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  1. Bellhorn04
    Eovaldi's regular season fWAR this year was 2.2, BTW. It's not like he was bad during the season and only good in the postseason.
  2. Bellhorn04
    $60 million for a starter is not really 'big money' any more. It's medium money at most.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Again with the 'over their heads'?
  4. Bellhorn04
    Well, he's only 28, and obviously he's been derailed by injury at least as much as inconsistency.
  5. Bellhorn04
    I do as well.
  6. Bellhorn04
    I would say trying to fix second base is actually a minor concern. We got through 2018 pretty well with our motley crew of second-sackers.
  7. Bellhorn04
    It's not really a minor concern when you're talking about a 26 year old who is potentially one of the all time greats.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Personally I think you guys are wrong and that we do sign Eovaldi.
  9. Bellhorn04
    The arb raises must be virtually equal to the 22 million subtracted for HanRam. Think how bad it would look if that option vested.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Yep, on this thread, Dojji is the only one in favor of the idea.
  11. Bellhorn04
    ??? I thought the idea of JD playing first was all about him doing it in NL parks, so Moreland would be sitting instead of Benintendi.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Right, but cutting payroll is cutting payroll. It's a whole separate thing from the tax saving on the re-set.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Yes, but in your example, how much of the $80M is tax, and how much is actual payroll?
  14. Bellhorn04
    We'll need a first baseman in 2020, won't we?
  15. Bellhorn04
    It's all a big game. The taxes and penalties are one of the factors in the game. The Yankees and Dodgers made efforts to get under the threshold for 2018 - presumably so it will cost them less to blow past the threshold for 2019.
  16. Bellhorn04
    The funny thing is, Clay has never even had one TJ surgery. But he really is a man of crystal. As for Eovaldi, some doctor just said his arm is as good as new. That's good enough for me.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Can't Chavis play first, potentially?
  18. Bellhorn04
    This is it. There are a whole bundle of possible solutions.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Should we really be trading Chavis? Need something for the cliff years, don't we?
  20. Bellhorn04
    Sure, re-setting it 'now and again' makes perfect sense. But it doesn't really save a ginormous amount of money, unless you go right back out and exceed the threshold again, which puts you in the same position going forward. Any benefits will be quite short-lived.
  21. Bellhorn04
    We've really been over this idea a bunch of times. The team actually indicated it was being considered for Game 3-5 in the World Series but opted not to do it.
  22. Bellhorn04
    How exactly does re-setting the tax for just one year save 'a ton of money for many years afterwards'? I know it re-sets the tax rate, but you seem to be overstating the benefit of that a bit.
  23. Bellhorn04
    The thing is, if we sign Eovaldi and at least one high-end reliever, $9 M for Clay would put us 'over everything' like a home run onto Lansdowne Street.
  24. Bellhorn04
    He's got a career .852 OPS against lefties though.
  25. Bellhorn04
    From what I've read they don't. The premiums are massive, as one would expect.
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