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$1.1M a start, $9200 every pitch thrown.

Just based on last year only.

 

i called it but i never thought he would get that kind of money! that's insane! crazy!

wait till judge is a fa. how will they pay him ? i still don't get how they took on stanton and were under the tax that year. u dog explained it but it baffles me to take on $268 mil and be under anything with 24 other player contracts.

 

And they twist themselves into pretzels to justify not paying someone more than $8 an hour.

 

cbs is saying how great their staff is. i don't think it's that great. tanaka is suspect and happ wasn't that good last year.

 

Tanaka, Paxton, German, Happ and Sabathia ?, its not bad, but I wouldn't say great. Lets throw Cole in there now and it gets much better.

 

And this is why MLB is hemorrhaging fans. The "haves" (NYY, BOS, LA, etc.) can afford to pay ten-fold more than anybody else for top talent and make the playoffs every year. It wasn't too long ago the Yankees were paying Jeter more than the entire KC Royals starting lineup. It's just plain as day that this is buying a playoff spot while others have to earn it.

This is getting out of hand. The Indians owner/front office have already stated (middle of last season) that they won't be able to afford Lindor when it's time for a new contract in 2 years and they'll more than likely be shopping him this year as they continue to cut payroll for the 3rd year in a row.


Come playoff time, if it ain't the Tribe, I'm rooting for the underdogs with the league minimum payrolls.....if I decide to keep watching at all........

 

***Sorry for the continued rant here......but......

Who the hell can afford to take a family of four to a ballgame anymore?

 

The blue jays have tonnes of cash, but even they realize when it starts to get stupid.

 

sabathia ? i thought he was retiring ? they are shopping happ to get salary relief from the cole signing.

 

depends on the venue. phils have very affordable tix for $25 each. don't go crazy with food and it's not bad. and the phils allow you to bring food in a clear bag into the stadium. you can save a ton there.

 

all rants are allowed here !

 

Boras just earned himself $36M this week, not bad.

 

Boras not done earning yet...

Rendon to the Angels, 7 yrs $245MM

 

i thought the Angels needed pitching more than hitting ? Rendon is nice, but they didn't get Cole, Strasburg or Wheeler, so now what for the staff ?

 

cha ching for boras this month!

 

I mean people had been talking about Cole ending up there for awhile. Now they’ll have to drop down to the next tier of guys and then hope and pray Heaney and Ohtani can stay healthy. They traded for Dylan Bundy, too, who has been decent at times and still has some upside.

 

Dylan Bundy, man, he had a top of hype years back as the next big thing.

 

Mets signed Michael Wacha and Rick Porcello to 1 year deals. $3m and $10m, respectively.

Yanks re-signed Brett Gardner, 1/12.5

 

Major League Baseball has removed marijuana from the list of Drugs of Abuse under its Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. The change occurred as a result of negotiations with the Major League Baseball Players Association.

Baseball will continue to test for opioids, fentanyl, cocaine, and synthetic THC.

Major League Baseball will now treat “marijuana-related conduct” in the same way that it treats “alcohol-related conduct,” which presumably includes the penalties for driving a vehicle while under the influence.

This development will increase public pressure on the NFL to follow suit, but the NFL has shown no inclination to unilaterally remove marijuana from the substance-abuse policy. The league has pointed out, on numerous occasions, that it’s a subject of collective bargaining. Which means that, if the NFL Players Association wants marijuana to be removed from the substance-abuse policy, the NFLPA needs to make a concession.

And the NFLPA won’t. Because the NFLPA realizes that it’s currently very easy to navigate the annual testing program under the substance-abuse policy. Only a small percentage of players end up being fined or suspended for marijuana use. A much larger percentage of players surely smoke all season long, knowing that if they simply stop by the middle of March (given that it takes roughly a month to clear the metabolites from the system) and refrain until the give their annual sample for testing (the testing window opens, coincidentally, on 4/20), they will have no problems.

Problems can still arise if players are arrested for marijuana possession in a state where it’s illegal, or if a player is charged with driving under the influence of marijuana. Still, players who are smart and prudent can smoke for up to 11 months of the year, without incident.

For the NFLPA, the question becomes what it is worth to essentially gain the ability to smoke marijuana for an extra month? At this point, not nearly enough to get the NFL to agree to remove marijuana from the list of banned substances.

 

The baseball bat used by Babe Ruth to hit his 500th home run on Aug.11th 1929 was auctioned off yesterday for $1M.