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Postby BigEd76 » Thu Nov 17, 2016 22:29:57

Bryant wins the NL one

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Postby BigEd76 » Tue Nov 22, 2016 17:37:21

New home and road jerseys for the Padres. EXCITING zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Postby swishnicholson » Tue Nov 22, 2016 23:00:59

BigEd76 wrote:New home and road jerseys for the Padres. EXCITING zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Hard to believe they could get there from here:

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Postby BigEd76 » Tue Nov 22, 2016 23:13:57

The throwbacks, brown alt and camo are staying, so they now have:

-- new white home
-- new gray road
-- navy alt
-- 1992 navy/orange throwbacks on Wednesdays
-- brown/yellow on Fridays
-- camouflage on Sundays

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Postby 1 » Sat Nov 26, 2016 15:09:09

https://mobile.twitter.com/jondhoward/s ... 1340078081

Our old friend (?) Chase D'arnaud is an absolute dreamboat
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Postby Bucky » Sat Nov 26, 2016 21:11:24

ReadingPhilly wrote:Scherzer and Porcello win the Cy Young.

Verlander had 6 more first place votes. Lost 137-132. Two ballots left him off completely.



wins the popular vote but loses the election. Hmph.

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Postby Carbon » Sat Nov 26, 2016 21:19:13

http://www.fanragsports.com/mlb/heyman- ... ine-looms/

Owners offering to change the draft pick compensation in exchange for an international draft.

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Postby stevelxa476 » Wed Nov 30, 2016 21:48:19

Real Ken is reporting that the new CBA is done per a source.
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Postby BigEd76 » Wed Nov 30, 2016 22:06:59

Morosi reporting 1st-rd pick forfeits are gone. Yay guys! Heyman reporting compensation for losing a FA will be 2nd round or later.

Heyman also reporting international signings will be capped at $5M-$6M per team, and rosters will stay at 25

Nightengale says luxury tax level will be $195M, up to $210M in the 5th year

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Postby mcare89 » Wed Nov 30, 2016 22:17:20

Stark:

Among the changes agreed to in the new labor deal, according to sources:
* The luxury-tax threshold will jump from $189 million to $195 million initially, then gradually increase.
* Teams that exceed the threshold will pay similar tax rates to the current deal unless they go way over the threshold, in which case their tax rate could jump to as high as 90 percent.
* Teams signing a free agent will not have to give up a draft pick unless they've exceeded the luxury-tax threshold, in which case they would lose a pick later in the draft.
* Instead of an international draft, each team will have a hard cap on total bonuses it can give to foreign-born players.
* Rosters will increase from 25 players to 26 before Sept. 1. It was not immediately clear whether the rules would change after Sept. 1.
* The labor agreement is a five-year deal, covering the 2017-2021 seasons.

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Postby 702 » Wed Nov 30, 2016 23:39:44

Wait so there is roster expansion now? I'm so confused

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Postby swishnicholson » Wed Nov 30, 2016 23:43:47

702 wrote:Wait so there is roster expansion now? I'm so confused


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Postby mcare89 » Wed Nov 30, 2016 23:46:30

702 wrote:Wait so there is roster expansion now? I'm so confused

No, Stark went back on that one. Looks like it's staying the same.

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Postby BigEd76 » Thu Dec 01, 2016 04:12:57

AP reporting the All-Star Game will no longer determine HFA in the World Series, and HFA will be determined by the pennant winner with the better record (like it should've been all along). Hallelujah the Selig nightmare is over

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Postby Monkeyboy » Thu Dec 01, 2016 05:39:08

* Teams signing a free agent will not have to give up a draft pick unless they've exceeded the luxury-tax threshold, in which case they would lose a pick later in the draft.


This is pretty huge. I imagine this will increase the number of trades of FA before they hit FA. No sense holding onto someone when there's no compensation at all.
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Postby stevelxa476 » Thu Dec 01, 2016 08:33:02

There are reports that the 15 Day DL will be reduced to 10 days.
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Re: World Champion Cubs?!?! and Other Random MLB Thoughts

Postby pacino » Thu Dec 01, 2016 09:11:53

Monkeyboy wrote:
* Teams signing a free agent will not have to give up a draft pick unless they've exceeded the luxury-tax threshold, in which case they would lose a pick later in the draft.


This is pretty huge. I imagine this will increase the number of trades of FA before they hit FA. No sense holding onto someone when there's no compensation at all.

is this effective next year??? Seems like a big win for big market teams but a huge loss for small market ones
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Re: World Champion Cubs?!?! and Other Random MLB Thoughts

Postby Monkeyboy » Thu Dec 01, 2016 09:31:03

pacino wrote:
Monkeyboy wrote:
* Teams signing a free agent will not have to give up a draft pick unless they've exceeded the luxury-tax threshold, in which case they would lose a pick later in the draft.


This is pretty huge. I imagine this will increase the number of trades of FA before they hit FA. No sense holding onto someone when there's no compensation at all.

is this effective next year??? Seems like a big win for big market teams but a huge loss for small market ones



That's what I was thinking.

Maybe the team losing a player gets a pick, but it doesn't come from the signing team? Like a pick between rounds or something?
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Postby Squire » Thu Dec 01, 2016 10:01:58

Still going to be bummed when at the end of this 2/3rds of the league exploited the loophole to spend big money in Latin America and we never did. Hopefully going forward it levels the playing field (even though we chose to be the losers in an unlevel playing field)

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Re: World Champion Cubs?!?! and Other Random MLB Thoughts

Postby BigEd76 » Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:05:50

Monkeyboy wrote:
pacino wrote:
Monkeyboy wrote:
* Teams signing a free agent will not have to give up a draft pick unless they've exceeded the luxury-tax threshold, in which case they would lose a pick later in the draft.


This is pretty huge. I imagine this will increase the number of trades of FA before they hit FA. No sense holding onto someone when there's no compensation at all.

is this effective next year??? Seems like a big win for big market teams but a huge loss for small market ones



That's what I was thinking.

Maybe the team losing a player gets a pick, but it doesn't come from the signing team? Like a pick between rounds or something?


Any team over the luxury tax that signs a player for at least $40M-$50M loses a 2nd and 5th while anyone under the threshold loses a 3rd. The team losing the player gets something between a 2nd and 5th depending on market size

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