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MINNEAPOLIS -- Risk goes both ways.
Ever since the Red Sox and Jon Lester agreed to break off contract negotiations at the end of spring training, most of the analysis has focused on the idea that the Red Sox cost themselves tens of millions of dollars by failing to take advantage of a player's self-declared willingness to accept a hometown discount. And with good reason.
Lester has been dominant so far in 2014 on the way to his third All-Star Game. The value to the left-hander of accepting anything less than full market value is dwindling as he edges closer and closer to an opportunity to talk to all 30 teams.
But as brilliantly as Lester has pitched to date, the risks to his own potential earning power -- and, for that matter, the risks of fellow free agent-to-be and 2014 All-Star Max Scherzer, who turned down a six-year, $144 million offer from the Tigers in spring training -- should not be overlooked.
Zack Greinke, who signed a six-year, $144 million contract as a free agent after the 2012 season that will be used as a reference point in negotiations for both Scherzer and Lester this winter, made clear what's at stake in the second half of 2014.
"There's still a long time to go with the season," said Greinke. "Their contracts could go from $100 million to $200 million or $100 million to $20 million over the next two months, depending on how they pitch, if they're healthy and all that stuff."
There's plenty of risk for everyone involved -- particularly given that the potential free agency of Lester comes at an utterly fascinating time on a number of levels, with all kinds of contradictory signals for his market.
Start with this: He's been as dominant as any American League pitcher over the last calendar year. After he struggled for much of the final eight weeks of the first half of 2013, Lester had 10 days between his final start of the first half and his first outing following the All-Star break.
That first start of the second half -- 6 1/3 innings in which he allowed two runs, punched out eight and walked none -- began the best stretch of Lester's career and the best year of any hurler in the American League.
He has made 32 starts, throwing 216 2/3 innings with a 2.62 ERA (second in the AL behind Hisashi Iwakuma, who has a 2.58 ERA in 30 fewer innings), 8.6 strikeouts and 2.1 walks per nine innings. Add in Lester's five postseason starts and he's at 20-10 with a 2.47 ERA with 8.5 strikeouts and 2.1 walks per nine over more than 250 innings.
No one can compare to that ERA. Only David Price can challenge that innings total.
He's been dominant, he's been a workhorse, he's excelled on the biggest stage. He's been consistently brilliant, at a time when elite pitchers are rarely available on the open market.
Teams are locking up their homegrown pitching with tremendous frequency (indeed, Lester helped to define the long-term market for young, pre-arbitration-eligible pitchers with his five-year, $30 million deal signed prior to the 2009 season). There's scarcity of pitchers like Lester. That helps to drive the market for their services and highlights the risk the Red Sox took in not signing him.
"There are so few pitchers who are in the No. 1 category," said agent Scott Boras. "They're just in a different category of the risk you're willing to take because the reward is so great."
Meanwhile, while the Red Sox started negotiations with a four-year, $70 million offer that was more appropriate for the beginning of the 2010 season, when Josh Beckett and the Sox reached a four-year, $68 million agreement, market inflation has been considerable.
"There's a lot of money in the game," noted Greinke. "You still don't know how much money is in the game for how much the owners are making, but obviously they're making a lot because the salaries are still going up."
So: There's tons of money in the game, there are few top players and fewer top pitchers upon whom to spend it, suggesting that the mere mention of Lester's name should be greeted with an audible "cha-ching."
Consider: Of the 81 players named to the All-Star team this year, just 18 (22 percent) have reached free agency -- and a number of those reached free agency as a result of their struggles, when a team decided to release them, rather than when they'd earned the right through six-plus years of big league service time.
So, Lester represents a scarce commodity. The Red Sox ostensibly had a chance to maintain the scarcity of that commodity by keeping him off the market; that outcome appears to be a dwindling likelihood at this point.
But, his potential free agency also arrives at a time when the industry is more aware than ever about the risks of signing pitchers in their 30s, and at a time when pitchers seem to be dropping like fruit flies. Matt Harvey, Masahiro Tanaka, Matt Moore, Jose Fernandez, Kris Medlen, Brandon Beachy, Jarrod Parker, Patrick Corbin, and on, and on ...
The aversion to payroll-choking high-cost risk has taken a number of teams off the market for established stars. Teams are more interested in finding -- and locking up -- the next big thing than they are in securing the services of an established big thing for whom decline is around an invisible corner.
