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I would buy Manny just to place him on my Red Sox squad. But I am a Sox fan so that's an easy choice. I would buy Rollins for his Switch hitter option and put him at 1 or 2 in my lineup.
Weirldy enough, I did purchase Mantle because of his name and switch hitter ability, but don't really like using him. Oh well, I have almost all the sets and normally won't spend more then 75k on a player unless I need him, but splurged on Mantle. He's on my Switch hitting lineup also. It's really what you want at this point, correct?

@SavageSteve74_PSN said in Bryce Harper:

Revenue sharing already sends ~$110M+ per team from pooled local revenue. That’s not “no support” for smaller markets.

This needs to be talked about more.

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There are a lot of great points here. Another issue the owners are now dealing with is the downfall of the Regional Sports Network. This certainly may not affect teams like the Red Sox, Yanks, and others with the well known networks, but most of the teams considered smaller market are certainly losing out.

Revenue sharing should help offset the cost, but even trying to find how much teams are getting is somewhat difficult to find as a fan. Can you imagine turning on MLB Network and the hosts are analyzing the revenue sharing numbers received for small market teams. They could have an hour for each team prior to the start of the year. But, definately would not be in the best interest of the owners. Imagine being a fan of (just an example) of the Twins, and finding out they received 50 million in revenue sharing and did not put it back into the team via free agents. The larger market teams are sharing the wealth.

@LHUBison58_XBL said in Bryce Harper:

@Wilbs715_XBL Even Steinbrenner is making comments about the economics. They are setting the table for discusssions. The owners (who are running a business) can lock this out for as long as they can. Can the players wait them out? That’s what this will boil down to. We can argue all we want about this, but the 30 ownership groups will make the call.

It's a good debate, no arguing. Let's hope whatever happens, happens quick and doesn't interrupt the game.

@yankblan_PSN said in Bryce Harper:

@Wilbs715_XBL it’s all a PR stunt so he can say “see? I tried to have a dialogue but they refused to negotiate in good faith”. So tired of this song and dance.

I thought about that after I posted. Maybe he is trying to read the room and get some feedback from the players, instead he got cussed at.

Here is a good insight on why the Pirates are a losing model currenlty.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/what-the-pirates-twins-finances-reveal-about-mlbs-revenue-divide/

The players will never agree to a cap, not gonna happen. The MLB players union will not go for it unless their is some sort of clause that allows signing bonuses to offset the cost of losing out on higher salaries. It was a sticking point in 1994, and it will be a sticking point in the next negotiation, and Manfred knows it.

Only on the phone, Note 10+. My iPad is pretty fast, and much newer.

@samguenther1987_PSN said in Bryce Harper:

Harper well not being completely right (probably shouldn't have yelled at Manfred)

Harper and other players are angry that Manfred wants to implement a salary cap, so of course the players are against that. Manfred should have known he wouldn't be welcome in a MLB teams clubhouse.

Right or wrong here may not matter. The ownership group may in-fact lock the players out before a new negotiation ever happens. Why have a salary cap when you already have a luxury tax threshold and revenue sharing? MLB revenue for 2024 hit a record of 12.1 billion(see Forbes.com). Let's hold the teams receiving the bulk share accountable to put it back into their payroll.

@LHUBison58_XBL said in Bryce Harper:

I’m a pirates fan, yes I know our owner is cheap, yes I agree with a lot of those points. However, there is zero chance of Pittsburgh consistently being able to field a winning team in this system. Maybe that’s cool if you are on one of the coasts but for the rest of us all hope is typically gone by the 4th of July. Again, why are you afraid of a salary cap? Seems like you have nothing to be afraid of if you’re a big market team fan. Or is the fear of losing the inherent advantages that you exploit that great?

Isn't it fair to say the reason Pittsburgh is having difficulty competing is their lack of developing the players in their own system? They had some pretty good pitchers recently come up and not performed. Look at Cole, Tallon, Glasnow, traded for Musgrove. Liriano performed well. They traded Baz. The same issue on offense. They drafted a bunch of players who just never panned out.

They were a playoff team in 2014 and 2015 under Clint Hurdle, and he was often criticized in Pittsburgh for being too rough. I think it's also fair to say Bob Nutting treats the pirates as a business, as long as he is making money its ok for him.

The kid is dialed in right now. It's good for the A's, they need to get to Vegas asap so they can keep these kids.

Dontrelle is always a fun pitcher to use

If anyone played Madden Mobile from around 2014-2015 time frame, then you may remember the bot problems the platform had in the auction house. Eventually they removed the auction house and went another direction to obtain cards, but sadly it took the fun out of the game.

Should be able to exchange it under exchanges

Unfortunate. I was at 52 percent on veteran and pulled both Summer players? Ludwick and Gray. Luck of the draw I guess. In addition, it's fun when I roll a one 4 times in a row, only to go into a pitching moment.

Good luck everyone, I hope you all pull Judge and Ohtani.(not likely, just want to see everyone get the LS done)

If you are loading up with leftys, try Mack Park. It's like 280ish to RF.

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What was his launch angle? O'Neil Cruz regularly hits rockets, and last night he hit an unbelievable 120.5 missile off the CF wall. The CF actually could have caught it of he would have been in position.

John Kruk?

I think they have been doing pretty well since the start of Season 2 Chapter 2. The missions have been pretty easy and dropped a ton of players so far.