killeverything wrote:Gritt wrote:While we are bitching about rules can we just eliminate the pitcher batting in the NL. With inter league play being an every day thing now, it's so dumb to have different rules in each league. It would be like the NBA not having a three point line for the western conference.
I agree about having the same in each league, but I'm in favor of losing the DH.
Without a question I would eliminate the DH. Pitchers should hit and I like the chess match that goes with it. I love watching Bum or Greinke at the plate. Greinke is fun to watch, aggressive in the box and has an awesome bat flip that's just entertaining. It was the worst thing about Mattingly, he couldn't manage Pinch Hitting his pitchers and constantly fucked himself. But it adds a dimension to the NL game I enjoy more then the AL.
I can live with the way it is but if they change it I hope the DH is gone.
There were a number of times I was injured and ask/forced to play DH and I hated it with a passion. No matter how much I was thanked or how much it helped the team it still sucked. You don't feel apart of the team sitting on the bench as your teammates take the field.
Showing up just to get your ass off the bench 4 times and hit was a waste and frustrating. If I couldn't take the field I didn't want to play. You feel more like a spectator then apart of the team.
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KILL, or anyone.....Explain this to me, it's mostly understandable but.
Is this expected, normal protocol, no big deal, good or bad for the Dodgers? I get LAD would get draft picks if these players leave but does it change anything from a players stand point or lessen the chances someone like Greinke or Kendrick would resign with LAD?
Dodgers make qualifying offers to Zack Greinke, Howie Kendrick, Brett Anderson
http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/d ... story.html
Free agents Zack Greinke, Howie Kendrick and Brett Anderson were extended qualifying offers Friday, which entitles the Dodgers to compensatory draft picks if they sign with other teams this winter.
The qualifying-offer system was implemented to compensate teams for losing top-tier players. In the three years the system has been in place, no player has accepted a qualifying offer.
If any of the players accepts the offer, he would be under contract next season for $15.8 million.
Greinke is certain to reject the proposal after forfeiting $71 million he had been guaranteed over the next three years to explore the free-agent market.
Kendrick, a 32-year-old second baseman, earned $9.5 million this year. Anderson, a 27-year-old left-hander, made $12.4 million, including performance bonues.
All three players are believed to be looking for multiyear contracts.
Receiving a qualifying offer makes a player less attractive to other teams because any team that signs him has to forfeit its top draft pick. The exception is if that pick is in the top 10, in which case the team loses its next-highest selection.
The Dodgers can gain as many as three draft picks by this process.
If any of the three players who received qualifying offers signs with another team, the Dodgers would receive a compensatory pick between the first and second rounds of the draft next year.
The players have to decide whether they will accept their qualifying offers by Nov. 13.
Even if they reject the offers, they can still negotiate new deals with the Dodgers.
) Twins reportedly win 12m bidding rights for Korean slugger 1B Chan Ho Park. Park has 2 50HR seasons in the KBO. Some scouts project him to be below league average with a lot of power though. I would like to see the Twins do well so hopefully he turns into another Matsui for them.