"It seems like teams are more interested in paying younger, less-proven guys," said Greinke. "They're paying more for future performance, where in the past, it seemed like they paid for past performance. So that's one thing tricky in my situation, when you get older. Now, they'll be paying guys according to what they think they'll do for the next five years, not the last five years. That'll be something you'll have to weigh in.
"It's weird it hasn't always been done that way," he added. "It still isn't completely done that way, but it seems that teams are trying to do it more often, and there's more teams refusing to pay for someone that's more on their decline. There's a lot more projecting future talent, it seems like, than how it was in the past."
That's not just a small-market mentality -- though, of course, a number of teams would be priced out of a pitcher like Lester whose market seems likely to sail north of $20 million. Even teams like the Red Sox with robust resources and payrolls are exercising unprecedented caution about top-of-the-market contracts, given the awareness of how drastic a roster swing can occur when a player like John Lackey is an efficient investment (as in 2013) or a player who offers zero return (2012).
And Beckett offers an interesting case study about why the Red Sox might want to exercise caution in their talks with Lester. The team extended the right-hander at the start of the 2010 season. That year proved an injury-driven train wreck.
Had the Sox waited out that season to talk with Beckett, they likely could have retained his services for a fraction of the cost they committed to him at the start of the year. An ill-timed injury for Lester in the second half of 2014, as Greinke noted, could drastically impact the pitcher's earning potential in a way that would suggest that pre-season or mid-season negotiations were imprudent.
Indeed, big-market teams see considerable benefit from walking away from their free agents, even the very good ones. They typically secure a supplemental first-round draft pick if the player is good enough to be granted a qualifying offer, and they avoid making the riskiest forms of investment.
The Sox have exhibited a philosophical preference to let their top free agents walk for most of the tenure of the current ownership group, both under former GM Theo Epstein and current GM Ben Cherington.
"We had more [early-round] picks because of the strategy we employed of walking away from free agents -- which, by the way, also has the added benefit of keeping you away for the most part from albatross contracts," Epstein said recently on the Minor Details podcast. "Players in their 30s decline and you end up paying for past performance. You pay peak prices for a player's decline.
"For most of my time [in Boston], we stayed away from it. It got us in trouble when we didn't at the end. So the added benefit of giving you more bites of the [draft] apple than everyone else, staying away from expensive decline -- more bites of the younger, ripening apple, fewer bites of the older, rotten apple. You combine that with an excellent scouting operation and we did fairly well."
It is undoubtedly true that the Red Sox don't have an in-house successor to Lester as their front-of-the-rotation pitcher. Again, it is worth reiterating: A compelling case can be made that he has been THE BEST pitcher in the American League over a period of 365 days.
But, just because there's not a ready-made alternative does not mean that committing to Lester is free of risk. And therein lies the complexity of the negotiations, the tug-of-war between wanting to retain a pitching anchor and wanting to avoid a potentially bad investment.
And the reality of pitching is that there are no safe bets. There are no risk-free investments. There are only degrees of risk, even for pitchers with established track records. And so, even the suggestion by Lester that he would accept a "hometown discount" represented something other than an obvious course of action for the Red Sox.
Ultimately, the Red Sox may yet conclude that the right move is to re-sign Lester. But the notion that the team followed a terribly misguided course in its conservative approach to negotiations ignores the nature of reasonable risk assessment, or the inherent risks involved in signing a player to a so-called hometown discount.
"It's not my area to try to sign their players, so I don't know, I'm not privy to any of that nor I should be," said Indians and former Red Sox manager Terry Francona. "My guess is that Lester's going to make a lot of money. Not sure where, but my guess is he'll be pretty well compensated, and I know the Red Sox are pretty smart people. Sometimes these things take time. When you're talking about that many millions of dollars, it can't just happen overnight.
"We try real hard to monitor and learn about guys' deliveries, their build, volume, to see if there's any way to maybe get an edge," he added. "I don't care how much you're paying guys. When you lose guys to injuries, it's going to hurt your chances. There's some of the guys that have the cleanest deliveries in the world and they get Tommy John or hurt their shoulders, and there are some guys who have some funky arm action that pitch for years. So you just don't quite know, really."
It is a position that can be difficult to fathom when there is no clear fallback plan. Yet perhaps more than anyone else who has followed the negotiations between the Sox and Lester, it is Lester himself who articulates an almost sympathetic stance to the Sox' position, who seems to accept the idea that a team's hesitancy to extend itself -- even for a discount -- early is neither an indication of insanity nor a stance meant to signal the inevitable end of a career-long relationship.
