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Astros vs. Yankees ALCS Game 1 Chat

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Hire Joe Morgan?

9:18

Right, Trout sets the ceiling. You have to be better than Trout or wait a while to get as much as Trout.

Also true

9:18

Trout is also not Harper

JOE BUCK!!!

9:18

SO IT WASN'T COLLUSION DAN!!

Eric

9:18

I thought Verlander was essentially a lock to win the Cy Young. Voting is before the post season, right?

Jay Jaffe

9:18

Yes, voting is before the posteason, but I don't think anybody's a lock there. Cole had the lower ERA and higher strikeout total, one fewer win than Verlander (not that I care), split decision on bWAR/fWAR. Verlander has the no-hitter and the 3,000 K milestone but i haven't seen those figure into Cy young voting much.

Dan Szymborski

9:18

I maintain that there was and is no collusion. What there is is a shitty CBA for the players in which the financial system is based on owner knowledge in 1984.

Spotted cow

9:19

Does kris Bryant get more than Harper, kinda similar with the single obscene year?

Dan Szymborski

9:19

9:20

The fact that his contract will *start* age 30 is a very big deal.

Eric

9:20

What percentage of the chat do you think is human vs. cats?

Dan Szymborski

9:20

97 vs. 3

5 Run Homer

9:20

Cat update?

Dan Szymborski

9:21

All upstairs. Cassiopeia was here for a while, but she doesn't like the smell of Old Bay and left.

Dystopian Future

9:21

Bryant will e so much older than Harper when he hits FA. Harper was just a special case. Hard to compare most FAs to him.

A hitter just watching Greinke's curveball land right in the middle of the strike zone is so satisfying.

Meowmewsmileyface

9:21

*whispers* we are the three percent

Richard

9:22

Baseball isn't on TV (even cable) much here in Europe, so it's all streaming. But there's no blackouts on MLB.TV which makes up for a lot.

Dan Szymborski

9:22

The magic of VPN!

NathanLazarus

9:22

The players should negotiate a CBA that requires the owners to pay them a fixed percentage of revenues, instead of hoping that teams' desire to win prompts them to spend money on salaries.

Dan Szymborski

9:22

They really have to deal with service time manipulation.

9:23

My personal, half-baked plan that would need a lot of work into molding into something better, is that when teams lose a player to free agency, they have to refund them a percentage of their average yearly salary with new team based on the extra service time over six years.

That Guy

9:24

Is there something about Tanaka's stuff that plays better in the postseason?

Jay Jaffe

9:24

i don't think so, other than the fact that he's a very focused and unflappable player — he himself thinks the postseason performance numbers are a small-sample fluke. if the ball has changed, it might be helping his grips; he was having trouble at some points this year.

Dan Szymborski

9:24

So in Kris Bryant's case, the Cubs have to pay 171/180th of the average yearly salary in his next contract signed in free agency.

mariano

9:24

I´m in Argentina, probably the only soul in this country watching, so streaming!

Lunar verLander

9:24

Did the MLBPA get a different lead negotiator? Last CBA seemed significantly favorable to the owners.

Dan Szymborski

9:24

Tony Clark is not Fehr and certainly not Miller

Jay Jaffe

9:25

Yankees have something going here with 1 out in the fifth and back-to-back singles by Sanchez and Urshela

Dan Szymborski

9:25

And I had to pick on Weiner, a guy everybody liked and who died very young, but I don't think his leadership of the MLBPA was all that great.

Hire Joe Morgan?

9:26

So when Cole walks, the new team pays Cole and the Astros? Wouldn't that incentivize teams to stockpile impending free agents and then not pay them?

Dan Szymborski

9:26

The idea is for the old teams to compensate Cole for the extra service time they got.

Jay Jaffe

9:27

Gregorius' fly ball sends Sanchez to third. Yankees now have 5 hits to the Astros' 1

Dan Szymborski

9:27

The Pirates/Astros would have to pay Gerrit Cole directly 111/180th of his average yearly salary, the proportion determined by the percentage of service time each team got from him.

Hire Joe Morgan?

9:27

Your plan is retroactively paying players after their service tiem window with a percentage of their market value?

Dan Szymborski

9:27

That's the idea.

Hire Joe Morgan?

9:28

Continuing to use Cole, would that mean Pittsburgh and Houston would both be paying him a percentage of his next contract to compensate him for hsi early service?

Dan Szymborski

9:28

Just clearing out the service time.

JOE BUCK!!!

9:28

TOSSING STRAIGHT BUTTERED SQUIRREL!!!

Geebs

9:28

They could always go with a system of that last year of control they get with service time manipulation be restricted free agency

Hire Joe Morgan?

9:28

That would incentivize teams to get rid of good players early so they never have to pay them.