Show #87: The Braves Retool the Bullpen with Wagner and Saito
Billy Wagner and Takashi Saito join the Braves’ bullpen. Revisiting 1st base. And clearing up that Bob Rathbun hire.
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December 12th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Leah, there’s no thumb crying in Baseball!
December 12th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Ingram wins the Heisman.
Hopefully it won’t curse the big game the way it sometimes does.
December 12th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Wow! I voted for Suh!
December 12th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Suh is a BEAST. He and Gerhart were worth watching games just to see them.
December 12th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
True or False: If you play in the majors, you make at least 400,000 no matter where you go from there, yes, even the minors
December 12th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Leah, that snot funny.
December 12th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
I am so ready for this College football season to be over. I’m glad for ya Bub but the Rev is getting hard to live with.
Lol Will, dang straight! Strange man’s boogie residue on my car snot funny AT ALL!
December 12th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
I thought the rookie minimum was 250,000..whatever, I’m sure it’s changed.
Not my theory, but I agree that a player will always be paid on the current/going price for the best stats he produced in his career. In other words, a player who puts up big numbers in a given year will forever be seen as a guy who can duplicate that. So teams pick him up and pay him the going rate, assuming he will do it again. It’s kind of an insane way of doing business. Sometimes it even works!
December 12th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Well guys,
During Fehr’s tenure as Executive Director, player salaries have increased more than tenfold. In 1983 (the last year before Fehr became Executive Director), the minimum salary for a Major League Baseball Player was $35,000 and the average salary was $289,000. This year (2009), the minimum is $400,000 and the average is more than $3.3 million
Any other questions? Yes, I am the answer queen.
December 12th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Ok…pretend it has quotation marks and is sited as being from bizofbaseball.com
December 12th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
$400,000 indeed. Get hired, play a year and retire! I’m working on my slider right now!
December 12th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Here Answer Queen:
If a rookie is brought up to the Majors in season 1, but in the offseason doesn’t make the MLB team, does he make 400,000 in season 2. Answer please and thank you
December 12th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
with proof
December 12th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
No, he does however get a free set of steak knives. Just kidding. I have no idea but Bub probably does. What say you Bub?
December 12th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Connor Robertson of the Mets, brought up in 2008, paid 400,000. In 2009, went to AA and AAA, made 400,000.
December 12th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Can you imagine the disappointment of missing out on those steak knives. A person would need some serious therapy!
December 12th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
I’ve just listened to back-to-back-to-back Car Talk episodes. My face is sore from smiling.
December 13th, 2009 at 12:34 am
Leah, I don’t know that stuff. It was a miracle if any of the rules I explained the other day were even right. (I know some of it was wrong; for example, June 1st should have been June 16th. Or 15th. Something.)
But it’s neat that I’ve got you fooled. 8)
December 13th, 2009 at 10:26 am
You got me…hook, line and sinker. I’m seriously going to listen to some Car Talk today.
December 13th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I’ve got a $3-a-day Car Talk habit. Is there a support program?
How can anybody be so consistently funny on their feet as those guys?
December 13th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW! NEW SHOW!
……….. please?
December 13th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Clearly no one on this message board has any good advice on fighting addiction.
December 13th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUOkbvRpBIc&feature=related
December 13th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Bub, this came across my twitter feed. Have you seen it? Misery loves company and it looks like your not alone in your love for KJ.
http://capitolavenueclub.com/?p=1598&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CapitolAvenueClub+%28Capitol+Avenue+Club%29&utm_content=Twitter
December 13th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
“In 2008 Terry Pendleton decided that he didn’t want Kelly Johnson (and I quote/paraphrase), “looking at so many called 3rd strikes”, so he messed with his approach a bit, which resulted in a lower walk rate.”
I remember this exact moment and screamed about it then. One of my favorite things about Kelly was watching him work a walk after a two-strike count. He wasn’t a guess-swinger. He had the eye, like Chipper.
Then along comes Terry Pendleton. The same do-do who didn’t want to “take away Francoeur’s aggressiveness” DID want to take away Kelly’s patience.
Kelly will prove the Pendleton Problem some year soon.
Thanks for the article, Leah. I had almost accidentally calmed down.