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Do they? Most of them make far more than they actually need, and anyone with any sponsorship deals is even more well off.
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The Sox aren’t getting Yamamoto, but it’s not because of some half as effort; they simply cannot outbid the Mets and for the same reason I can’t outbid Jeff Bezos for something he wants. It is a dicey situation if waiting for Yamamoyo means watching Montgomery, etc. sign elsewhere. Fortunately Montgomery/Snell/Stroman have no deadline for when they can sign, and Yamamoto does. The posting process requires he reach an agreement within a certain number of days of being posted, or he returns to Japan. I think his deadline is January 4. Unless some team stops up and blows away Montgomery or Snell, either is unlikely to sign anywhere before then. With all the big spenders linked to Yamamoto, they have interest in seeing who loses…
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If deferred payments don’t impact luxury tax, why isn’t every team doing this? All the time?
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Also some seem to think Ohtani’s “selfless” contract might be little more than a tax dodge… https://www.yahoo.com/news/baseball-star-shohei-ohtanis-contract-185523206.html
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Yes. And no…
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The Royals finished 31 games out in a weak division. The Red Sox were closer to being AL East champs…
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Barbecue seems more likely than wanting to win. If Nashville had a team, we could do some real comparing…
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And yet plenty of players this off-season have signed with Kansas City (56-106) and St. Louis (71-91). Certainly it’s possible Missouri is the next hot “It” state. But probably not. More likely these teams offered reasonable money for a chance to actually play. Seth Lugo could easily take less money to be just another middle reliever on any of a dozen contenders. And I’m doing so, he could actually go along way towards fortifying that bullpen, thus increasing (possibly significantly) his new team’s chance to win. But instead he took more money to have a larger role on one of the worst teams in MLB. Why? Obviously to Lugo, money and minutes matter much more than winning…
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Too busy covering this breaking story https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/12/white-sox-sign-chuckie-robinson-to-minors-contract.html
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Now, assuming money is roughly equal, if you think a player would select an opportunity to play on a good team over playing on a bad team, I agree on that. Of course, how much less the good team can pay and secure the services is another matter?
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Not so sure. I’d think - assuming money is equal - a significant amount of athletes would prefer to actually play on a losing team over being benched on a winning one. Certainly the “aging veteran that’s just missing a ring” type player might prefer being benched on a winning team, but in general, I think most highly competitive types prefer physically competing over watching others compete…
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Was it even a mystery?
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How have the Red Sox fared in past free agent bidding wars?
notin replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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“Respect” is actually measured in US dollars. Didn’t you know that?
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Barkley. As in Sir Charles. No idea why my spell checker refuses to acknowledge him and keeps insisting I need to be referring to some unnamed Barnsley character or Berkeley. In the case of the latter, not sure if it thinks I should be referring to the University of California or the cartoonist responsible for Bloom County…
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Agreed at some point. Again, jad’s quote from Charles Barnsley is probably the best 1. Money 2. Minutes (or playing time in general) 3. Winning We’ve all probably seen a player occasionally take a lesser deal for a chance at a ring, but it’s also almost always an aging veteran winding down his career…
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Glasnow’s LAD extension - 5 years $136.5mill. That’s a lot of years for a pitcher with 330 IP since 2018…
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I think Cohen isn’t letting him get away. He might not have had Yamamoto on his radar when the Mets unloaded Scherzer and Verlander last deadline, but it certainly is some fortunate happenstance right now…
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It’s not. Not for Yamamoto anyway. And he’s the only one where it matters…
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It started out as a tie in to Betts, but at the last second I saw the obvious difference - Betts was not a free agent…
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How have the Red Sox fared in past free agent bidding wars?
notin replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I think Workman was a straight up second round pick. Wasn’t Anthony Ranaudo the comp for losing Bay? -
It’s different, but let’s not pretend his final numbers for the total value of that contract were in the $50-80mill range. He clearly had winning on his priority list, and it was just as clearly not in the top spot…
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It won’t, but it does rank up there as being “largest unsubstantiated free agent offer in Red Sox history”.
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Not calling Ohtani a fool. I’m calling your source a fool for trying to pawn Ohtani off as sacrificial because of his willingness to try and get by on a scant $40mill per year, all for the betterment of the team. It’s not hard to see what happened. Ohtani wanted to be the highest paid player ever, possibly for reasons related to prestige and respect more so than flat out greed. And he got it…
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What a f***ing sad statement. So he is selfless because he spread his three quarters of a billion dollars out over 25 years instead of demanding it all in ten? Have we reached the point where that is considered selflessness?!?! Will he also be returning 50% of his salary for years he can’t pitch? THAT would be selfless…
