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Sydin posted:Everybody has room to sign anybody. All 30 MLB teams could have given both Harper and Machado 10/300 contracts as soon as the offseason started and still be comfortably in the black. Disregard any owners who plead poverty. Tampa fans in particular should be pissed. They could offer both of them 7 year, 210MM deals and they'd only be about middle of the road for payroll.They won a good amount of games last year, and those two would make them a force. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Feb 19, 2019 |
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Sydin posted:All SS's can play 2B. And 3rd
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Does Machado to SD mean he caved on his "SS or bust" demand? Can Tatis Jr play anything other than SS? I'd assume Tatis Jr gets 2 months to learn 3B in AAA while delaying his clock, and the Pads decide who will make the smoothest transition to 3B whenever they're ready to call him up.
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Inspector_666 posted:White Sox, not Cubs. they kept bringing back Hawk Harrelson so my point is still valid also I'll put up a Spring Training N/V thread sometime Soon™
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tadashi posted:He can be inducted as a Cardinal but he cannot do anything to support them, maybe including wearing their merch , during his 10 year exclusive deal with the Angels unless they give him permission. It’s basically a no-compete clause, from the news at the time he signed. A more recent article from stltoday states that it is entirely an option for Pujols and he can walk away at any time. So, maybe it's a 7 year and when he gets inducted he's done with it. Or he will piss off a bunch of St Louis people and keep it for all 10 while he is inducted as a cardinal. Who knows! Either way I don't really care as long as he's a Cardinal... which at this point it's almost a given. Thom P. Tiers fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Feb 19, 2019 |
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Feb 19, 2019 20:06
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I always figured Pujols would go in with a blank cap.
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chilihead posted:The Dodgers have about 45 million in completely useless salary that will be gone after this year. The Padres are still paying like 20m to random dudes who aren’t on the team such as James Shields
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In that be a GM thing we did with the Padres in OOTP Tatis Jr and Mejia were both awesome. Urias was kinda underwhelming. It is funny after that to see the Pads signing guys for big money irl because the owner kept us constantly poor as dirt in game.
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Popete posted:I always figured Pujols would go in with a blank cap. I figured this too until... he aged extremely poorly and had a horrible career with 13 playoff PA's with the Angels.
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Angry Grimace posted:The Padres are still paying like 20m to random dudes who aren’t on the team such as James Shields Yup they are still paying a small part of Kemps salary as well.
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“We tried” https://twitter.com/ken_rosenthal/status/1097938351850770432
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I wonder if the Nationals make a big play for Kimbrel / Keuchel / both if they don't land Harper. Their bullpen is suspect as is the back end of the rotation.
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Angry Grimace posted:The Padres are still paying like 20m to random dudes who aren’t on the team such as James Shields Paying James Shields to pitch for somebody else is a good use of payroll money.
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https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1097939532568297472 Well, okay then.
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RIP to one of the greats https://twitter.com/dodgers/status/1097931542112792576?s=21
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GalacticAcid posted:I wonder if the Nationals make a big play for Kimbrel / Keuchel / both if they don't land Harper. I still think the Indians should float a 2/40 offer to Craig Kimbrel. They’d have 2 legit closers and a few young fire ballers to get back to a lockdown bullpen, and the overwhelming pitching could make up for the lackluster outfield. Give him a high AAV and let him roll the dice on being a free agent again soon. They can’t waste the last 2 years of this window before Bauer and Lindor become too expensive. I know they WON’T do it, but drat would they be scary if they did.
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resident posted:I'd assume Tatis Jr gets 2 months to learn 3B in AAA while delaying his clock, and the Pads decide who will make the smoothest transition to 3B whenever they're ready to call him up. Manny is playing third. Manny just wanted to get paid like a shortstop.
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Inspector_666 posted:Paying James Shields to pitch for somebody else is a good use of payroll money. He was traded to the White Sox for Fernando Tatis Jr. White Sox lol
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Yeah but then the Cubs traded them Cease and Eloy for an absolute lemon in Quintana, so the White Sox basically broke even. e. That said they'd probably like it if the top prospect they gave up Sale for would put up something better than a .714 OPS
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I should've guessed AJ Preller goes all out for free agents because no GM will trade with him after his shenanigans.
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Popete posted:I always figured Pujols would go in with a blank cap. Why would anything he has done with the Angels warrant a blank cap? I don't know why he wouldn't go in as a Cardinal. The 10 year, 10mil personal services thing once he retires is weird and if it keeps him from being able to acknowledge the Cardinals when he goes into the Hall it'd just be an extra embarrassment for the Angels.
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GalacticAcid posted:I wonder if the Nationals make a big play for Kimbrel / Keuchel / both if they don't land Harper. Both of those guys would probably put them over the luxury tax, and I think they are only willing to do that for Harper. Honestly not super concerned about the back of the rotation. They have more depth than last year and I at least sort of buy Anibal Sanchez being a decent pitcher now. The bullpen pen being good is more or less totally reliant on some combination of Rosenthal coming back as good as he was before his injury, Doolittle staying healthy and maybe Kyle Barraclough figuring things out. If some of those gambles work out they could turn out pretty good. But it probably only takes one or two things going wrong for it to collapse. It would be great if they went after a reliable option like Kimbrel, I just don't think they really want to spend much more.
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I guess they meant "stupid money" in the sense of throwing money at McCutchen and Robertson when the smart thing to do would have been to throw it at Kimbrel, Corbin, Machado, and Harper.
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Well they have a very slim hope of salvaging the offseason and saving their franchise but now they are in a position where Boras has a lot of leverage on them
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ZenVulgarity posted:HAL
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DTaeKim posted:I should've guessed AJ Preller goes all out for free agents because no GM will trade with him after his shenanigans. He makes all sorts of trades all the time.
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I think the Phillies have had a pretty good offseason even if they don't get Harper. Depends on your opinion of the guys they traded away I guess. I think Alfaro is going to be a good MLB player. Dunno about Sixto but he's high on all the prospect lists.
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Lol this held up, buen post https://twitter.com/MeekPhill_/status/1088891117272207363
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It’s be really funny if the Sox immediately DFA’d Alonso and Jay. I mean I love Jon Jay, but it’d be hilarious.
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The Pussy Boss posted:I think the Phillies have had a pretty good offseason even if they don't get Harper. Depends on your opinion of the guys they traded away I guess. I think Alfaro is going to be a good MLB player. Dunno about Sixto but he's high on all the prospect lists. I meant pr disaster The other moves were fine.
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Nodoze posted:Good for Manny for getting paid but yeah I see why NYY wouldn't do that I don't.
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This Machado deal seems... good? He gets paid a lot of money, and hes young enough that SD could hypothetically build around him.
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seiferguy posted:This Machado deal seems... good? He gets paid a lot of money, and hes young enough that SD could hypothetically build around him. There are guys on the team who are older than Machado with less than 2 years service time. So yes.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Tampa fans in particular should be pissed. They could offer both of them 7 year, 210MM deals and they'd only be about middle of the road for payroll.They won a good amount of games last year, and those two would make them a force. Keith Law actually suggested he wouldn’t be surprised if Tampa legit doesn’t have any money because nobody cares about baseball in Tampa
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Why is the luxury tax some big boogeyman? The penalties seem rather soft for going over. Didn't the Red Sox just pay $12 million and drop like 10 spots in the draft? Big loving whoop. https://twitter.com/david_j_roth/status/1097561669377634304
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