"Hopefully I come back [to the All-Star Game] a couple of more times to this wearing the same jersey. That's the ultimate goal. All of that nostalgic stuff, this could be last time with that, the last time pitching at Fenway, that's a bridge I guess you'll cross when and if you end up holding a different jersey in front of you," said Lester. "I'm worried about right now pitching for the Red Sox and whatever happens, happens. We're optimistic on everything.
"I get it. I told John [Henry] and the ownership that to their face. This is a business and [they] have a business to run. and when you think about it, I have a business to run," said Lester. "Like I said before, I've expressed it to them, this is where I want to stay. Regardless of whether we do it tomorrow or we wait until the end of the season, this is where I want to be. Hopefully when we get to the end of the season we can figure out something and get it done."
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The "food movement" was taking off with coffee and wine growing in popularity and it got him thinking about local beers - but back in 2000 there wasn't a lot on the market.
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"It's pretty low and not enough to keep the brewery going, so the business needs to grow to make a profit."
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Filed Nov. 9, 1960 United States Patent C) 3,131,240 PRGTECTIVE PADDING Wylie C. Kirkpatrick, Wayland, Mass., assignor to W. R. Grace & Co., Cambridge, Mass., a corporation of Connecticut Filed Nov. 9, 1960, Ser. No. 68,221 7 Claims. (Ci. 264-236) This invention relates to methods and materials for potectively padding articles. More particularly, this invention relates to methods and materials suitable for protectively padding selected areas of articles.
One of the functions of a package is to protect the contents thereof from damage. To properly package any article requires a careful examination and evaluation of many factors, e.g., the nature of the article being packaged, the particular storage and shipping conditions likely to be encountered, and the chemical and physical protection required by such articles. In order to avoid the Waste and expense resulting from the failure of the package to protect its contents, much research and testing is being conducted in the field of protective packaging. The problem is not solved simply by the use of large quantities of padding material or the use of costly indestructable containers. What is needed is an inexpensive, yet highly effective, method or material for protecting delicate or sensitive articles.
There has recently been introduced into the packaging art a new class of materials which are particularly suitable for use in cushioning or padding objects. This class of materials which includes expanded plastics and elastomers possesses good or excellent damping properties. Damping is the ability of a material to absorb the energy of an impact or shock or to smother such a shock so that it will not be transmitted to the object being protected. In addition, all of these materials with the exception of some foam rubbers have low densities, e.g., from 0.3 pound per cubic foot up to about 2O pounds per cubic foot. The excellent damping properties and low densities of these materials permit a reduction in size and weight of the resulting package.
Present methods of using these and other cushioning materials require thatthe object being protected be completely surrounded with or encased in the cushioning material. It has been established that for many objects it is unnecessary to completely surround such objects to provide adequate protection against shock and vibration and that it is only necessary to provide protection at certain vital or sensitive areas. A method of achieving selective spot or area protection with the expanded plastic or foam materials as Well as some of the other cushioning materials would be of great value in that it would substantially reduce the amount of cushioning material required without diminishing in any respect the protection being afforded the object so packaged.
1t is an object of the present invention to provide novel methods and materials for padding or cushioning objects.
A further object is to provide novel methods and materials for protecting selected areas of an object.
Another object is to provide a cushioning material that is economical, strong, possesses excellent damping properties and is suitable for use with irregular shaped objects.
It is also an object of this invention to reduce the amount of cushioning material required for packaging.
A still further object is to provide a means for holding the cushioning material in place during shipment.
Other and further objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
FIGURE l is a view of a ilexible cord coated with a padding material.
3,131,240 Patented Apr. 28, 1964 ice FIGURE 2 is a View of the coated cord of FIGURE 1 Wrapped about a glass cylinder.
FIGURE 3 is a view of a flexible cord net coated with a padding material surrounding a fragile object.
FIGURE 4 is a view of a shrinkable material having sections of a cushioning material attached thereto and wrapped about an object. y I have discovered a method and material that will accomplish the above set forth objects, i.e., that will provide an economic, reliable and excellent cushioning material that is easily applied to products which are to be protectively cushioned. I have discovered that by coating, covering or securing to iiexible, strong materials, a cushioning or padding material that the resulting product is easily applied to the most fragile or sensitive areas of the article being packaged which areas are most likely to experience damage during shipment or storage.
