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[BobPhelan]

To sit out a year and come back to a 140 OPS+ was the icing on the cake.

[TwentyThirtyFive]

Hes in. Has a chance to be first ballot

[NewMarketSean]

Absolutely should be first ballot.

[mweb08]

I'm good with him getting in, but he's closer to borderline for me. 14th among catchers in JAWS for instance with 16 catchers in the HOF. 

 

I do think catchers are underrepresented though since their durability and longevity suffer so much due to the demands of the position.

[BSLChrisStoner]

FanGraphs: Best of 2021: The Giants Have Quietly Rebuilt Their Rotation

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• Sources: Rodon goes to Giants for 2 years, $44M

[BSLChrisStoner]

CBS Sports: Giants Preview

https://www.cbssport...7-win-campaign/

[BSLChrisStoner]

ESPN: Being Gabe Kapler: Inside the mind of the San Francisco Giants' nonconformist manager

https://www.espn.com...formist-manager

[dude]

So I flip over to the Giants-Reds on MLB.TV....

 

....and they are bringing Jake McGee into pitch....except apparently he was activated off the IL today and the (Manager??) forgot to include him on the card and the umpire tells them he can't pitch.

 

If your name isn't on the card, you can't play in the Game.

 

Yikes.

[BSLChrisStoner]

ESPN: San Francisco Giants' Joc Pederson says he was slapped by Cincinnati Reds' Tommy Pham over fantasy football beef

https://www.espn.com...ame-altercation

[BSLChrisStoner]

FanGraphs: Giant Steps Backwards for Last Year's 107-Game Winners

[dude]

Crazy game in SF to end the night, just happened to hit it on MLB.TV.

 

Brewers up 5-2 with Hader coming on to finish it.

 

Bart homers

Ruf homers with 1-out.

Slater lines one to RF for a 1B

Hader picks off Slater, but the throw is wide to 2B and Slater gets in around the tag.

Mercedes down to his last strike and gets hit by the pitch

Estrada dumps one into the triangle down the RF line...bases loaded.

 

Mike Yastrzemski is coming up and I wondered if they were team-mates in the Orioles system, years ago.  I think they just missed each other in 2013...Yaz was at Aberdeen and Hader was at Delmarva 

 

left-on-left Yaz drills the first pitch for a walk-off GS, Giants 8-5.  6 run 9th off one of the best closers in the game.

 

Baseball.

[BSLChrisStoner]

CBS Sports: MLB free agency: Giants, left-hander Sean Manaea reportedly agree to two-year, $25 million deal

https://www.cbssport...5-million-deal/

[BobPhelan]

Correa deal on hold, something came up in the physical.

[CantonJester]

Man this site really needs a singular offseason FA thread. That's huge news. 

[CantonJester]

While it's always fun to pile on Correa, it's insulting for all involved to pretend SF hadn't already pored all over Correa's medicals weeks ago before they began to make an educated guess on what they'd be willing to pay. 

 

Frankly, this smack of Peter Angelos and his technique of hiding behind medicals and physicals to back out of signing players (sometimes, his own). 

[Mackus]

While it's always fun to pile on Correa, it's insulting for all involved to pretend SF hadn't already pored all over Correa's medicals weeks ago before they began to make an educated guess on what they'd be willing to pay.

Frankly, this smack of Peter Angelos and his technique of hiding behind medicals and physicals to back out of signing players (sometimes, his own).

Teams usually don't get to look at medical records until after agreeing to a deal. It's not like it's public knowledge. The players are still humans with rights.

Occasionally players & agents will volunteer their records ahead of time, but I doubt Boras did that with Correa.

[CantonJester]

Teams usually don't get to look at medical records until after agreeing to a deal. It's not like it's public knowledge. The players are still humans with rights.

 

No that's no longer accurate. MLB has been using a centralized EMR since 2010. It may be that SF is pissed at itself for putting the cart ahead of the horse, but it wouldn't be because they didn't have access to Correa's health records. 

 

ETA: perhaps Correa hurt himself during this offseason and those records hadn't yet made it to its centralized EMR?

[Mackus]

No that's no longer accurate. MLB has been using a centralized EMR since 2010. It may be that SF is pissed at itself for putting the cart ahead of the horse, but it wouldn't be because they didn't have access to Correa's health records.

If they conducted a new physical and found something unexpected, how is it something they could've seen in old records?

[dude]

Maybe they sobered up.