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BASEBALL 2019---LET'S DO IT!
EasyAce:
It's 42 days before pitchers and catchers report.
It's 51 days before the first spring training exhibition game.
It's 86 days until Opening Day.
The World Series occurs four times as frequently as the Iowa caucuses. What a wonderful country America is.---George F. Will.
If it isn't him, I'll keep him anyway.---Casey Stengel.
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.---Yogi Berra.
DCPatriot:
Yankees bringing back Zach Britton on three-year, $39 million deal
Jeff Passan
Reliever Zach Britton agreed to a three-year, $39 million deal to return to the New York Yankees on Saturday, league sources told ESPN, fortifying one of the game's best bullpens after it lost reliever David Robertson in free agency earlier in the week.
Britton's deal includes both a club option and a potential player opt-out, according to sources. The Yankees can exercise a fourth-year option after the 2020 season worth $14 million, making the total value of the deal up to $53 million, sources said.
If the team chooses not to trigger the option, Britton can opt out of his deal, at which point he'll have made $26 million, according to sources.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25693480/zach-britton-new-york-yankees-agree-three-year-deal
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Oh Shit!!
EasyAce:
--- Quote from: DCPatriot on January 06, 2019, 06:17:48 am ---Yankees bringing back Zach Britton on three-year, $39 million deal
Jeff Passan
Reliever Zach Britton agreed to a three-year, $39 million deal to return to the New York Yankees on Saturday, league sources told ESPN, fortifying one of the game's best bullpens after it lost reliever David Robertson in free agency earlier in the week.
Britton's deal includes both a club option and a potential player opt-out, according to sources. The Yankees can exercise a fourth-year option after the 2020 season worth $14 million, making the total value of the deal up to $53 million, sources said.
If the team chooses not to trigger the option, Britton can opt out of his deal, at which point he'll have made $26 million, according to sources.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25693480/zach-britton-new-york-yankees-agree-three-year-deal
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Oh Shit!!
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@DCPatriot
If he stays healthy, the Yankees get deadly in the late innings.
Next up: will Cardiac Kimbrel end up returning to the Red Sox? (And will they trust him with the ninth inning too readily?)
DCPatriot:
--- Quote from: EasyAce on January 06, 2019, 06:51:00 am ---@DCPatriot
If he stays healthy, the Yankees get deadly in the late innings.
Next up: will Cardiac Kimbrel end up returning to the Red Sox? (And will they trust him with the ninth inning too readily?)
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It will be a reminder of days of old. Except, IMO, Britton has much better stuff than Rivera.
Who in the hell can hit that 12 to 6? We haven't met him yet.
Their games are shortened by at least 4 outs.
EasyAce:
--- Quote from: DCPatriot on January 06, 2019, 06:58:33 am ---It will be a reminder of days of old. Except, IMO, Britton has much better stuff than Rivera.
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Better stuff (and it's debatable whether Britton's stuff is or was ever better than Rivera's cutter) doesn't make a better pitcher. If it did, Steve Dalkowski---who had arguably the fastest fastball of the 1960s---would have been a Hall of Famer and not an inconsistent wild man who drank himself out of baseball and, as it turned out sadly, life.
--- Quote from: DCPatriot on January 06, 2019, 06:58:33 am ---Who in the hell can hit that 12 to 6? We haven't met him yet.
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Somebody's hitting that and his other pitches---his lifetime batting average against is .239, and the hitters seemed to do a lot better against him lifetime when they swung at his first pitch. (Intriguingly, that's also the BA against him whether at home or on the road.) And his lifetime strikeout-to-walk ratio is 2.25. That ain't The Mariano. (Lifetime BA against: .211; lifetime strikeout-to-walk rate: 4.10. Britton's lifetime OPS against: .646; Rivera's: .555.) As a matter of fact, the only manner in which Britton is a near-equal to Rivera is that they're both just about impossible to hit one out against: Britton has a lifetime 0.6 home runs per nine innings rate; Rivera's was 0.5.
--- Quote from: DCPatriot on January 06, 2019, 06:58:33 am ---Their games are shortened by at least 4 outs.
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I say again, it depends on Britton's health allowing him to pitch at least the way he did in September for the Yankees. It wasn't exactly vintage (read: the Britton of 2014-2016), but it was solid work. If he gives them three seasons of just that, the Yankees still get a little better than they're bargaining for.
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