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[Mabster]

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He has the right to be released when the contract is up, so he can head to free agency before the 6 yrs of ML service rule

That's right. I remember it now. Thanks

[kmoser]

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That is....an interesting clause.



Kudos to his agent on getting that one done.

Yeah that's a great idea I think

[redsox4evur]

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That is....an interesting clause.

Kudos to his agent on getting that one done.

Also not that it matter nows. But had he stayed in Detroit this whole year he couldn't be given a QO. If I was a baseball player, I would want his agent.

[kmoser]

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Also not that it matter nows. But had he stayed in Detroit this whole year he couldn't be given a QO. If I was a baseball player, I would want his agent.

So this is interesting. I looked up who his agent is and he has actually switched to Roc Nation recently. He was originally represented by Adam Katz. Not sure why you would switch after your agent got you a deal/clause like that but I'm not a player so idk.

[Chip Douglass]

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Speaking of weird stats, the top five lefty pitchers with the highest K/BB ratios since 1900 are all active pitchers (Bumgarner, Lee, Hamels, Price, and Kershaw).

None of those guys have hit their decline phases yet (Lee never will since his arm blew up before that happened) + the strike zone today is huge.

Good news, though. MLB realizes the huge strike zone is hurting offense too much and things are starting to trend back the other way: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-2...-through-july/.

[redsox4evur]

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So this is interesting. I looked up who his agent is and he has actually switched to Roc Nation recently. He was originally represented by Adam Katz. Not sure why you would switch after your agent got you a deal/clause like that but I'm not a player so idk.

It makes a little bit of sense. Maybe Cespedes wants to get more into the endorsement side of sports after being the states for a couple of year. And Roc Nation should be huge for that with the help of Jay Z. But even then he could do something like Lebron where he has his agent for his contracts and then someone else from another firm for his endorsements.

[kmoser]

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It makes a little bit of sense. Maybe Cespedes wants to get more into the endorsement side of sports after being the states for a couple of year. And Roc Nation should be huge for that with the help of Jay Z. But even then he could do something like Lebron where he has his agent for his contracts and then someone else from another firm for his endorsements.

Yeah I see what you mean, makes a lot of sense now that you say that. Endorsements= a lot of money so a good idea on his part

[jmillhimes]

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Damn...

Coco Crsp......70AB..... .087 Avg..........I thought Chris Carter had issues

[redsox4evur]

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Damn...

Coco Crsp......70AB..... .087 Avg..........I thought Chris Carter had issues

Small sample size...

[kehlis]

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Damn...

Coco Crsp......70AB..... .087 Avg..........I thought Chris Carter had issues

He's been hurt 90% of the year.

[SPTO]

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A bad neck can do a lot to make it tough to hit. He's been out for most of the year too.

[Trent Booty]

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Jesus Sucre (Mariners backup catcher) is batting .109 lol he's been in the roster the whole year. And he only has like 50 ABs, but Zunino is hitting .168 in over 300 ABs. Lol

[SPTO]

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This is just crazy

When the Blue Jays traded Jose Reyes and prospects for Troy Tulowitzki, no money exchanged hands. Tulowitzki was owed $94 million after this season and Reyes was owed $48 million. That means the Blue Jays assumed an extra ... uh ...

/pulls off socks

An extra $46 million. It was a risk. Except, the Blue Jays have apparently almost made that money back already. From Financial Post:

Overall, (Team Marketing) estimates that group of four would pay $270.43 for the whole trip to the ball game, just a few dollars over the MLB average.

That works out to $67.61 per person. Multiply that by 465,000 more bums in seats and you’ve got a whopping $31.4 million — more than triple the extra spending on salaries.

Now, I'm no economan, so I can't replicate those numbers. And those are Canadian dollars, which are about 75 percent as strong as U.S. dollars right now. Still, we're talking about two weeks of extra Blue Jays excitement.

It's almost like ... getting the fans excited helps teams make money? Maybe the Marlins haven't been right this whole time.

SBNation

[CMH]

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This is just crazy




SBNation

I guess but has Tulo been the primary reason they are playing so well?

Seems to me the team is playing better during a stretch that happens to be when they traded one shortstop for another.

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[SPTO]

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I guess but has Tulo been the primary reason they are playing so well?

Seems to me the team is playing better during a stretch that happens to be when they traded one shortstop for another.

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He isn't, it's the combination of all the moves and the team being more consistent but Tulo has a cult of personality in this town now. It's like everybody in this town is a Tulo fan.