Bellhorn04
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A wild oversimplification. Major league baseball is not like most businesses. Most teams can't even think about paying "market value" to someone like Soto.
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Stanton had an opt-out I believe.
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Montas vs. Berrios tonight.
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Larry, you've gone from The Tater Guy to The Tater and Walk Guy.
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Although Springs has turned out to be a lot better than expected.
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No, we don't know yet, but it does demonstrate some of the risks you're incurring when you give a young athlete a guaranteed contract in the hundreds of millions.
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Bloom did a very nice job with Whitlock's deal, IMHO, adding two years of control beyond when he would have been a free agent. And the two extra years are team options with small buyouts.
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There's a lot of risk in these early lockups too. Have you heard of a player named Tatis Jr. who got $340 million and is now famous for motorbike accidents and PED suspensions? Big ouch for the Padres, no?
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That first offer of 8/$200 million came after the 2016 season, I believe, which was 3 years prior to his free agency, so it has to be evaluated in that context. Plus there's no indication that Mookie's side made a counteroffer. Bottom line, Dombrowski didn't get it done!
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Maybe the thinking was that Barnes was replacing Diekman. Plus Diekman was awful, so replacing him wasn't a big deal.
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What we'll never know is whether COVID-19 impacted Mookie's decision to take the Dodgers offer, which was really not much better than the Red Sox offer, especially since it included a pile of deferred money.
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And Pivetta.
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Thank goodness the Yankee Troll Hunter isn't here right now!
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Any MLB team can beat any other MLB team on any given day. Pittsburgh swept 3 from Milwaukee earlier this month.
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OK. I was looking at the rankings for MLB, not just the AL.
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In the case of Betts, maybe they assumed he didn't like Boston at all, and when they got his counter offer, it confirmed it...
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It's only anecdotal evidence from the player. It does kind of support why the Dodgers scooped him up. I was just mainly tweaking the Yankees.
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By what metric is it the worst? I think 2012 was the worst. We won't count 2020.
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Me, you and Bloom, maybe.
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But they would have looked pretty crazy trading him this year.
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I suspect it's some of each. The catcher has a game plan going in, but may need to make adjustments as the game goes on.
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There is, of course, an outside chance Eovaldi's money can be resurrected by the end of the season.
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Yes, I'm quite sure they deemed him unavailable. -
What pitchers are available, is kind of the key question IMHO.
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Henry has been Red Sox owner for 20 years. I think you can relax now.
