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    Jordan Montgomery signs with Arizona

    This is a horrific deal for Montgomery and seems like borderline agent malpractice. Boras went thru his whole bag of tricks….now it’s the Mets, the Yankees, the Astros, a mystery team, he’s now considering Glasnow type deals, etc etc and the whole league called him on his BS.
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    If Shohei truly didn’t know about the betting, then Ippei must have convinced the bookie that he was placing bets on behalf of Shohei, right? How else would the bookie extend that kind of credit? And it tracks with the bookie telling people he had Shohei as a client. Ippei loses some bets, wires...
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    2024 Rays: Junior Caminero, come on down!!

    I’ll let MLB trade rumors do the work on the offseason rundown. Cash and Neander going into their 10th seasons after Friedman and Maddon left. Cash now the longest tenured manager in MLB. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/03/offseason-in-review-tampa-bay-rays-16.html
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    Baseball Is Broken (on the field, proposed rule changes, attendance, etc.)

    Stealing bases is fun and exciting.
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    Blake Snell to the Giants

    He doesn’t want to crack that. Boras is perfectly happy to funnel a larger and larger slice of the pie to a small number of players, because he has a dominant market position and gets an outsized cut of that money. The median mlb salary is 1.5m and the average career is under 4 years. The median...
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    Blake Snell to the Giants

    He hasn't made millions and millions for ALL players. The money flows massively to the elite few while the majority get to be "cost-controlled" and then cast aside. Boras' influence has pushed the union to prioritize the needs of the elites over the average ballplayers.
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    NCAA Tournament First Four and Thursday Game Thread

    I don’t know whether to be happy UVa squeaked into the tourney or humiliated to have to watch a pseudo March madness game on a Tuesday.
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    Lucas Giolito has an elbow issue.

    The risk of messing up your elbow is totally worth it to potentially play Major League Baseball. It’s as simple as that. This isn’t like CTE and football. It’s not really the end of the world if you shred your UCL, just means you have to go get a real job, which you will have to do anyway if you...
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    Non-Patriots Free Agency News 2024

    View: https://twitter.com/pewterreport/status/1767668953348780439?s=46&t=VOPklDq0ggmwM6zlZRv9_g Bucs bring back all their top pending free agents
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    2024 Rays: Junior Caminero, come on down!!

    Here is the rundown on the expected returns of the TJ brigade: Baz—May/June Springs—July/August Rasmussen—August/September McClanahan—2025
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    2024 Rays: Junior Caminero, come on down!!

    And they’re pretty set at 3rd base between Paredes and Yandy so I don’t think there’s any obvious need to rush him and they rather him play every day in Durham and force his way up. At minimum, they get him past the Super Two deadline.
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    2024 Rays: Junior Caminero, come on down!!

    Gotta sign that long, super cheap extension if you want to get called up early!
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    Lucas Giolito has an elbow issue.

    Good thing he wasn’t doing Boras holdout spring training!!
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    2024 Red Sox spring training games

    Rays with the 100% Latin American lineup today. DR, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Panama all represented.
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    Sons of Peter McNeeley- Boxing Thread

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3Va8uAs2_-/?igsh=b3BkdWhlYzI2ZG95