Referring now to FIGURE 1 of the drawings, there is shown a flexible cotton cord designated as 11 which cord is covered substantially over its entire length with a thick covering or coating 12 of a polyurethane exible foam. The cord is coated with the solid foam material by passing it through a reacting mass of polyurethane foam producing materials which materials cling to and coat the cord and continue to foam until the reaction isrcomplete and the foam eventually sets. In FIGURE 2, a foam covered cord is wrapped several times about the article to be protected, e.g., a glass bottle 22, and the two free ends of the cord are tied together. The foam, being flexible, can easily conform to any shape. This type of padding is easily applied, merely requiring tying in place, provides a high degree of physical protection at the site Where it is most needed and vrequires a bare minimum of materials. The amount of foam coated cord that would be used will vary with the size of the object to be protected.
Rather than coat the cord in theA manner described above it is also possible to extrude the foaming mixture onto the cord. The foam, may easily be scraped from the cord Where necessary to facilitate tying. While foam coatings of l inch thickness can easily be obtained "in the above procedures over 1A inch cord it is possibleto build up thicker coatings by again passing the foam cov-g ered cord through a foam producing mixture or by increasing the amount of foaming material extruded'onto the cord.
The polyurethane foams are especially preferred in th present invention because of their excellent damping 'qualities and low density and also because of their ability to adhere to most materials. The preparation of suitable iiexible polyurethane foams is described in U.S. Patent 2,764,565.
While flexible foams are especially suitable because of their ability to conform to diverse shapes there may also be employed semi-rigid and rigid polyurethane foams such as those prepared according to the teachings of U.S. Patent 2,787,601.
While the foamed polyurethanes are preferred, other materials which are also suitable for use in the present invention include but are not limited to expanded or foamed products, e.g., polystyrene, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, phenol aldehyde and urea aldehyde resins as well as natural and synthetic elastomers.
In place of the cotton cord there may be employed flexible metal wire, flexible net or mesh-like materials, monofilaments and shrinking monolaments or cords, etc. coated with plastic foam. In FIGURE 3, for example, there is shown a cord net 31 which is coated with a covering of iiexible foam which is placed about a fragile glass globe 32. The net is coated with foam by passing through a reacting mass of foam producing material as was done with the ilexible cord.
In another embodiment of the present invention, there is foane'd''ontov a "strip of shrinkable ilm'discrete areas of flexible foam. If the cushioning material will not in herently. adhere to the strip of film, the discrete sections offoam may be secured to the strip with a suitable adhesive. FIGURE 4 discloses a strip of heat shrinkable film 41 to which is secured at regular intervals patches of polyurethane foam 42. The strip of film is Wrapped about an object 43 and secured in place. The film is then heat shrunk causing the lm to tighten against the object 43V thereby holding the padding tightly in place. The foamed material may be foamed between sheets of shrinking 'film forming a'blanket which may be cut into strips Suitabl'e'jfor tying about articles. It is also possible to employv a tube of heat shrinkable film containing foam as' 'a padding material. All of the shrinking materials can be shrunk after being tied'in place to form a tight, snug Wra'ppng- ,The shrinkable materials may be any of the well-known heat shrinkable plastic films such as irradiated, biaxially oriented polyethylene prepared in accordance with the teachings of U.S. Patent 2,877,500 to Rainer et al. or the U.S. application of Baird et al., Serial No. 713,848, filed February 7, 1958 (now U.S.l Patent 3,022,543), as well as oriented'polyvinyl chloride, saran (vinylidene chloride copolymer) "polypropylene, etc.
' Selectivev padding of selected areas of an article is possible and practical using the above-described materials of this' invention. These materials are easily secured to thefart'icles being padded, even those of irregular shape. Because of the small quantity of padding material used, therefis realized a savings in space and material without any lessening of the protection given the articles.
The invention described in detail in the foregoing specification is susceptible to changes and modifications a's may occur to persons` skilled in the art and is not limited'to lthe precise details of construction as shown and described herein. The terminology used in the specification is 'used` for purposes of description and not of limitation, the scope of the invention being defined in the claims.
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1. A method of protecting an article against shocks d vibrations which comprises securing a cushioning material Ito'aI 'strip of shrnkable material, wrapping the s hrinkable material about the article to be protected and shrinking the shrinka'ble material to hold the cushioning material ltightlyxin' place.
Ain'ethod according to claim 1 wherein said cushioning material is a flexible solid foam material.
