Bellhorn04
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Kluber will probably do one of those "showcase" things.
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"Presumably", yes.
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But again, with nearly twice as much money at risk. That matters too.
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You can understand Henry being a little wary of big contracts after the ones he's signed over the last decade and how they've panned out.
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"As recently as mid-July", huh? You do realize that was before the season started?
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All I can really say is I'm confident that as long as Henry & Werner own the team, we will have one of the highest payrolls and we will not have mediocrity as a goal.
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You are so helpful.
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I disagree. I think it was the length and consequent risk of the contract that did it.
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Oh yeah, sure, we've all been talking about our playoff run this year.
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Such is life for Mariners fans.
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You actually raised one of the issues with signing only one-year deals. You might get traded every year!
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Who is saying a one-year contract for Bauer?
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So the celebrated tax re-set was a fake-out?
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OTOH if other teams aren't spending maybe a guy like Bauer won't be priced as prohibitively.
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His .761 OPS in the minors is not much to get excited about. I don't know much about his fielding. But it looks like DD was right about him being a 4th outfielder.
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That's certainly a valid one. How many others are there, though.
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How big of an impact on the finances and the quality of the team are the questions.
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That was all about the temporary loophole in the luxury tax rules and subsequent closure of the loophole. If Castillo had been good enough to justify the tax cost, they would have promoted him.
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DD gave up an incredible number of bodies, no question. It still remains to have a final accounting of the actual future baseball value he gave up.
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So you're saying that if you own the Red Sox you're obliged to keep doing ridiculous contracts?
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All true.
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As I said in an earlier post, I think the Red Sox anticipated that Mookie would get something like $400 million. That is virtually double what Price got. But you would need some sort of actuary to measure the relative risk of the two deals.
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In hindsight, sure, those were great picks. But what about projected values at the time? Most big contracts for pitchers are failures, we all know that. Price seemed like one of the surer bets. And he was rather important in the 2018 postseason.
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As I posted earlier, the options to Price were: Greinke Cueto J Zimmerman I'm sure DD would have been showered in praise if he did one of those deals instead!
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My point is this: DD had no choice but to trade prospects for pitching or sign a free agent like Price. And yet he gets bashed for both things by some people.
