Octopus Overlords

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:05 am You all can write off the 2007 season anyway. The Rangers have fired Buck Showalter, they get the World Series next. It Is Written.

Yankees - fired in 1995, Series win in 1996.
D-Backs - fired in 2000, Series win in 2001.
Rangers - fired in 2006, ....

Jaymann wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 11:19 am Angels hire Brad Ausmus as their new skipper. Any thoughts from the Detroit crowd?

El Guapo wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 1:23 pm Hello everyone!

The main thing I want from this offseason is for the Red Sox to write a big fat check to Eovaldi. Though I tend to assume that he'll wind up signing somewhere else.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 11:21 am

Jaymann wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 11:19 am Angels hire Brad Ausmus as their new skipper. Any thoughts from the Detroit crowd?

He managed a perennial WS contending team of Jim Leland (and to Guap's pleasure also a team of Dombrowski) in to last place over a few short years, with many of the players leaving the team, going on to be a part of WS championship teams in other towns. He probably lost the Tigers six or ten games a year and I can't think of any his decisions won. He'll tell you he's managing a season not a game loss after loss.

The players will love him though, even as they lose game after game, and the theory is he's supposed be be metrics guy even if I am too dumb to see it. By the end of year 2 it was clear to me we couldn't get rid of fast enough.

So if there was a WAR for managers I'd have to say he's a -8 at least.

stessier wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 11:30 am

El Guapo wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 1:23 pm Hello everyone!

The main thing I want from this offseason is for the Red Sox to write a big fat check to Eovaldi. Though I tend to assume that he'll wind up signing somewhere else.

I'd be happy getting Eovaldi too.

David Price has said he will opt in to the remainder of his contract (he has until tonight to make it official). I'm fine with this even if he is a dumpster fire. Five year grace period is in effect.

The parade is also currently in effect.

Jaymann wrote: ↑Fri Nov 02, 2018 8:59 pm Kershaw re-signs for 3 years for $93 M. That does not seem like a bargain.

Jaymann wrote: ↑Fri Nov 02, 2018 8:59 pm Kershaw re-signs for 3 years for $93 M. That does not seem like a bargain.

El Guapo wrote: ↑Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:26 pm I think you need to either de-age yourself or land yourself an MLB manager position.

Jaymann wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:07 pm Who did they get, I don't see it anywhere.

naednek wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 1:13 pm why they want anyone in the dodger organization is beyond me. Failure after failure. Hopefully he's learned from his mistakes.

naednek wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 1:13 pm why they want anyone in the dodger organization is beyond me. Failure after failure. Hopefully he's learned from his mistakes.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 5:40 pm I’m pretty sure that was sarcasm.

pr0ner wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 5:40 pm I’m pretty sure that was sarcasm.

Given naednek's hate of all things LA Dodger, it might not be.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:06 pm

pr0ner wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 5:40 pm I’m pretty sure that was sarcasm.

Given naednek's hate of all things LA Dodger, it might not be.

It’s within the margin of error.

Exodor wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 5:32 pm

naednek wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 1:13 pm why they want anyone in the dodger organization is beyond me. Failure after failure. Hopefully he's learned from his mistakes.

Two straight World Series appearances seems pretty much the opposite of failure.

Unless you're going to judge a GM based on a seven game sample.

Major League Baseball on Wednesday reached a historic agreement with Cuba’s baseball federation, modeled after those with leagues in Japan and Korea, that will regulate and streamline the entry of Cuban players coming to the U.S., the league confirmed. An announcement was expected later Wednesday.

The agreement, the result of years of negotiations between MLB, the MLB Players Association, the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) and the U.S. government, is designed to end decades of fraught relations between MLB and Cuba and eliminate the need for Cuban players to defect. The new system won’t change how Cuban players are compensated by MLB teams, but will result in “release” fees being paid to the FCB for those players’ services.

Under the new system, Cuban players will be signed out of Cuba and, subject to U.S. government approval, granted a work visa. However, a State Department spokesman confirmed that players will have to travel to a third country for their visa, like other Cuban nationals, per current U.S. policy.

In MLB’s view, the move was motivated by humanitarian concerns to halt the influence of smugglers and traffickers who have preyed upon Cuban defectors in the past.
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Under the new agreement, Cuban players can still elect to leave the island, establish residency elsewhere and join MLB, but they would be subject to a waiting period of as long as two years, and the MLB team that signs him would still have to pay a release fee to his former Cuban club.
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It was unclear how MLB obtained authorization from the State Department to work around the embargo that would otherwise block such an agreement.

Lorini wrote: ↑Sat Dec 22, 2018 3:11 am He went to the WS two years in a row while your team didn’t even think about making the playoffs.