Kolek planning to go pro
Union sacrificed them for some of the other concessions. 26th man on MLB rosters, no pitch clock and a commitment to negotiate. I still don't see a path forward that avoids a lockout, though.
Yeah players are going to have to strike I think, I'm all for it and hope they win.
I was thinking about MLB and all their attempts to speed up the game. Yet they seem to have missed the most obvious - wireless technology. Why not have earpieces provided for all players? So, instead of the catcher spending time looking at the bench for what pitch to call and then spending more time relaying the sign to pitchers, why couldn't the manager relay the sign verbally to the P and C at the same time?Also, why waste 5-10 minutes or more a game for the manager to slowly shuffle out to the mound for a conversation just to change pitchers? Or instead of shuffling slowly out, the pitching coach could have the pitcher step back off the mound to speak to him via wireless in half the time?
I read that MLB is experimenting with a wireless watch for catchers to give signals to pitchers, who’d also have a wireless watch.
Trout - 12 years, $430M. Two takeaways for me. First, that's still a "spit out my coffee when i saw it" amount of money. Second is that Trout really is every bit the low-key guy he seems to sign this now. I struggle to imagine, barring catastrophic injury, that he wouldn't have beat this in a free agency free for all. There are only 10 years of new money on this deal, as two of them cancel out the below market extension he signed in 2013. So really its a 10 year, $406M extension if my math is right. I think 10 years, $400M was the absolute minimum to be mentioned as a possible destination in 2020.
Takeaway #3 - THIS IS WHY YOU DO NOT MANIPULATE SERVICE TIME. If Trout was pissed at the Angels, there's no way he allows them to overwrite the remaining years on his below market deal as part of an extension. Instead, structuring the deal this way allowed the Angels to leverage their two years of control into stretching their AAV across 12 years while also reducing the new money.
So much for the California tax thing having influence
So much for reading comprehension....it will effect some, not all.
NBC Sports Washington's Grant Paulsen: "Trout's a better player with a better resume than Bryce Harper, so he deserves more money. But if he does sign for 12/430 ... it will make Bryce Harper's contract and offseason look way worse."
I don't think it does. I don't think Harper is particularly close to Trout as a player.Trout - 27 yrs old, 8 seasons, 4673 PA, 64.3 WARHarper - 26 yrs old, 7 seasons, 3957 PA, 27.4 WARPlus Harper, despite being a year younger, is seeing his defense fade faster. I think if one of those contracts is fair, the other one is too.As a Red Sox fan, I think this means Betts (26 yrs old, 5 seasons, 2923 PA, 35.2 WAR) definitely goes free agent, because the Red Sox will now have to offer more than Harper got to sign him ahead of free agency.
Trout - 7 full seasons 63.8 WARMantle - 7 full seasons 60.1 WAR - Would probably be ahead of Trout without the knee injury.First time I saw Trout play, one name came to mind. Easy to see why. Trout will be in the running for GOAT. Right now, it is Ruth and everyone else. Without tearing up his knee as a 19 year old, (remember, surgical procedures were nowhere near where they are now) it would be Ruth/Mantle and everyone else. That's the kind of company Trout is in.
Trout stays a Halo....$430M for 12 years.Greatest player I have seen in person play, spoiled here for sure. Going to suck when we move and won’t be able to watch him in person.
Artie Moreno strikes again.This is the idiot who gave Albert Pujols the keys to the kingdom. All Pujols did was his best imitation of a .265 hitter.Way to go Artie!