Bellhorn04
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I would argue that Scott Boras has indeed made some unprofessional comments, the most recent of which was a public statement comparing the Miami Marlins to a 'pawn shop' - exactly the type of comment you normally read on a message board. Who knows what he says in private?
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Well, I see that the gloves are really off now.
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Overpay, sure. But it seems pretty clear at this point that JDM is not sniffing that 7/210 target of Boras.
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RIP announcer Keith Jackson, 89. He was best known as a college football play-by-play man, but he also did baseball for ABC in the late 70's and early 80's. He has a connection to Red Sox history as the man who called the 1978 Red Sox-Yankees playoff game.
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The AAV of Stanton's contract for the Yankees is arguably a bargain at $22 million. The absurd part is the length of the contract, which runs until 2027.
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There is also the latest CBA which put in some relatively small annual increases in the tax thresholds, and instituted some new penalties for exceeding the thresholds.
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I don't disagree with that either. If you make it to MLB and have a really good season or two, you can really hit the jackpot.
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That's all very true, dgale. On the other side of the coin, an average major league baseball player has a very short career as such.
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Really? A few weeks ago I think we would have happily jumped all over that. It's just over half of Boras's original ask. I think all this waiting is just starting to make us a little sour.
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Which is why it seems unlikely any team will go much more than 5/125 for JDM. As we've been talking about, the data heads seem to have taken over the thinking of FO's.
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JDM has at least been consistently mashing for 4 years now.
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Indeed. No matter what you do, you're rolling the dice.
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Darvish himself tweeted that the Yankees made an offer but it wasn't 7/160.
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mvp is a humorist.
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Cobb might be a good get. Health concerns obviously.
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Not sure...what I was wondering is if he's better or worse than JDM out there.
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Morrison has played some outfield.
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I'm pretty sure Dombrowski won't let it drag out that far. Boras has so many guys still unsigned...it's really getting a bit nutty.
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This is just another rumor, isn't it?
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The only problem is that JD might then give up and sign a relative bargain deal and Sox fans will be screaming bloody murder about a lack of patience and smarts and so on.
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Yes, Cano's contract is probably marginally less irresponsible.
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Also, major league baseball itself is fiscally irresponsible.
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Any idea how much the M's are paying Cano after he turns 37?
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OTOH, what exactly is JD's negotiating position? At the moment he doesn't have a job for 2018.
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Statistical information can only tell us what happened in the past. With players who have been up and down, you can plug their data into models and come up with projections that are more valid than someone throwing darts at a board. But that's about it.
