2-4-22 - Mike Puma @NYPost_Mets
In this week’s Mets newsletter for Post Sports + subscribers we look at how the organization’s international signing philosophy has fluctuated in recent years. These days the Mets are back big-game hunting.
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2-4-22 - Justin Toscano @JustinCToscano
Personal News: I’m excited to announce I’ll be the new Braves beat writer for the @ajc.
Thank you to everyone who has supported me on this journey. I’m extremely grateful for this opportunity and I can’t wait to get started in Atlanta soon.
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2-4-22 - Derrick S. Goold @dgoold
“The game of baseball is a very lucrative thing for players and owners. The ones that get left out of that are always the fans, unfortunately. Baseball sometimes just needs to get out of its own way.”
— Adam Wainwright to Rick Hummel today
@stltoday
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2-4-22 - Michael Mayer @mikemayer22
Robinson Canó played 38 games in Winter Ball this offseason:
.295/.363/.389 with 31 RBIs and 16 walks.
He had only 1 home run and his 1 triple was a misplay (should've been a single), so no power to speak of in 37 games.
Started as DH, but played good chunk at second base.
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The Apple - MLB Posturing for Public Position… Also, Happy Birthday to us! One year down…
4 comments:
Yes, Cano had very little power - I think that was deliberate. Not to try to do too much too soon.
Tom,
I can't for the life of me understand how the owners have no recourse against players found guilty of cheating.
Joe P, me neither. I may have signed a guy long term to huge bucks, only to find his great numbers were at least in part due to pharmacology. A guy may be suspended, but then goes right back to his artificially inflated contract.
I personally think that besides a suspension, any player suspended for PEDs ought to get an automatic (saY) 25% haircut on post-suspension portion of contract. So, in the case of Robbie Cano, who is making (I believe) $25 million a year for the next two seasons, including Seattle's kick-in, that gets knocked to $18.75 million and the Mets share would be $15 million a year instead of $20 million. I'd not disagree with a 50% haircut, either.
If a player knew he'd lose his suspension period pay AND lose 50% of the rest when he returns....I suddenly think almost no one will be using.
Joe P, I think it isn't addressed because there is no general outrage. People just don't care about a lot of stuff.
As a non-baseball example, on social media, I posted what seemed to me an astounding post: a British expert who dispassionately tracks COVID impacts and actions in many countries including his own just posted that the country of Denmark, which has had far lower deaths per capita than the U.S., has concluded it cannot stop Omicron and is therefore dropping ALL in-country requirements. You want a vaccine, up to you; you want a mask, up to you; you are COVID-positive but feeling OK? Up to you if you wish to quarantine. We...trust...you. Let's get back to normal.
That is very dramatically different than our country's current approach. And might be where the U.S. is headed soon, if it works in Denmark. Yet, no one commented on that post. Most people don't give a crap. Or Facebook hid it from them, perhaps. I dunno.
But why do baseball players get away with PEDs? Most fans could care less.
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