MLB NEWS/RUMORS Thread

Kind of a douche move, but hey ... he's worth 70+ million dollars... he can douche it up & still be carefree.

 

Sonja Chen via X: Kiké Hernández's MRI showed a "significant tear," Dave Roberts said. Still no timeline for his return.


My take: He gone

 

That's the proper way to phrase it. Wish I'd said it that way.

These guys agonize waaa---aay too much about media-appeal. They play the game we'd GLADLY forsake some days/weeks/years off our life to suit up for one game in our whole lives.

Smell yourselves a bit, pros, before you all overvalue yourselves, or others. Acclaim in this life doesn't mean shit in the next, guaranteed.

 

if he asked to be traded that would be accommodated in a nano second imo. probably need to swallow a decent portion of the contract. but yeah he's starting to get some diva action going. don't even see FF acting like his bff much if at all. thats not how any of these guys used to act and what makes them special. as far as the social media thing some guys just have to make it about themselves. like @lastatman said just walk away. same as donating money to charity etc. no one needs to know and no one cares. he's been dictating his position for sure and what else? who knows. no time for someone like that and at the same time i hope i'm wrong. teams much better when he's head down motivated to be his best.

 

I don't think your million miles off, more like a trillion
1,000,000 millions
Dude deleted his social media, whoopty doo
The best of the best have extreme internal standards, it probably drives him crazy to be slumping like he never has before – over a full year of baseball, plus some
and their hyper-attuned to criticism
Last thing he wants to read are his fans talking shit to him

 

don't think anyone has an issue w him deleting it. the issue is talking about it to the writers so the world will know how butt hurt he is.

 

Bingo.

I've deleted posts on X before. Half a bottle of bourbon & late-night doomscrolling rarely stands up to standards of prose excellence.

 

Ryan Ward replacing Teoscar

 

Lauer could prove to be very valuable when Snell and Glasnow return to the rotation. I could see them piggy backing with Lauer. Both of these injury prone stiffs are going to have to build up before their next trips to the IL.

 

Either Tatis Sr. hates his son or they are the dumbest cunts alive
How does a rich kid with a dad who played in the Majors get caught up in these exploitative contracts
Kids from absolutely nothing are the ones that should be exploited by these types of deals, not rich sons of mlb players



Assuming his agent gets 3-5% of his earnings
340M - 34M to BLA - 17M (5%) to agent - 191M from state and federal theft
Dude is *only* going to net about 98M over his 14 years
7M per season take-home pay
crazy

 

i doubt pops had much money left after his playing days. says he earned $18 mil but i'm sure there were a lot of hands out in a big family and even though that seems like a lot...
anyway i doubt he had great advisors around him. probably more like thieves and grifters. i could see more of a scenario where pops was warning him not to do what he did and avoid the guys he knew in his day.
the guys approaching Jr. might have seemed like a breath of fresh air and possibly even solved immediate cash flow needs for the family i have no idea. still a solvent savvy financial family isn't going to even listen to what BLA was spitting.
also you're right about he quite possibly thought he knew what he was doing like any og obviously would. kids tend to do that a lot more today than they used to. i remember being scared to death of contracts and what i was signing. i'd listen to anyone willing to take the time to talk to me.
had to do a hard money loan once to not write a huge check during a 1031 exchange and those guys are set to drain everything they can. cracks me up to hear he's ready to give them back the $2million to make them whole. these guys are bullet to the brain don't fuck w us mafioso types. he's paying every dime of that 10% one way or another.
what really surprises me is that they need him to actually pay them the money. i would have thought it would have been set up where their money came off the top when his checks were dispersed. the fact they didn't have a leveraged position is a little odd.
don't feel even a little bit sorry for him. be willing to bet a company like BLA loses on a large percentage of those deals. when a number like $2million is involved you had better be paying for lawyers hours to review it. anyone knows that and if he made the choice to forego expense than shame on him.
almost a certainty it affects his play