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So Castillo, Miller, Woo, and then Hancock + scrubs the rest of the way?
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The sizeable portion of Browns fans who wanted Hunter, I guess.
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Then you haven't been checking in on Browns fans. They were set on Hunter at 2.
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If you think this dialogue is dated then you should probably get out more. Sadly, people like the characters depicted in this play still use terms like this regularly.
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I believe that the umpire's union was also against a fully automated ball/strike system.
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Don’t get us ASU fans started on Jayden’s mom…
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I’m not sure if he’s even a top 50 coach. If you gave everyone the same level of talent, I would not bet on Day’s team.
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On the contrary, I think agents capitalize on Toronto’s obvious desperation by using them to drive up the prices on the teams their clients actually want to play for.
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MLB has some, but they are pretty weak. I am all for improving parity, but I don’t think that an international amateur draft is even among the top 50 ways to go about doing that. It addresses a problem that doesn’t really exist.
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Another (admittedly crazy) idea might be to cap such teams at 90 wins. After that you forfeit all of your games and, potentially have to repay TV money to your broadcaster.
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For example, they could increase the penalties for going over the top tier of the luxury tax for multiple years, perhaps even to draconian levels. One idea might be to prevent such teams from adding any new players to the roster on a contract greater than $1M/yr CBT value.
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MLB is pretty loose on both of those given that they don’t have a strict cap and they tend to rely more on team-specific media contracts. We could probably come up with some ways to augment the current system which would improved parity…
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Most leagues approach parody from either a revenue or a spending control perspective, often times both. The NFL, for example uses both approaches –- salary cap for spending control and a national media contract which minimizes revenue gaps between teams as a revenue control.
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Some aspects of “attractiveness“ are inherent, like geography. Nothing you can do about those. Other things, like winning, tend to be more cyclical.
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Looking at what Soto got from the Mets, Ohtani probably could’ve gotten quite a bit more or might not have had to take those deferments but he wanted to do so to play for the Dodgers.
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And it’s not even like the Dodgers are doing with the Yankees did back in the day and just overwhelming players with money. Good players are willing to take less money to play for the Dodgers.
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I can sympathize, though. Typically us fans can point to money as the reason why our team didn’t sign a player, but that isn’t the case here. Many fanbases, mine included, are having to come to grips with the fact that our teams are just less attractive than some other teams.
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Better players, more wins, probably a better city to be a rich person in, better marketing opportunities, etc. I don’t expect the lead to change the rules just because some employers are better than others.
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I would have loved to have Sasaki sign with Seattle and I think they probably made a sales pitch around the fact that they are probably the best team in the league at developing pitchers, but the fact is that the Dodgers are just a more attractive destination.
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If MLB wants to invest a ton of resources in growing the game by leaps and bounds in Europe, then some of the East Coast teams might have a nice pool of established international players to draw from.
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What if, and hear me out, more teams tried to make themselves an attractive destination for players like Sasaki? There will be limitations, of course. A team like Milwaukee can’t magically put themselves on the West Coast, but it is what it is.
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Ah, so hold a draft with a pool of maybe 8 to 10 players and force guys to spend maybe 2 to 3 years longer than they otherwise would have in Japan to just so teams other than the Dodgers don’t have to try to be competitive on the international market?
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If you want to separate traditional IAFA guys from players like Sasaki then fine, but a draft still makes no sense. You’re going to hold a draft with only one player in the draft pool?
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Mariners.
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A draft would’ve done the same.
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Scout and develop well, I should say. Teams like Tampa Bay, Seattle, and Cleveland come to mind as those who don’t spend a lot but generally do an excellent job of developing their international amateur talent.
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Since the hard cap was implemented a few years ago, success in the international amateur market heavily favors those who scout well as opposed to those that have a bunch of money to spend.
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There is currently no evidence to suggest that there’s an imbalance in the international amateur free agent of market. Teams like Seattle and Tampa Bay are routinely among the best at signing international amateurs despite being relatively cheap.
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I am sympathetic to the competitive balance argument, but I don’t see how limiting a players’s ability to choose where they play is a fair solution to the problem.
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Every team in the league had the resources to sign him.
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Had there been an international draft, Sasaki would’ve just waited a couple more years at which point he would’ve been eligible to sign a huge free-agent contract with the Dodgers.
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It sounds like you’re talking about something more like a program in the “theory/history/admin of American football,” or something like that.
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Not to mention areas like exercise science and kinesiology which are obviously related.
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There are several dozen degree programs at universities across the country, and a ton of researchers working within those programs, in areas such as sports business, sports management, sports psychology, sports administration, etc.
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That job is career suicide.
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I’m actually fine with this given that a “start” means that you were available to play, which he was. Now, if they had thrown him out there for a play with a torn ACL or something, then I would’ve felt like it was a bit lame (pun intended).
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I would argue that Dyche has more motivation to keep Everton from being relegated than any other manager in the world would.
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He knows he’s not getting a new contract either way. I doubt that he has any motivation issues. His future employment prospects depend on him maintaining his reputation as a manager who specializes in avoiding relegation.
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Even then, who would we hire? Some Allardyce-esque retread? No legitimate manager is going to sign up until the summer at the earliest.
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Perhaps. The stuff that I’ve read and listened to seems to suggest that our PSR numbers are looking like they will be kind of tight again this year even if we do expected things like selling Branthwaite (which may not happen during this PSR cycle anyway). Every dollar will matter.
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Finances, for one. Firing another manager isn’t going to do our PSR numbers any favors.
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Braves are reported as trying to cut payroll this year.
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All the underdogs in the tournament seemed like their primary goal was to not get blown out. Didn't really work, though. Maybe they just wanted to keep the games close to help prevent the "let's go back to four teams" narrative from taking hold.
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On 30 carries.
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Joke is on him — he could barely get a game with Everton and did nothing when he was gifted time on the pitch.
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Seattle will be looking for an impact player with lots of team control who can play either 1B or 3B. Wade would be a nice throw-in who could play 1B for a year and platoon with Locklear, but SF don’t really have a high upside, big league ready 3B.
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Maybe, but he’s nowhere near as valuable as Castillo. He’s a platoon player who is a mediocre defender at a non-premium position on a one-year contract.
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The question is what do SF have that would interest Seattle? They could use Wade, but he gets you maybe 20% of the way to sufficient value.
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Played to cover the spread, not to win the game.