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Hamstring injury. He's usually good to miss about 50 games a year.

lmao Carrera

There really wasn't any reason not to acquire a 4th proven viable MLB OF. A 4-5-6 of Pompey, Carrera, Ceciliani was always underwhelming given Saunders' history.

I hope that assclown njh is enjoying Carrera out there after mocking me for saying OF depth wasn't good enough.

This is why you never make the playoffs.

His point flew over your head.

Yeah he's pretty good. The DDL champ wouldn't even give him up for Wade Davis and you gave him up for a 2nd round pick lol.

So is Martin's injury going to keep him out for a few games?

Meh. It was the right decision.

Angry.

Yikes

Incredibly stupid baserunning

It was amazing.

Great play by Goins wow

I rostered Andriese for a few months last year waiting for the recall that never came.

He clearly meant just defensively, which is still wrong but not close to as egregious.

According to Hazel Mae's tweet that's what did it

They're hurt. Tulo hip and Saunders hammy.

I like the feature.

This man has good taste.

Here come the Tulo injuries!

Edwin's dating Eva Marie?

She doesn't even look like a real person. Way too much makeup/plastic surgery. She's gross.

I don't think it's anything like that. A contract is just part of a larger payroll. The goal is to fit as many wins as possible under that payroll. Take a player signed for $82M over 5 years. Say you project him at around 3, 2.5, 2, 1, 0.5 over the next 5 years: backloaded at 7, 15, 20, 20, 20 you're paying the following per WAR: year 1 = 2.333 year 2 = 6 year 3 = 10 year 4 = 20 year 5 = 40 say you do the reverse and frontload it year 1 = 6.666 year 2 = 8 year 3 = 10 year 4 = 15 year 5 = 14 With the frontloaded contract you've avoided any albatross seasons where the projected production relative to salary will make it difficult to accrue enough WAR to make the potseason. The years where he's paid 20M, he provides production enough to warrant it. When the production dips, so does the financial burden, so you have the cash to replace his wins. It's very difficult for a mid-tier team to compete in years where they're paying 20M for near replacement level production. And you might be able to get out of the frontloaded contract: total contract = 9M/WAR out after year 2 = 7.3M/WAR (likely only possible if frontloaded) out after year 3 = 8M/WAR (likely only possible if frontloaded) For a player, it makes sense to get as much money as possible up front (the leon's example applies to them). They might even take less money overall for a frontloaded deal. That would make it a no-brainer if the team has enough money under the budget in year one to frontload.

How dare you