2020-21 Baseball Offseason Thread

I'd argue that this doesn't happen as much because any decent veteran gets paid way too much, because that's all that's available by free agency.

 

The Pirates are gonna Pirate - they clearly aren't competitive under the current system either, and trade guys the minute they get expensive. MLB should be pressuring the current owners to sell, as opposed to making any sort of rule on their behalf. (I realize that there is zero chance that MLB is doing that, since they usually "like" teams like the Pirates more than the Dodgers and the Steinbrenner Yankees, who have the gall to actually value winning on the field over winning against the union or making money.)

 

You answered your own point. No matter how bad Bob Nutting is for baseball in Pittsburgh and for the game in general, he is not going to sell. As I already mentioned, the only way to get him to either spend money on the roster or sell would be a rule change. I do like the idea of imposing a tax on the teams that fall below a salary floor. Hit owners like Nutting in the only area they care about, the bottom line.

 

Imagine telling Red Sox fans 16 months that their outfield would be completely different going into spring training

 

Sox send Benitendi and cash to get Franchy Cordero and Winckowski?

 

Bob Nutting just nutted at the Pirates being in the same class as the Red Sox.

 

Andrew Benintendi trade frees up $1.4M in payroll flexibility; will Chaim Bloom sign another position player?

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/02/11/dodgers-trevor-bauer/
Off the field, Bauer has been polarizing. In a sport that values being one of 26, in which no one in a clubhouse puts himself above the others, the outspoken Bauer is active on social media, speaks openly of his brand, sells merchandise on his website and referenced his “vlog” in his introductory news conference. He reiterated Thursday what he said many times all winter — that he sought a team that would be willing to start “a partnership” with him that would let him be himself.

Bauer has pestered women who challenge him on Twitter, a habit made more noticeable by the fact that he has not handled male critics on the platform so pointedly. In one such 2019 diatribe, Bauer made a comment that disparaged and discredited trans and nonbinary people.
Shortly after, he issued a statement discouraging similar harassment and promising to do better. A few weeks ago, a New York Daily News reporter tweeted that she received death threats and Holocaust jokes after Bauer attacked her on the platform in 2020.
“Everyone makes mistakes in the past. I try to learn from them,” Bauer said in answer to one of several questions he got about his social media behavior. None of those answers included the word “sorry.” When asked directly whether he would stop fighting back on social media, Bauer dodged and reiterated his commitment to “having a positive impact on the community.”

 

Love Passan's reply to his own tweet

 

This just seemed like the place that would get the most attention, but Vin Scully narrating the Los Angeles Orchestra’s story of Lincoln at the Hollywood Bowl will give you chills.

He’s so fucking good. Goosebumps for days.

 

Link?