' 3."'A method according -to claim l wherein said shrinkable material is a heat shrinkable plastic film.
4. A method of protecting an article against shocks and vibrations whichV comprises Yfiiiedly'attaching Vdiscrete portions of solid flexible plastic foam material -to a strip of flexible heat shrinkable lm material, wrapping the film strip about the article to be protected, and then shrinking the lm strip to hold the foam material p0rtions tightly in place. l
5. A method of protecting an article against shocks and vibrations which comprises xedly attaching discrete portions of solid flexible plastic foam material to a strip of flexible heat shrinkable film material, Wrapping the film strip about the article to be protected with the foam portions between'the article and lthe filmstrip, and then shrinking the film stri vto hold the foam material portions' tightly in place. l
6. A method of protecting an article against shocks and vibrations which comprises wrapping at least one strip of ilexible heat shrinkable film` to which there are iixedly attached discrete portions of solid flexible VplasticV foam material about the circumference of the article to Ybe pro'- tected and then shrinking the lllm strip to hold the foam material protions tightly in place.
7. A method of protecting an article against shocks and vibrations which comprises wrapping at leastY onestrip of flexible heat shrinkable film to which there are lixedly attached discrete portions of solid flexible plastic foam material about the circumferenceV of the article to be protected with the foam portions between the article and the film strip and then shrinking the film strip to hold the foam material portions tightly in place.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 272,323 Redlich Feb. 13, 1883Y 987,162 Oglesby Mar. 21, 1911 1,170,401 Boley Feb. 1, 1916 1,937,537 Walthor Dec. 5, 1933 2,346,613 Rumseyv Apr. 11, 1944 2,449,591 Couse Sept. 21, 1948 2,751,629 Dick June 26, 1956 2,792,320 Bower May 14, 1957 2,809,760 Clark Oct. 15, 1957 2,925,624 Stahl et al. Feb. 23, 19,640 2,979,246 Liebeskind Apr. 11, 1961 3,051,601 Schick V Aug. 28, 1 962 FOREIGN PATENTS 126,869v Great Britain May- 22, 19,179 409,826 Great Britain L'. ;f `Ma`y 10, 1'934 821,537 Great Britain Oct. 7, 1959 522,473 Italy 'Apr. 7, 1955 978,577 France Noi/(29,' 195,0
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AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Noesis Energy announced record growth of its free energy management website in its first six months of public operation. Since Noesis completed its beta program in July of last year, more than 6,000 energy and facility professionals have created free accounts on the Noesis platform, and have uploaded over 20,000 total facilities representing more than one billion square feet.
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Noesis CEO Scott Harmon said that he's thrilled with the company's growth in 2012, but is not surprised by the positive market reception. "We really saw a big opportunity to provide a free website where energy and facility professionals can use basic tools to track and report on energy performance and costs," said Harmon. "This year, we'll continue to build out our platform to bring all of the pieces of the energy efficiency value chain together."
Noesis Energy is a free, cloud-based energy management platform serving commercial, industrial and institutional markets. It is used by virtually all participants in the energy value chain, from facility and energy managers to energy consultants and energy retailers. The site provides an extensive set of energy analysis, benchmarking and reporting tools for tracking energy performance. In addition to the tools, Noesis also offers a broad range of educational videos, webinars and other resources, and a vibrant online community where energy and facility professionals can ask and answer questions, write blogs, and discuss energy-related topics.
In addition to the free site, Noesis sells its Noesis Data Service (NDS) product to end users who need help collecting and reporting on their energy data. NDS solves the headaches associated with downloading and organizing energy usage and cost data by connecting online to more than 600 US and Canadian utilities. Noesis also sells sponsorship opportunities to energy-efficiency product and services companies who wish to market through the Noesis platform.
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Noesis Energy puts businesses in control of their energy management costs. Combining big data services, energy analytics and industry expertise, our free and premium data services help energy professionals track energy performance and identify opportunities to reduce usage and costs. Noesis Energy is backed by Black Coral Capital and Austin Ventures and maintains offices in Austin, Texas and Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. For more information, visit www.noesisenergy.com.
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Junji Ito's death-stench horror gets the deluxe treatment with a new hardcover omnibus, but the subject matter might not work for everyone. ― Junji Ito is inarguably one of the masters of horror manga, utilizing both horror (physical revulsion) and terror (psychological reaction) to create gut-churning tales of the world gone mad. To a degree, he carries this out in his two-volume series Gyo from 200...