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  1. Terminator
    Oh wow I agree with your point and then I get attacked
  2. Terminator
    Yeah if the corner outfielder is good at defense the board isn't interested like somehow it's a bad thing
  3. Terminator
    Rockies extended Charlie Blackmon for another year and then traded for Quantrill. That should do it for the Rockies this offseason. Dick Monfort is probably already tanning his cheeks down in Mexico.
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    Ok after a second look the White Sox are just getting names. They aren't even mildly interesting. Nicky Lopez= all glove bench infielder but starting to make actual money in arb Soroka= washed and makes money through arb Shuster= former prospect losing his shine fast Shewmake= not worthy of a 40 man spot Gowens= 24 year old A-Ball pitcher who will probably have adoring fans on this board (like a certain someone else) but real baseball fans know he sucks The Braves get a controllable bullpen piece who projects well.
  5. Terminator
    White Sox taking advantage of the Braves 40-man roster crunch by getting a pile of mildly interesting 40-man players for a talented but underachieving reliever.
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    This is probably somewhat true as the Angelos' are relatively poor (for owner standards) and need the team to break close to even or better every year. There isn't a ton of money to be made in operating a team. However, he's a complete doofus because this problem would be easily solved if he sold the team. His family bought it for 170 million in the early 90s and they could get a few bil for it now. That's how these owners get s*** rich off owning the team. So no one wants to hear him crying about how poor he is. He is sitting on billions but he doesn't want to sell it because owning a baseball team is fun.
  7. Terminator
    Ok well I won't buy my jersey just yet
  8. Terminator
    Can someone post the part about the Jays?
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    Yeah there's got to be some way. Seems like the commissioner has the ultimate power anyway so if they tweak it enough perhaps they could find a way for Manfred to allow it just this one time for a once in a century player. But he's just a stooge for the owners who I'm sure will be up in arms over it.
  11. Terminator
    So under the old CBA the following applied: The uniform player's contract stipulates that the player "represents that he does not, directly or indirectly, own stock or have any financial interest in the ownership or earnings of any Major League Club" except under an agreement approved by the commissioner that provides for the immediate sale of that holding should the manager or player move to another club. MLB rules further stipulate that a manager or player who owns a stake in their club shall be ineligible to work for any other club while the commissioner believes that stake is directly or indirectly held by that individual. That was the old CBA but I think it's been this way forever so I assume it applies now too. But if Ohtani signed a 13 year deal with a no-trade clause then perhaps he could get the commissioner to agree? The other owners would probably cry foul...
  12. Terminator
    I think they'll be fine without those two. They just haven't risen to the 5+ WAR players we had hoped. Instead they are 3-4 WAR players and we can replace guys like that in FA somewhat easily with 6 year 150 mil contracts. We almost got one last year with Brandon Nimmo. Heck, in Vlad's case we might actually get a better player on a lower AAV. He's going to be getting over 25 mil in his final year of arb.
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    I wonder if the Jays' best chance to land him would be some sort of crazy short term deal with opt outs. 4 years, 300 mil with opt outs after year 2. He could be interested in opting out after year 2 because it would give him a chance to reestablish himself as a pitcher and hit the market again. Or could also go with some sort of 13 year deal and throw in equity via Rogers stock options or something. Hell, give him a board seat lol. Not sure how all that would play out with there being a luxury tax in place. But we definitely are going to need the extra juice to beat out the Dodgers.
  14. Terminator
    He's also landed several big fish including Gausman, Springer and Ryu.
  15. Terminator
    The stove is hot!
  16. Terminator
    Ok that makes sense. I remember that the contracts weren't fully guaranteed if the player was released in ST. But I think that has changed now under the new CBA. So there should be a lot of action tomorrow. Hopefully some bats hit the market.
  17. Terminator
    Now you're talkin'!
  18. Terminator
    Is Friday the actual deadline for all of this stuff? Or is that just the deadline where you have to add guys to the roster to protect them from the Rule 5? Macko is the only Rule 5 protection guy added so there might be no reason to dump anyone just yet. Regardless, I think you are right on who is getting dumped (whether it happens Friday or later on): -Top 3 are gone. -Clement/Espinal is a tough call. Clement is cheap and has a lot of control left but he's out of options. Espinal is starting to make some actual money, but he does have options. -Otto Lopez is probably a dead man walking since he's out of options. -Brendon Little is probably on the radar of guys who could get dumped but he's safe for now.
  19. Terminator
    Frasso is a 25 year old with a 6.49 xFIP in AAA. Had to be shut down in September because he reached a career high workload of 90 innings. Just saying.
  20. Terminator
    The one thing I would like to know about Ohtani is how does Rogers owning its own sports channel affect the bottom line if we signed him. If they signed Ohtani and doubled down on baseball coverage could they reap extra rewards compared to other teams? The guy is the biggest superstar the game has seen since Babe Ruth. Extra eyeballs on baseball also allows them to market their other coverage. It could raise the entire profile of the channel. Or it could not, I don't know enough about TV marketing and ratings.
  21. Terminator
    Quantrill has two options left. He'd be a pretty pricey AAA depth guy but as discussed MLB ready depth is hard to acquire. I'd take him.
  22. Terminator
    Yep, after adding Macko today we have 39 guys on the 40-man already. There are some obvious guys we can dump but I'm sure things are going to be tight when the offseason nears its end. Just as an example, if we had kept Robberse (45 FV) and Kloff (40 FV), we might have ended up having to dump a guy like Otto Lopez (45 FV). Maybe in the end that's what we should have done but if all you are doing is shuffling 45 FV prospects around when you trade for a reliever it does shine a new light on the trade and makes it more palatable.
  23. Terminator
    I can't remember who else this happened to but there was a young hitter who went through something similar and did rebound.
  24. Terminator
    Cardinals added Robberse and Kloff to the 40-man. I'm sure we could have found space for them but one benefit of that trade is that it did free up some roster spots.
  25. Terminator
    That's way too shortsighted. It might have worked in spades for a couple of years but the team was taking out loans toward the end of the year and is now looking to slash payroll. And this is only a year or two in. Imagine in a couple more years what it's going to look like.
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