Random MLB News & Discussion 2014

[Invader3K]

If I understand how those policies work correctly they are for when a player suffers a career ending injury. I do not believe they cover portions of the contract that are lost to injury even if the injury is long term.

 

They're also really expensive to take out. It's not like paying for your car insurance.

[BrewersSuperCollector]

No cigar for the Jobu though

[Thurston Fluff]

Just to clarify according to an article on bleacher report the team would get compensated if he misses an entire season not just if he has a career ending one. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2073034-texas-rangers-lose-prince-fielder-for-season-due-to-neck-injury

[SRB]

If I understand how those policies work correctly they are for when a player suffers a career ending injury. I do not believe they cover portions of the contract that are lost to injury even if the injury is long term.

 

They're also really expensive to take out. It's not like paying for your car insurance.

 

Yeah, it's a substantial percentage of the contract, so we could be talking millions per season. I don't know if it's outdated, but I remember an article from years ago discussing this. Some teams as a policy just never insure players (I think the Mariners were one), some insure all players, some have a mix.

 

I was more referring to the fact that Fielder is making $25M for the next half-decade, was horrible this season, and is now coming off from some kind of weird surgery that has to do with his nerves and persistent weakness in his arms. Not a great position to be in for Texas. Would have been devastating for Milwaukee.

[3and2Fastball]

I sure was wrong when I was so adamant that the Brewers made a mistake not signing Fielder longterm!!!

[Bombers]

Red Sox lose their 9th straight - just crazy. They were bad in 2012, won it all in 2013 and I guess bad again this year

[Invader3K]

Red Sox lose their 9th straight - just crazy. They were bad in 2012, won it all in 2013 and I guess bad again this year

 

Are their fans calling for for the GM to be canned again like they were with Epstein when that team started to fall apart?

[adamb100]

Manny is coming back, to be a player coach for the Cubs AAA affiliate. He's gonna teach them how to juice and try not to be caught.

[2017]

The lazy fielding efforts being taught by Manny will be great for the Cubs organization.

[TooLiveBrew]

Something tells me his focus might primarily be on hitting...

[trwi7]

 

[dlk9s]

This was written on the white board of the A's clubhouse:

 

Slow torture vs. Instant kill

Slow torture is a team approach.

Instant kill is an individual approach.

Home runs end rallies, not start them.

Keep pitchers in the stretch and trust your teammates.

Pass the torch if necessary….

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[Matt Breen]

There's a rather lengthy and funny article on ESPN about the 'Unwritten Rules of Baseball'.

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10964445/mlb-baseball-confusing-contradictory-unwritten-rules

[pretendastronaut]

The Royals are underperforming and Sveum was just made hitting coach today. Ned has to be having some flashback terror at this point.

[fondybrewfan]

It is actually pretty incredible that Ned even has a job anymore. This was supposed to be the prime years of the Royals franchise considering how strong their farm system was 3-4 years ago. That team and its prospects have been an undeniable failure and part of the reason you don't want to pin all your hopes on the farm system saving you (I am looking at you Cubs).

[pacopete4]

As much as their is some distaste for Ned, isn't this more on the GM than anything? Obviously he felt that his farm system was better than it is and he did not take the proper moves via trades, free agency to bolster the roster. I mean look at the Smith for Aoki trade. Completely ridiculous that he traded that left handed arm away for an aging, average to maybe slightly above average player.

[bill hAll Star]

To quote trwi7 on another board (going off a tweet), the Royals are the Christian Mingle of baseball. Lots of singles with no scoring.

[Matt Breen]

To quote trwi7 on another board (going off a tweet), the Royals are the Christian Mingle of baseball. Lots of singles with no scoring.

sweet. that's going out to some friends.

[heresrobin]

trw, make sure you zoom in and look at that Cards fan's patch on his jersey.

[trwi7]

The Pirates made a terrific trade today giving up very mediocre reliever Bryan Morris for the 39th pick in the draft.

[jerichoholicninja]

Mark Teixeira's uncomfortable and hilarious interview show is better than anything on TV

[stalton]

There's a rather lengthy and funny article on ESPN about the 'Unwritten Rules of Baseball'.

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10964445/mlb-baseball-confusing-contradictory-unwritten-rules

 

I skimmed the article when you originally posted this, but then I finally got back to reading the whole thing. Not sure where they got their facts considering that they said that Synder got 3 games and Maldi got 8 games for the scuffle in Pitt.

[yfinn6]

Is Manny Machado the most hated man in baseball? What's not being talked about enough is how Machado hit the A's catcher twice on follow throughs and never apologized. Then was seen smiling as the other catcher was getting into the game, although we don't know just exactly if he was smiling about knocking the A's catcher out of the game. Dude just seems like a total baby.

[SRB]

Is Manny Machado the most hated man in baseball? What's not being talked about enough is how Machado hit the A's catcher twice on follow throughs and never apologized. Then was seen smiling as the other catcher was getting into the game, although we don't know just exactly if he was smiling about knocking the A's catcher out of the game. Dude just seems like a total baby.

 

The couple times I saw the replay it actually didn't look that intentional to me. If you want to hit the pitcher it's not hard to throw the bat straight. I can fully buy that he was swinging hard, saw the ball coming/got hit mid swing or whatever and lost control of the bat.

[yfinn6]

He swung the bat as the ball was being caught. Looked pretty intentional to me - wasn't your "I'm way out in front and the bat slipped out of my hands."