SouthSideRyan
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I know next to nothing about their new GM other than that he appears to be about as much a nepotism hire as you'll find, but in a season where they don't look to be trying to win games, why should they care if Chapman is in their division? He'll be a FA by time they try again. -
I would think they'd love to do that while Chapman would hate it in his last season pre free agency Does he really lose out on FA with his track record as a "proven closer?"
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It's possible they plan to use Chapman in a relief ace/fireman type role.
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You would've been really annoyed when Ole Miss won the SEC and got left out of the playoff for Alabama.
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Not even close.
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The 2016 Bullpen
SouthSideRyan replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Could the Yankees throw in some money to pay for Edwin Jacksons contract too? -
Yeah, it was a pretty memorable brawl in which Cueto was kicking people, and iirc, Molina was on the receiving end. That might make for an awkward battery. Jason LaRue? Suffered a concussion and retired shortly thereafter, as I recall. Yup, it was LaRue and Cueto pretty much ended his career. TBF LaRues career was basically over at that point. He was an awful backup catcher Those guys still get two-year contracts. Was he even friends with an ex-Red Sock?
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And then I swoop in with a roll of hundreds and shove tree into a mudpile
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Our revenues were 5th in baseball when we were terrible in '14. That's me money is there
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The 2016 Bullpen
SouthSideRyan replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
And I'd think it would make more sense for them to release Papelbon rather than randomly diminish Strasburg's trade value -
Yeah, it was a pretty memorable brawl in which Cueto was kicking people, and iirc, Molina was on the receiving end. That might make for an awkward battery. Jason LaRue? Suffered a concussion and retired shortly thereafter, as I recall. Yup, it was LaRue and Cueto pretty much ended his career. TBF LaRues career was basically over at that point. He was an awful backup catcher
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I'd rather have Shark but I'm probably irrationally high and low on each of them
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in a vacuum how could you not love it? it's almost guaranteed neutral value with some potential for solid surplus plus very short term commitment. it's outside said vacuum that you can find reasons to not like it, IMO How does one of the loyal knights of the [expletive] Pitchers table call this almost guaranteed neutral value.
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Yours is much better. At a 140 million payroll, you probably have to do something uncomfortable to make Heyward fit(like trading Hammel, Coghlan, or Castro) in addition to backloading Heyward a bit. trading coghlan and/or castro to make room for heyward is like lazyboy comfortable I'm scared of counting on any one of Baez or Castro at 2B.
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When the time comes to compete, the money will be there.
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The 2016 Bullpen
SouthSideRyan replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
This sounds familiar, but I'm not sure if it applies to Richard. I'm not sure how to go about searching for it(which player was it in this situation this past spring?), so maybe someone else knows more. We cut Kottarras a couple years ago under this rule, paying him 1/6 of his salary. Padres did it with Todd Walker several years back as well. Can't remember the specifics. There's also a timeframe. -
The 2016 Bullpen
SouthSideRyan replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I'm just glad to see NCCubFan is still lurking in the shadows. -
Recreate the magic of the 2014 Braves.
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Why do people always overrate Stanford. Their schedule was tough but they lost two games. If UNC was 1 loss with the win against Clemson then they should get in over any two loss team. Ohio State should get in over Stanford also. When you lose to northwestern and then another team you do not get an opportunity to play for a national title. If UNC beats Clemson they would have arguably the best win in the 2015 fbs season with the longest active winning streak. I don't care about winning streaks. The entire season matters, like if a team lost to a terrible South Carolina team. And I don't think it would be arguable that UNC has the best win of the season, when Clemson would undoubtedly drop below Oklahoma and UNC. Turns out best win of the season goes to South Carolina or Texas. The more I've thought about it, I think I'm in favor of Clemson keeping its spot if they lose a close game to UNC.
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It wasn't that long ago that they hired Kim Anderson to coach basketball
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They are a negotiating tactic that teams can and should offer to players to get them to sign with them and not another team without spending significantly more money Yes. But in practice it never seems to work that way. The Red Sox didn't seem to get any appreciable discount for Price in exchange for that opt-out. That's ... just *so* wrong. You don't do it for the discount. You do it to get a guy without having to pay substantially more. Boston paid what everybody assumed, and not the $30m more than the market that was mentioned before. And they got him relatively early in the process. If the Red Sox were giving Price a straight 7/217 deal, I doubt he'd get $90 million the first three years. It would probably be more backloaded. Instead, the Red Sox are essentially paying market rate for three years with little ability to gain any surplus value in the process. I don't blame them for doing it, and I wouldn't have opposed the Cubs doing the same thing, but it's a structure providing nothing but downside to the team. If Price opts out and gets a better contract, they've almost certainly attained stupid surplus value.
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They are a negotiating tactic that teams can and should offer to players to get them to sign with them and not another team without spending significantly more money. This paragraph reminded me of all the crap the Ricketts family agreed to in the sale of the Cubs. Purposefully tying your hands behind your back* is not close to the same thing. *allegedly I didn't mean it to take away from your argument. I think they were smart to do it if it's what it took to get them the team. I'm twitching uncontrollably here, can we not do this again?
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Tell that to a Yankees team who hypothetically didn't re-sign A-Rod or Sabathia. hypothetically they could have traded either one at the same point assuming they possessed the foresight to see both guys crumbling; they were ultimately valued on the open market higher than what their remaining contractual obligations were That assumes a perfect market. The same way we've seen multiple guys turn down QOs only to get less on the open market, the more prevalent these opt outs become, we'll see somebody opt out only to go home with a worse contract.
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it was talked about yesterday with price. some posters liked it because if he's good, you get out of 2 expensive years in his mid-late 30's at the end of the contract. if he's bad or just ok, you would have had him for 5 years anyway. But if he's good, those two years theoretically wouldn't be expensive, they'd be a bargain. Right...there's no scenario where the team comes out ahead with an opt out. Tell that to a Yankees team who hypothetically didn't re-sign A-Rod or Sabathia.
