moonslav59
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Why? He'll be on the IL all year. Get what you can before he gets hurt. You guys keep acting like it's a given he'll pitch- let alone pitch well for the next 2 years. (Sure, I'm acting like it's a given he doesn't, but history is on my side.) Plus, my main reason for suggesting these type deals is to IMPROVE our pitching by freeing up money to get better or more pitching. By not having to spend on CF or 2B AND by reducing our player contract costs and/or lux tax cost, we can sign another pitcher to replace Eovaldi and/or sign 2 much better pitchers than we originally had the budget to sign before the trade.
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Yaz is hardly Lottery tickets, and we need a CF'er. He's better than Pillar and JBj combined and costs less. With the money saved at filling CF and in the longoria-Eovaldi lux tax balance we sign a better SP'er than originally planned. We improve CF and SP at the same lux tax cost. It IS about contending, next year PLUS Yaz has 4 years of team control to Eovaldi's 2. Win, win, win! Okay, Longoria is a loss. Win, win, win, loss.
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Because, in theory, they were underpaid during year 1 and 2 arbs.
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That explains not understanding these suggestions. I don't think I'm alone in thinking Eovaldi would not get a $34M/2 offer this winter.
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It's just adding an "N!"
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The Padres are a mess. Paying him the $500K buyout makes his $3M deal, essentially only $2.5M. If you can't pay him that, take the option and trade him for someone like Potts & Rosario.
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Exactly, and at the risk of sounding political, getting over COVID is often not like just getting over the flu.
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Yes. 100%. It's a no-brainer, if he's healthy, even at $14-17M/yr. $8-9M is a bargain, in terms of open market value. If his heart or other issues are severe enough to cast major doubt, we may walk away.
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My balance sheet looks like this: Minus: 1. bad contract taken Plus: 1. fill a slot that is open with the added on good player in the deal 2. have a shot that the bad contract player can do better and fills a second slot we have open. (2 slots filled- one opened) 3. add luxury tax spending space to add to what we were going to spend on pitching to start with. (either get a better SP'er than we could w/o the money or sign an extra RP'er) It could be 3 pluses to 1 minus. If the bad contract we get flops, it's still 2 to 1. If Eovaldi stays healthy and does great, we could still break even.
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Why do you keep forgetting we're giving a bad contract back? I don't want Longoria, or Belt, just like I didn't want Myers, last year, but hey, getting Myers would have been better than getting nothing for the $16M we paid LA in the Betts trade. I don't want Henry paying Eovaldi $17M to sit on the IL half or all of 2021, either. If trading Eovaldi for another bad deal actually adds lux tax space to our budget, I'm listening. I'm not saying I'd do any deal like this, and a lot depends on the guy we get back with the salary dump. Take the Yaz deal: we save $6M on the lux tax budget and fill our OF need with a player way better than Pillar or JBJ, who would cost us $4-9M a year depending on who you are talking to. We also get a player in Longoria who may surprise. If he doesn't it's no different than just paying money to SF like we are with the Dodgers. A deal like Belt plus for Eovaldi makes more sense, but we don't get Yaz.
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Thanks. I was wondering when these would come out, so maybe.... $8.3M ERod (assuming green light on health) $4.4M Devers $4.2M Barnes $1.6M Plawecki $1.3M Brasier $1.2M Weber That's $21M for 6 arb keepers. Bye-bye Peraza & Brice
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COVID is known to give heart issues, in some cases. That's about as serious as anything can get. If it looks like there may be an issue, and since ERod just has one year left of control, I'd say tendering him or not is something in consideration by Sox brass. If he gets a green light on his health, it's a no brainer.
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I get that, but SF would give more to us, if we took Longoria over Belt. (Of course, I would prefer Belt, if the return was the same.)
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It also accepted Eovaldi & Decker for Pollock, Kolarek and Joe Kelly (The lux tax money is almost equal.)
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Like I said, I don't want Longoria. Getting him over Belt increases the return, and Longoria's small lux tax hit is a big plus for the Sox, and means nothing to SF.
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Speaking of Pollock, hoiw about a trade centered on Eovaldi for Pollock and a pitcher?
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Apparently, he was known for having "many" per day in his "prime."
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Okay. AAA, he had 37 Hrs in just over 1200 PAs. That's about 20 per 650, and when you figure he walks a lot. His HRs per AB showed power in AAA. (22 per 650 ABs) Not great power, but decent. He also had 79 2B+3B in AAA, so 116 XBHs and a .442 SLG%- pretty close to Dalbec's .478- someone known for his "power." A .442 SLG% with a .251 BA shows substantial power in AAA.
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True, but work from the $9M number not $43M (43-34), and when you count the lux tax number, we actually gain spending space ($17M a year - $11M for Longoria)..
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No, and that's why I mentioned "or young talent." I'm not stuck on Yaz as the return, but we do need an OF'er.
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Yes! Move Torres back to 2B and you have a much better team than Torres at SS & DJ at 2B. For this reason, I hope they sign DJ.
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Moving Torres back to 2B makes the most sense. You need an actual SS not DJ.
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lol
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I'd be happy with just Baz, but someone else to sweeten the pot would be great.
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It's half what they are paying Kiermaier ($26M/2), so YES!
