Bellhorn04
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Yes, we've discussed that quite a bit here...
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He'll get signed again this year. Probably for something like Maeda got. Why wouldn't he be just as appealing an option as Maeda?
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I'm all for a good trade. But let's say they trade for Burnes. He's only got one year left on his contract, so you'd probably have to overpay him to get him to sign an extension. And of course to trade for a good pitcher who has years of control left, you have to part with serious prospect capital. There are no cheap ways to get good pitchers.
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OTOH the last two teams that signed him got good value for their money.
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And if we pass on all the overpays, you'll be looking at the same rotation as last year's.
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FanGraphs says he was worth $33.2 million over the last 2 years?
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Pretty boring so far, but there have to be some fireworks coming soon.
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For the most part the Japanese starters have done quite well in MLB, with the exceptions of Irabu and Igawa. As I've said I think Dice-K's arm was destroyed by abuse, or he might have had a much better MLB career.
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Sale, Crawford and Pivetta all mustered about 2 fWAR last year, which makes you a "number 3" by definition. Add in Bello and we had 4 "number 3"'s, unfortunately, we had no better.
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We couldn't even win the bidding for guys that signed for a measly $40-50 million!
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Yeah, I think the Japanese team destroyed his arm in the second WBC he appeared in after we signed him.
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Ohtani has been fairly proficient when not being sidetracked by surgeries. Kuroda was also very good, especially considering the advanced age at which he migrated.
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Sale is a wild card. He might post 4 fWAR. He might not throw a pitch.
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If they get Moto it'll demonstrate that the owners still have the financial will to go for it. Then most of the rest will be up to Breslow.
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I don't think anyone is actually going to be terribly surprised or upset if they keep Verdugo. That's just something for us to jabber about, compared to the matter of the SPs.
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True, but getting Moto is the heavy lifting part, one might say.
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If a team gives him $500 mill guaranteed AND an opt-out, it'll definitely set a new standard for lunacy.
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But it's a monster if. The fact this is his second TJ in 5 years is not something any actuary would laugh off.
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Rotation blows unless they make 2 impactful adds, it's pretty simple. If they can somehow outbid the field for Moto they can figure out the rest of it easily enough, I'd say.
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That's a pretty safe statement IMHO. The guy is a mega-talent but as we have seen, even mega-talents have bodies that can abruptly break down. Ohtani is guaranteed to be a heckuva DH and that's basically it.
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Yassir.
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He performed his Mr. Dithers act over and over. Even in '21 we were underwhelmed by the deadline moves, but Schwarber worked out well obviously.
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Even that can be disputed. His injury-plagued finish knocked his fWAR down to 1.2 and a value of $9.6 million for a cost of $15 million. Turns out to be a dubious strategy to throw such a pile of money at guys who can't field or run.
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"Red Sox pivot from Ohtani". So what happened? Was it: a) Ohtani's team let the Red Sox know that Boston was not a preferred destination. Ohtani's team let the Red Sox know that in spite of the TJ surgery, half a billion is still the minimum bid.
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Maybe, just maybe, when you're the 3rd richest team in the game but you've had 6 disastrous seasons in the last 12, there's a whole passel o' problems to choose from.
