Bellhorn04
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I think I know what your point is, I just don't think it's nearly as big as you're making it out to be.
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But there's no guarantee we'll sign one who does better than Eovaldi the next two years.
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Not much of one. I can see you and I will be going back and forth on this one a while.
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It's a combination of bias and optimism. We like to think we're trading the right ones and keeping the right ones. I realize this is mostly about DD, of course. So far we haven't been severely burned by anyone he's traded. A few mild and moderate burns, yes.
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As William Shatner says at the start of every episode of The Unxplained: "Well, that's what we're going to try to find out."
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Of course, it's extraordinarily unlikely you're going to get two Devers back.
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We're not turning into the Rays, any more than the Dodgers did when they hired Friedman.
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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.
