Want to go all-in?

[Erstad Grit]

Bauer pitched 10 shut-out innings and 4 hits  yesterday. 

[ScottM]

yeah, that's exactly what the clubhouse needs 

[jsnpritchett]

Cool.  His ERA for the year is 3.29. The league average ERA is 3.22. Three other starters on his own team have lower ERAs.

[Taylor]

I was told by some folks here that MLB teams would be jumping over each other to sign Bauer

 

 

in March.

[Revad]

1 hour ago, Taylor said:

I was told by some folks here that MLB teams would be jumping over each other to sign Bauer

 

 

in March.

Please provide the year.

[fan_since79]

It's sure to go over well with the fan base to acquire a psycho who loves to beat up women. Go for it.

[Jason]

[ten ocho recon scout]

1 hour ago, jsnpritchett said:

Cool.  His ERA for the year is 3.29. The league average ERA is 3.22. Three other starters on his own team have lower ERAs.

To be fair, he's an American competing against Japanese in math (ERA equations). So you have to cut him some slack there.

[Jason]

11 minutes ago, Erstad Grit said:

 

5. Bauer hasn't been convicted of anything. 

^^^^^^^^^ sort of important. He’s more victim than a perpetrator when I comes to criminal activity.

Edited August 3, 2023 by Jason

[ELEVEN]

11 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

It's sure to go over well with the fan base to acquire a psycho who loves to beat up women. Go for it.

Perhaps Arte will sell the team to Daniel Snyder, then who knows what's possible 

[Revad]

https://theathletic.com/4747945/2023/08/04/mlb-trade-deadline-2023-takeaways/
 

This Jason Stark article in The Athletic suggested we may see some Cohen copycats.  I know it’s a paywall but some interesting points including a suggestion from more than one MLB exec that the trade deadline should be moved back a week or so, but that would have to be renegotiated as the current collective bargaining agreement calls for it to be between 7/28 and 8/3.

Here’s part of the Angel’s coverage:

FROM AN AL EXEC: “I play poker. And when you play poker, obviously you’re calculating a lot of odds — your hand, your hand relative to the pot, all that kind of stuff. And they didn’t have good pot odds at all. So it was time to fold. But they kind of pushed in. I think that lowers their chips for the next hand, which is next year. And they were in a position where they could have really turned around that franchise.”