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Arizona, Boston, both Chicago teams, Cleveland, Houston, LAA, Miami, Minnesota, San Diego, San Francisco, are all at least notionally trying to win and have weak catching.
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A applaud this sensible free agent signing.
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Contreras + Yeager for Ruiz seems pretty fair. Honestly, at first glance I like it least for the Braves. But I might be overrating Contreras. Maybe he's a really bad receiver or something.
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Muller, Tarnok, and Ruiz is a pretty good haul. A bit surprised that the difference between Contreras and Murphy was worth Muller, Tarnok, and Yeager to Atlanta.
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Very brave, throwing backhanded apologies at the sheriff.
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Your argument, across multiple threads over the last couple of days seems to boil down to: all teams are run by smart people, and they have good reasons for operating the way they do, so we shouldn't say that any team has worse process than any other.
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Fence sitting is a good way to put it. Seems like he's trying to get by on low-risk 2-3 year deals for OK vets and fluke into a few playoff appearances while collecting young talent. It hasn't worked because the prospects have mostly failed: Bart sucks, Ramos has cratered in AAA, Matos had a worst-case 2022, even Luciano was just OK last year.
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The problem is that SF isn't good, at all. To whatever extent they rebuilt, they came out of it with Logan Webb, Thairo Estrada, and whatever Joey Bart is. They're not 1-2 players away from competing, even if those guys are stars.
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SF has done well with the Haniger and Manaea deals
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I hate you because I wrote an entire paragraph and you just responded with nonsense.
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The problem wasn't in trying. The Dodgers, Braves, and Cardinals never stop trying and I'm guessing Houston won't either. The problem is that their effort was a ham-fisted plan that mostly consisted of indiscriminately throwing money at whoever would take it, and most of those guys aged predictably. And what happens when they age isn't just that you have dead money. It would be better if they just cut their sunk costs. But most of the time these big contract players linger on the roster for years and eat up PAs while providing no value. They hurt your ability to spend and they hurt the on field product. Look at Miggy in Detroit and Pujols in LA. Hosmer has been costing the Padres wins for 5 years. If Bogaerts becomes a below average player, he's probably going to just keep playing SS for SD while proving no value. As for the damage that was done in Detroit: 8 years of failure. Maybe more. That's a really, really big price to pay for a 4-year stretch of good baseball.
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Let's go back a decade. Mike Illitch is a smart man. Tigers franchise value has increased a lot in recent years and Illitch wants to win. Dombrowski knows what he's doing, and they'll just keep spending to overcome the dead years on all of those contracts. Illitch can afford it. This is a trophy asset for him. Fast forward to the present and the Tigers are on a run of 8 straight non-playoff years, still trying to recover from the damage Dombrowski and Illitch did for an exciting 4-year stretch of baseball. This is going to be the fate of Texas and Philly. Probably SD. Maybe the Mets.
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lol, every owner who has ever greenlit reckless spending has seemed very committed at the time. And then they weren't anymore. Most of the teams you're praising right now are going to be bad in a couple of years. Actually, Texas is probably going to be bad in 2023.
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Maybe Senga over Painter if I was trying to win in 2023.
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Most teams that behave this way (completely recklessly financially) end up doing it for a short period, failing, then firing management and going into a rebuild. We haven't really ever seen a team act the way the Padres or Mets have this offseason and keep it up for an extended period. Maybe the Yankees of 15-20 years ago? I think the idea that Texas, Philly, SD, NYM etc... have all decided at the same time that money doesn't matter and they're going to keep the party going perpetually with 50-100M in dead weight is a bit ridiculous. Maybe Cohen will. Most will go into a full rebuild.
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Carlos Rodon remains available. He's really good.
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This is the closest I’ve ever come to banning Carlos
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If that's true they shouldn't be targeting Happ. Happ is a mediocre corner OF with one year of control left. Chicago should be adding to him for Jansen.
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I will enjoy rooting against the Mets this season
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All of you people complaining are going to change your tune pretty quick when that beautiful steely-gazed lion runs 60 feet to jump in front of a camped Gurriel on routine fly and guns down a runner tagging from 3B.
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Going to be fun watching that chiseled jaw and beautiful eyes. Also his defense I guess.
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You can't even really get honest analysis of baseball contracts anymore because every baseball journalist is so far up the union's ass that they praise every big deal as a bold win for the working class.
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Congrats to Samsonov on his first ever Pepsi Shutout.
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This reminds me of the Evil Empire days of the last Yankees heyday back in the early 2000s: no finesse, no strategy - just fielding the absolute best team money can buy. It's been awhile since baseball had a villain like this. A lot of people are going to love rooting against the Mets.
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Imagine being Ronald Acuna right now. He'd be two seasons from hitting free agency going into his age-27 season if he hadn't signed his extension. He'd probably be looking at a 400M-500M deal, assuming the power comes back this year. Instead he's signed through 30 for 134M.
