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Hello followers, quick little thread here:
On Monday, I lost my full-time job. It sucks, and I'll miss it, but it offers me the opportunity to evaluate what I'm really passionate about.
Obviously, baseball is one of those things and I'm glad I have FanGraphs to help sustain me.
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Oh so MLB can just do this whenever they want, huh?
Celebrating Miguel Cabrera’s final game, MLB and the Tigers have made it FREE to watch on with no blackout restrictions in the state of Michigan.
Log in and stream live ⤵️
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Please quote tweet this with your most controversial food opinion, I love controversial food opinions
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if Harper signs with anyone BUT the Phillies I will donate $1 for everyone who likes this tweet to a Philadelphia-based charity of
@TheGoodPhight
's choice (I will donate $20 to them no matter who Harper signs with or how many likes this tweet gets, I'm not heartless)
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CORRECTION: Brandon Hyde is the first MLB manager since LITERALLY CONNIE MACK to manage a team to 100 losses before sticking around long enough to manage that same team to 100 wins
Think about all the dreadful, miserable, soul-sucking baseball O's skipper Brandon Hyde had to sit through. Very few managers survive a rebuild and make it to the good days. Hyde endured, and now, with tears in his eyes and a smile on his face, he gets to live the reward.
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Reader, I GASPED when I saw the byline
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maybe the Nats rotation should spend less time being intolerant of trans people and more time being intolerant of losing games
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@AdamSchefter
hey you know that "not being charged criminally" doesn't mean "he didn't do it" right
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Man, could you imagine if the MLB leaders in OPS were on the same team?
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HE WAS A DODGER LAST YEAR TOO WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED OVER THE ALL-STAR BREAK
Cody Bellinger has been put on the paternity list.
Nelson Velázquez recalled from Iowa.
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I've seen so many takes like this, and I get it, but the series isn't for us. So many Japanese and Korean fans watch Japanese and Korean players at odd hours, why not give them a chance to experience it the way people in America do? Is that too much to ask?
MLB is absolutely clueless. Ohtani's Dodger debut? Imagine Patrick Mahomes signed with the Cowboys, then his regular season debut was played midweek in the middle of the night in Germany during the preseason.
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me turning on the second inning of Luis Severino vs. Alek Manoah:
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Unbelievable that the Mets found Jacob deGrom’s elbow in Carlos Correa’s leg
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FINAL, COMPLETELY CORRECT MATH:
•The discount rate is 4.43%
•The present value of the $68M is $44,081,476.50
•This makes the AAV of each year $46,081,476.50 (the above + $2M, which isn't discounted)
•The present value of the contract in total is $460,814,764.97
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by far the funniest possible ending to the Carlos Correa saga is a Braves press release
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in the wake of Kershaw and Williams’s comments today it’d be really nice to see a player or two or 12 come out in support of Pride Night and ALL its guests
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Yadier Molina is slashing 1.000/1.000/4.000 under King Charles
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YOU DON’T JUST GET TO TWEET THE SAME THING SOMEBODY ELSE TWEETED AND THINK A H/T ABSOLVES YOU WHEN THE RT BUTTON EXISTS OH MY GOD
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Hey
@MLBNetwork
@MLBNetworkPR
, is this the kind of behavior you endorse from one of your employees?
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Incredible. Kris Bryant is the first batter in MLB history to strike out after a 5-0 count.
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tw: sexual assault
the depths of hell that some people will reach for defending this man based on a one-sided video recording and a settlement that provided no absolution of guilt know no bounds
Before their sexual encounters became national news, MLB pitcher Trevor Bauer and the woman who accused him of rape discussed what happened in a 27-minute call covertly recorded by police.
It’s never been publicly available until now.
FULL STORY:
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Oh no is he outside the Capitol Building right now
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So it's $68M deferred by ten years for each year of the deal. The CBA calls for a 5% interest rate, meaning:
•The present value of each $68M is $41,746,101.24. Add that to the $2M, and, the PV/CBT hit of each year is ~$43.7M.
•The present value of the whole deal is ~$437.5M
Exclusive
@TheAthletic
: Shohei Ohtani will defer $68 million per year of his $70 million annual salary over the course of his 10-year, $700 million deal with the Dodgers, allowing the team to keep spending, according to a person briefed on the terms.
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I feel bad for one (1) Astro
Zack Greinke is standing alone by the on-deck circle, watching the Rays celebrate.
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Everyone on Baseball Twitter is either a 35-year-old who looks 25 or a 25-year-old who acts 45
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@24_7Farnsworth
Hey Kyle, quick question: if soreness is so easy to play through why did you never pitch 162 games in a season? Thanks!
