flavum

I hear you. We're about 112 days from Game 7 of the World Series (if nec). Hope we make it there, safely and happily.

Kids... "a part" and "apart" are two different things. Figure it out.

The Milkman

Tons

Might be a fun exercise to guess how many innings each pitcher gets if they throw 540 innings total. There’s going to be a lot of tandem starts to begin with, I’m sure. And then the last few weeks of the season, they’ll settle on five for the remainder.

That doesn't matter. Every team knows what they're getting into this season. Get to winning,

Man, I hope not. They’re selling a 60-game sprint where every game matters. Letting in any team that goes 27-33 would make the 66 day regular season really meaningless.

I just don’t like the part about it that the player is required to be on the active roster all season or be offered back to the original club for 50k, or whatever it is. There are probably better and more creative ways to have players get opportunities if their original club doesn’t want him.

On paper, agreed. Cut two pitcher after two weeks...Detwiler and Fulmer probably. But it never goes as planned.

Next CBA, hopefully the Rule 5 will go away forever. Antiquated.

Not so much “care”, but if they’re playing a game in a cornfield in Iowa based on the book and movie, the one team that needs to be in that game is the Chicago White Sox.

Pretty sure the 60-man has to be submitted in a few hours, so maybe we’ll get the whole thing later on.

1. Luis Robert. Nuf said. 2. The return of Kopech. 3. Gio Gonzalez making his Sox debut...because it means they’re playing baseball.

For the integrity of the 60-game season, I don’t think it would have been bad to put a freeze on trades until after the World Series. You have your own roster of qualified players on July 3rd, and just play it out as professionally as possible until the season ends.

It’s MLB, so bad decisions are their thing. But I can’t imagine the White Sox not being one team that HAS to be in this game. My first choice is the Reds. 1919 World Series. Duh.

FWIW, here’s who was in camp on March 12: Pitchers-Anderson, Bummer, Cease, Cishek, Colome, Cordero, Detwiler, Fry, Fulmer, Giolito, Gonzalez, Hamilton, Herrera, Heuer, Johnson, Keuchel, Kopech, Lail, Lindgren, Lopez, Marshall, McRae, Mejia, Rodon, Ruiz Catchers- Collins, Grandal, McCann, Mercedes, Perez Infield- Abreu, Anderson, Cuthbert, Encarnacion, Garcia, Madrigal, Mendick, Moncada, Romine, Sheets, Vaughn Outfield- Brugman, Delmonico, Engel, Gonzalez, Jimenez, Mazara, Palka, Robert

With 60 games, there might be 10 teams that win 32 or more games. That’s who I want to see in the playoffs. It’s a sprint season- get to winning. If they would have been able to play 100+, the six or seven per league would have made more sense. But with 60, I don’t want a 28-32 team being the 8 seed.

Are they striking before the CBA expires 12/1/21?

Runner on 2nd in extra innings. So stupid. I’d take ties after 12 before this nonsense.

If they can actually pull this off, I think a 60-game sprint could be a lot of fun. It’s really a race to 35 wins. If a team goes 35-25, and then wins three rounds of playoffs, it feels pretty legit to me. It’s just different.

Graig Nettles. Not Craig. Good player.

Too bad they couldn’t get it together sooner and be playing by early July, but at this point, a short season and full postseason is better than no baseball in 2020. It’s an asterisk season no matter what, but to not play at all would be very bad for MLB in the long run.

Not great, Bob!

Players voting today on 60 games. It’s time, fellas.

When history is told they better not say MLB lost 114 games due to Coronavirus. No, you lost about 54 games because of it, and the other 60 games by being complete greedy morons with no leadership.