Sanchez is a little weird. A lot of risk, though potentially a lot of reward. I tend to think prospects will produce more than expected when their GM says, "F@+> off" when other teams ask about him. When a prospect is traded, I tend to think maybe his old team knew something.
Right, and Tucker being a great or even very good player for very little money the next few years will help with resigning Verlander, George, Cole, etc We must have done really good cheap players to afford the others
The DH creates another full time playing position, of course the owners don't want it. Why would it be different in the next CBA, the players want a million other things and still have very little to actually concede in a negotiation.
I hope the Indians stumble out of the gate (unfortunate injury to Lindor, but he hopefully won't miss too much of the regular season) and become sellers, and we use some of our prospect currency to add Kluber.
They could stumble, fall, get back up, take a break, stumble again and still win that poor excuse of a division with ease. Doomsday scenario still be at least in the hunt
It's mutually beneficial at the end of the day. I would be surprised if universal DHing wasn't in place by 2022. I think the only reason it wasn't changed this year is because it's too late in the offseason for the 2019 season. Manfred and co. clearly want it to happen. Better offenses = more runs = more exciting. I'm just saying, aside from arguing the merits of universal DHing, that's just the way this league is headed. Manfred is dead-set on revamping baseball, for better or worse. The players clearly want it as well. It'll create a ton of offensive jobs. 15 teams will get 700 or so actual at-bats a year. There's talk of expanding roster sizes as well. Teams can either take the Cruz-like approach (one full time DH) or the Astros approach, i.e., resting stars and giving legitimate opportunities to more players. Pretty much, the only fans who don't want universal DHing are the minority, traditionalist ones [Sidenote: I'd bet there's a large cross-section between fans who don't want the DH and who didn't vote for Bagwell]. That said, I was against universal DHing back in 2011-12 when HOU changed leagues. But it really is a more exciting product. Hell, the MLB can do an NL-style weekend, or just make the all-star game NL-style. Ultimately, it just seems like a matter of time before the DH is universal.
It’s always great to re-visit why the NL didn’t adopt the DH back in the day when it was clearly a popular addition to the game... basically, it happened by accident as a certain owner was out fishing and wasn’t available via land line phone to discuss the vote (it was the Phillies owner, I believe).
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