So I know the PTBNL is a somewhat popular trade chip in the MLB. But this year seems to have an exceptionally high number of faceless pawns moving around. I counted 16 trades made today with 15 PTBNL spread amongst them. I bet it has something to do with the circumstances surrounding the season but that still seems awfully high to me.
So I know the PTBNL is a somewhat popular trade chip in the MLB. But this year seems to have an exceptionally high number of faceless pawns moving around. I counted 16 trades made today with 15 PTBNL spread amongst them. I bet it has something to do with the circumstances surrounding the season but that still seems awfully high to me.
You can only trade players on the 60 man roster list, so prospects not on that list can't be traded. Thus all the PTBNL's.
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So I know the PTBNL is a somewhat popular trade chip in the MLB. But this year seems to have an exceptionally high number of faceless pawns moving around. I counted 16 trades made today with 15 PTBNL spread amongst them. I bet it has something to do with the circumstances surrounding the season but that still seems awfully high to me.
It has to do with the 60 man player pool. If a player isn't on it then he can't be traded, the team has to add that player to their pool 1st and then they can trade him. So they call them PTBNL, then transfer them to the pool so the trade can be finalized.
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I saw the throws, but I never heard WHY the Yankees were throwing at them - what caused this?
and yes, it's pretty ridiculous. Eventually someone will get concussed or worse, and then they will finally deal with it, but until then... 'it's the code'
I saw the throws, but I never heard WHY the Yankees were throwing at them - what caused this?
and yes, it's pretty ridiculous. Eventually someone will get concussed or worse, and then they will finally deal with it, but until then... 'it's the code'
Just watch that video I posted. It has the entire break down of why the Yankees did that. It stems back to Kitteridge 3 years ago throwing at Romine and then also pitching up and in on Yankee hitters on August 8th.
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Throwing at guys is moronic and needs to be cleaned up. More ejections, suspensions, etc. need to be passed out to cull this behaviour. Someone is going to get seriously injured (career ending injury type thing) at some point if they let guys continue to self police with 100 mph fastballs.
Like, just kick Chapman out of the game after the 101 mph pitch thrown the guys head. Who cares if it intentional or not - get that crap out of the game and avoid a serious injury. If you think getting kicked-out too much, then make it an automatic base or two.
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Hall of Famer Lou Brock, one of baseball’s signature leadoff hitters and base stealers who helped the St. Louis Cardinals win three pennants and two World Series in the 1960s, has died. He was 81.
One of the best base stealers in the history of the game along with Rickey Henderson. An art that has been more or less lost in this long ball age.
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A lifetime .293 hitter, he led the league in steals eight times, scored 100 or more runs seven times and amassed 3,023 hits.
Brock was even better in post-season play, batting .391 with four homers, 16 RBIs and 14 steals in 21 World Series games. He had a record-tying 13 hits in the 1968 World Series, and in Game 4 homered, tripled and doubled as the Cardinals trounced Detroit and 31-game winner Denny McLain 10-1.
Brock never played in another World Series after 1968, but remained a star for much of the last 11 years of his career.
He was so synonymous with base stealing that in 1978 he became the first major leaguer to have an award named for him while still active — the Lou Brock Award, for the National League’s leader in steals. For Brock, base stealing was an art form and a kind of warfare. He was among the first players to study films of opposing pitchers and, once on base, relied on skill and psychology.
I looked at that and the ego of Joe West. Between him and Angel Hernandez, there's nobody doing their job worse. Even more, he's not wearing the mask properly. What an idiot.
