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  1. moonslav59
    How about seeing this as just another way of blaming Bloom for everything? So, we should now blame Bloom for not forcing Story to have surgery on top of the signing of him?
  2. moonslav59
    Nobody is disputing this, and what this has to do with a brown nose, only you know. Yes, the medical staff knew about the issues with the elbow. Who is saying this is not true? They must have cleared him to play and reported the risk was low enough to be worth the risk. What are we missing? Bloom erred by believing the report? Bloom did not read the report? Bloom disregarded the strong warnings about the risk of injury and signed him anyway? This is what you are implying. Tell us where we are wrong and you are right. Have you read the report? I didn't think so.
  3. moonslav59
    So, now we need: SS 2B SP or RP Maybe an upgrade at C and RF
  4. moonslav59
    It really is this simple. Some posters just love to overanalyze and assign blame to the same guy for everything.
  5. moonslav59
    Agreed, but there has to be an upper limit where the percentage of the total player budget just gets too high to be able to support a good enough 39 other players to remain competitive. Of course, a strong farm that is continuously injecting new talent onto the roster helps, a lot.
  6. moonslav59
    Only if we spend it or spend enough where it would have put us under, instead of over. If this is the wasted year many seem to already be thinking it will be, then why spend, now? Every little bit might help for the ten years starting in 2024. Who knows?
  7. moonslav59
    I get it. I just never heard of upfront payments not counting towards this year's pay. Unless we get right up to the line, this year, it might have made more sense to spread it out to lessen the hit over the next 10 years.
  8. moonslav59
    This whole situation sucks. I was just trying to convince myself we had a chance to improve, perhaps by a lot, this year. Now, I'm thinking about Mayer, Rafaela, EValdez, Mata, Walter, Kelly, German, Murphy, Crawford and finding out once and for all if any of these guys are worth keeping around another year or more: Winckowski Seabold Duran Dalbec Ort Brasier/Taylor....
  9. moonslav59
    I knew about the signing bonus getting spread out and into the AAV, but it seems like a strange loophole that he can be paid now and not count towards 2023. The fact that they chose to not have it start, now, makes me think they plan on spending more, this winter or summer, or else they would have tried to lessen the tax hit over the extension part of the deal by a million or so, each year. What's left to spend on? Andrus & Fulmer? There has been no talk of adding another pitcher. Maybe trade for a high-priced catcher and or SS and or 2Bman?
  10. moonslav59
    But 90 over 87 might matter.
  11. moonslav59
    I still don't get how they can pay him a signing bonus in 2023 but it counts in the 2024 and beyond deal, but I guess it's allowed.
  12. moonslav59
    Now, the updated article says the lux tax hit will be $31.1M starting in 2024, not $29.1M as started earlier this morning. As reported last night, that keeps his 2023 luxury tax hit at $17.5MM (the sum of the one-year deal he agreed to in order to avoid arbitration), while the $31.35MM luxury hit on his extension will go into effect in 2024. Before, they wrote this... According to Speier, some of that money will be deferred. Doing so will bring the deal’s luxury tax hit for the 2024-33 campaigns to a bit above $29MM. That suggests the contract’s net present value is actually somewhere around the $290MM range. A straight ten-year, $313.5MM contract would’ve had a luxury tax number of $31.35MM, on the other hand.
  13. moonslav59
    If Rafaela is fast-tracked, my guess is we'd see Kike at SS and Rafaela in CF. Maybe, by season's end, we'll see Mayer at SS, Kike at 2B and Rafaela in CF.
  14. moonslav59
    I've been advocating signing Andrus or trading for a SS like Rojas or Crawford (SFG) all winter long. I still am.
  15. moonslav59
    With inflation, I guess $300M is the new $250M. Of all our stars who deserved over $300M, it was Betts. To me, Devers was second and Bogey 3rd. Yes, defense issues clouded both of these two's value calculations, but is there another $290M player you wished we signed, instead?
  16. moonslav59
    The Devers contract details were finally announced. The tax hit begins in 2024, which seems strange to me, unless we plan on spending $20-21M more, this season. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/01/rafael-devers-extension-goes-into-effect-in-2024-for-luxury-tax-purposes.html There are deferrals included, so the "tax hit" after 2023 will be about $29+M not $31+M, as previously thought. The signing bonus part, again, looks confusing, since it appears he gets that, now, but it doesn't count on this year's tax line. Go figure. Here is the MLBTR quote" Devers receives a $20MM signing bonus, followed by his established $17.5MM salary in 2023. He receives salaries of $27.5MM annually from 2024-26, $31MM per year from 2027-30 and $29MM salaries between 2031-33.
  17. moonslav59
    The plan seems to be not to trade any meaningful prospects- no matter what the needs are on the team. This idea actually started whole DD was in power, and may have been one source of the friction that grew between him and top brass. In the summer of 2018, we traded Beeks for Nate and Espinal for Pearce- not really earth shattering prospects, at the time. Since then, our highest prospect tarded was Aldo Ramirez for Schwarber. We are going on over 5 years with no major prospect traded away. This has been a big shift from the earlier DD years. With the apparent mandate to reset the tax, this year, we are limited in spending choices and actual available free agents, at this point in the winter. It seems like paying Andrus makes a lot of sense, or maybe a trade for MRojas and/or Wendle from the Marlins. There are a few other SSs on the trade block that should not be too costly, but our middle IF has taken about as big a hit as ever.
  18. moonslav59
    It would be interesting, if he was the only one who "knew."
  19. moonslav59
    Have we ever had a medical staff anyone thought was even just okay?
  20. moonslav59
    Now, that is an objective statement. Good for you! There is hope for you, yet!
  21. moonslav59
    Do we still have the same doctors from the 70's? It sure feels like it!
  22. moonslav59
    So, it doesn't take two to keep the ball rolling, and I'm the subjective one?
  23. moonslav59
    At the time we started this, we thought Story could play 2B.
  24. moonslav59
    It takes two. This objective observer knows that.
  25. moonslav59
    Green = Sarcasm.
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