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I didn't realize Matt Murton is going to Japan. You would think some major league team would have use for him as a 4th outfielder.
Also Seth McClung.
Hard for me to feel like these guys really need the money, though.
I was honnered to be a big part of the 08 team that made the play offs. I had a great year, starting in the middle of the season and then pitching out of the pen. My favorite memorey to date is finishing the game late September vs the cubs. Again thank you Milwaukee I was honnered to be a brewer.
Rather than rag on him for the spelling errors, etc., I'll salute him for being genuine. This is one public statement by an athlete that clearly wasn't written for him by his agent's people.
They pay the UE insurance taxes just like everybody else. It's insurance, not welfare, just like Social Security;they should have no qualms about collecting.
Although, if you're a recognizable guy (not Seth McClung) you probably don't want to go stand in line at the UE office and take grief, so probably don't bother.
I would like the Mets to sign Johnson.
If you've ever seen Seth McClung in your life, you'd recognize him. He is 6'6 and 260 pounds of flaming red hair
Wouldn't he send his agent down to collect? Of course, the leech would then skim off 10%...
I'm pretty sure everyone has to appear in person at least once, and a second time if you collect for a while. That's not the kind of thing petty government bureaucrats will let you out of b/c you're semi-famous.
The weekly checks come direct deposit these days.
In Cali, you don't have to go anywhere. You can apply online and someone will call and interview you for confirmation, details, disqualifying information, etc. And they do send paper checks in the mail still, every two weeks.
I think social welfare programs are something a government is obligated to provide, but it shouldn't be THAT easy to collect money.
Dude, having the option to never leave your bed? You should only be so lucky.
Agree. As a Red Sox fan, I'd like my team to take a flyer on him even though he'd be a fairly poor fit for the roster. I imagine many teams' followers feel the same.
I guess it's just a question of putting him to good use. I don't know that I've ever actually seen him play, and his profile strikes me as strange. From decent-to-good prospect to eclipsed by a utility player to non-tendered in what seems like a very short period of time; what looks like a reverse platoon split over his MLB career; some undefined level of defensive ability at two positions at near-opposite ends of the spectrum? Can anybody sum this guy up for me?
This would make me very happy.
I didn't see him much last year, but before that, he's a patient hitter with a good eye prone to slumping and then getting overly aggressive. He was a shorstop, then a third baseman, moved to the outfield because that's where the team needed him. He had arm surgery and now supposedly can't play anywhere other than second because he can't throw. To my eye, he's a good second baseman.
Why say "X team will non-tender Y player"
Wouldn't it be better to just say "X team won't tender Y player"?
Similarly, why is it called the "non-tender" deadline. "Tender" deadline sounds more positive, doesn't it?
Little more positive talk.....hehe
He didn't look totally himself at the plate last year (possibly because of inconsistent playing time, but I would chalk most of his struggles up to BABIP.
And, as noted, it's insurance and recipients have been paying their premiums through taxes -- why should people have to go through a major hassle to collect their insurance?
Braves have tendered offers to Peter Moylan and Boone Logan
Marlins will tender offers to Dan Uggla, Jorge Cantu, Ricky Nolasco, Cody Ross, Josh Johnson, Leo Nunez, and Renyel Pinto
Astros will tender offers to Michael Bourn, Hunter Pence, Wandy Rodriguez, Matt Lindstrom, Tim Byrdak, Chris Sampson, Jeff Keppinger, and Humberto Quintero
Orioles will sign Matt Albers and Cla Meredith
Rays will sign Randy Choate
You're dealing with Jim Tracy here. Torrealba made 30 starts of the last 32 games for the Rockies, Jim Tracy isn't going to let his man crush stop just because the front office likes Iannetta.
I have no idea how much it costs to interview hundreds of thousands of the jobless. I'm sure it costs plenty to create and maintain online unemployment applications, but automating part of the process surely saved some $. The welfare queen has always been a myth. How dare you.
I don't like to see people take unemployment because they prefer it to being underemployed or have given up on looking for work. I understand extending unemployment is for the greater good, but there are people out there doing a disservice to themselves and the rest of us. Can I whine about that?
Cubs will tender offers to Carlos Marmol, Ryan Theriot, Jeff Baker, Angel Guzman, Sean Marshall, Koyie Hill, Tom Gorzelanny, and Mike Fontenot
Cubs will non-tender Neal Cotts
As someone who has been employed everyday since I turned 15, I really think we could improve productivity in the country if we streamlined job application processes. The biggest skills required to get the vast majority of jobs tend to be soft HR friendly skills which have next to nothing to do with the actual skills needed to perform well at the job.
In order to get a teaching job, you have to stand in line for hours on a second class entry pass at job fairs as TFA kids who have had five week training fly past you, talk to some lackey the principal has sent, and then hope that you answer their "name your top three weaknesses" questions in such a way that they throw your resume in the "good" pile. Then the principal hires their best friend's kid for the position.
