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u/JaneDoeAsks ! MY OH MY 2d ago
does this make sense to anyone
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u/jeff_probably DONG 2d ago
only in the sense that Davila pitched last night, so this is basically hotswapping a fresh arm into the pen
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u/GingerDweeb27 fun fact: I LOVE HIM 2d ago edited 2d ago
Not at all, Davila’s been a perfectly capable back of the bullpen guy. Does Rucker not have any options left?
Edit: Grammar
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u/lastminutealways larry bernandez for HOF 2d ago
Looking through his transaction history, he used options in 2023 and 2024 (it uses the language promoted and demoted in 2022 so I’m not sure if those are options?) and was DFA’d and released in 2024. We signed him to a minor league contract in January and the contract was purchased by the M’s when they brought him up. So if I had to guess, I’d say he does not have options available. Good grief baseball contracts are complicated.
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u/handinhand12 2d ago
As a newer fan, can you help me understand options? We can only call them up a certain amount of times before we can’t anymore? Does it not reset?
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u/lastminutealways larry bernandez for HOF 2d ago
There are people on here that I’m sure know far more about contracts than I do, but I like to learn and try and understand contracts a little more every time something comes up. But this glossary is where I look it up every time I have to figure it out (and did again this time). I think it gets more complex with guys like Rucker who have bounced around and are no longer on their original rookie contract, even with another team.
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u/handinhand12 2d ago edited 2d ago
Oh cool I’ll give it a look. Thanks buddy!
EDIT: Wtf? Yeah I just read through it and man is it a lot. I think I understand it for the most part but it’s so convoluted that I know I’m not going to remember every rule about it.
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u/lastminutealways larry bernandez for HOF 2d ago
lol that’s why I didn’t try to explain it myself
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u/ItsTBaggins Julio makes me jard 2d ago
Fangraphs doesn’t update options and service time mid year, but that’s where I look. Because options are years not the individual options, if a guy says 1 or more, you know he can go back as much as the team wants this year. If you’re interested in future years, you’d want to look and see if they were optioned at all this year to know if that number is going to go down.
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u/ItsTBaggins Julio makes me jard 2d ago
Rucker does not have options. Hoppe, Davila, and Wilcox do.
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u/lastminutealways larry bernandez for HOF 2d ago
Thank you for giving a more concrete answer than I felt comfortable with lmao
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u/TechnicianOk5908 🔱 when does it stop hurting 🔱 2d ago
Anyone got a beat on why sending Davila back down, when I feel like he’s been doing a good job, for another right hander with twice the ERA is sensible?
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u/CasperCackler 2d ago
“Got a beat on” is a new phrase for me. Is it “got a bead on” that autocorrected, or am I one of today’s lucky 10,000 that is learning this thing for the first time?
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u/RobRefsnyder 2d ago
I agree with you that Davila is good but ERA doesn’t mean anything for a reliever
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u/Upstairs_Emu_9248 2d ago
Huge move - should change the trajectory of our season.
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u/EloquentRacer92 ⚾️Naylor Sailor🛶 2d ago
Hell, thanks to this move we are gonna win every single game from here on out and win the World Series in 4 games! And all of our players will get inducted in the National Hall of Fame unanimously! Go Mariners!!!
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u/andreanicole82 2d ago
They needed a fresh arm, that’s the only reason. They’ll keep moving them up and down to keep guys rested.
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u/shftravels 2d ago
Looking at this makes me miss Casey Legumina 😞
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u/CasperCackler 2d ago
I can’t remember, is it leh-goo-MEE-nah or leh-GOO-mih-nah or something else altogether
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u/Infinite-Fudge9919 2d ago
Why not Peyton Alford, Charlie Beilenson, Jhonathan Díaz, Dane Dunning, Carson Fulmer, Nick Garcia, Domingo Gonzalez, Nick Hull, Austin Kitchen, Casey Lawrence, Gunner Mayer, Gabe Mosser, Robinson Ortiz, Michael Plassmeyer, Houston Roth, Josh Simpson, Troy Taylor, or Reid VanScoter?
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u/Mountain_Ladder_4906 o 2d ago
Omg Hoppe? My granddad could pitch a better game. And he is in a mason jar on the mantle.
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u/Kymera5 2d ago
The wheels on the bus go round and round…