Good
morning.
First,
we want to welcome ex-Mets Oscar Rojas and Aneury Uceta to
our family of Mack’s Mets readers.
JJ Cooper - @jjcoop36
There are many, many hurdles that have to be overcome before
their can be a 2020 MiLB season. And if there isn't one, the 2021 season will
be more difficult financially for MiLB teams as well.
Bob Nightengale - @BNightengale
Union chief Tony Clark still optimistic
#MLB will play games this year some way, in some fashion, even if there are no
fans.
Teddy Cahill - @tedcahill
Returning seniors aren't the only source of roster pressure
for college baseball in 2021. A significantly shortened draft is expected to
lead to a larger than normal freshmen class.
Mets: David Wright
Selected 38th overall out of the Virginia prep ranks in the
2001 Draft, Wright cracked Baseball America’s Top 100 list for the first time
in 2003 (No. 75) and entered MLB.com's Top 50 list at No. 29 in ’14. Though he
would make his big league debut at the midseason mark that year and quickly
become the face of the franchise, ultimately earning seven All-Star selections,
a pair of Silver Slugger Awards and two Gold Gloves during his 14-year Mets
tenure, a chronic back injury limited Wright to 77 games from 2015-18.
What I am hearing is that the Mets are not going after any of
the big bonus babies in the next International draft. The word is that they
will be spreading what money they spend to under 100K bonuses.
I also called a couple of my insiders after watching the
President lay out the recovery plan he has worked out with the Governors. They
both feel that we will see MAJOR league baseball, starting around June 1st.
They also believe it will start off with an empty stadium, but could be
expanded to a limited amount of fan participation. How that will work out with
teams that have sold out certain games is your guess.
The three of us agree that minor league baseball could mirror
this, so, for now, let’s look at a projection of about 100 major league games
and all minor league teams, including the short season ones, starting in June
and ending at the end of mid-September.
Deesha - @DeeshaThosar
Did I wake up at 7 a.m. to watch Fubon bat around the order
and score sevens runs in the top of the fifth inning off the Rakuten Monkeys
with cardboard fans in the stands and cheerleaders dancing on the dugout in
Taiwan?
Yes. Yes, I did.
Advocates for Minor Leaguers - @MiLBAdvocates
MLB players will receive service time for the year whether or
not there is a season. Minor Leaguers need the same guarantee. Otherwise,
players like this one- a year short of MiLB Free Agency (7 years)- will be
forced to quit.
5 comments:
Do you think there will be College baseball this summer? Most leagues have not cancelled and expect to start on time, which in some leagues is the end of May. Therefore college baseball players I assume would be in camp by mid May.
Can some leagues play while others are cancelled! Some leagues may be in parts of the country where we have opened up and have little restrictions. If American people can protest in front of state capitals I am sure these same people can fill up ballparks in that part of the country.
Americans can go to church and other large gatherings, oblivious to the dangers and then suffer the consequences. That is how I feel about the protesters at state government offices on the GOP payroll to support the plans to reopen the country long before it's suitable to do so.
Raw
Nothing is etched in stone yet.
Reese -
And the idiots on the Florida beaches.
What Churches are open Reese so that I may attend? Not only are they closed, cops put nails in front of their parking lot entrances so they couldn’t even park there on Easter to listen to the liturgy over a loud speaker. All while the essential parking lots are open for Office Depot, Lowe’s and Home Depot, and even the extremely essential Starbucks.
Whether these people are paid by the GOP or not, I don’t know, but they have mouths to feed and it would be nice to understand that. As someone who hasn’t qualified for unemployment, got nothing on the PPP and is still calling unemployment close to 40X a day to busy signals, it bothers me to read your words. I agree the beaches have no business being open and surely no one should open their states if they aren’t safe to do so, but as the Kansas Attorney General put it towards her Governor who said people can’t go to Church, “the Bill of Rights cannot be quarantined.”
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