A LOT more would need to come back from Boston. Like, Casas has little if any excess value, imo.
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It's the AROD first deal all over again......so rare for an elite player to be a FA so young. Sure, it likely won't be great at the end, but it is going to be great for 5-7-10 years. The present value of that money is nothing to a sports team (and, as pointed out above, nothing to Cohen, even now).
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I think there are some serious difficulties in changing how baseball works..... Other sports can really be dominated by a handful of elite players, and rookies. Not true in baseball at all. A team needs 40 players to get thru most years. There aren't enough good players to go around. The lack of FA until a player is past his prime makes signing FAs not always a good investment, but if you want a floor, you will force awful teams to sign veterans to real money, and play them instead of youth. Just changing how money works isn't going to help. It just means the A's sign 1-3 players that suck every few years to good deals, but they still don't win. And they slow down the development of their young players. You'll have to make FA come sooner (meaning wealthy teams have more good players to add to their team, ironically) to give mid market teams a chance to add actually good players in FA. The NBA is utterly dominated by a handful of elite teams, because of team size. There are just as many teams out of the playoffs by mid season as there are in baseball. It's marketed better and more interesting to watch to fans.
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The math is very clear, it's really hard to generate a lot of runs when you have zero power. It just is. Also, he can't play defense. It's not hard at all to understand why he's not valued by teams, given what they've learned about what wins games over the last two decades.
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Mostly this...but I don't fire Rocco like the OP does. I also think not trusting Julien to bounce back is an error and they won't get value for him. OTOH, I like the Kim idea. So, hard to say.
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There is a wider variety of WS champions than NBA champions over the last twenty or so years...... I don't think you can compare the NFL to any other sports' league, given its schedule length.
