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The only way to sell out the Trop is to move the Yankees there.

This hurts to talk about.

@Shesta_HOF New to Cooperstown: The cap worn by @maeken1988 on September 29, as the starting pitcher in the first ever Wild Card Series game, has arrived @baseballhall . Thank you, Kenta Maeda, and thank you, @Twins! Now they are just littering the HOF with garbage.

Let's get some good retractable roof talk going for the home town team!

Then it'll just be a travelling World Series like the Superbowl!

Michael Chavis with a good right hook.

Any contract paid to a player who is out long term is not great. However, it was most likely buying low on a guy with CY upside when healthy. If it weren't for the other contracts around Sale, it wouldn't be a big deal. Sox have enough funding to eat one bad salary. Eating Price and Eovaldi and Sale and Pedroia and... is another story.

Most posters on here loved the deal when it was signed. Here's what Jacko said:

Odor/Evans/12M for Eovaldi per BTV. I just am not sold that they would just salary dump Eovaldi if they think they can compete next year. What's the purpose of eating Odor's salary? Couldn't you just hold onto Eovaldi, hope he stays healthy and deal him at the deadline if you are out of contention?

I think most posters would agree.

Now watch them keep the expanded playoffs for next season...

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/new-york-mets/payroll/ Looks like Wright's 2020 salary still counted against the luxury tax, but him getting bought out frees up a 40 man spot over the winter.

Getting 2 extra wins in 2020 rather than multiple years of Downs, Wong, Verdugo and salary relief for Price seems like a really good idea!

Tony Clark will be fileted if he doesn't get more back for the players this time. I think there's a very good chance of a strike.

Fake playoffs for a fake season.

How it worked with David Wright: For Wright to receive the rest of his contract the Mets could simply release him. But a possible scenario is to continue what has basically happened the last two-plus years, for Wright to stay on the Mets’ 40-man roster while unavailable. It’s not so restrictive during the season, when Wright can be stashed on the 60-day disabled list which frees his 40-man spot for someone else. But during the offseason, when building the roster, there is no DL, so the Mets would effectively be limited to 39 spots. Keeping a disabled Wright on the 40-man roster would also allow the Mets to receive insurance to cover the bulk of Wright’s salary, which they have done the past two years. Insurance was on the hook for 75 percent of Wright’s $20 million salary in 2017, and mostly the same in 2018, save for the pro-rated portion of Wright’s salary the Mets will pay for the six days he is active, roughly $642,000. Under this scenario the Mets would only pay $6.75 million of the $27 million remaining due Wright, with insurance picking up the remaining $21.25 million. The parties could agree to a buyout arrangement of some sort which could alleviate the Mets’ roster crunch, presumably at some financial cost. Prince Fielder was in this position after his career ended in July 2016 with a neck injury. He remained on the Rangers’ 40-man roster until October 2017, with insurance paying a portion of his salary. With three more years left on Fielder’s contract, the Rangers reached a settlement with the insurance company and released Fielder. Not all major league contracts are insured, for various reasons. The Red Sox did not insure their five-year, $95 million contract with Pablo Sandoval, who was a colossal bust in Boston and was injured for all but three games in 2016. “The fact is that it’s a case-by-case basis, and we have insurance on some players, not all players,” Red Sox chairman Tom Werner said on WEEI in 2016. “Collecting on an insurance is not the easiest thing and then you have a debate on how much insurance and when do you collect? We do it on a case-by-case basis, and we did not do it for Pablo.” I guess it just depends on if the Sox had insurance on Pedroia? My guess is they just don't do that since they are so CHEAP!

I can only think of NCAA football examples. It'd be very unique for MLB, but I don't think it'll get that far.

I've heard that if Pedey retires now, he still gets paid, but doesn't go against the lux cap? Can anyone else confirm?

Also, the playoffs didn't start until the ALDS. That first best of 3 nonsense didn't count.

Let me read the post again.

If Mookie was still here, they wouldn't have made the playoffs. Their pitching was horrible. He would have been the only one hitting at the start of the year. 927 OPS Betts wouldn't be replacing a AAAA guy like Munoz or Chavis, he'd be replacing 845 OPS Verdugo. They maybe win 2 more games? Maybe?

What?

The $30M to Sale every year will be tough to swallow if he doesn't come back to form.

Something something Henry's checkbook something something...

From Jan: Quatraro was one of the first names to come up as a potential replacement for Alex Cora after the Red Sox parted ways with their manager in the wake of the sign-stealing scandal. With former Rays executive Chaim Bloom running the show in Boston, Quatraro was a name quickly linked to the opening. However, Rosenthal reports that Quatrato is “unlikely” to be a candidate. According to Rosenthal, executives that have left the Rays organization (like Bloom) usually do not take other members of the staff with them. Additionally, Rosenthal reports that some teams have rules in place to prevent this, but does not indicate whether this is the case for Tampa Bay. Is waiting an additional year long enough to get around these unwritten rules?