Bellhorn04
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It's insulting when you make that offer at the same time you're signing a slightly lesser player to 6 years $140 mill, for one thing. For another, Bogaerts ended up getting more than 3 times $90 mill. (Not that it was anything but an absurd amount that San Diego paid.)
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People can argue whatever they want. I thought that extension was pretty good.
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I don't think it's as simple as you're making it sound. For example, the Devers negotiations could easily have gotten screwed up. There was nothing stopping him from waiting another year to be a free agent. Before the extension people who were down on the team said he was gone. After the extension many of those people changed their tune to it only happened because of all the pressure blah blah blah. Funny how that works.
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Like I was saying.
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The Dodgers have cut way back on payroll this year, although they're still not under the first threshold, which is all kind of interesting - if you're into this crap like me, anyway.
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But see how you're putting down two good moves like Mayer and Devers as if Bloom gets no credit for them? It's like when people who don't like Dombrowski say he shouldn't get any credit just for spending a pile of money on guys like Price and JDM. It's easy to do. If you like the guy, you find things to credit him for and ignore things he should be blamed for. And vice versa.
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Dombrowski failed to sign Betts to an extension. That's a fact too. You just don't like that one as much, for obvious reasons.
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I get what you're saying, but there are some exceptions to the recycling. Whitlock Kike Story Raffy Yoshida I think there will be more to come.
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We only worry about the payroll because we know JH does. That's the only explanation for why guys like Betts and Bogaerts are gone, after all.
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Why was Mookie not signed to an extension by that point, only one year from free agency? Surely that has to enter any reasonable conversation on the subject.
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Some context is necessary, though...the Sale and Price left for Bloom were very expensive and very useless.
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Well, to be technical about it... DD signed JD for 5/110 before his third season. Bloom signed Story for 6/140 before his third season.
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Dombrowski has made a lot of good trades. That's not the same thing as spending. His deadline trades in 2018 were gold.
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I think you go a little overboard in your criticism of him. I think he did exactly what Henry hired him to do. And he left us some pretty good prospects in Bello, Casas, Houck and Rafaela.
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Probably stating the obvious to say that Sale's health could be the difference between making the playoffs or not.
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Any hope left for the Felt Man?
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Taylor Freakin' Broadway, baby.
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It's time for optimism about 2023. (If the optimism is crushed later on, well, such is life.)
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That was a semi-desperation move, because we badly needed a starting pitcher, and there wasn't much available.
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Yikes, talk about suspects.
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Squandered means wasted. Not the right word. Expended would fit better.
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That's a big part of the job, getting something for the overvalued assets and keeping the legit valuable ones.
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OK, but there was no lasting toll for either of those, in terms of talent surrendered. Shaw turned out to be the biggest loss, for 2 years...
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I can defend all of them. I mean, I don't think any of them were frivolous...some just didn't work out.
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True, it's been a mad roller coaster ride since the post-2011 purge.
