re: Kris Bryant Board: Boras still stumping for things that won't happen...

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But there also are examples of players who had fewer than Bryant’s 297 plate appearances at Triple-A

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I'd be surprised if it's not a whole lot more than the list ken points to. I'd also be surprised if that still didn't even make it a whole percentage point of major league players. Which is all well and good, but if that's where an ill fated grievance wanted to hang it's hat then they might fail even more spectacularly than i originally thought.

The cubs can come up with a handful of 'baseball reasons' to point to that would satisfy the incredibly low bar of why they don't have to start the season with kris bryant in the majors. We all know the score, bryant wants more money sooner, cubs want bryant longer. Doesn't mean everyone can't lie about it and the status quo is maintained.

and i'll get off my boras is an arse for saying this is about winning and do the cubs want to give their fans a winner because if so they'd start bryant...right after this from Ben Badler at Baseball America who sums it up best:

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If the Cubs are truly committed to winning, they will start Kris Bryant in Triple-A for a couple of weeks.

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