Happy Service Time Manipulation Day Seattle Mariners Fans
But Wait There’s More – More Players Manipulated
Or is it owners, or GMs, or the media, or the fans? Someone is being manipulated on this day, and I’m not even sure who it is. Bryant’s not the only high-profile service time manipulation member, but he might as well be the president of the club. Evan Longoria, Bryce Harper, and George Springer were also part of this process before Bryant’s rookie season, but it’s really become popular since then.
Ronald Acuna joined the Braves in 2018. Also, if you have this superstar on your fantasy baseball team, congratulations, you are now permitted to change your team’s name to Acuna Matata. It means no worries in baseball’s unwritten rules. Vladimir Guererro Jr. is another one that is a blatant recent member of this club in 2019. Looking to join this club is Jarred Kelenic. Too soon? Yes, it is. He’s a little further down the article, but it’s coming.
2019 San Deigo Padres Use Fortune Tellers
Also, in 2019, the San Diego Padres were in a serious situation when it came to what to do with all of their prospects. Fernando Tatis, MacKenzie Gore, Chris Paddock, and the list went on and on. So they managed to figure out a way to injure Gore, over and over again. Rather than going with the Chicago Cubs model for service time manipulation, they went a different direction.
San Diego Padres GM AJ Peller came back from the future and in 2019 said, we’re going to sign Tatis to a massive contract, and he’ll immediately show one of his lesser-known talents and separate his shoulder while swinging at a pitch. Oh, and Paddack isn’t going to be any good anymore (4 starts and a 10+ ERA).
Why else would he have both top prospects be part of the club right out of spring training in 2019? Fan pressure? Agent pressure? Manny Machado pressure? Okay, the last one wasn’t actually a thing, but when your star’s nickname is the Baby-faced Assasin, you watch your back.
But bringing Tatis onto the big-league club on March 29, 2019, vs. April 12 of the same year, was a massive gamble. San Diego has locked up for the young slugger for the next 150 years or something like that. Clearly, that’s the result of some crystal ball-type chicanery.
Nowadays, the Padres trade away all of their prospects for aces and decent veterans, and well, they probably have the second or third best roster in the National League. It worked, but for the most part, it doesn’t typically work.