How is this going to work in Philly, will Sam Fuld get the credit and DDski the blame, or vice versa?Not much of a gamble, love Alvarado’s upside. TB needed to clear a 40 man spot to finish the Snell deal, good snag by new GM Sam Fuld.
How is this going to work in Philly, will Sam Fuld get the credit and DDski the blame, or vice versa?Not much of a gamble, love Alvarado’s upside. TB needed to clear a 40 man spot to finish the Snell deal, good snag by new GM Sam Fuld.
Posturing I am sure. This is also the same guy who always stated he would never take anything more than a 1 year deal.Trevor Bauer is looking for 5/6 yrs at $36-40MM per?!?!?!? For a guy with a career 3.90 ERA, wanting to earn more than Gerrit Cole's record contract is just delusional.
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-rumors-trevor-bauers-asking-133848521.html
Delusional? You're not the first to wonder...Trevor Bauer is looking for 5/6 yrs at $36-40MM per?!?!?!? For a guy with a career 3.90 ERA, wanting to earn more than Gerrit Cole's record contract is just delusional.
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-rumors-trevor-bauers-asking-133848521.html
Read that this morning and was completely entertained by it. Long but fantastic piece of writing.I don't know where to put this but I thought it was wonderful.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30555113/the-enduring-bond-jackie-robinson-man-guided-majors
Thanks for sharing. That was a wonderful read.I don't know where to put this but I thought it was wonderful.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30555113/the-enduring-bond-jackie-robinson-man-guided-majors
Probably a bit of chase but I had not realized just how much less effective their line up was last year was against RHP, and how it projected to be before the Bell and Schwarber moves. Last year, OPS of .722 vs. righty starters, .883 vs. lefty starters, per baseball reference.Interesting/odd that WAS was willing to pay Schwarber $10M when his projected arb salary range was a bit lower. Team decision-making has seemed haphazard thus far, but this at least suggests that the Cubs either didn’t try hard enough to trade him or should have kept and continued to try to trade him. Solid landing for Schwarber, though.
Perhaps it's simply an indication that his market was heated. Arbitration salary =/= free agent salary. It's entirelyInteresting/odd that WAS was willing to pay Schwarber $10M when his projected arb salary range was a bit lower. Team decision-making has seemed haphazard thus far, but this at least suggests that the Cubs either didn’t try hard enough to trade him or should have kept and continued to try to trade him. Solid landing for Schwarber, though.
Right. I didn’t mean odd for Washington, I meant odd in that, if there was that much interest one month later with all the questions existing then still unresolved, why couldn’t the Cubs trade him? It’s been a really weird offseason/market...Perhaps it's simply an indication that his market was heated. Arbitration salary =/= free agent salary. It's entirelypossiblelikely the Nats were bid up to that salary.
It’s kind of amazing that Ol’ Brandon could incorporate the “Rockettes” high leg kick into his delivery without causing himself great pain.I believe Schilling called him that here before a 2004 ALCS or WS game. Said something along the lines of he had balls the size of Saturn.
That's only if they don't exercise the option in 2024, I believe. If they exercise the option and he pitches for them in 2024, the 2021-2023 figures are re-calculated and it's a $13.5M hit on their 2024 payroll.The "option" counts against the luxury tax threshold like a signing bonus in the NFL -- evenly divided among the previous years of the contract. So Hendriks will count $18m against the cap in 2021, 2022, and 2023...and then $0 in 2024, which for a team with a bunch of pre-FA players in its core could be a real nice perk.
That makes sense, with RHF’s note. But have the CWS ever paid the LT?The "option" counts against the luxury tax threshold like a signing bonus in the NFL -- evenly divided among the previous years of the contract. So Hendriks will count $18m against the cap in 2021, 2022, and 2023...and then $0 in 2024, which for a team with a bunch of pre-FA players in its core could be a real nice perk.
For a moment, I thought that Pedro Baez would be compensated only by receiving total consciousness on his deathbed. Then, I realized that such a circumvention of the luxury tax would be severely frowned upon.Pedro Baez to the Astros, 2 years, no money announced yet.
Yup he corrected himself.Rosenthal was wrong, they are not close.