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2020 MLB Spring Training (1 Viewer)

Don Quixote said:
JaxBill said:
@Ken_Rosenthal: Kluber to #Rangers is close, sources tell The Athletic.

@ThreeTwoEephus: Am hearing that Emmanuel Clase will be part of the return to Cleveland in the Kluber trade.
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Delino DeShields Jr also going over. Man, Kluber’s value took a big hit last year.
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Surprised Cleveland couldn't get more that that for Kluber.  He has two years left at Tanner Roark money and the second is a club option with a low buyout number.

DeShields is much better in fantasy than real life but it's tough to predict PAs in the Cleveland OF.

 
=Smackdown= said:
Mets are right up against the luxury tax and need two 40-man roster spots. Expect a trade.
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Mets just saved at least $10 million by restructuring Yoenis Cespedes’ contract for 2020. The full details aren’t out yet, but it appears that Cespedes agreed to this in order to avoid an investigation into the “fall” that he took on his ranch which caused his rehab to be extended.

Chris Mazza was DFA’d to make room for Wacha. The Porcello deal not officially finalized yet, but will have to DFA one more once it is.

 
NREC34 said:
Rule change for next year: 3 batter minimum for pitchers. Unless they finish a half inning or get injured. 
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Seems like everyone hates this one. Numbers guys say it will save 44 seconds per game. Getting "injured" leaves the door open for inevitable shenanigans.  :thumbdown:

 
E-Z Glider said:
Seems like everyone hates this one. Numbers guys say it will save 44 seconds per game. Getting "injured" leaves the door open for inevitable shenanigans.  :thumbdown:
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I saw that figure too but it seems very low. How much time does a single pitching change take between mound visit, calling the guy, him coming out, and tossing warm up pitches? 

 
RUSF18 said:
I saw that figure too but it seems very low. How much time does a single pitching change take between mound visit, calling the guy, him coming out, and tossing warm up pitches? 
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Each pitching change takes about 2.5 minutes. The 44 seconds is an average and according to MLB.com there were appx 800 of these future "illiegal" appearances over the whole season. 800 * 150 seconds = 120,000 seconds over 2430 games is appx 49 seconds so the numbers make sense. Basically games in which this wouldn't happen would have no change in time and games in which this would happen would save at LEAST 2.5 minutes.

I like it from the strategy perspective.

 
3 batters rule is stupid.  Baseball needs to stop trying to fix what ain't broken.  Are they going to enforce it in a world series game when a reliever comes in and can't find the strike zone?  I doubt it.  

 
Jamesinaz said:
3 batters rule is stupid.  Baseball needs to stop trying to fix what ain't broken.  Are they going to enforce it in a world series game when a reliever comes in and can't find the strike zone?  I doubt it.  
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Yeah, this will be when someone gets "injured". Pretty tough to regulate that one. Is it precautionary? Do they need to on the DL IL if they're removed from a game?  It would be nice to think that teams wouldn't do that, but these are the same guys that abused the 10-day IL rule into submission last year and got caught banging on garbage cans. 

 
I wouldn’t have an injury exception. If a guy truly gets injured then you will need to intentionally walk until you get his batter minimum or have him lob it up to the plate slow (if he can) and hope they hit it at someone. 

 
Giants never even really paid Bumgarner either.  57mill career earnings.  

Maybe Bum just wanted to go to a contender.  I’ve never seen a legend leave with less fanfare.

 
shadyridr said:
Each pitching change takes about 2.5 minutes. The 44 seconds is an average and according to MLB.com there were appx 800 of these future "illiegal" appearances over the whole season. 800 * 150 seconds = 120,000 seconds over 2430 games is appx 49 seconds so the numbers make sense. Basically games in which this wouldn't happen would have no change in time and games in which this would happen would save at LEAST 2.5 minutes.

I like it from the strategy perspective.
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Ok the last line is what I was getting at. If it doesn’t happen, there’s nothing to notice so it’s not fixing anything but in games where it can happen multiple times in a relatively short window (I’m sure 90% of these take place in the 7th and 8th innings - your closer will be stickier in the 9th) you’d feel it a lot more. Both teams doing it twice adding 10 mins to those particular innings is a massive time waster for a viewer. 

 
Daywalker said:
Giants never even really paid Bumgarner either.  57mill career earnings.  

Maybe Bum just wanted to go to a contender.  I’ve never seen a legend leave with less fanfare.
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Crazy to me that he got that much. His home/away splits are brutal. Arizona will need a much better humidor for him to make this work. 

 
Cincinnati signed Wade Miley to a 2/$15M deal.  He's been solid over the past year and a half.

