No salary cap, who cares? Hes gonna hit about 500 home runs over the life of this contract. 25 million a year for that? Worth.
Technically, you’re correct, there is no hard cap. There is a luxury tax though, but the penalties for exceeding it are so weak that every team in baseball should be doing to sign a generational talent like Bryce Harper.
Right. I'm not paying a luxury tax on a middle reliever with an ERA of 4.5 but for a guy that contend for MVP every year? 100 percent.
If Trout only signs for 350, and it’s not with the Cubs, I will personally burn down Tom Rickett’s house, and I will use all my Cubs gear to start the fire.
You realize he's broken 30 in a season twice, right? 400? Definitely. 450? Probably. 500? Gonna have to stay a lot healthier than he has so far.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles...om&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial Moving the mound back? Ugh. Want to lower striker outs? Tell the batters to choke up on 2 strikes and slap singles instead of still going up there swinging for the fence. Want to get rid of the shift? Tell hitters to slap a hit the opposite field for a freebie double. Ugh
3 batter minimums is happening. http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...adline?platform=amp&__twitter_impression=true
I appreciate that MLB is actually trying these things in a professional league, where they have an opportunity to receive both a large amount of data AND feedback, as opposed to just knee jerking these ideas into The Show.
Hopefully it’s 3 batter minimum OR end of the inning, otherwise it makes zero sense to not add universal DH.
I really do not comprehend the desire of people to impose the DH on the NL. Even if you think it makes for a "better" game (which I don't,) the crusade against pitchers hitting baffles me. I can't imagine caring enough about what happens in the other league to crusade against the DH, the only one-way player in the game who gets to keep playing. And on the surface, I don't have that much of a problem with the 3 hitter (or end of inning) rule at first glance. It's probably going to hurt some specialist relievers, but seeing three pitchers for three batters in the playoffs makes for a long and painful inning.