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  1. MrTPlush
    There are certain players that are lucky they existed before teams figured out how much SS talent there was in Latin America. A meer decade was the difference between making $16mil and $0 playing baseball for him.
  2. MrTPlush
    -0.1 WAR is what we needed? .650 OPS is what we needed? He was rated 37/45 by FanGraphs for SS with 250 PAs. The fact he got nearly 600 PAs and wasn't replaced during the season is one of the bigger blunders since 2007. We chased HRs from the SS position, a stat we surely didn't need to chase on the 2011 team. I don't dislike Doug Melvin like many do....but Yuni B playing that much all year and never getting replaced was downright insanity. The only other guy getting 550+ PAs that was worse was Alex Gonzalez....A GUY DOUG MELVIN GOT THE NEXT TWO OFFSEASONS!!!.
  3. MrTPlush
    Maybe he should take an extension. Will be retired by 30 if he destroys his body.
  4. MrTPlush
    Dude robbed 3 different teams for almost $16mil over nearly a decade. Was only a matter of time before he stole illegally.
  5. MrTPlush
    Wisconsin has lost one of it's biggest bargaining chips in trying to get AJ Storr to come back. Sania Copeland, who is apparently AJ Storr's girlfriend, has transferred to Kansas to play basketball.
  6. MrTPlush
    90% of the time I see these posts, does the kid actually think anyone cares about his copy/paste I am leaving sob story?
  7. MrTPlush
    Two more innings, we got this. 9 runs it is
  8. MrTPlush
    Chourio has been pretty darn rough lately, guessing they are wanting to give him a break. Struggling rookie against Burnes? Would have been another 3+ K day for him. Rough enough Wiemer was a better option? Maybe not…but part of it is the bigger picture. Riding Chourio into failure just because he is the less sucky of the two isn’t exactly a recipe for long term success.
  9. MrTPlush
    I really never cared for Burnes and he is definitely a whiner….but: Top 8 in Cy Young voting with a #1 finish in the last 4 years. I mean…that’s elite. Even this year his ERA is barely above 2.00 out of the gate. I don’t know if he gives me ‘elite in mid 30s vibes’, but dude has been pretty darn good.
  10. MrTPlush
    His dad made $160mil purely from baseball contracts, Chourio comes from a county where $160 is a monthly salary. They come from dramatically different backgrounds. Not to say he won’t chase a contract to get his ‘own’ money…but I gotta imagine trying to get a kid to sign when his dad already made multi multi multi generational money playing baseball is a tough sell. Even worse considering his agent is Boras. That sounds like the perfect combination to never consider an early extension.
  11. MrTPlush
    Yah, I did see something where they were fronting him money and they know they “didn’t have to worry about him not paying”. Seems like an unreal gap, but I guess with an illegal bookie, they probably weren’t looking at losses though. Once he got that deep in the hole, they knew they would never had to pay him and he would always be guilted to pay them. Guessing if he would have been the one up millions the bookie would have just said “oh sorry, no money for you” like they usually do.
  12. MrTPlush
    Was the bookie letting him bet with money he didn't have? Because if he lost $40mil and only stole $16mil from Ohtani...where did the other $24mil of gambling money he lost come from? That is perplexing. Usually with illegal bookies or bookies based in other countries you are lucky to use your own cold hard cash and get payouts....let alone try to gamble and win with money they don't even have in their possession yet. Did waving $4mil in front of their faces just make the bookie trust he was some mega rich gambling addict and sign off? Did they know he was stealing Ohtani's money and trusted he would steal whatever losses he incurred?
  13. MrTPlush
    So I guess Ohtani doesn't have a manager or anyone that does his finances for him? I can see where Ohtani could be blind and an idiot to not notice money stolen from him. However, how would an accountant etc. not notice that? Seems it would be obvious. It doesn't explain the ability to bet such stupid amounts of money. These illegal bookies aren't going to let me start raining down $13k bets. NEVER on baseball? What was he even betting on. The fact he NEVER bet on baseball seems mind boggling as he was around it nearly daily. If Ohtani is innocent, jeez, someone in the Dodgers FO give that guy some financial help...this really should not happen.
  14. MrTPlush
    Active players only...that is why the number of players is only 15.
  15. MrTPlush
    Yah, not saying they shouldn't have done it or that it will really hamper them in any way. But a waste would still be a waste. Much like the Peralta deal the worst case felt like a pretty dominant (maybe even elite) bullpen arm due to the wiff%. Ashby's days as a starter seem to be at a bit of a risk and he just hasn't had the whiff%/velo he once had....so his ceiling may be crashing down in general. Though I wonder if the deal and those option years may give him a longer leash to be starter. If he moves the bullpen you may as well just rip up those options. Could play the long game and hope he still becomes a decent starter , then we can have nice 1-year deals for a starter.
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    The most obvious one I would have to imagine is Carlos Santana. 300+ homers and has played in both leagues a decent amount of time. I don't think McCutchen has played for an AL team, but he also has a stupid number of HRs for an active player. Yelich has a good amount for an active player, but I feel like that is a fun fact I would already know if he was one. EDIT: Okay after looking it up one of the four names is a bit shocking, with needing only 111 homers to join this club and has never hit more than 15 in a year.
  17. MrTPlush
    I’ve been waiting my entire life as a Brewers fan for this kind of stat.
  18. MrTPlush
    Sure, but at the same time, who cares? Delaying service time is a formality.
  19. MrTPlush
    Well, Ashby was a waste of money I am thinking.
  20. MrTPlush
    Mejia had just as much power coming up. He still managed 14 homers the last two years in the minors. 17 homers if you include the MLB ABs in 2018. He hit a ton of doubles to add to it. MLB.com had them both at a 50 rating. Similar power...better bat skills. The later is probably the rarer and more valuable to get in a catcher. There is the defense aspect, but I guess that wasn't a part of the point I was making. Both have/had huge offensive hype, but it definitely didn't materialize for Mejia. Just a tough position to excel offensively at when so much pressure to not mess up on the defensive side of your game....and the beating you take every day.
  21. MrTPlush
    Giannis isn't leaving unless he asks to be traded. Maybe Milwaukee will still support them pretty loyally...but something tells me that fanbase takes a huge beating if they tear it down. I doubt the front office wants to meet that day in time any sooner than they have to. I have a hard time seeing them actually getting value to offset that. Trading a NBA star always seems to bring a pretty underwhelming return.
  22. MrTPlush
    Shows how Quero may be promising, but even Mejia flopped bigtime....and he was certainly a much more promising prospect.
  23. MrTPlush
    Not sure he will ever play his way out of it. Catchers just don't get that much money nor do they get long extensions. It isn't like Contreras is playing his way to a $200mil contract for over $30mil a year.
  24. MrTPlush
    Wake up Contreras, my oh my.
  25. MrTPlush
    Here is the problem and why change is almost surely impossible: Making the MLB and your arm imploding day 1 or day 3,000 is better than never making the MLB at all. Expecting to tell kids, college guys, etc to take it easy or they might blow out their arm one day is just....not going to happen. We can look at Woodruff...or any other one of these guys and say, "See kids, this is why spin rate and all that travel ball is bad." is not going to be effective. Woodruff is still a guy who became one of the best pitchers in the game and will make tens of millions before he retires. Not to mention, who knows if Woodruff becomes anything if he doesn't start throwing 100mph. You can't baby your arm and watch some other guys get bonkers spin rates and throw 100mph+, that just isn't going to happen. All those guys will pass you up. It is already nearly impossible to make the MLB level and stay there.
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