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MLB Offseason 2020-21: I'm a Hall of Famer baseball person

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Timby said:
In his presser, Epstein said that the reason he stepped down was because if the team were to pay him his $10 million salary, other positions in the front office would have had to be cut.

"Letting Theo Epstein leave as a cost-savings move" is a hell of a PR Hail Mary attempt.
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Because they're poor, right?
 
Ar-Pharazon said:
Because they're poor, right?
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Well, the Ricketts family outside of Laura did spend the last year-plus trying to get Trump re-elected...

But really, yeah, this is just the ultimate in teams pleading poverty. Per Morosi, the Cubs have told teams that essentially every veteran on the roster can be had for prospects. Time to go back to the halcyon days of, like, 2000.
 
The Dodgers announced franchise-wide layoffs to baseball and financial operations staff today.

Impeccable timing, right after the initial wave of championship swag spending is complete.

There are no good billionaires.
 
BillJ said:
So when does free agency start? Things seem really quiet.
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It opened on November 1. Teams are probably waiting for guidance from the league on schedule length and whether fans will be allowed in stadiums so they can figure out how much they can squeeze players not named Bauer, Realmuto or Springer. I also think everyone's waiting to see where the Cubs set the price tag on the fire sale they've told everyone is going to happen.
 
BillJ said:
Phillies lay off 80 staffers the day before Thanksgiving, by email.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/11/phillies-reduce-front-office-workforce.html
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Once again, there are no good billionaires. Fuck the Phillies for that shit.

Edit: Although I wonder how much of that article is fear-mongering about the front office. As far as I know, Andy MacPhail is still the president and Pat Gillick is still hanging around as an advisor, so really their only genuine need is to replace that shithead Klentak.
 
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Cubs non-tendered Kyle Schwarber and tendered Kris Bryant among others. I think they got that one reversed, Bryant is the bigger bust.
 
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Cubs non-tendered Kyle Schwarber and tendered Kris Bryant among others. I think they got that one reversed, Bryant is the bigger bust.
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I don't think Bryant is a bust, he just needs to get healthy. His shoulder is perpetually injured, but the dude is a former MVP.

Schwarber was always going to be a wash. Can't hit lefties, terrifying strikeout issues, awful defender.
 
Timby said:
I don't think Bryant is a bust, he just needs to get healthy. His shoulder is perpetually injured, but the dude is a former MVP.

Schwarber was always going to be a wash. Can't hit lefties, terrifying strikeout issues, awful defender.
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Bryant with his long ass swing is almost as bad at swinging at utter crap as Baez. Plus he seems kind of injury prone in general. He's never lived up to the MVP in subsequent years. I call that a bust.

I always liked Hoss a lot more than most people seem to. If the NL sticks with the DH, I could see him there with the rare start in LF.

Almora was also an unsurprising non-tender. He never lived developed on offense and his defense took a dive the last couple years.

Bottom line, the entire lineup was at or near the Mendoza line and I don't see the entire lineup bouncing back all at once. The few changes that are likely to happen won't add up to anything, especially if they don't sign one or two front line SP and a few more reliable bullpen guys.
 
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Bryant with his long ass swing is almost as bad at swinging at utter crap as Baez. Plus he seems kind of injury prone in general. He's never lived up to the MVP in subsequent years. I call that a bust.
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Honestly, I think Bryant needs to stop having his dad as his personal hitting coach. He was one of the leaders of the clubhouse revolt that got Chili Davis fired and he needs a bit of a reality check. He's still young, though, and he's great in the field. Just needs to stop swinging at shit that's all the way out in DuPage County.
 
Len Kasper, who has been the voice of the Cubs for 16 years, announced his resignation today and is taking the job of the Chicago White Sox radio play-by-play announcer. Chris Myers, who is an absolute nothingburger, will be taking the Cubs' TV job.

I know Kasper has always wanted to call a World Series, but I wonder if he might have been ticked off at the three-man booth this year. Struggling to get a word in over Mark Grace's inane ramblings would take the energy out of anyone.
 
Timby said:
Len Kasper, who has been the voice of the Cubs for 16 years, announced his resignation today and is taking the job of the Chicago White Sox radio play-by-play announcer. Chris Myers, who is an absolute nothingburger, will be taking the Cubs' TV job.

I know Kasper has always wanted to call a World Series, but I wonder if he might have been ticked off at the three-man booth this year. Struggling to get a word in over Mark Grace's inane ramblings would take the energy out of anyone.
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Grace proves that ex-players don't necessarily make good announcers. Some misogynists on the MLB chat I frequent were always worked up about Jessica Mandoza being.............**gasp** a woman calling baseball games. But I always thought she was better than the likes of Grace and A-Rod and especially Joe Buck. She clearly does her homework.

Ryan Dempster was OK as a third guy though. Any chance he gets in there more and more?

I actually kinda liked Len and JD. Nothing spectacular and even a little vanilla at times, but not annoying.
 
Go figure...

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Major League Baseball and all 30 of its teams are suing their insurance providers, citing billions of dollars in losses during the 2020 season played almost entirely without fans due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The suit, filed in October in California Superior Court in Alameda County, was obtained Friday by The Associated Press. It says providers AIG, Factory Mutual and Interstate Fire and Casualty Company have refused to pay claims made by MLB despite the league’s “all-risk” policy purchases.

The league claims to have lost billions of dollars on unsold tickets, hundreds of millions on concessions, tens of millions on parking and millions more on suites and luxury seat licenses, in-park merchandise sales and corporate sponsorships. It also cites over a billion dollars in local and national media losses, plus tens of millions in missed income for MLB Advanced Media. It says all of those losses should be covered by their policies.
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https://apnews.com/article/mlb-baseball-fires-coronavirus-pandemic-221928be3e6f856832e0e28c0e6f879f
 
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