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Henry
3:48
Isn't the entire 2020 season just a small sample size? I'm not sure if we can count anyone's performance this season seriously.
Keith Law
3:48
I tried to make a similar point at the top of my predictions column. Sixty games is less than half a season. It would get us to about June 10th in a regular year.
JJ
3:48
The Democrats' candidate has won the popular vote in six of the last seven elections.  It's not their policies that are keeping them from the White House ...
Keith Law
3:49
It's the electoral college, and maybe some gerrymandering and voter suppression.
Patty O'Furniture
3:49
Thoughts on Mike Foltynewicz?
Keith Law
3:49
Not sure where his velocity went, but he might be a candidate to take eight months off to try to regain strength, or let whatever's gone awry heal up, and try again in February or March.
Jackie
3:50
Giving a 12 year contract to any player is just insane, right?  Mookie might be a great player now, but the vast majority of major leaguers don't last nearly that long.  If the Dodgers employ an actuary, he probably pulled out all his hair.
Keith Law
3:50
It's a luxury tax thing. You spread out the payments over more years to reduce the AAV and thus reduce the hit to your payroll for LT purposes.
Nobody thinks he and Harper and Trout will still be $30MM+ players at age 40. It's just accounting.
Colin
3:51
Don't you think Yaz as an "extra OF at best" is a bit harsh? He hit last year at a solid OF level already. After reading MVP machine, I feel more open to late bloomers, myself. Especially when I didn't know what was not happening for the player in their early-mid 20s
Keith Law
3:51
No, it's right. I'd go further: without the Happy Fun Ball, he wouldn't even be that. I'm sorry that the .556 BABIP he has so far this year hasn't changed my view.
Greg
3:51
I don't like that there is a world series attached to this. Can we just call this a beefed up spring training. I'd be happy with that.
Keith Law
3:52
At this point, I'm happy with every day of games we get, and not looking any further.
I need to wrap this up a bit early and will be offline most of the weekend, so I won't have a links post up Saturday either. Thank you all for reading and for all of your questions. Please stay safe and wear your masks.
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