Comments on: Game 131, Twins at Mariners

By: gwangung

gwangung — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:59:38 +0000

And Strasburg will have the option of returning to college for his senior year (I hope I am right on this), so, unlike the M’s pick Fields, he will have some more leverage to demand money over slot.

Then the Ms, with this current management, won’t be getting Strasburg. With HowChuck, they won’t go that much over slot for a high draft pick.

By: abender20

abender20 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:45:55 +0000

As far as Riggleman calling Beltre “Belly”, how could that nickname not be used for Sliva/Yuni/Lopez?

By: JMHawkins

JMHawkins — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:19:38 +0000

Breaking news…Batista changed his mechanics! Again

Shhhhhh! He has a new secret. Don’t tell anyone.

By: msb

msb — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:06:09 +0000

yup.

By: Tek Jansen

Tek Jansen — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:38:42 +0000

And Strasburg will have the option of returning to college for his senior year (I hope I am right on this), so, unlike the M’s pick Fields, he will have some more leverage to demand money over slot.

By: DMZ

DMZ — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:27:45 +0000

No.

If a player wants $10m and the top slot number is $5m, he doesn’t get drafted up top for $5m.

He either doesn’t get drafted, or some team pays more than they’re supposed to to get him with a later pick.

By: Slippery Elmer

Slippery Elmer — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:16:58 +0000

msb:
“Jayson Stark was opining this morning that should the Nats earn the first draft pick, that due to payroll concerns, they wouldn’t want to pay Strasburg what he might be ‘advised’ to ask for, and if the Pads get in there, Alderson might not be likely to want to pay, either, being a good soldier in Bud’s Army.
of course, that doesn’t take into account that the Mariners are really good at following orders when it comes to slotting…

Isn’t Strasburg the consensus best player in the draft? In that case, I don’t quite understand the slotting problem–shouldn’t he go at the top and get the most money?

By: msb

msb — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:16:20 +0000

interesting line to open Larue’s game update:

“Miguel Batista has made it clear to those who listen to him – he’d just as soon be somewhere other than Seattle.
The irony is that he waited most of the season to pitch well enough to make any other team want him.”

In the post-game press conference, Riggleman just called Beltre “Belly”

he’s been called that for a long, long time. Sadly.

By: Transient Gadfly

Transient Gadfly — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:13:52 +0000

This is the exactly the kind of exciting, late August baseball I’d really be able to appreciate if my baseball team were PLAYING FOR ANYTHING WHATSOEVER.

By: joser

joser — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:46:33 +0000

Breaking news…Batista changed his mechanics! Again! Woo-hoo!

You sure he didn’t talk to his high-school coach? Or changed his glove postion to stop tipping his pitches? Or got some pointers from little green men?

In the post-game press conference, Riggleman just called Beltre “Belly”

“Belly?”