mystikol87

I get that this team needs starter depth. This guy sucks. But even beyond that, did they really have to DFA one of the few guys who actually showed some potential as a hitter? Seems odd to me. Not particularly consequential, but confusing.

Yo, seriously like Moneyball 101. Acquire an overlooked high-OBP guy, not to mention the positional flexibility.

The Marlins acquired a Bride?! Disgusting misogynists. I knew that once corporations became people, it would eventually get to this point.

Lance is a maiming method.

Are the uniform rules rules that are uniform, rules about uniforms, or rules about uniforms that are uniform?

Could you imagine we’d get a new GM and somehow end up addressing even fewer of our needs than with Kim Ng?

Bendix wasn’t sure if they meant contract or contract, and being new on the job he hasn’t wanted to take the chance. Also, does MLB.tv have a package where you only watch when you’re team is in defense?

Baseball playoff series are very small sample sizes. Anecdotal notes about the dodgers and rays don’t mean (sonof)jack. By the way, the Dodgers and Rays are 4/14 (29%) World Series participants, and 1/7 (14%) champions since 2017. Considering there have been 10 or 12 teams making the playoffs during that time, this is still a strong showing.

I put in my calendar to watch it after reading the 2018 fangraphs elegy and the Marlins signing a free agent, but somehow I never got around to it.

Sherman sucks

Well, yeah. But what happened in the trial?

Leave poor Many alone.

Be curious to see where they land next year without Sandy

This will be fun for the Bowman Chrome card market.

Nah, it’s one of those agreements where one side doesn’t agree.

Obviously it’s Gary Dash, former Director of Minor League Operations for the Montreal Expos. Loria must have recommended him to Bruce. Do you even follow baseball, bro?

Yes, it would be interesting. To me, fairness dictates California can get at that money.

There are a few different approaches to take. For the money earned during the first 10 years, you could do games in CA over total games; days in CA over total days in the year; or even assert a different % of the income was earned in or outside of CA due based on the facts and circumstances. Then it’s a matter of whether the Franchise Tax Board, or a court if necessary, thinks it’s reasonable. If he’s living in a different state while getting the deferred money, they could still try those approaches, but I’d imagine Ohtani’s people would probably be more aggressive, trying to argue that very little or none of it is California-sourced income.

Maybe. I’d bet California will still try to tax a portion those dollars, saying they were earned in CA. With CA’s top tax rate of 12.3%, and at least half his games played in the state CA stands to gain over $4MM a year for 10 years if they successfully tax Ohtani’s deferred payments.

Thanks, Obama!

I would have preferred @Rabbethancourt, but you can’t win em all

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I imagine the biggest reasons for the Nats’ success was the good fortune to have two straight consensus #1 picks pan out in Strasburg and Harper.