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    A’s have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a future ballpark in Las Vegas.

    Per The Athletic, many in the legislature were less-than-enamored with the A's proposal: https://theathletic.com/4592120/2023/06/08/as-las-vegas-plan-takes-heat-in-nevada-special-legislative-session/
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    A’s have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a future ballpark in Las Vegas.

    According to the CBA, if the A's don't have a new stadium deal in place somewhere by January 15, 2024, they lose access to revenue sharing. Ironically, they just got access back in the new CBA (they'd been phased out previously, since they're in a top media market), but that access came with...
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    Game 2- Sixers@Celtics

    Grand Ole Opry
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    Whitlock to IL with elbow issue

    Hmm…the BP article says, The second article I posted deals with young service members with an average age of 23. In the literature review I posted, the authors cite two studies where the average age is 21, another where the average age is 24, and another where the oldest person in the study...
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    Whitlock to IL with elbow issue

    There are. There was some discussion of this in the injury thread - mikcou posted some studies that rebutted the notion that all pitchers are equally likely to get injured: I also posted this in the thread in response to a similar question about whether such studies existed - it's too big for...
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    A’s have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a future ballpark in Las Vegas.

    The ones that are most commonly mentioned are (in some order) Nashville, Charlotte, Portland, Salt Lake City, and Montreal. I suppose we might start hearing Oakland's name, too. We'll see which one has the most willing city government - that'll be the next Vegas. And I'm sure we'll find out...
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    A’s have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a future ballpark in Las Vegas.

    Braves. Also technically the Baltimore Orioles, since they were the Milwaukee Brewers for a year in 1901 before moving to St. Louis and becoming the Browns.
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    4/17 City of Dreams

    I'm guessing the makeup will probably be August 31, which might be about one or two weeks too early for both of these teams to have given up. Though I could be wrong...
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    The 2023 Injury Thread

    Just pulling a couple - I don't know if these address your exact question, but here's some info about injury recurrence: This one's probably closest to what you're looking for, since it's actually just baseball players: BP wrote an article in 2013 positing that risk of recurrence is actually...
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    The 2023 Injury Thread

    Hmm...I think the fact that they may have moved him off of first base in part because his knees couldn't seem to take a season of standing on the infield might weaken this example somewhat. Especially since he also had a torn meniscus in 2006-07 (that required surgery after '07), a torn tendon...
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    2023 World Baseball Classic

    Ah - fair. But I'm still going with Derek Lowe with the sinker and crotch chop combo: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXgepikMxuk Like, the other pitches mentioned in the thread were nasty, but Lowe's totally wasn't a strike and then it was right over the middle.
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    2023 World Baseball Classic

    Can't imagine who else it would be if it's the NLCS. I'm pretty sure there are only two NLCS Game 7s that have ended on strikeouts this century - the Waino curveball to strike out Beltran in 2006 and a Clayton Kershaw fastball to strike out Moustakas in 2018.
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    2023 World Baseball Classic

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XO3RQiAYgM
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    Matt Barnes DFA'd, traded to Marlins for LH reliever Bleier

    I'm guessing that this is just a gamble by Bloom that no other team takes German and the Sox can outright him to Worcester. Every team has a full 40-man roster except for the Astros, so if someone claims German off of waivers, that team would have to drop someone from their own system. I don't...
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    Red Sox Rumors - Just Kidding

    I'd say 1986 was probably fairly close...but 1990 wasn't. Clemens' 1990 would be talked about as one of the greatest Sox seasons of all time if the season had turned out better and/or Terry Cooney hadn't been so trigger happy to throw Roger out of a game in the ALCS and/or people hadn't been so...
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    Red Sox extend Devers—11 years, $332 million

    Cabrera was felled by arepas, if I recall correctly.
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    Damar Hamlin is headed home to Buffalo!

    "I Will Survive" should work, too. (Though it's a touch faster and would probably be a bit more tiring. It's about 112-117 bpm.)
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    Carlos Correa and the Mets (yes, that's correct) agree on a 12-year, $315m deal

    I'm not sure that's right. DD was the GM of the Tigers for almost fifteen years, starting in December 2001 and ending in August of 2015. They set the AL record for most losses in a season in 2003, then turned things around and won the pennant in 2006, then retooled, then made the ALCS for...
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    One of two choices: Blow it up or build it back up?

    Uhh...you might have missed curly's joke. Read the post again and then ask yourself a question - or four - about why he might have used that phrasing to describe Paxton as such a bitter herb...
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    One of two choices: Blow it up or build it back up?

    I was going to use BSF's post as a jumping-off point in the other thread, but I feel like this probably fits better over here: I think replicating the Rays pitching model is what Bloom is trying to do with all the bullpen signings. The easiest way to improve the starting rotation ERA is to...
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