Look at Ray Ray Run

I read a report yesterday that the front office is a disaster right now with endless infighting with no true leadership in place. Everyone is just trying to prove their worth before they're shown the door. edit: ehh, read it without the "summary" on twitter and it moreso is saying the Mets are having a hard time attracting anyone to take these jobs in the front office and are going to go into the off-season with nothing in place.

The Mets don't really even have a baseball ops team in place that they plan on being in place going forward; it would be odd for Cohen to let these guys splurge and then show them the door. I think the Mets aggressiveness - at least this off-season - is being overblown. That said, hopefully things start moving tomorrow following the tender deadline. I am not hopeful though. I still am not sold that Reinsdorf is going to spend while his friends sit on their hand and cry poor. That's just not Jerry's MO; he usually leads the charge when it comes to collusion.

Yeah, this is the point of the escrow. NBA saw most of its revenue but it did lose some. Those losses of revenue will not be factored in for the projected salary cap but should covid cause a reduction of games and revenue next year players will be compensated based on that. Baseball already did this with prorating salaries last year. Thats not the problem now in baseball. The problem is baseball owners will claim and push for smaller salaries for this year and future years because of the pandemic losses that players already subsidized with prorated salaries last year. Salaries in baseball didn't go up to match the revenue growth over the last 20 years, leading to baseball players getting smaller share of the real revenues than other sports. If you're not going to escalate salaries to match growth you cant turn around and ask them to subsidize your losses by taking salary cuts. That's comical. Baseball owners are awful

It has nothing to do with losses. The nba cap is tied to revenues. They are directly related. Thats how money is split based on their cba.

Lol People who compare owning a professional sports franchise to things like a landscaping business are literally hopeless in these communications. Is the local landscaping business subsidized by my tax dollars? Did we all help build the landscapers headquarters? So let me get this straight, they aren't required to spend when revenues have soared well beyond costs for the past 40 years but when they aren't making money hand over foot they can also use that as an excuse not to spend. That sounds like a good deal for owners. Glad you all are so sympathetic to these people lol Teams laying off workers left and right after making billions while using tax dollars to build stadiums. Amazing people support these crooks.

What does this prove exactly? Nba players and teams have revenue % split agreements for player salaries. The cap is based on prior years revenues and etc. They didn't use last year to set the cap because they thought it was artificial and not a good barometer but because the cap is based on a percentage of revenue, there has to be an escrow incase revenues don't bounce back. This is literally no where near the same thing. Their cba and salary cap are based on revenues. Baseball has no cap. Theres no requirement to meet a certain percentage on players salaries. Nba teams also don't have closed books in negotiations as mlb owners do. This is actually the nba saying we'll pay you based on where we both thought revenues would be next year pre pandemic but if the revenue is greatly affected by the pandemic the cap would be lower so salaries would have to come down. Its actually the exact opposite of the mlb who already intentionally shortened last season to deprive players of salaries. Amazing this post has 2 likes as if some point was proven.

One more thing.. you know why we don't "know" their situation financially? Because they keep their books closed intentionally so they can make these laughable claims. Owners refuse to actually prove what they claim because they can't. The onus is on them to justify their claims, not on me.

Nba teams must have just picked better business men to run their teams. Weird! They seem to be dolling out money and contracts like its nothing. Since I'm not a lawyer proving collusion in court that means it doesn't exist lol. Just like 2008... no bankers did anything wrong because none were criminally changed. Nice insight cali. Carry that absurdly wealthies water.

Yes, the poor billionaires are struggling during this pandemic and can't afford to support their businesses. They just happened to have billions.

Nonsense. Ownership colluding to suppress salaries and pay is wrong regardless of income levels. Just because you like baseball doesn't mean everyone playing the game loves it. This is a job. And the Ricketts can't cover Payroll? Then they shouldn't own a team. And the fact that anyone here actually thinks the Ricketts can't afford a payroll has fallen for one big pile or bs.

Owners are just using this as an excuse to be cheap. They don't have to do it. This constant cry of poorness will be used in CBA negotiations. Players again are being screwed by league wide ownership collusion. The Chicago cubs are floating the idea of non tendering a player who was worth 5 fWAR two years ago to "save" money. They just spent hundreds of millions building up the area around the ballpark and starting a television network and they can't afford to put a competitive product on the field? Uh yeah, ok.... Baseball doesn't have a pace of play or youth problem.... it has an ownership problem. Collectively it's the worst group of owners in pro sports. the goal is no longer to win and have fun owning a team- whose value grows exponentially year after year. It's a shame.

I can't think of a guy who settled for significantly less money than projected. I could be wrong but I believe that could hurt the arbitration market for other players?

Amazing to see people b**** about fake insider trolls on Twitter, and wonder aloud why they waste their time every off season doing it... only to constantly post their thoughts and analyze them as if Jeff passan broke the story lol.

Who knew?

How so?

They're in the business of professional gossip and I don't disagree.

All I'm gonna say is that no one has any idea why some guys stay healthy and others don't. Most ideas and thoughts for maintaining pitcher health in the 90's and 2000's turned out to be nothingburgers. I think max velocity is probably a huge part of it; much moreso than inverted arm issues and loads. Many things that were said to be dangerous when I was growing up are now being taught and pushed because they actually aren't bad; like extended long toss, throwing every other day in off-seasons, and etc.

Not you specifically.

I mean you're betting on Snell being the guy he was 3 yearscago.

The key to a rebuild is self evaluation and understanding what prospects the industry or a team views higher than your internal evaluation. Selling those prospects and getting big league talent back. You have to trust your guys and trust that you don't trade away the wrong ones. No one should know your guys better than you.

I don't believe the Pirates were willing to include Glasnow for Eaton but I could be mistaken. Giolito honestly might have the more productive career because Glasnows injury history isn't great and the cut on his fastball isn't great on the arm at that velocity level usually.

Yeah, but Glasnow's issue was always command in the big leagues. He also completely dominated the minors in a way Cease never did. He's also 6'8 and tall pitchers take longer to put everything together historically. In 595 MiLB innings, Glasnow had a 2.01 ERA, and 788 strike outs with a 1.07 WHIP. His struggles when he got to Pitt had some to do with Pitt trying to take away his cutter, and the other part was his inability to locate his off-speed stuff over the plate at all. When he got to Tampa he simplified his approach quite a bit, started throwing the ball over the plate more consistently, and now he's the dominant manchild he was in the minors. The 6'8 thing and the complete dominance are what make him a bit different than Cease. His fastball struggles involved location and him taking something off the pitch to get it into the zone; Cease has similar command issues, but his fastball isn't as dominant as Glasnow's was.

Glasnow minor league numbers are thing of legend.

Glasnow cutter/fastball might be the most dominant pitch in the game for a starter.

No my contention is you have no idea regarding all the details of this case and taking a legal filing in a country with an F in judicial integrity as the recitation of the facts is just dumb and your insistence on trying to turn me into a xenophobe for waiting on further information has been the funniest part of all.