Bellhorn04
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I think you have to give Friedman and the Dodgers some credit for prescience. They judged that the pandemic would not have lasting financial repercussions. Mookie's deal looks vastly better than what Lindor got.
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No matter how much of a crapshoot the playoffs are, bolstering your pitching can't hurt your chances. Anyway, I'm sure whatever Bloom does will be smart. -
The Yankees offense looked like it had come to life against Seattle. They won the series opener 12-1, and scored 5 more in the first 2 innings of the second game. And then went scoreless the final 16 innings of the series. They got one hit today.
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The dream is over, just like that.
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I get your point and don't necessarily disagree. The only catch here, and it can't really be factored in by any mathematical method, is that Betts signed an extension with the Dodgers. He did not get to free agency. That's the catch. And it was a relatively team-friendly deal, when you factor in the deferrals. So this was a big extra benefit to the Dodgers. And if the Red Sox had any aspirations of bidding on Mookie in free agency, which no one really knows about, such aspirations were obviously snuffed out by this.
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I would say that a strong majority of ours, going back to 2004, have worked out quite well.
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Yep, there have been plenty of good ones.
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Do the names Eovaldi and Pearce ring a bell?
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It depends on the cost, of course. Our deadline acquisitions in 2004, 2013 and 2018 were pretty helpful.
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1981 was an amazing mess. They split the season into two half-seasons, with the division winners of each half-season playing off in a preliminary round. Teams only played about 110 games that year. The Cincinnati Reds had the best total record in the National League, and did not make the playoffs!
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I know, but what business do we have playing with hypotheticals? The season was shortened by a pandemic. Oddly enough, the last time the season really got screwed up, but was completed, was the strike year of 1981, and the Dodgers also won that year.
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My belief is that sometimes you have to let the season unfold before you know how good or bad a job was done in the offseason. With the Red Sox, you have a case of a better job being done by Bloom than many realized.
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I think notin's point is a sound one - the Red Sox going out of their way to avoid crossing the threshold this year, and thereby passing up a deal that could really bolster the 2021 chances, would not necessarily be smart. And going over by a few million doesn't necessarily have any significant future repercussions.
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Hey, we were having a perfectly good luxury tax argument in the other thread. Might as well move it here, I guess.
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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.
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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.
