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On November 7 in Baseball History...​
  • 1957 - The AP poll names Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford its National League Rookie of the Year with 16 votes. He beats out his teammate, first baseman Ed Bouchee.

  • 1963 - Catcher Elston Howard becomes the first black ever voted American League Most Valuable Player. New York's Howard tops Detroit's Al Kaline 248 to 148.

  • 1964 - With their home attendance below 800,000 for the past two seasons, the National League orders the Braves to stay in Milwaukee in 1965, but permits a move to Atlanta in 1966.

  • 1967 - Orlando Cepeda of the Cards is the first unanimous selection as National League Most Valuable Player.

  • 1978 - Boston's Jim Rice outpoints New York's Ron Guidry, 353-291, to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award. Rice led the league in hits (213), triples (15), home runs (46), RBI (139), and slugging (.600) and became the first American League player to accumulate 400 total bases in a season since Joe DiMaggio in 1937.

  • 1979 - Cubs reliever Bruce Sutter, who had a 2.23 ERA and saved 37 of his team's 80 victories, wins the National League Cy Young Award by a 72-66 margin over Houston's Joe Niekro.

  • 1989 - Baltimore's Gregg Olson becomes the first relief pitcher to win the American League Rookie of the Year Award.

  • 1990 - Cleveland's Sandy Alomar, Jr. wins the American League Rookie of the Year Award unanimously, joining Carlton Fisk and Mark McGwire as the only players to do so.
 
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cobbwebb0710 said:
Thank you sir!
I wish my employer would offer me $102 million over the next 5 years.
I’d fly us all to the Vols bowl game and we’d have a dang blast!!
I’d probably even fly Tony V and my girl Donde, out to party with us!
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So let me get this right… You are going to pay a guy roughly $20M/yr to have an impact in roughly 4% of your team’s game action. Excluding extra innings, a team will have 1458 innings throughout a 162 game season. Díaz has pitched 62 innings back to back years. I know the guy is good but the financial aspect makes absolutely no sense to me. Mets gonna Mets 🤣

62/1458 = 4.25%
 
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cobbwebb0710 said:
Thank you sir!
I wish my employer would offer me $102 million over the next 5 years.
I’d fly us all to the Vols bowl game and we’d have a dang blast!!
I’d probably even fly Tony V and my girl Donde, out to party with us!
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Nobody is worth $102 Million freaking dollars. No wonder popcorn & a coke-cola is so high.
 
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VolPack22 said:
So let me get this right… You are going to pay a guy roughly $20M/yr to have an impact in roughly 4% of your team’s game action. Excluding extra innings, a team will have 1458 innings throughout a 162 game season. Díaz has pitched 62 innings back to back years. I know the guy is good but the financial aspect makes absolutely no sense to me. Mets gonna Mets 🤣

62/1458 = 4.25%
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I mean, we’re paying Bobby Bonilla, $1 million per year, until the year 2135.
I think we’ll be ok paying one of the better closers in the game.
 
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cobbwebb0710 said:
I mean, we’re paying Bobby Bonilla, $1 million per year, until the year 2135.
I think we’ll be ok paying one of the better closers in the game.
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:eek::eek: Imagine sitting on your azz until you die & still get paid $1 million watching TV.
This world is so screwed up & upside down w/signing athletes to win some games for ya.
 
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