Sure, most of us make it through, and some of us actually get to choose, but the vast majority just end up somewhere and try to survive. And people wonder why teacher attrition and quality is suffering.
When I try to address this, I usually get the "times are tough, it sucks less for teachers than ______" but it misses the point. If we make our employment processes efficient and thoughtful, we may actually have more people efficiently and thoughtfully employed. A good job usually leads to a good quality of life and good production.
That some people get disillusioned and drop out should be seen as much as reflecting their good sense as reflecting some deep character flaw.
Sounds rough. In the private sector we just get hired without any sort of interviewing or vetting process. Just send in our resume and they call us to tell us what time to show up for work on the first day.
And it's very difficult to fire us, unlike with teachers.
Sure, Alfredo Amezaga will listen if, um, somebody calls.
The Marlins announcers won't be happy about that.
Odds that he ends up on Houston with a multi-year deal?
The rules vary from state to state on how many contacts you have to make. Obviously, quite a few of these guys will be signed before their paperwork would be processed.
Offering to Hill was also a little silly but clearly Lou has a man crush on him, so I knew it was gonna happen.
"The Nationals tendered contracts on Saturday to their five other arbitration-eligible players -- relievers Jason Bergmann, Sean Burnett and Brian Bruney; catcher Wil Nieves; and outfielder Josh Willingham."
And it's very difficult to fire us, unlike with teachers.
Jesus, Ray, get over yourself.
Is reading comprehension a requirement? How's that working out? :)
There's little better in the world than misplaced sarcasm. Education's a little different than you remember it...
I have a cheese-shredder at home, which is its positive name. They don't call it by its negative name, cause no one would buy it: sponge-ruiner. Because I wanted to clean it, and now I have little bits of sponge... that would melt easily over tortilla chips.
Blame his subpar reading comprehension on the incompetent teachers responsible for his education. If only someone could have fired them...
Awesome. I adore you.
nym n-t's sullivan, redding, reed, broadway
correia re-ups w/ sd
This is never going to happen.
I was hoping for taking him behind the tool shed and shooting him, but this will do.
Wouldn't it have been easier to just keep Castro instead of signing a dozen catchers?
Schneider, Santos, Castro - c'mon, it was an embarrassment of riches.
I like Castro as a player but he was going to be a free agent at the end of the year and there was nothing wrong with seeing if Santos could caught it as a backup catcher. If the Mets wanted Castro, they could have signed him but he's not a difference maker.
If you want him bad enough to pay him what he'd get in arb, you should be able to sign him because I don't think he'll get that much.
you're right about difelice, as you know. i bet they re-up him on a minor league deal while he rehabs.
Twins off contracts to all, including arbies Jesse Crain, Matt Guerrier, J.J. Hardy, Brendan Harris, Francisco Liriano, Pat Neshek, Delmon Young. Kelly Thesier looks far too cheery in her Twitter thumbnail pic.
Rays sign Cormier and Choate
Rangers sign Esteban German, tender offers to Scott Feldman, Chris Ray, Frank Francisco, C.J. Wilson, Dustin Nippert, Brandon McCarthy, and Josh Hamilton
White Sox tender offers to Bobby Jenks, John Danks, Carlos Quentin and Tony Pena. That's R. Tony Pena, not Tony F. Pena, the former KC ss who is also an rp-r now, somewhere in the Giants' system. We knew D.J. Carrasco was non-tendered, right?
I think you could easily make a team of these non-tenders that could win more games than the Royals or Nats. I'd love to see any of Langerhans, Gomes, KJohnson or Church in KC this summer. Come on Dayton, this is one time where your ex-Braves fetish may be a plus.
C (Navarro? Buck?)
1B (Garko?)
2B Johnson
3B Atkins
SS - (I guess Amezaga, by default)
LF Gomes/Gross
CF Reed
RF Church
DH Cust
Bench: C Rivera, UT Amezaga, OF Sullivan or Langerhans or Anderson
Rotation: Wang, Olsen, Redding
Bullpen: McClung, McDougal, Cotts, DiFelice, and Carrasco
Not all those pitchers can compete next year.
Exactly.
Million-dollar arm, ten-cent head.
-- MWE
Million-dollar arm, ten-cent head.
He will punch you in the face for posting that.
Conor Jackson was a bit surprising. Guess he's recovered from that weird disease he had.
Not a non-tender, but the Twins got P Chris Province from the Red Sox for Boof.
SD n-t'd: quezada and worrell. neither pitched in '09.
I don't get it when teams non-tender players that are not yet eligible for arbitration. What's the point?
* unlike waivers, other teams aren't guaranteed a shot at trying to get the guy - the player can immediately sign w/ you on a minor league deal (if they wish)
* obviously, this means they aren't using up a 40-man spot, earning service time, losing options, etc...
It wouldn't surprise me if there are other reasons, some obvious.
kc: buck and josh anderson
The can is round... the cup is round... they should call it roundtine.
phi: condrey
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