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  1. max silver
    Who plays enter field in this scenario? It appears as though Yelich has been converted to full time left field so unless Bellinger is signed this still leaves a sizable hole on the roster.
  2. max silver
    Morosi really got burned by this as well.
  3. max silver
    Yeah unfortunately you can't give him a brain transplant, but hopefully if he's a little lighter he'd at least have a better chance to get back to the base in time if he's going to wander so far away.
  4. max silver
    I'd hang onto Manoah at least until he's closer to free agency to see how he performs and what his conditioning looks like before shipping him off. With Vlad I would hope that eventually he clues in to the fact that he needs to be in good shape year over year if he's to create the type of legacy his talent suggests should be possible. With Kirk I'd hang onto him right throughout his team years of control as I don't think the team would ever get fair value back in return. If his body holds up over the long term catching a short term extension may even be worthwhile as he'd likely be pretty inexpensive to hang onto unless he goes full Edgar Martinez output in Danny DeVito's body offensively.
  5. max silver
    I think with Vlad he's really close to posting monster numbers given the quality of contact. Hopefully being in better shape will improve his range at first base and help keep him healthier as he suffered various knee injuries during the spring and regular season.
  6. max silver
    Paragraphs are your friend.
  7. max silver
    Both Vlad and Manoah have been posting a lot of videos of themselves busting their asses in the gym, and I saw a photo of Kirk where he looked like he may have slimmed down as well (tough to tell as he was wearing a loose fitting t shirt) so hopefully all three guys will experience a resurgence next year.
  8. max silver
    There isn't a ready made replacement available in the system though. At that point Bo will only have a single year of remaining control so it remains to be seen what kind of trade return he could garner as well as he's probably more of a very good player that's not quite in the elite category yet.
  9. max silver
    Looks like a completely straighforward calculation. Maybe I'll borrow my wife's finance calculator to tabulate the total.
  10. max silver
    I think there's a good shot the Blue Jays farm system rankings will improve over the next few years as some of the highest ceiling talent is still getting their feet wet in the lower levels of the minors (Barriera, Bonilla, Nimmala).
  11. max silver
    How would the luxury tax calculations work? Let's assume that Ohtani is going to be paid $35 million per season for the next 10 years, with the rest deferred over an extra 20 years or something of that sort.
  12. max silver
    I'm having a bit of difficulty in understanding how this actually works. Maybe I should have joined the accounting club in school. What does discounting to present value actually mean? Is the future liability scaled somehow and added to the current year's tax value or something of that sort? Can you come up with an example with actual numbers to break this down to layman's terms a bit?
  13. max silver
    Yeah that's an insane loophole if something approaching 50% of a contract is allowed to be deferred in terms of the luxury tax. I have zero issues with a team being allowed to defer payments to reduce initial cash outlay, but this type of accounting creates a massive advantage for richer teams that allows them to defer future dollars and essentially skirt the luxury tax.
  14. max silver
    This "strategy" would almost certainly just end up with the prospective free agents telling the Blue Jays to take their offers and shove it up their asses and they would end up with zero of their preferred targets.
  15. max silver
    Who knows if this was a case where the Jays couldn't beat the Dodgers offer due to eventual ownership constraints, chose not to do so despite ability to match or beat it as it no longer made sense financially, or weren't given an opportunity to match or beat it as Ohtani wanted to play for the Dodgers all along.
  16. max silver
    You think both Manoah and Tiedemann will be traded? I could maybe see one of these guys traded but it seems unlikely that both would be moved.
  17. max silver
    If it's a choice between Bellinger or no top free agent at all I'd still prefer Bellinger, but damn I'm really worried about him turning into a pumpkin in the future given how weak his contact profile looks. I wish that we had readily available bat speed numbers so we could more easily gauge when players are losing bat speed or even intentionally not swinging as hard to make more contact. Bellinger dramatically dropped his strikeout numbers and saw a sizable reduction in exit velocity so I wonder if this was the result of simply not swinging as hard. I would have no issues with bringing back Belt for another season if other options like JD Martinez or Hoskins don't pan out.
  18. max silver
    Something like half (if not even more) of the dollars of this deal seem to be deferred so the Dodgers will likely be right in the middle of the bidding for Yamamoto. That got me to thinking that one way Rogers could flex their financial muscle would be to setup deferred payments on the ultra high end free agents as a means of kicking some of the money down the curb into the future.
  19. max silver
    From what I could gather they had to up the ante and add a 4th year to the Ryu deal that nobody else was willing to offer. I've also seen it suggested they were the highest bidder for Springer as well. There is nothing wrong with refusing to sign guys at any cost as it just ends up reducing the ability to surround the players with more top talent.
  20. max silver
    Are you seriously whinging that the front office isn't interested in dramatically overpaying for free agents?
  21. max silver
    That quite literally sounds like the most boring championship in the history of championships.
  22. max silver
    Right smack dab in the middle of the neck far as I can tell. I'm simply having a hard time buying that his body shape had much if anything to do with his original disc herniation injury that led to his original surgery.
  23. max silver
    Damn I can't see why MLB should allow this be approved. Hopefully other teams raise enough of a stink with the commissioner's office to see this kiboshed/reworked so that it actually follows the spirit of the luxury tax.
  24. max silver
    I just don't see a glaring need to add a high end reliever given the relative strength of the pen at this point. The team has a lot of holes to fill and limited financial bullets to spend so there's likely better ways to spend the necessary cash.
  25. max silver
    Have you looked at that contract? Discounting the covid shortened season Trout has only averaged about 100 games a season since the start of the 2017 season, and only 79 games over the last 3 seasons. He's due to be paid $35 million a season for the next 7 seasons. Maybe the Angels would agree to pay half of his deal or something, but aside from that acquiring this guy would be like Tulo level of complete breakdown risk x infinity.
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