Texas Rangers 2019-2020 Offseason Thread

[saddles]

 

[Kelleyman]

 

[Kelleyman]

Boston and Cora next

 

[saddles]

I still wish they would have went after the players as well.

 

[DT LUNA]

There is no room in MLB for people like that.

 

[saddles]

I wonder how much quicker this will allow other AL West teams to catch the Astros? They should stay atop the West at least in 2020 and probably 2021. Or it could start to crumble quickly.

It may take 4 or 5 years for the loss of those draft picks to affect them.

 

[PhantomWarrior]

Bunch of cheats.

 

[DT LUNA]

I wonder how much quicker this will allow other AL West teams to catch the Astros? They should stay atop the West at least in 2020 and probably 2021. Or it could start to crumble quickly.

It may take 4 or 5 years for the loss of those draft picks to affect them.

Hinch should be ban for life. Players should also be fined.

 

[PhantomWarrior]

Wow they are going after Cora too. Good.

 

[saddles]

I wonder how much quicker this will allow other AL West teams to catch the Astros? They should stay atop the West at least in 2020 and probably 2021. Or it could start to crumble quickly.

It may take 4 or 5 years for the loss of those draft picks to affect them.

Actually, those draft picks will affect them in one way earlier than I mentioned. In 2 to 3 years they will have less minor league talent to trade for final pieces of the puzzle.

 

[Nightcrawler]

at least we don’t have to worry about those guys winning the World Series next year.

 

[WilltheThrill]

Boo hoo. The Astros got a slap on the wrist for what they did and who they were/are as an organization. I guarantee you they’re celebrating right now. They are the most morally bankrupt organization in all of pro sports. Beating up women is funny to them. Lying and cheating? No problem! Literally nothing is taboo with that group as long as winning is the end result. I guarantee you Jeff Luhnow would endorse murder if it meant another World Series win.

For their widespread cheating and absolutely abhorrent behavior last season following the Taubman scandal, the punishments SHOULD have been:

- Lifetime bans for Luhnow and Hinch
- Fine of $50 Million
- Loss of ALL draft picks and international signings for the next 5 years

If Manfred had any balls at all, he would have gone scorched Earth on that franchise. You think you can get away with blatant cheating to win a World Series and throwing a bunch of female reporters under the bus while mocking domestic violence? Fine. Now you’re a bottom-feeding franchise with zero chance of competing for the next decade. Have fun with that.

1 year suspensions do NOTHING. Hinch and Luhnow can still control things from behind the scenes. How is MLB going to stop them? Are they going to tap Luhnow’s phones and make sure he’s not communicating orders to his interim GM?

Also, now that the other franchises know that you can literally cheat your way to a World Series title with only a 1 year suspension as the worst possible outcome, don’t you think more might be inclined to try it?

The only good punishment to come out of all of this (which isn’t mentioned in the article) is that Brandon Taubman also received a lifetime ban from working in ML baseball (as if any other team would hire him now anyway).

 

[WilltheThrill]

Now I’m reading Taubman can apply for reinstatement as soon as the 2020 World Series is over. Wonderful.

 

[saddles]

 

[scotsman1948]

Astros have fired Luhnow and Hinch

 

[Kelleyman]

Astros have fired Luhnow and Hinch

 

[Kelleyman]

 

[Nightcrawler]

Astros have fired Luhnow and Hinch

Luhnow wasn’t that smart anyway.

wasn’t it his idea to tank so egregiously that the tv networks didn’t show astro games while they were losing 110-115 games for 5 years in a row?

any joker can nail the draft when you have the top pick 5 years in a row.

 

[jta4437]

Hinch should be ban for life. Players should also be fined.

They're giving people a chance to get their house in order, since probably almost everyone does it to some extent, they warned everyone after the initial Boston scandal

Boston's 2nd is probably going to be even worse

 

[Kelleyman]