Bellhorn04
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You're right, it's a humorous concept in this case... Lackey's deal was somewhat unusual in that he was forced to play a year at minimum wage if the injury clause kicked in, which did in fact happen, the Cards getting the benefit of it while we got some value from Joe Kelly and got stuck paying Allen Craig a chunk of change for nothing. Not Ben's finest moment.
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It looks to me like DeGrom is guaranteed $185 mill and the injury stuff only affects a possible option for a 6th year. It looks much more player-friendly than the clause in Lackey's deal.
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The latter.
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He's one of the best in the game. But the recent injuries and his age make it risky. I think most observers expected him to get a 3 year deal. The Rangers blew that projection away.
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It was also 57M in value in 2 seasons.
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My only point was that it's an expensive market. You don't think that's true?
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Call it half empty if you want, just trying to be realistic. The big loss is Bogey. He was a 6 win player. Fangraphs calculates that 6 WAR costs you about $48 mill on the open market. I'm not trying to cut Bloom down with those comments, I'm just saying he has a very tough job assembling a contender even with that amount of cash.
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If the Rays are willing to spend $40 mill on Eflin, that tells you everything about this market.
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Sure. But what's the great significance of that? I started a thread about the most successful teams of this century which I thought revealed some interesting results. The Red Sox and Giants have the most titles while the Yankees and Dodgers have the best regular season records. So who wins? Everyone would have their own answer. I think you have to be looking at a 10 year window going back at least. But that's just me.
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Being $100 million under the cap doesn't put Bloom in a wonderful position, though, because the only real dead money he lost was Price's $16 mill. Most of it comes from the expired contracts of JDM, Bogey, Eovaldi, Wacha and Hill, all of whom were contributors in varying degrees and have to be replaced. Plus guys like Devers and Verdugo will be getting arb raises. And prices for FA talent are exorbitant, as we're seeing. So he really has to hit his targets.
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It's all arbitrary. Everybody picks the cherries they like.
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He's not a closer, no. And it is a lot of money, but prices are clearly inflated this offseason by a lot of money chasing a small pool of players.
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Hugh, you have to keep in mind that Daffy Duck doesn't know anything about baseball.
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I still say they're wrong. No way Bloom would do it. I posted an article that explained the change in the new CBA.
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That is one crazy, splashy signing. Good for the game, in a way.
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Yeah, the world doesn't change much, only the technology.
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His career advanced metrics are about average. No way he can be 22-26 unless it's eye test all the way.
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It's not exciting but it's a good signing.
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They just traded Winker and Toro for Kolten Wong.
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Not bad at all.
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Based on your eye test?
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Another guy who fooled the metrics!
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And then Tommy chocked his ass off in the playoff meetings.
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His defensive metrics were good this year, no?
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Exactly why I said "nearly"!
