Bellhorn04
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I have two thoughts. 1) You are in fact making a bet. 2) You're goin' down!
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If I can jump in here, there are degrees of bad contracts, so I think you sort of have to be a little more specific. Some are a little bad and some are monster albatrosses. JD for 5/130 would probably be a little bad. JD for 7/210 would be albatross bad.
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JD's missed games are a concern, no question. But I'm surprised you would want to go for Machado over JD. Last year JD hit 303/376/690 Machado hit 259/310/471 Huge differences. Machado is obviously the better all-around player, but it you really want to give the offense a boost, JD is the guy.
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I think I might be catching Velazquez Fever.
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Worth noting that this piece was written on Dec. 15.
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Boras knows by now that our offer is the best one he's getting. He's just dragging things out to make it look like he's doing his due diligence, so JD can't blame him in any way for falling about $80 million short of what Scotty Boy told the public JD is worth.
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2015 Yankees Season thread started April 2/15 2016 Yankees Season thread started March 12/16 2017 Yankees Season thread started Feb 5/17 2018 Yankees Season thread started Jan 9/18
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Ah yes...a little glitch there.
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That could be part of it, but I think there's a little more to it.
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That $400 million number for Harper seems like a joke to me. If anything this offseason indicates that teams are getting reluctant to sign these megadeals. The days of hyperinflation may be at an end.
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JD Martinez is going to sign for $125 million or thereabouts I believe.
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JD doing a one year megadeal doesn't make much sense for him. He just had a career year. He's the King Kong of Slug.
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Another downside might be that the client feels incredibly disappointed with a top offer of $125/5. The $210/7 talk by Boras was absurdly unrealistic, even by his standards.
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That might be a fair way to do it.
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Maybe so. The further down the line you go the fuzzier things can get. I was just looking at the fact that we have Smith until 2020, so is it fair to only count what the M's only got out of Miley while they had him? That wouldn't be an equitable comparison IMO.
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I don't know about that, but I don't think you can just disregard what the M's got by trading Miley - if you're really interested in determining who 'won' the trade.
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I have to agree with harmony and disagree with you on that one.
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Swihart was doing OK until he got hurt though.
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Now that was desperation.
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Yes, you've got a boner like the Empire State Building LOL
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Your calculations are right. A buyout is just more gravy for the player, one of those things that helps entice them to sign on the dotted line, I'd say.
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I don't think a buyout lessens the tax hit. It just becomes part of the guaranteed money and is factored into the AAV.
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This whole exchange has gotten way out of hand. But a700 is correct when he says he just didn't address the question of whether the 7/$210 was acceptable. He might have been implying that 6/$150 would be acceptable. Based on our discussions, that would be an overpay, but far less crazy than 7/$210. You did kind of jump to a conclusion.
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Well, I hope the people who were defending Scott Boras can now see the kind of trouble the man causes.
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The tax threshold also goes up $9 million.
