Scholarship table
Oh I agree. I was commenting on your sentence "Like it or not, often times in sports, contracts and $ are often about what a player has already done (among other things) and not just about what they are going to do."I was simply saying the best teams usually avoid this mistake.
Again, I posted some of his historic milestones as they are happening right now this week. It’s a 20 year career. I don’t see Arte Moreno anywhere in your repeated posts. He’s the owner. It’s his spending. He writes the checks. His people make the contracts. Pujols is the player, the employee. Your posts seem oddly misplaced towards the player on a long term contract, and not the owner as well as management. Fun fact: Mike Trout will be on the plus side of 40 when his contract ends with the Angels as well. Like it or not, often times in sports, contracts and $ are often about what a player has already done (among other things) and not just about what they are going to do. If players such as Pujols (who was vastly underpaid vs the market throughout his career) can get fair market value, good for him. If Mike Trout can get $430 Million and have a contract into his 40's from one of the Billionaire owners, good for him. They are the talent.
Hall of Famer Tom Seaver dead at 75. RIP
He has had medical issues for the last few years. Alzheimer’s, I believe.
He announced last year that he had Lewy Body Dementia.
Robin Williams struggled with that if I remember correctly
Oh no. I was at his pre-300th win luncheon in Chicago. The game was against the Yankees. A young don mattingly snuck out as soon as lunch was over due to lack of interest!
Devin Williams has a 7.75 Strikeout/Hit ratio. No pitcher in MLB history - even in as few innings as Devin has pitched has ever even come anywhere close to that.except,...What makes it interesting is that there is a guy this year who has been so dominant that his ratio is "Infinity". Because he has faced 47 batters without giving up a single base hit.
Yet still managed to blow a save last weekend.
Blowing a save, when you start an inning, without giving up a hit is quite an accomplishment.
Brewers designate Justin Smoak. So he'll have gotten paid $39,682 per plate appearance. Nice work.
Davis Stearns offseason is a big fat F. And I like Stearns very much. I hope this was an aberration.
Smoak was a failure. Way too early to judge Garcia, Narvaez, etc.
As a Sox fan, I told myself it was too early to make a call on Garcia for a couple seasons. He is tantalizing with the flashes he shows, but he just never really fails to disappoint.
Sounds a bit like Carlos Gomez before he put it together.
Two of Garcia's last 3 seasons have been good/excellent as well. It's not like he hasn't put it together for long stretches. He was a great player in 2017 and a good one in 2019.