Of course it's a cap. Nobody's suggesting that a player can accumulate more than one year's worth of service time in a given season. The issue is whether a player can combine partial seasons of service time. Every internet source I've come across indicates that he can't. They're just wrong. It's re...

Every single one of those sources said that one year of service time equals 172 days of active roster or IL time combined in one given season . But if a player may carry-over service time from one season to another season, then the phrase "in one given season" is superfluous and also conf...

Nobody's really answered the original question, so here goes: I may be clinging to an outmoded notion of how teams treat their rookies, but I wonder if the Mets are committed to sending Acuna to Syracuse for a month or so to make up for the month or so that they called him up at the end of 2024, in...

probably all but given really. They don't have a spot to give him regular playing time. He's got 0.016 years of service time, so they just really need to keep that under 0.9 or whatever for the bonus of an extra year. Who knows if he'll be good enough that they even have to worry about team control ...

You would think he wouldn’t come out that confidently without good info. I really wonder what happened here. why would you think that? He's not a journalist, he's a guy paid to have takes. Right or wrong, doesn't matter. People are gonna tune in Monday, pay attention Monday (well, if our dictator h...

Attachment 49, which the players and owners agreed upon in response to past acts of collusion by the clubs, is designed to prevent club officials from attempting to influence the market through their public comments. In theory, it also applies to agents. Which is why everything usually comes in &qu...

still just money. it's just some variation in pay structure. it's just a give-take on opt-outs, buy-outs, bonuses-deferrals. Just accounting. It's not "asymmetrical" whatever that's supposed to mean. Not like he's demanding to be paid in compound interest based on percentage payouts of an ...

Saw this on bluesky yesterday, someone posted the Cespedes deal. 3/75, 9 years ago. Pete's was a better hitter even last year than Cespedes was in his career to that point. With inflation that's probably more than the Mets are rumored to be offering Pete, or that Pete asked for. I can't keep track o...

Buster Olney's podcast this week was all about the voting and there was much venting about seeking out the one holdout and doing Lord knows what to him or her. When we start demanding unanimous collective thought, that's a problem. "We need to all think the exact same way and outliers will be ...

What's an extra two or three million dollars to a guy that will make between $150M and $200M by the time he's 40 between baseball salaries and endorsements? How much money does a person need? Why would he walk away from all of that for an extra million dollars a year? Cohen made that much money in ...

Don't want to talk about him in the past tense yet, but there was a deal for Alonso to be had. If they didn't get it done, I'll bet it was more on Boras/Alonso than the Mets. Can't blame the Alonso camp if they end up getting a better deal from some team other than the Mets. If you wanna blame, bla...

But this started out with your ridiculous claim that one can't follow the news without reading social media. It's a bonkers claim and my own personal experiences bear this out. The friends and acquaintances I have that seem to get most of their information from social media are, sadly, ignoramuses ...

imho Mets are sitting pretty because of Soto, they need another hitter and probably two, but they have a lot of options and ways to achieve that. And a lot of 1B have signed now, so Pete doesn't have many options. It'll probably get done, there's some sentimentality there that makes it make sense, b...

Facts today, such as they are, are more malleable than ever. Where we used to have Walter Cronkite, we now have Joe Rogan and most people are either too stupid or too uninformed to tell the difference. This is your social media. Are they? citation needed. There are more takes masquerading as facts,...

That's a gross mis-generalization. I'd love to see what they classify as 'real' news sites and what are 'social' media sites. imo, anything that talks about swing voters or median voters isn't to be trusted. "After backing Trump, low-income voters hope he doesn’t slash their benefits" Oh g...

I mean ... social media is more reliable than the NYT? Really? X? Twitter? Facebook? Truth Social? Where nothing is vetted and anybody can post anything? And that's more credible, more reliable than a WAPO piece? Wowza! No wonder the psychopath-elect won. it depends. Is it Ross Douthat? Maureen Dow...

If you don't have social media, besides thecranepool, what do you even do? Are you the people that are having the small talk in the bagel shop 3 day old news, and still think Ohtani was involved with gambling because the non-social media didn't really talk about the Ippei case and follow-up? I get ...

I use Facebook to communicate with family mainly. And I wouldn't communicate or see random pictures of distant cousins or casual friends otherwise. Not like I'm going to text every one of them "hey, what's your christmas morning look like?" I use the 'most recent' feed which filters out th...

I have no issue if anyone has criticisms of Cohen. But it's silly to argue against the results. The last 14 years of Wilpon ownership produced two playoff teams. The first four years of Cohen ownership have produced two playoff teams. He identified Stearns as the guy he wanted, then treaded water u...

This is really no surprise. By 2010 we were fully in the post-Madoff Wilpon era. It's crazy that a big market team opening a brand new stadium would have such a protracted period of losing. In the last 12 years of Wilpon ownership, the Mets had 3 winning seasons, and made the playoffs twice (87 win...

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I use twitter for breaking sports news. And for that use, BlueSky is dragging behind. But I try to visit once a day, and like some posts etc. I want to see it succeed. I get that there is a danger in falling further into echo chambers, but X is basically a right-wing propaganda machine. I want to s...

Plenty of Mets chatter in my feed, even for the offseason. More than has been on twitter in years imho. Find a starter pack and follow some new peeps!

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THERE ARE NO UNDECIDED VOTERS! There are only people who are still deciding whether they're going to vote at all. Nobody is undecided about Donald Trump at this point- you either love him or hate him. Anyone who says they're undecided is lying. There are, however, about 100 million people in this c...