Bellhorn04

I've been singing the blues for 3 offseasons now about starting pitchers they could have signed in the $50-110 million range. If their whole offseason plan was based on signing Moto, that'd be as sound a plan as me deciding to retire based on the assumption I was going to win the lottery next week.

Too much hypothesizing involved there. I know what I wanted them to do, but that's of little use.

Our front office needs some Viagra or something. They're been impotent for a long time now.

That's the secret plan. Instead of "injury discounts", we're looking for "character discounts".

"These two guys have dominated the game"?

That report was ******** and has been debunked. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/12/yoshinobu-yamamoto-rumors-offers-300-million-yankees-mets.html

But isn't the general objective to hit the mitt? If he misses the mitt and throws it over the heart of the plate and it gets hit 500 feet, does the pitcher still get credited with "control"?

I'm beginning to have doubts we get Moto, Monty OR Snell. I think the Sox turn up their noses at the prices.

I wonder if the Sox front office by committee allows such a thing as striking like a cobra. I think you have to go along to get along with these folks.

In the world outside baseball, command and control are virtually synonymous. That's why this is so confoozing.

Crag certainly appears to have plenty of patience.

Cancel now, you can re-subscribe in the unlikely event the Sox get to work.

It's not too late for the Sox to decide to just punt 2024.

Looks like the Dodgers are quite serious about signing Moto too. They're trying to run the table.

That trade exists only in moon's hypothetical otherworld.

I think mvp and notin both made mistakes.

The three last place finishes, you mean?

It does seem that way. Senga had an excellent first season.

No, that's only for Japanese hitters.

Jeez, if we trade them Wong, they'll have the whole Mookie trade return...

Yeah, they hired a new "hitting coordinator" named Dillon Lawson. The guy the Yankees turfed mid-season.

Never seen it.

I'm doubly cursed because Corbin Burnes also makes me think of LA Law...

But then toss in the injury factor and jockeying back and forth between rotation and bullpen and you get "Who the f'k knows?"

There’s been ample speculation about the eventual price tag of a Yoshinobu Yamamoto contract, but until early this week, the right-hander hadn’t discussed specific years and dollars with clubs, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports. Teams eyeing the NPB ace’s services were asked to submit a “preliminary” bid early in the process to gauge the seriousness of their interest, per Passan, but a follow-up round of more concrete bidding hadn’t taken place prior to this week. Yamamoto has met with several teams recently, presumably to familiarize himself with each organization and the systems and personnel in place at each potential landing spot. Entering the week, no teams had made a formal offer of $300MM or more, despite speculation to the contrary; none, in fact, had submitted a formal offer even beyond that preliminary bid. Passan wrote that some clubs have tried to broach the subject of years and dollars, but Yamamoto’s camp preferred to hold off until this week. The Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, Giants, Red Sox, Phillies and perhaps the Blue Jays among the teams reported to have met with Yamamoto over the past 14 days. Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic characterized both the Phillies and Blue Jays as teams more on the periphery of the bidding as of this morning, however (video link). It takes only one aggressive bid to change that perception, of course, but it’s notable that they’re being framed in that manner at present.