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You seemed to have missed how Teoscar wasn't offered a multi year deal by a single GM in the sport last offseason, which was why he was forced to take a 1 year deal in the first place. I can only guess the team was holding out hope on eventually bringing back Matt Chapman, and that the remaining available dollars basically forced them to choose between one of Chapman/Teoscar on top of Kiermaier.

Yeah heaven forbid the team has a successful offseason and can enjoy more years of success instead of an immediate rebuild, that would be positively awful.

Bo was the team's best/most consistent position player most seasons of his career so it shouldn't be shocking that they hung onto him during his cheap years of team control.

Guys like Boegarts, Trey Turner and Corey Seager are all average at best defensively and did nothing to hurt their team's chances at competing for world series titles. I don't think the team had a long term short stop solution that was a better overall player than Bo. I don't think it was anything to do with Bo's ego whatsoever, that's just an old played out argument that has no basis in reality. Bo himself offered to move off of short stop if it helped to improve the team, and there was a concerted effort to attain Lindor from Cleveland years ago that would have moved Bo off of short stop at that time.

I for one would have been fine with giving Teoscar something like a two year deal where the second year was a club option if that would have been sufficient to get him signed. It seems as though he made the smart choice in betting on himself and taking the best 1 year deal he was able to secure.

Bo's bat has typically been good enough to cover up the defensive deficiencies in his game. For the 4 seasons from 2020-2023 when he was mostly healthy he was the 6th most valuable short stop performer by FWAR in all of MLB. Obviously if he's not hitting he takes a huge hit in the value he can provide, but outside of one really awful defensive season in 2023 he's been adequate defensively at short stop.

It seemed inevitable that Teoscar was going to do everything in his power to remain a Dodger. I recall a post world series interview when he said as much, so it wouldn't surprise me much if he took a bit of club friendly deal to stay in Los Angeles.

I didn't ever bring up Vlad's weight, try to stay on topic. Having said that even with Vlad's improved sprint speed Bo is still a far better defender than Vlad at a far harder position on the field. I'm not surprised in the slightest that you would use the lame "watch the games" argument. Unlike you I both watch the games and analyze what my eyes show me with data so that I actually understand fully what's taking place instead of jumping to harebrained conclusions.

Bo's average sprint speed was higher last season compared to 2023 despite dealing with multiple calf injuries over the course of the season. And he posted a positive OAA number for the first time in the last 4 years. But of course you are here whinging like usual because of his visual appearance.

The dude is a slap hitter with nearly no power and he's a terrible defender on top of that. Surely you can understand that a player who primarily hits a bunch of singles while doing very little else on the diamond just isn't that valuable of a player.

That sounds an awful lot like last offseason when the team was trying for the likes of Soto, Ohtani and Chapman and ended up with KK, IKF and Turner.

This deal on it's own isn't particularly egregious. I think where the impact likely starts becoming more apparent is when you tabulate all of the combined luxury tax savings the Dodgers are enjoying in totality with all of deferred money they have on the books. Someone more versed in calculating the savings than myself can hopefully add this all up, but between Freeman, Betts, Ohtani, Snell, and Glasnow as well if I recall correctly there has to be a rather substantial sum that the Dodgers aren't having to pay towards the luxury tax.

In actuality that's a 42 year old vs a 37 year old so not nearly as ridiculous and staged primarily for spectacle.

I had zero issues logging in personally. The quality was up and down throughout and it buffered occasionally but no issues with the stream otherwise. I can't say you missed much though as the main fight was a dud.

Except Bautista was 10 years older than Vlad at that point and already declining.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=martin001ore

I don’t believe he played enough innings in left field to qualify.

That sounds more like a shot at Mattingly to me as those areas were directly under his purview.

In a way he had the same issues as the Blue Jays front office. He couldn't convince any of the true premium free agents of the sport to take their money (Judge, Ohtani etc.).

I think it's time to get Vlad signed long term. I believe he finally proved he deserves this type of deal. I fully believe the best is yet to come for Vlad offensively. He just ripped of a 5 month stretch where he was the second best qualified hitter in the sport ahead of guys like Soto and Ohtani. He had a two month stretch where he even produced a higher overall wRC+ than Judge and reached offensive heights he didn't see even in 2021. I don't think Vlad was ever going to sign a team friendly deal in the first place or it would have happened by now. We have literally no idea whatsoever what kind of deal Vlad has even been looking for to start with. This entire window was basically predicated on Vlad producing elite offensive seasons, and now that it appears as though he may be fixed/hitting his stride there is still time to build around the guy. Springer only has two more years remaining on his deal, so by the team a potential Vlad extension kicks in he will only be around for a single season at that point.

What about the other 21 hours of the day when there isn't a game happening?

So in essence you are saying that literally the only thing a manager does is in game substitutions so you could hire a tv sideline host. That's so dumb I don't think there's any point to discussing this any further.

Huh? Who are the major league managers that aren't baseball people?

I actually don't think Judge was that big of a factor. Soto actually tied the meatball percentage from the season before at 7%. The second best full time regular for the Padres produced a 119 wRC+ so he didn't have much in the way of "protection" on that team. Pitchers don't intentionally throw pitches down the middle ever to hitters like Soto, so having Judge behind him had no noteworthy improvement to the numbers of good pitches to hit that Soto received. Soto took a massive leap forward in his quality of contact metrics with an overall xwOBACON of .519 over a full season compared to his previous best of .465. He actually performed a tiny bit better with the 2020 Covid shortened season's .527 xwOBACON, but that season was all of 2 months long. In this instance I think Soto fully earned all of the improved offensive numbers due to an improvement to his relative skill level. I averaged out the expected home values for all 30 MLB parks, and Soto actually largely suffered a bit in total home runs at Yankee Stadium compared to the MLB average. He hit 42 home runs this season, and the MLB average is 45 home runs. One thing I noticed is it appeared as though Soto changed his overall approach to take advantage of the short porch. He posted a career high in pull rate to 42.3% vs 35.5% from the year prior as evidence of the altered approach.

Given the lousy year Jansen produced offensively and behind the plate I think you could add his name to the list as well.