Bellhorn04
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Only a handful of teams have ever paid any significant amount of luxury tax, of course. Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox. A few other teams have gotten relatively small bills. -
No team? The Dodgers blew WAY past it this year.
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I have to approve of your logic here.
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Well, what they are arguing is that the regular season was too short. That's the only argument.
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They're still f**king pesky.
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The world in general was not right in 2020. There was not much alternative.
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I'm fine with outlier, I'm not fine with non-legit. I think the Dodgers and Rays were clearly deserving to be in the WS. Both teams were strong before 2020 and after 2020. They were not surprise finalists.
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They expanded the playoffs to accommodate that. Some sub-500 teams got into the postseason. It was far from perfect, but about the best they could do.
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I sincerely doubt that if the Red Sox won, Red Sox fans in general would consider it a non-championship.
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I strongly resemble that remark.
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Wow, that was crazy. Ottavino probably should apologize. But instead somebody might get beaned.
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Why, what wasn't legit about it? The regular season was woefully short, but the playoffs seemed pretty legit to me.
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What did Ottavino do?
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The most accurate, but cumbersome description would probably be the fair/foul line and pole, as they mark the border between the two. It's purely arbitrary, of course, that a ball that hits the pole is fair in baseball. In football, a field goal attempt that hits the upright and bounces back is no good. As is a shot that hits the post in hockey. In those sports, it has to carom off the post and into fair territory.
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You don't necessarily have to be good to be lucky. Any random bozo can win the lottery LOL
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Sometimes luck is the residue of hard work. And sometimes luck is just luck. Yours truly, Cap'n Obvious.
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More and more it looks like the one big need is another late inning reliever.
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It's always nice when a guy who was nearly written off turns out not to be a writeoff.
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Kike is also a much better outfielder than Duran is right now, I believe.
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The eye-catching thing about the deal he signed with LA was that the deferred money *apparently* brought the present value all the way done to about 306.5 million, and an AAV of *only* 25.55 million. Which meant it was not much more than the Red Sox alleged offer of 300/10 - actually lower, for tax purposes. Spotrac does show the AAV at 25.55 million. For reasons unknown, Cot's Contracts shows it as 30.42 million, with no present value adjustment.
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I think it was a straight 8 year/200 million offer. My guess is it was after the 2016 season. The slightly humorous aspect was that Mookie said his mother was the one who kind of talked him out of signing it, telling him not to act impulsively, that sort of thing.
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You're mixing and matching here. If it was only a 'shortened season of Betts' that we traded, then the total amount they saved was about $10 million, which is not 'massive budget space'. If you're talking about the savings for 2021 and beyond, then you have to factor in the loss of Betts's production for those years.
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You have to break it down into two components: 1) The decision to trade him, which I believe was primarily an ownership decision, and which encompassed the risk of losing him forever. 2) The execution of the trade by Bloom. It's the first part that's up for debate. With the second part, it's hard to find any fault at all.
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Cole and Chapman both made the All-Sticky Team.
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On the other hand, we also have Mookie saying he came very close to accepting an extension offer for $200 million the Red Sox made a few years earlier.
