Bellhorn04
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I'm starting to wonder if any of them will sign. Perhaps something dreadful has occurred...'Invasion of the GM Snatchers'.
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I'm going to wait for some actual signings before I even decide whether to argue this point or not LOL
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He just had the best season of his career. He had 29 homers in 62 games with Arizona. How are we supposed to even take you seriously with statements like this?
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Honestly I think they are totally locked in on JDM and that's about it other than minor stuff. I think if they didn't feel totally confident in eventually signing him, they would have moved on to something else by now.
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No doubt that's a factor, but I don't think it fully explains the lack of signings at this point. This has gone past slow...it's glacial.
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When was the last time we heard a good rumor about Machado?
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Boras annoys me, but he's not the one who is responsible for the wacky economic system of baseball. I think Martinez probably merits a 5 year/$125 million deal off his last 4 years of production in which he has averaged about 4 WAR.
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LoMo 3 Arrieta 4
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LoMo's projected AAV is 12 million Arrieta's is 25 million (same as JDM) Total 37 million
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90% is a bit of an overstatement when you look at the pitching staff Ben left behind. It was awful.
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My mistake, I missed that you were just talking about Pomeranz.
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Time is actually getting short. We are now at about the midpoint between Christmas Day and the start of spring training. And Christmas Day doesn't feel very long ago.
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OTOH I find it hard to believe Dombrowski is just sitting at his desk surfing the internet all day.
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Good point about DD contradicting himself by now expressing comfort with the 2018 Red Sox offense after saying "I didn't supply the players that would give us enough runs" following last season.
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As far as public statements that were way out of line, the only one I remember is Varitek. And that was a while ago. Any others you can think of?
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2 years AAV 7 mil.
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It's possible that Boras misread the market this time. MLBTR predicted a contract of 6/$150 for JDM and that seems quite fair. Boras came out and publicly declared he was looking for 7/$210. That is a huge gap and I think we're seeing that his number was completely unrealistic. Has he created a situation where his client feels embarrassed by how low the actual offers are? I don't know but I think it's possible.
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J.D. Martinez wants more than $125 million, that's what he wants. If the Red Sox outbid themselves and jumped their offer I'm sure his feelings toward them would get warmer and fuzzier.
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I will be bold enough to predict that Martinez is not getting any $180 million. As you have said, MLBTR is pretty good with their predictions, and I think their prediction of 6/$150 is as high as anyone is going to go.
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You shouldn't have to wonder any more.
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DD could at least sign Buchholz to a minor league contract or something, for Christ's sake.
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It's not inconceivable that Boras could have conflicting interests with his clients.
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There has to be something a little devious going on. Not even Boras himself expected to have Martinez, Hosmer, Moustakas and Arrieta still unsigned on January 19. He'll have something to say about it all at some point, I expect.
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Exactly.
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Still virtually nothing happening with free agents. Getting curiouser and curiouser.