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You... you have pictures of him in a White Sox uniform
Official: The Chicago White Sox have agreed to terms on a one-year, $8-million contract with outfielder Adam Eaton, which includes a club option for 2022.
Welcome back,
@AdamSpankyEaton
!
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Ohtani bunting for a hit in the midst of a perfect game is the most baller shit I’ve ever seen
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Blake Snell
Jordan Montgomery
Trevor Bauer
Pick one and just do it.
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Félix Bautista being an absolute demigod through July, putting up a 4.82 ERA and strikeout rate under 24% in August, and now undergoing surgery keeping him out until 2025 is quite the fast track lesson in reliever fickleness
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Blake Snell vs Kyle Hendricks:
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I will put this in its own tweet, very plainly. Ohtani can only opt out if Mark Walter or Andrew Friedman depart the organization. Ippei was not named. If you have a large following, please do research on the facts.
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You can like this deferral system, hate it, not care, but I would push back on calling it a loophole. The CBA has an Article explicitly stating that there are no limits on how much can be deferred or for how long, and how that affects the CBT. It's not a loophole, it's codified!
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Ryan Thompson refused to wear the Rays’ Pride hat and yet that pitch was so far left it voted for Bernie
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The Padres should have Pham back in time for the playoffs, meaning their lineup will be something like:
Grisham CF
Tatis SS
Machado 3B
Hosmer 1B
Pham LF
Moreland DH
Myers RF
Cronenworth 2B
Hedges C
That... that'll play
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Obviously wanting your team to win is well and good but framing it as “enjoy this guy who exercised his contractual right to choose where to play and then left with an injury getting lit up” is so gross
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@AdamSchefter
for the folks in my replies: I'm not saying he did it, and I'm not saying he didn't. what I'm saying is that not filing criminal charges is not a declaration or confirmation of innocence or "truth"
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They let Bauer and Luba into the stands???
Trash is flying all over the place at Dodger Stadium.
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I am completely, 100% serious when I issue this take: the Rockies should sign Michael Lorenzen to pitch AND hit
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Folks, my first set of FA predictions is here:
Ohtani: CHC
Yamamoto: LAD
Bellinger: SFG
Snell: STL
Montgomery: TEX
Chapman: TOR
Gray: ATL
Hader: TEX
ERod: NYM
Stroman: BOS
Lee: NYY
Imanaga: BAL
Gurriel Jr.: SEA
Teoscar: NYM
Hoskins: CHC
Candelario: CLE
Giolito: TBR
Soler: WSN
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There hasn't been a rise in anything, there's been a rise in people willing to disclose that they're transgender/live openly as a transgender person! Also idk why you say "risen significantly" as if being transgender is like COVID cases lmao
The number of transgender young people in the U.S. has risen significantly, according to new estimates based on CDC health surveys conducted from 2017 to 2020.
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Yes and I'm seeking a girlfriend but we can't always get what we want in life
Cody Bellinger Reportedly Seeking $200MM Or More In Free Agency
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god I just know we’re gonna get dogshit takes about how this injury means the WBC shouldn’t happen when if anything at all it should just curb celebrating, I guess? dude could’ve gotten hurt stepping on the dugout stair wrong, you don’t kill an awesome tournament over that
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New FA predictions (I have no insider info):
Ohtani: TOR
Yamamoto: NYM
Bellinger: SFG
Snell: BOS
Montgomery: LAD
Chapman: TOR
Hader: TEX
Stroman: SFG
Lee: SDP
Imanaga: CHC
Gurriel.: SEA
Teoscar: MIA
Hoskins: CHC
Giolito: LAD
Soler: ARI
JDM: LAD
Kershaw: LAD
Lugo: ATL
Wacha: NYY
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Lowering your ERA from 9.95 to 6.63 on an off day while on the IL, pretty impressive
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I’m totally fine with Cortes doing this and as best I can tell it’s legal but how many people who think Vlad shushing after a homer is corny are losing their shit over the coolness of this
Nestor Cortes with an ALL-TIME hesitation move 🤣
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If there's a dumber rule in baseball I can't think of one
“My daughter didn’t even want to look at me.” - Rougned Odor, on shaving his beard
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replies remain off for the most electric pitcher in baseball
Warning: Your device may catch on fire while watching this video 🔥
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Just learned that Manny Machado has a career .588/.667/1.412 slash line against Bauer lmao (21 PA)
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The Marlins will now start:
A second baseman at third (Segura)
A second baseman at short (Wendle)
A first baseman at second (Arraez)
A second baseman in center (Jazz)
And on at least some occasions a DH in the outfield (Soler)
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There is no justification for domestic violence, says the team still employing Domingo Germán
#Yankees
reliever Jimmy Cordero has been suspended for the remainder of the 2023 season.
