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Fish
2:49
Suzuki debuts next!
AvatarJay Jaffe
2:49
if you tried to cut salaries like that baseball would further lose out on multisport athletes
Guest
2:50
Do I have to keep working? Or can I just sign off early?
AvatarJay Jaffe
2:50
if you're flying an airplane, please log off the chat and keep your eyes on the instrument panel
2:51
otherwise, knock yourself out
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:51
Even the Pirates we have at like $71 million with benefits
an $80 million floor would be a tiny bit of moneyh
Alex M
2:51
re: David's observation – not a ton of excitement on the North Side this year. Tickets can be had for about 8 dollars right now.
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:51
and the owners certainly aren't pitching a floor without a de facto cap much lower
Joe
2:51
The reason a cap works in football and basketball is that the floor is about 90% of it. No way do cheap teams ever let something like that happen, so what's the upside for the players?
Da Bear
2:52
Think of the marketing opportunities: "Get your New Era Salary Cap, just $39.99!"
Randy
2:53
Any good baseball references I can sneak into a Shakespeare paper I'm writing for uni?
AvatarJay Jaffe
2:53
2B or not 2B, that is the question....
AvatarDavid Laurila
2:53
Not suggesting it was a can of corn -- it wasn't -- but should Yelich have maybe gotten to that ball?
karasz816
2:53
oh, so it would need to be 90-100 to make a difference
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:53
The players don't want it at all
2:54
but if they were to listen, I don't think I'd even listen until it was around 150.
Guest
2:54
CC Sabathia was talking about reduced velo from the pitch clocks on his podcast. Thoughts?
AvatarJay Jaffe
2:54
pitch clocks -> less recovery time between pitches -> fewer max-effort pitches -> average velo falls
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:54
The players are about a billion dollars a year behind the 1994 salary cap proposal
Troy
2:55
What are your thoughts on the Pirates going old school with a stolen base threat at leadoff today?
AvatarJay Jaffe
2:55
Dan Vogelbach is this century's answer to Maury Wills
Obnoxious Fantasy Baseball Questions
2:56
For your right-handed DH platoon mate, would you rather have Pujols or Upton?
AvatarDavid Laurila
2:56
Fifty years ago, the Cubs lost their opener to the Phillies 4-2 on a ninth-inning, two out, two-run error by their right fielder. Tim McCarver hit the ball that Jose Cardenal couldn't catch.
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:56
Depend on the team. Upton isn't really a big split guy so he's hard to leverage there
2:57
but at least he can sort of play the OF.
Guest
2:57
For the Shakespeare guy: "‘Friends, Atlanteans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Frederick Freeman, not to praise him."
Anita Bath
2:57
I'm abandoning the A's this year. My NL team is the Padres. Who should my AL team be, the White Sox or the Blue Jays?
AvatarJay Jaffe
2:58
both fun choices to bandwagon but I'd go with the Blue Jays, Vlad Jr. and Bichette. Then again, Luis Robert on the other side
AvatarDavid Laurila
2:58
Dan Vogelbach hitting leadoff reminds me that the Red Sox hit high-OBP Dwight Evans first for awhile, but mostly had him in the two-hole with speedy, low-OBP Jerry Remy in front of him.
Guest
2:59
Wade Boggs at lead off should have been more influential.
AvatarDan Szymborski
Greg Rowley
2:59
Never abandon your team! I’ve been a Phillies fan, the losingest franchise in all of sports, all my life.   2008 was the best because of all the misery I went through. Also Cubs fans feel the same.
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:01
As my pal Craig Calcaterra will tell you, there's more than one way to be a fan. Nothing says you have to put up with that misery a team inflicts upon you, particularly if it's not trying to win (that doesn't apply to the Phillies but it does to the A's, who spurred the bandwagon conversation). https://blogs.fangraphs.com/fangraphs-audio-celebrating-opening-day-wi...
mike sixel
3:00
Ya, you should totally abandon your team if they aren't trying to win. Among other reasons....
bosoxforlife
3:00
Dwight Evans would be the prototype modern day leadoff man. George Springer is almost a clone of him.
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:00
Brian "System of a" Downing
Re: Nats
3:00
How did all these top prospects make the roster this year? Did GMs around the game simultaneously find religion?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:04
Good question. the new CBA does have an anti-service-time manipulation safeguard in that a player called up in-season can get the full year of service if he finishes first or second in his league's Rookie of the Year voting. But also, if you look around, the Tigers, Mariners, and Padres (to name a few with prospects up from day 1) are teams that ARE actually trying to win, and with the expanded playoffs, they've got more of a shot at getting there. So the early arrivals could pay off.
AvatarDavid Laurila
3:01
Eight-hole hitter up for Cubs, and no pitcher on deck. Will be interesting to see how BAs and OBPs for eight-hole hitters differs from previous years in NL.
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