MLB NEWS/RUMORS Thread

Nerds thinking how to Kemp out.....

 

- Brewers are said to have contacted the Rays about a Chris Archer trade, but it is beyond wishful thinking as the trade would likely be centered around Domingo Santana and that is just not a good enough piece to consider. Good bat, but dude is a mess in the OF. The speculation now is that the Brewers are going to try to acquire a good cheap controllable SP while still pursuing one of the top pitchers on the market (Arrieta, Cobb, Darvish, Lynn). They do anything like that and man, the division and wild card hunts between the west and central are going to be a bloodbath. Not to mention that the East could be a giant shitshow this year, so if the Mets starters stay healthy, they could make matters worse by beating up on teams not named the Nationals.

- Miguel Montero signed an MiLB deal with the Nats. My Grandal idea was pretty farfetched to begin with, but this pretty much seals it.

 

Till opening day...

From and including: Thursday, February 1, 2018
To, but not including Thursday, March 29, 2018

Result: 56 days
It is 56 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date

Or 1 month, 28 days excluding the end date

Alternative time units
56 days can be converted to one of these units:

• 4,838,400 seconds
• 80,640 minutes
• 1344 hours
• 56 days
• 8 weeks

 

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"Terry Forster, that tub of goo"
--------David Letterman

 

Fuck that noise, I want to type BISON BLAST several times this year

 

I don't know if anyone has been following the growing discontent of the players and the slow moving market, so I tried to come up with a solution that wouldn't change the number of years of control the team gets Pre-FA, but allows the players to get paid more sooner. Here's what I came up with:

Restricted free agency during arbitration years. How see this working under the current system is after the 3 years of Pre-Arb a player becomes a Restricted Free Agent (RFA) like in the NBA or NHL, a team can make the player an offer and if he accepts, the originating team is given the opportunity to match and the originating team retains the player at that number.

I understand the flaw and why the owners would NEVER do this, it would allow talent to get from small markets to big ones sooner, further widening the gap. However, it would incentivize teams signing players during Pre-Arb years, instead of just riding out 3 years at ~$535K. Of course, we know top Boras clients would ride out the 3 years and take the highest offer.

 

There will most certainly be riots!!!

 

Idk...you can slice and dice it, mold it and fold it, shake it and bake it, poke it or smoke it, the Kemp trade still appears like jumping out of the frying pan onto the fire.
Oh, and never mix metaphors!

 

One poster, unnamed at this time, may enter a deep, inconsolable, depression based on years of finely honed Matt Kemp hatred...

 

A lot of Kemp jerseys will find their way out from the back of the closet.

 

I have two Kemp shirseys. Neither fit anymore.

 

Neither does Kemp's.

 

Kemp only and only if he helps us win a world series. Otherwise