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lol the old Citi Field fences were ridiculous
Happy Birthday to Fernando Tatis.
Tatis was named the Comeback Player of the Year after posting a .853 OPS in 2008 for the Mets.
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friendship with Richard Bleier is over, Max Fried is my new best Jewish lefty pitcher friend
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I have done a “Barry Bonds’ Baseball-Reference page” level of staring at this
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Randy Dobnak has the best ERA+ in MLB history, minimum 40 IP, at 359. Mariano Rivera is next-best, at 205. Randy Dobnak is the best pitcher of all time.
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this is from like ten years ago, what has content “creation” become man
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RHP Trevor Bauer has been sent down to the Baystars farm and will pitch Sunday.
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Ok so you can do whatever you want during the playoffs and miss two way less consequential games, huh
MLB announces Abreu 2-game suspension is upheld and will be served for the first two games of the 2024 regular season.
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DID JOHN SMOLTZ JUST SAY BASED ON TEAM USA'S ROSTER HE THOUGHT THEY'D HAVE TO OUTSCORE THEIR OPPONENTS TO WIN??? THAT'S HOW THE GAME WORKS!!!
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"The election results won't take much longer"
The election results:
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I think ERod won for using his contractually-bargained rights to try to extract a benefit to going somewhere far from family and ultimately doing what’s best for them 👍
No winners after Eduardo Rodriguez’s blocked trade to the Dodgers. Column, with fresh details on why the deal fell apart and how the teams tried to put it back together:
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I know we're all joking about the uniforms and no I am not going to give further specifics so don't even ask, but: it feels legitimately horrible (and not haha funny) that we can very easily see players' nether regions in publicly available photos
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Gotta say, MLB getting "the best player in the sport is defrauded by his interpreter and friend" just days after "there's dissent in the MLBPA" all just before the (domestic) season starts is NBA-level drama
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So the A’s just publicly revealed via the team’s broadcast that ticket sales for tonight were $811K. Sounds like a profitable venture to me if you simply don’t suck!
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the nastiest thing about James Karinchak is apparently not his curveball
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Aroldis, like Kimbrel, is rapidly reaching the "Guy I Could See The Angels Giving $8M in the Offseason" level of trust
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guys just quote tweet, I hate this type of post
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@sschreiber13
@JeffPassan
THE USE OF GAS-STATION SEXUAL-ENHANCEMENT PILLS IN BASEBALL IS SO PREVALENT THAT MLB SENT OUT A MEMO WARNING PLAYERS THAT THEIR USE COULD LEAD TO POSITIVE PED TESTS, AS AT LEAST TWO PLAYERS HAVE CLAIMED THIS YEAR, SOURCES TELL ESPN. NEWS:
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You can be Jewish and a white supremacist, just like you can be named Gary Sheffield and not actually have any talent
Assuming this bitch ass tweet was deleted. Let me clarify.
@StaceGots
thinks the owner of Barstool, who is Jewish by the way, is a white supremacist. Which college you guys think she went to? Berkeley or Oregon?
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The White Sox are violating Zach Plesac harder than he violated COVID protocol
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The Skenes-Chandler-Jones-Keller rotation is gonna be an absolute buzzsaw in the 2025 playoffs
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You know how much you have to mess up to get Mike Trout to use social media for more than plane emojis???
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The Padres literally had to cap season ticket sales for next year because the fans are so excited lol, it’s a very easy to understand business model
The Padres have blown through the luxury-tax threshold for the second straight year.
Does it make financial — or baseball — sense?
@jaysonst
asked MLB executives:
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bob it looks the same as the old ones when you provide nothing for scale
The bigger bases,three inches larger than the past bases, will be in play this year
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What about personal views for other theme days, can people opt out because of that?
Manfred, on leaving Pride nights up to teams versus standardizing across the league:
“We have told teams, in terms of actual uniforms, hats, bases that we don’t think putting logos on them is a good idea just because of the desire to protect players:
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@cmclymer
it would be way cooler if these medical professionals just had what they needed to not die on the job, my god
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If the Dodgers wanted to give $102M to an Overly Online righty only to watch it blow up in their faces immediately, they could’ve just donated to The Lincoln Project
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Lmao it’s not even Memorial Day and La Russa’s lost the clubhouse
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@KeithOlbermann
I mean, goodness gracious Keith, do you not realize that if you have to go back 50 years to find a guy who doesn't even MEET THE MINIMUM GAMES REQUIREMENT, that means Kiner-Falefa IS IN FACT UNIQUE???
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