Here's the thread for MLB discussions during the "off-season". We'll kick off a new thread when Spring Training starts.
Here's the thread for MLB discussions during the "off-season". We'll kick off a new thread when Spring Training starts.
JBDuke
Andre Dawkins: “People ask me if I can still shoot, and I ask them if they can still breathe. That’s kind of the same thing.”
The Wilpons are in discussions to sell their controlling majority share to a hedge fund manager, Steve Cohen.
only in New York, with James Dolan, are the Wilpons not the worst team owners in the city.
Speaking of the Mets, Zack Wheeler to the Phils for 5yrs / $118MM.
Hamels to the Braves for 1 year / $18MM. (I think this is a really nice pickup).
Demented and sad, but social, right?
"The future ain't what it used to be."
According to the Hall website, Marvin Miller and Ted Simmons have been selected by the Modern Era committee.
(I think somebody put the names up before any announcements.)
Miller obviously belongs in. I really can't understand how Lou Whitaker keeps coming up short - more deserving than his teammates this committee previously selected, and the most deserving of the players on this ballot, and he wasn't even near the top of the voting. I just don't get it.
Demented and sad, but social, right?
A better understanding of offense and defense. A good/great hitter isn’t based on things like RBIs, which are very situational. On-base percentage is more important than batting average. It’s why, for instance, Dwight Evans, in many eyes, is now considered a better player than His teammate Jim Rice. Wasn’t as flashy or have the counting stats that Rice did, but he did more to help his team win.
That, and the writers don’t know everything, and make mistakes.
I could make an argument for each one of the nominees although I wouldn’t have voted for all of them. Each one was a better player than others already in. That’s not a specific reason to vote someone in, but it’s a starting criteria. Simmons doesn’t lower the general standards. (He isn’t well outside those standards as Harold Baines was last year.)
So uh, this is not a Yankee fan trying to rub anything in, I swear (seriously, I think baseball in NY is better when there's excitement about both teams, and as a Dolan hater, I know all too well the pain of bad ownership), but you might want to pump the breaks on getting religion.
Supposedly the Wilpons wanted changes to what Cohen had thought was a done deal, which sounds an awful lot like what happened when they were negotiating to sell part of the team to David Einhorn last year. I'm starting to think they're a bit frustrating to do business with.Hedge fund titan Steve Cohen has ended negotiations to buy the New York Mets, sources familiar with the situation said.
Cohen, CEO of Point72 Asset Management, and Mets’ owners, the Wilpons, would not confirm directly, citing NDAs, but numerous sources close to the process and Cohen tell CNBC that he is walking.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/04/hedg...urces-say.html
Demented and sad, but social, right?
The NY Post noted that while the Wilpons want to sell to Cohen, Jeff Wilpon still wants to exert operational control after the sale goes through, including a five year transition period, and even beyond that.
I'm not sure the young Wilpon fully understands what the implications of the word "sale" are... kind of like telling someone I'll sell you my house but will remain living in it.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/06/jeff-w...o-steve-cohen/
Potential changes to the baseball playoffs - my head is hurting reading it - basically 7 teams per league, top team gets a bye, other two division winners get to choose which of the four wild card teams they want to play in a best of three series. The higher seed hosts all three games in the opening round.
I am not a fan of this plan.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...umber-teams-14
What an embarrassment for baseball. Sounds like a bunch of gray-hairs sitting in Manhattan and wondering..."Hey, don't the youths love that reality TV these days? That seems like a great way to jazz up our postseason!"
Nevermind that it cheapens both the regular season and postseason.
Am pointing and laughing at MLB in its entirety today.
Strasburg back to the Nats for 7 years and $245 million. That is not a typo. He is 31 years old and has been prone to injury at times. I think they way overpayed, especially when you consider they effectively ended any chance of resigning Rendon with this move.