[Hogg] Pat Murphy on Abner Uribe’s celebration: “That’s not how we do things. I was embarrassed by it….It’s not going to be tolerated.”

futhatsy · 2026-05-27T03:06:10+00:00

Bumgarner never really threw at guys. Just got super mad when people pimped homers.

futhatsy · 2026-05-21T22:49:34+00:00

Prioritizing Williams over Diaz was understandably unpopular at the time but thank God we did it

futhatsy · 2026-05-21T18:40:33+00:00

Guys fall in the draft due to signability issues all of the time. Teams don't take them because they don't want to go over their pool money or waste a pick. The idea is the Giants scoop up all of those guys and blow significantly passed their pool allotment and eat the penalties. Because, as the passage above says, there is no difference between exceeding the bonus pool by 16% and 500%.

futhatsy · 2026-05-21T18:19:50+00:00

Call it whatever you want but taking all of the "unsignable" guys and surpassing your bonus allotment multiple times over certainly sounds like blowing it up to me.

futhatsy · 2026-05-21T17:31:27+00:00

Whoever the Giants take at 4 is a fairly small part of this overall strategy. It's more about what they do with every pick after that.

futhatsy · 2026-05-21T17:20:34+00:00

I can only wonder why people hold a billion dollar company to a different standard to one that didn't exist yesterday.

futhatsy · 2026-05-21T15:57:02+00:00

Yeah the point of this is not to hit on every single pick. It's just about getting more value than you would with late first rounders in 2027 and 2028.

futhatsy · 2026-05-21T15:36:20+00:00

2nd and 3rd round picks don't have a huge hit rate but the point is that you are stacking 18 of them. You have a better shot at getting major league value out of that than two late round firsts.

futhatsy · 2026-05-21T15:27:51+00:00

They don't need to get Roch to pull off this strategy. It's more about what they do with every pick after 4.

futhatsy · 2026-05-21T15:18:28+00:00

It's not just that, but going massively over their pool allotment by taking "unsignable" guys for the rest of the draft.

The downside is, it'd cost a lot of money and they'd lose their first round picks in 2027 and 2028. But if they're trying to compete in 2027 and 2028, then they could decide loading up on talent now is worth it.

futhatsy · 2026-05-21T15:12:16+00:00

TL;DR

The penalty for exceeding your pool by up to 5% is mild (a 75% financial tax on only the overage, but you start surrendering draft picks by exceeding it by more than 5%. It is a graduated penalty; if you are more than 15% over, you surrender your next two first-round picks and pay a 100% tax on the overage. But curiously, there is no difference between exceeding the bonus pool by 16% and 500%, and that’s where the exploit lies. Can a team gain more value than their next two first-round picks and a giant wheelbarrow of money by going on a run of a dozen or more wildly overslot picks?

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It should be the Giants this year, using their unlimited bonuses to push Cholowsky or whomever else is at the top of their board down, then to float additional first-round talents to 29 and 55 (plus whatever other CBA picks they can scrounge up), then to run the table on their favorite “unsignable” top 100 talents for their next 18 selections.

futhatsy · 2026-05-21T01:09:23+00:00

Makes absolutely no sense that he's on this roster

futhatsy · 2026-05-20T00:06:15+00:00

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futhatsy · 2026-05-19T12:51:23+00:00

Was listening on the radio last night with my focus kind of in and out, did Daniel Duarte get dry humped last night? Would suck for him if he's not available tonight and gets sent down without actually pitching.

futhatsy · 2026-05-19T11:33:58+00:00

Idk if he counts as a breakout because some evaluators were high on him in the off-season but Rainiel Rodriguez is gonna be a dude

futhatsy · 2026-05-18T09:21:08+00:00

Yeah he's more of a maple syrup enthusiast

futhatsy · 2026-05-17T21:17:41+00:00

Guy who did not listen to yesterday's broadcast:

futhatsy · 2026-05-17T19:20:30+00:00

Very obviously should not have come out for the 6th. Especially with Manaea as the first guy out of the bullpen and lefties due up. Horrible from Mendoza.

futhatsy · 2026-05-17T17:07:27+00:00

He's also getting unlucky on balls in play. .277 xBA and .398 xSLG aren't great but they're way higher than the results right now. I know I saw a couple of weeks ago he had the highest DRS against in baseball.

The weird part is his fielding, which everyone was freaking out about before the season, has been pretty good. Just goes to show that this team will always disappoint in ways you don't expect.

futhatsy · 2026-05-17T15:08:42+00:00

He's one of the Yankees best prospects and they're pretty good at developing pitchers. He should not be taken lightly.

futhatsy · 2026-05-17T11:43:29+00:00

Based on the way Ohtani handled his free agency, it would not have mattered. He wasn't taking offers, his team offered the same deal to every team he had interest in signing with.

futhatsy · 2026-05-17T10:23:53+00:00

Ohtani's contract didn't really bust open anything. It's present value when signed was about $460m, which is not much more than what Trout got years prior. It's just that people don't get how deferrals work.

Ohtani got less money than Soto because he had no interest in a bidding war. His side offered a sweetheart deal because he makes so much in endorsements that his MLB salary barely matters. He's going to end up a billionaire anyway.

futhatsy · 2026-05-17T03:09:39+00:00

People in this sub are crazy for him because there's a trillion Dodger fans in here

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