-Says I have a terrible take
-I ask him what his take is
-He basically repeats my take
-Entire post dripping with low effort, low IQ trollbait
This guy isn't going to be worth replying to anymore, is he?
I think that's exactly right if you have to give up a 2nd and 500k in international money for Pivetta. Teams will be baking that into their contract offers.
But now that we signed Santander, I believe we'd only have to give up a 3rd rounder. If we signed Alonso too, I don't think there's any penalty for signing Pivetta at that point.
So we might be able to get Pivetta for cheaper than you think. If it was 3 years and 50 mil or something that would be a steal compared to Manaea and Eovaldi who got 3 years, 75 mil.
Santander had the QO attached to him. Yeah that sucks, but it could give us a leg up on the remaining QO guys because if we sign another one it doesn't really matter as much compared to a team that has yet to sign one.
There's only 3 left. Bregman's deal will be big enough that I don't think teams are going to care about the QO much.
The other two QO guys left are Alonso and Pivetta and the QO will probably play a factor with both of them.
It's not a clean fit by any means but it's doable.
Polar Bear's market seems to be pretty limited. If we are offering him top dollar and give him the opt outs he'll want I bet he'll play here, even if he's going to DH quite a bit.
They could try and run some sort of DH rotation with Taters, Vlad and Pete.
With a groundball pitcher: Taters in LF, Vlad at 1B, Alonso at DH, Clement at 3B
With a flyball pitcher: Taters at DH, Vlad at 3B, Alonso at 1B, Loperfido (or whoever) in LF
At the risk of being tarred and feathered, I wonder if raising the tax tiers would actually help.
It seems like you have a glut of teams who all cluster around the tax limits and won't spend a dollar more.
Then you have two teams who just don't care and blow past them without giving it a second thought.
So maybe you raise the tax tier limits but increase the penalties. That way the Dodgers and Mets become more constrained, while the other big spenders (teams like the Jays, Giants, etc.) can spend enough to get closer to them?
Yeah I think you are right, but if the price is right and with Bo's departure looming he could be a shrewd move that helps this year and a lot next year. You know Ross likes his slap hitting infielders who can field.
I suppose it depends on how they feel about Clement too.
The deferrals are all accounted for properly in this CBA and are no big deal IMO.
Frankly, any team residing in a high tax area (like the Jays) should want the deferrals to remain as a way to not have to overpay for FAs.
The way the Dodgers are gaming the system is by having several people rich enough to be an owner in their own right team up to form a super ownership group. This allows them to spend crazy amounts of money.
Add in the location, market, etc. of the team and its created the perfect storm for them to flourish.
The Mets and Jays are the only teams really even trying to compete with these *******s but neither have the franchise gravitas to do it right now. The Yankees should be going toe to toe but Steinbrenner Jr. doesn't have the stones and other teams like the Giants aren't trying hard enough.
The team is set up in a way that we could make plays for any of the big remaining FA bats and it could make sense, especially if the price is right:
3B- Bregman
1B- Alonso
LF- Profar
3B- Kim
5/92 is 18.4 AAV. Add in the deferred money and it's even less.
I know he sucks at literally everything else but for a switch hitter coming off a 44 homer season (3rd in MLB) I'll take it.
Tony Taters is going to be fun as hell the next couple years. Switch hitter that hit 44 bombs last year. Sign me up for that.
The problem is there is no extra juice to his game. He provides no defense. No baserunning. Doesn't even provide OBP.
He'll be entering his age 34 season when he can opt out.
Idk what the AAV is but assuming it's 20-25 mil, a 34 year old DH is going to have to MASH for him to opt out or for us to want to pick up the 6th year.