Bellhorn04
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Jackso is right about one thing - the AL East is going to be a meat grinder. We're going to need guys like Ryan Weber to cover some garbage innings in blowouts...
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We did have an excellent offseason in the coaching department. I'm happy about that.
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A lot will have to go right with the pitching for us to be competitive. E-Rod, Eovaldi, Richards, Houck, Pivetta, Ottavino, whoever else you can think of...a bunch of guys will have to stay healthy and pitch up to or exceed expectations.
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That one's on Sox 75 LOL...I'm not sure he read the article he linked very closely.
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It kind of was, going from 69 wins in 2012 to 97 in 2013 and then back to 71 in 2014. Everything went right in 2013. A lot of upside randomness at work.
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40 opt-out 45 opt-out 17 The AAV is 34 mill for 2021. It looks to me, though, that if Bauer opts out after Year Two, the Dodgers will get stuck with a 51 mill tax number for 2022, because the final figures will be 2 years and 85 mill.
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Can't count on 2013 miracle seasons happening very often.
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In my speculative thinking the message was "Sorry, guys, nothing team-friendly here. I'm playing hardball and I'm more than happy to stick it out till free agency."
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With ex-Rays man Friedman at the helm. Kind of destroys that narrative that some have tried to apply to Bloom.
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I think maybe they considered it a message.
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All speculation once again, but when a guy asks $420 and you come back with $330, it almost falls in the insult category. Maybe that's why they didn't want to do it.
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Mookie reportedly countered with $420 million. So that's a $120 million difference. I have no facts on why the negotiations ended there. I can only speculate. But usually in back and forth negotiations you have an idea where things are going to end up. Maybe they expected him to counter at $375 million or something. I can't really say. But $120 million is an awfully large gap.
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Hopefully Bloom is playing the stealth game there.
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Signing Ozuna also puts us well over the tax threshold, with our bigger needs still lying in the pitching area. It would make no sense at all, frankly.
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I'd rather he call some pitchers, personally.
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And MLB already had a 60 game regular season and an extra-long postseason...
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And you can't compare to Harper or Machado, either. They were free agents. Mookie had 2 years before free agency when they made the offer. Normally there's a tradeoff between risk and price.
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No. He ended up talking an even lower AAV. And I'm confident the $300 mill was an opening offer.
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$307 million present value over 12 years apparently was...
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Cancer culture.
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People have been underestimating COVID-19 from the get-go. One more month of mitigation and we're good! Yeah right...
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If they really want to keep everyone safe, have no season at all. One more month is a tiny adjustment.
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Well, they did offer him $300 million. Why do you keep leaving that out of the equation?
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Was a month really going to make a huge difference, though?
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The pandemic was a pretty nifty X Factor in the matter though. How could Mookie turn down 10 years and $300 million (presumably only an opening offer) and then sign for 12 years and $307 million in present day dollars, if it wasn't all about playing where he wanted to? Ask yourself that.
