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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

Colabello was f***ing Jackie Redmond? That's a whole lot of ugly.

Ang should be banned.

Literally anyone would be an inprovement.

Can you DFA a suspended guy? I want him gone forever

Jesus f***ing Christ Carrera leading off? Fire Gibby.

Yeah. Time value of money suggests that backloading might be better in a strict financial sense, but having what are probably the worst years of the contract attached to the biggest financial commitment makes unloading those years a lot more difficult. There's also no reason to backload a deal that you can comfortably fit in at present without backloading. You have no idea what the financial state of your team will be in 4-8 years.

Yeah, he's really the only acceptable piece on the current bench.

Ha, there aren't many useful tools on the bench at all. Thole - catching a knuckleball Barney - playing defense at 2nd Colabello - N/A Carrera - N/A

Can we get him up over Carrera?

I think everyone has been caught off guard by how quickly awful framers have been purged from the league. Martin is going to have to hit more than we all thought he would to carry value for the length of his contract.

Martin and Tulo's contracts are a bit unsettling. Martin is owed another 3/60 for his age 34-36 season and Tulo another 4/78 for 32-35 seasons, and both are already projected as league-average hitters. This is why you don't follow the Yankees model on a mid-tier payroll.

I think most of the league is in this boat. I'd also have no problem with him pillaging the Pharm team.

Do you really hope that?

Bautista's days in the OF might be numbered. He's been awful this year.

I thought Edwin was in trouble last year when his K-rate was very high through two months, but he settled in back to normal. Hopefully this is just more of the same.

Uh...

Maybe. I remember a long thread on the old forum about how Francisco could be the new EE/Bautista after he came in and hit a few bombs.

Chris Colabello, Randy Ruiz and especially Juan Francisco

Yeah, that sounds right. I wanted all of Revere, Pompey, and Saunders around because nobody had any idea what to expect from Saunders or Pompey.

I don't actually believe I ever said that. I said the team should have enough depth that they're not relying on his knee holding up and not impacting his play. But you're trolling me, so plz die.

Do you have a link to the numbers broken down like this?