As it stands today, the Reds have the best rotation in their division.

 
Eephus said:
Cincinnati signed Wade Miley to a 2/$15M deal.  He's been solid over the past year and a half.

As it stands today, the Reds have the best rotation in their division.
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Not real solid last September and barely pitched in the postseason because of it. I think just one appearance in ALDS and left off the roster in the other 2 series. 

 
Eephus said:
Cincinnati signed Wade Miley to a 2/$15M deal.  He's been solid over the past year and a half.

As it stands today, the Reds have the best rotation in their division.
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Reunited with his pitching coach from the Brewers.

Wish they could have snagged Grandal or Didi along with Moose, but overall they've added some solid pieces so far.  If they can generate decent offense, they'll make some noise.

 
E-Z Glider said:
Seems like everyone hates this one. Numbers guys say it will save 44 seconds per game. Getting "injured" leaves the door open for inevitable shenanigans.  :thumbdown:
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I still say they should have just eliminated the warm up pitches on the mound, instead.  I prefer that over making a pitcher pitch to 3 batters.  It's going to suck when a pitcher comes in and gives up back to back homers and then will be forced to throw to another batter because he hasn't faced his third batter yet.  

 
Everyone in the AL West seems to be getting stronger except the Astros.  Well, and the Mariners, but no one cares about them.

 
Only 10 of the top 30 FA's remain unsigned.  At first I thought all of this early signing was going to be good for baseball, but honestly, it's going to be a long, uneventful 54 days until P&C report.

 
TheIronSheik said:
Only 10 of the top 30 FA's remain unsigned.  At first I thought all of this early signing was going to be good for baseball, but honestly, it's going to be a long, uneventful 54 days until P&C report.
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Maybe there will be lots of blockbuster trades.  I doubt it but ya never know.

 
I see Felix Hernandez is getting calls and is interested to pitch in 2020.  I wondered if he still planned to play.  They made it sound like he had retired but never heard him say anything to that effect.

Obviously not the pitcher he used to be, but he could be a good inning eater for some team.

 
I'm interested to see what Keuchel signs for.  He didn't sign until middle of last season and then had a less than spectacular half season.  

I can't imagine anyone is going to give him a big deal.  And I'm guessing it'll be a one year contract again.  He might have been better off staying with the Astros.  Maybe he'll come back.  Not that I actually want him that bad.  But honestly, I'm hoping the Astros sign someone a little better than Joe Smith.  I mean, for God's sake, that sounds like a fake name.  

 
I saw today on Twitter that they think Wade Miley was tipping pitches and why he sucked the last month and half. It’s a pay article on the Athletic so I don’t know anything else. Maybe he’ll do okay in Cincy. 

 
I'm not a fan of the branding being on the face of the uniform, but I can live with it if it does bring in new/younger fans.

Nike definitely irked the average baseball fan when MLB revealed that the new uniform for each team would carry the retail giant’s logo on the right shoulder.

The deal between MLB, Nike and retailer Fanatics is valued at more than $1 billion over 10 years, the New York Post reported Wednesday, citing sources. Fanatics founder Michel Rubin told the newspaper that the deal is already bringing younger customers to the sport – something that baseball has struggled with.

“Demand is up significantly based on adding the swoosh to the uniform and is bringing in younger consumers to the sport and a marketing halo from Nike,” Rubin said.

Nike-branded jerseys at MLBShop.com are selling for $359.99

 
NREC34 said:
I saw today on Twitter that they think Wade Miley was tipping pitches and why he sucked the last month and half. It’s a pay article on the Athletic so I don’t know anything else. Maybe he’ll do okay in Cincy. 
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Someone on another site speculated that perhaps banging on a bucket wasn't the best way to communicate with his catcher.

 
Lots of smaller names signing.  But still 8 of the top 30 out there.

#5 Josh Donaldson
#8 Nicolas Catellanos
#9 Hyun-Jin Ryu
#11 Marcell Ozuna
#14 Dallas Keuchel
#22 Will Harris
#25 Corey Dickerson
#28 Daniel Hudson 

*Per MLBTrades

 
Whoa... speculation was that the Mets knocked $10 mil off of Cespedes 2020 contract due to the incident on the ranch, but ESPN saying that they knocked off $23.5 mil. :jawdrop:

Cespedes salary for 2020 cut to $6 mil

Update- Story updated to show that the $6 Mil salary will kick in if he spends any time on the IL because of the existing foot condition. His base is $11 mil with bonuses on top. Still- nice $18.5 mil cut. That also opens up the trade market, but at this point, I’d rather we keep him and roll the dice this year.

 
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