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best comment i read so far about the contract length.   "There are Phillies fans not yet born that will be throwing batteries at him in the later years of this contract".

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From Levi Weaver's column in The Athletic:  

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Gammons rambles way too much and it's like his editors are afraid to touch his work, but I like him because he loves baseball.  Not just MLB.  Gammons loves BASEBALL. And he hit this one out of t

Bartles

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Home town discount in Trout's case means he'll come to Philly if the offers are roughly the same. Usually you have to way outbid the Yankees. At the moment, NYY is still in a better position because they have recent playoff appearances and a young nucleus. The Phillies are still climbing out from a decade of bad drafts and development. This will be a vital year to show improvement.

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Baseball's potential future will be showcased in the independent Atlantic League this year, and it includes robot umpires, a 62-foot, 6-inch distance between the pitcher's mound and home plate, and no infield shifting.

Those three rule changes are among a wide variety of experiments that the Atlantic League will run this season as part of its new partnership with Major League Baseball. The changes, announced Friday, include:

• Using a TrackMan radar system to help umpires call balls and strikes
• Extending the distance between the pitching rubber from 60 feet, 6 inches to 62 feet, 6 inches in the second half of the season
• Mandating that two infielders are on each side of the second-base bag when a pitch is released, with the penalty being a ball
• A three-batter minimum for pitchers -- a rule MLB and the MLB Players Association are considering for the 2020 season as they near an agreement on a smaller set of changes
• No mound visits, other than for pitching changes or injuries
• Increasing the size of first, second and third base from 15 inches to 18 inches
• Reducing the time between innings and pitching changes from 2 minutes, 5 seconds to 1 minute, 45 seconds

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Home town discount in Trout's case means he'll come to Philly if the offers are roughly the same. Usually you have to way outbid the Yankees. At the moment, NYY is still in a better position because they have recent playoff appearances and a young nucleus. The Phillies are still climbing out from a decade of bad drafts and development. This will be a vital year to show improvement.


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Probably the first time a team is happy about an oblique strain, now they don’t have to explain shit. 

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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is expected to miss the next three weeks, after he was diagnosed with a Grade 1 strain of his left oblique muscle.

Guerrero sustained the injury during his final at-bat of Friday's win over the Pirates. He will be shut down for the next week, and the hope is that Guerrero will return to the Minors, or to extended spring training approximately two weeks after that.

"In his last at-bat he felt a sharp pain in his side, which for the first time for any young player is a frightening feeling, and fortunately it is just a Grade 1 and it's something we'll be able to manage," Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said.

"He has a very aggressive swing, which is part of the reason. We'll be very careful and ensure that he is ready for that cage work, and there will be less rotational work for the next week."

Guerrero had four hits with one RBI in 19 at-bats this spring. He has been ruled out for the remainder of Spring Training, and likely should be expected to miss a couple of weeks in the regular season as well.

The 20-year-old third baseman technically was competing for a spot on the 25-man roster but all along the expectation was that Guerrero would start the year at Triple-A Buffalo. If the Blue Jays delayed his arrival in Toronto by a few weeks, the club would have gained an extra year of control, and this latest injury all but officially guarantees that will be the course of action.

Guerrero is the No. 1 prospect in baseball, according to MLB Pipeline. He slashed .381/.437/.636 across four Minor League levels last season. The injury is a disappointing setback, but one that Guerrero apparently has been handling OK.

"He's so upbeat and positive," Atkins said. "The most discouraging thing for him is that he's not playing in baseball games. He loves to compete. he loves to play and he'll see this as an opportunity to get better."

 

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7 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

My man Ryne Harper of the Twins struck out the side on pretty much nothing but 70 - 75 mph curveballs.

Reminds me of Doug Jones. He made batters look stupid with his changeup. Shiity video

 

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On 3/9/2019 at 6:31 AM, Bartles said:

Meant to say that money or not, the Phillies need to get better to contend with Yankees for players. If that happens in the next year or two, then they can probably get Trout even without going far beyond the NYY offer.

The Yankees arent gonna go after Trout. Current ownership is done doing what it takes to be great. They’re happy to just be good enough to make the playoffs and count their money. 

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This is fucking stupid. The “having to explain how August waiver trades work” bullshit is fucking ludicrous. 

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Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association have adopted a new rule change this season in which there will only be one trade deadline, sources told Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.

The deadline will be July 31, which has been the traditional day for teams to complete non-waiver trades each season. In making this change, the league has decided to remove the waiver trades that take place in August. 

Proposed by the MLBPA, the single deadline has been installed to “protect the competitive integrity of the 162-game regular season, create more certainty for players and force teams to decide earlier whether they are buyers or sellers,” according to Rosenthal. 

Like any changes, this rule change will present pros and cons.

As Rosenthal says, this rule will make teams have to actually build their teams in the offseason, where there has been a lack of urgency to do so over the last two winters. Once they do that, the clubs will then have to play the games and “adjust” the team by the deadline. After that, the teams just have to watch their seasons unfold.

The hard deadline will certainly have more activity and drama when it comes to trades before July 31. Last year, as Rosenthal says, clubs made 48 trades in July and 24 in August, with deals involving Josh Donaldson, Andrew McCutchen, Curtis Grandson, Gio Gonzalez, Daniel Murphy, Jose Bautista, David Freese and many more players taking place in August.

It will also avoid having to explain how August waiver trades work, which is a long, confusing process and one that most teams tried to use in order to dump players who have huge salaries. 

In addition, the rule could eventually benefit top prospects in the minor league system, as their chances of getting promoted to a team that may be deemed a seller by the deadline will increase because those sellers will look to trade away veteran players in order to build their clubs for the future.

 

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21 minutes ago, Scraps said:

I thought i was told he would sign with Philly or the Yankees.

We're definitely getting him next time. He loves the Eagles so much he wants to make sure he's free all of October and November to use his season tickets.

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9 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

He’s already owed $67mm for this year and next so it’s essentially a 10 year extension for $363mm with no opt outs.

My understanding (from listening on the radio and not confirming with googles) is that this replaces his existing deal and results in a raise over the next couple of years.

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