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[Ghost Of The Year]

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Sounds like Nelson Cruz's sister was killed too. Just awful.

[Ghost Of The Year]

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Ex-Washington Nationals Tony Blanco died in the roof collapse also.

[Ghost Of The Year]

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Ex-Washington Nationals Tony Blanco died in the roof collapse also.

[Majingir]

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Dotel at one point held the record for most teams played for, only passed by Edwin Jackson. But funny enough, he was traded with Edwin Jackson by the Jays in the Colby Rasmus trade.

Ex-Washington Nationals Tony Blanco died in the roof collapse also.

An original Washington National too. He played in the Nats first ever game.

[Majingir]

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Dotel at one point held the record for most teams played for, only passed by Edwin Jackson. But funny enough, he was traded with Edwin Jackson by the Jays in the Colby Rasmus trade.

Ex-Washington Nationals Tony Blanco died in the roof collapse also.

An original Washington National too. He played in the Nats first ever game.

[Madden08PCgmr]

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Probably less so for many teams, but Victor Robles is a gigantic blow to the Mariners offense.

I didn't expect him to maintain his level of play from the second half last year, but he was definitely a fire starter for the offense.

Polanco is injured as well, should be announced today, I'm guessing.

This really feels like a last place team. I don't care how good the pitching is, they can't salvage this mess.

[DrJones]

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Probably less so for many teams, but Victor Robles is a gigantic blow to the Mariners offense.

I didn't expect him to maintain his level of play from the second half last year, but he was definitely a fire starter for the offense.

Polanco is injured as well, should be announced today, I'm guessing.

This really feels like a last place team. I don't care how good the pitching is, they can't salvage this mess.

Absolutely criminal work by the Mariners to waste the prime years of that rotation through cheapness.

[Majingir]

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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/mlb-...out-looms.html

I could see this being the key issue going into the next CBA.

League wants salary cap AND floor

PA doesn't want the cap.

I could at least see the PA being in favour of the floor. I know in baseball it's harder at times because you can have so many younger guys with lower salaries, but as we see, most of the lower salary teams are the ones not spending to keep their own guys or sign FAs.

The 03 Marlins are the only team the last 25 years to win the WS with a bottom 10 payroll, so clearly that's a sign on the shape of the bottom spending teams.

Spending doesn't equal titles, but it obviously helps a lot. Even if you don't get world series wins out of spending, you can boost revenue with winning during the season.

The article says top 10 payroll teams average 89 wins while bottom 10 averages 74 wins.

But this could also lead to teams just adopting the NHL loophole where big spending teams dump bad contracts (plus a prospect or draft pick as an incentive) on the teams trying to reach the floor. Though in the NHLs case, player cap hits are determined by AAV, not their salary for a specific year, so that's where the loophole works (a low spending team could add a basically retired guy with a 7m cap hit but they only pay him 500k since that's his salary for the year).

[Master Live 013]

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And I don't want to pay any taxes, but alas. Baseball will either have both a cap and a floor or neither of them.

This is posturing by the MLBPA, they can't say out loud they would be willing to accept something the Union has historically fought against (a cap). But they would, for a price.

[DrJones]

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MLBPA's pain tolerance is far higher than the other 3 NA sports. It'd probably take the loss of two full seasons for MLB to get a hard cap.

[Ghost Of The Year]

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Absolutely criminal work by the Mariners to waste the prime years of that rotation through cheapness.

This is the M's MO. I would like to say its the curse of King Felix but it started before him. Until Seattle wins it all, the M's are snakebit. Wasted Griffey, ARod, Edgar, the Big Unit, Ichiro. Probably missing someone, but at this point its overkill anyway. Seattle just needs to make sure it wins a WS before either Tampa, Colorado or San Diego, or even Vegas, lol.

[Madden08PCgmr]

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This is the M's MO. I would like to say its the curse of King Felix but it started before him. Until Seattle wins it all, the M's are snakebit. Wasted Griffey, ARod, Edgar, the Big Unit, Ichiro. Probably missing someone, but at this point its overkill anyway. Seattle just needs to make sure it wins a WS before either Tampa, Colorado or San Diego, or even Vegas, lol.

Seattle would have been better off if 1995 never happened and the Ms moved to Tampa. We could have kept the Sonics!

Ownership should hit their knees every morning thankful Junior didn't keep up his historic pace to claim the homerun record. They would have traded arguably the best lefty of all-time AND the homerun king within 18 months of eachother...

Clock is already ticking on Gilbert, Kirby.. this was the year to move Castillo.. no chance in hell Kirby inks an extension, even if they offer him the moon

Gilbert-Miller-Woo is still formidable.. but thats assuming Woo can stay healthy, which hasn't happened so far

They're putting all their faith in the farm.. they'll need to hit on at least 3 of their bats or there's no chance they'll compete for a WS.

Rockies and Rays have already been to the WS. COMBINED are they even half as old as the Ms?

(not sure why I do this to myself, kinda bizarre I want to love something that won't ever love me back)

[Ghost Of The Year]

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Seattle would have been better off if 1995 never happened and the Ms moved to Tampa. We could have kept the Sonics!

Ownership should hit their knees every morning thankful Junior didn't keep up his historic pace to claim the homerun record. They would have traded arguably the best lefty of all-time AND the homerun king within 18 months of eachother...

Clock is already ticking on Gilbert, Kirby.. this was the year to move Castillo.. no chance in hell Kirby inks an extension, even if they offer him the moon

Gilbert-Miller-Woo is still formidable.. but thats assuming Woo can stay healthy, which hasn't happened so far

They're putting all their faith in the farm.. they'll need to hit on at least 3 of their bats or there's no chance they'll compete for a WS.

Rockies and Rays have already been to the WS. COMBINED are they even half as old as the Ms?

(not sure why I do this to myself, kinda bizarre I want to love something that won't ever love me back)

Lol. The M's could have moved to Tampa before the last expansion and fast forward thirty years later, maybe they would be ready to move back to the great Pacific Northwest and the Kingdome. I love alt-history like this.

[Master Live 013]

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I totally Men-in-Black-ed Rockies ever getting to the WS. Went back and saw the last out, yep, I remembered.

[DrJones]

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I totally Men-in-Black-ed Rockies ever getting to the WS. Went back and saw the last out, yep, I remembered.

Rocktober! I have a Jeff Francis autographed SI cover from that run.

Looking back at his career, was Francis the worst "ace" to ever start G1 of the World Series?
He also had perhaps the worst start of any WS G1 ever.