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we should have gone after Soto. The Yankees are going to be tough to beat this season. Once Judge gets rolling with his bat watch out! 4-0 to start the season.
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Hottie McShotty wrote:we should have gone after Soto. The Yankees are going to be tough to beat this season. Once Judge gets rolling with his bat watch out! 4-0 to start the season.
agreed. he would have fit the timeline/same age as Vladdy and a lefty bat in his prime
I'm assuming you would be comfortable trading tiedemann.
raf1995 wrote:I just don’t think he has that kind of potential. I think we will regret not trading him for a haul in a few years when he’s a mid-tier starter with nice playmaking and defense and a shaky jumper.
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Raider917 wrote:Jordan Hicks starting and looking good
we will have to see by seasons end to see tbh
raf1995 wrote:I just don’t think he has that kind of potential. I think we will regret not trading him for a haul in a few years when he’s a mid-tier starter with nice playmaking and defense and a shaky jumper.
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LBJKB24MJ23 wrote:Hottie McShotty wrote:we should have gone after Soto. The Yankees are going to be tough to beat this season. Once Judge gets rolling with his bat watch out! 4-0 to start the season.
agreed. he would have fit the timeline/same age as Vladdy and a lefty bat in his prime
I'm assuming you would be comfortable trading tiedemann.
If they were able to get Soto long term, then yes, I would have done it. Top prospects are always more likely to end up like Nate Pearson than Gabriel Moreno. and by a landslide too. Cant get too attached. However, not for a rental, that's just bad business. I also blame Atkins for doing a poor job of drafting talent and prospects over the years to be placed in a better position to make a big splash like the Yankees did. All the more reason to hate on this front office.
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Hottie McShotty wrote:LBJKB24MJ23 wrote:Hottie McShotty wrote:we should have gone after Soto. The Yankees are going to be tough to beat this season. Once Judge gets rolling with his bat watch out! 4-0 to start the season.
agreed. he would have fit the timeline/same age as Vladdy and a lefty bat in his prime
I'm assuming you would be comfortable trading tiedemann.
If they were able to get Soto long term, then yes, I would have done it. Top prospects are always more likely to end up like Nate Pearson than Gabriel Moreno. and by a landslide too. Cant get too attached. However, not for a rental, that's just bad business. I also blame Atkins for doing a poor job of drafting talent and prospects over the years to be placed in a better position to make a big splash like the Yankees did. All the more reason to hate on this front office.
I don't think there Jays have drafted badly, the development criticism is perhaps more on point, but they have traded away prospects to get veterans like Berrios and Varsho with a little control. Unfortunately, that's a more expensive way of doing things. Literally expensive, because the team is constantly foregoing inexpensive ways to fill out a roster, which would allow them to focus on precisely the free agents who fit best or even trade for a rental. The Jays traded a first rounder (Murphy) and one of the two prospects (Woods Richardson) they got for prime Marcus Stroman for Berrios. They traded first rounder Gunnar Hoglund for Matt Chapman. Part of this seems to be the demand from media and fans to "win now", which dates back to AA's 2012 trade for Jay Happ, sending out Joe Musgrove as part of the package, and then sending Noah Syndergaard for R.A. Dickey. AA also had a poor record of drafting in the first round, but he did manage to trade first rounder (Jeff Hoffman) for Troy Tulowitski, which ought to go down as one of the worst trades in Jays history, not because Hoffman was a serious loss, but because of the lost opportunity cost for shouldering Tulo's huge salary while he contributed zero as a player from 2016 onward. (Several years into his major league career, Hoffman has sort of found stability with his fourth team as a low-to-mid-leverage reliever.)
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Season ending shoulder injury for Boston’s Trevor Storey
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After watching the Yankees and Orioles play, they aren't falling off anytime soon. Atkins can't honestly expect this offense to keep pace...a major upgrade needs to be made before the trade deadline.
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I hear Luis Arraez is on a jet bound for Toronto.
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MLB says robot home plate umpires unlikely for 2025 | AP News
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball says robot home plate umpires are unlikely for 2025.
“We still have some technical issues,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday at a news conference following an owners meeting. “We haven’t made as much progress in the minor leagues this year as we sort of hoped at this point. I think it’s becoming more and more likely that this will not be a go for ’25.”
MLB has been experimenting with the automated ball-strike system in minor leagues since 2019. It is being used at all Triple-A parks this year for the second straight season, the robot alone for the first three games of each series and a human with a challenge system in the final three.
“There’s a growing consensus in large part based on what we’re hearing from players that the challenge form should be the form of ABS if and when we bring it to the big leagues, at least as a starting point,” Manfred said. “I think that’s a good decision.”
After instituting a pitch clock in 2023, MLB slowed innovation this year, with only small rules adjustments.
“One thing we did learn with the changes that we went through last year, taking the extra time to make sure you have it right is definitely the best approach,” Manfred said. “I think we’re going to use that same approach here.”
Manfred said discussions have not taken place with the players’ association on the shape of an automated strike zone. There is little desire to call the strike zone as defined in the rule book as a cube. The ABS currently calls strikes solely based on where the ball crosses the midpoint of the plate, 8.5 inches from the front and the back.
“We have not started those conversations because we haven’t settled on what we think about it,” Manfred said.
MLB’s meetings with players revealed a preference for a challenge system in order to continue to incentivize catcher framing skills.
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MLB umpire Ángel Hernández is retiring effective immediately, ending a controversial three-decade-long career that in recent years turned Hernández into a source of consternation with players and a punching bag among fans on social media.
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