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Superstar Lamar

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  1. The impact of a backup catcher is going to be greatly reduced this short season.  Mc Cann might get 25 starts at most.  I think Collins can cover that amount.

    If there is a team out there that is short a catcher and got caught off guard without a DH, I would not be hesitant to move him.  He should be attractive on the market as a team wouldn't have to take on much salary to get a starting quality player.

    He's gone at the end of the year.  I'd be fine trading those 25 starts for long term value.  I also think he had his career year and I have little confidence he resembles the offensive player we saw in 2019

  2. 9 hours ago, Richie said:

    As mentioned... the average is skewed by the top few percent of salaries. 

    17-18 mil before being chopped in half by taxes/agent also ain't set for life. Not when you earn that in your 20's. Not at all. 

    Yes it is.

    There are few people even in this country who will have career earnings of 8.5 million with a generous pension plan

  3. 21 hours ago, Jack Parkman said:

    It's the name of the river. There is an African country by the same name.  The racial slur is spelled differently, though I'd imagine its origins come from there. There's a huge difference. 

    It's pronounced like Nigeria minus the-ia. 

    the racial slur derives from the romance languages word for the color black

  4. I like getting whatever avenue gets us the best chance of getting an elite major league level player.  Those guys cost money and aren't readily available.  You can cheaply fill a roster with good players to surround them and those players are available all the time in FA/trades

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  5. 1 hour ago, ChiSox59 said:

    Everything sucks.  Its kind of sad, but my life legit revolves around sports.  Not sure WTF I am going to do with myself now.  I don't even want to go the germfest that is the gym to burn some stress.  The best 10 days of the year (cbb conf tourneys and march madness) cancelled.  MLB delayed for the foreseeable future.  My other hobby of playing poker is legit probably the worst possible place for spread of this shit.  My enjoyment of day trading is virtually sapped as I (any everyone else) have just been crushed for weeks and am getting close to tapped out.  So bummed. 

    Weird times.   

    and, I mean, hookers are almost definitely out of the question

    A man has to have a vice to know he is alive.

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  6. 23 hours ago, SoxBlanco said:

    As time goes on, I wonder if 4 years at a lower AAV would get it done...something like 4/$68M.  I would guess the there are three year offers out there in the $55M/$60M range.

    It sounds to me like Ryu is trying to adjust to the market's direction for BOTH money and years.

    I took that blurb above to mean that the market is telling him he is worth far less than 20 per year.  I would consider something like 18 in the ballpark of 20.  That sounded to me like teams were in the 15-16 range.  That seems fairly logical in the context of the Bumgarner contract.

  7. My guess is Ryu signs for less than Bumgarner, just as Bumgarner signed for less than Wheeler and Wheeler signed for less than Cole/Strasburg.

    The tiers of players has been pretty static compared to pre FA opinions, even if the money across the entire market has been greater.

    I think Ryu will be about 3 years at 45-50 million.  Keuchel will be less than that.

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