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Is that the tigers problem though
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Alternatively, we can offer you a rea/Civale combo, unless we decide to continue overusing the 1.5 good bullpen pitchers we currently have. It’s fine, nothing happens till right at the deadline so there’s nothing we can do to fix this.
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I mean, the cubs are starting Colin Rea in an August baseball game. Who follows Javier Assad and Dave Peterson. Jameson Taillon, who everyone knew was completely cooked, started two games post all star break. I hope they do something too but if there was ever a time to be aggressive and get ahead of the market, it was three weeks ago.
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lol shocking
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Deferred money is not some weird cheat code. The dodgers need to put aside the present value of all of those contracts into a separate account, and it’s reflected as such for luxury tax purposes. The players all have plenty of smart advisors telling them what these contracts are actually worth.
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Cashing in on an aging core. I wonder if that could apply to any other group of position players that might be currently leading the league in wins accrued.
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the cubs or brewers or rays or any other team could have topped this package. They chose not to. Not a dodgers problem.
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FG has hope as the 57th best prospect in baseball. We don’t have to discuss this based on the most favorable of the dozen major prospect rankings. He’s outfield Jefferson Rojas (who remains without a path to major league playing time)
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River Ryan is 27(!!) years old, has pitched 36 innings this year, pitched zero innings last year, and pitched 44 innings the year before. The fact that he was ranked in top 100 prospects is very dumb. What’s his innings ceiling, 100 next year, maybe, god willing, you can take off the gloves in his age 29 season? every contending team, including the cubs, could have beaten this package. It’s an indictment on them that they didn’t. Do I think dodgers prospects are perennially overrated by major publications? Yes. Should major league front offices see past that? Also yes. we’re going to hear a whole bunch of hearsay on what certain players might cost in the next 24 hours. It’s Jed’s job to make this team better. He failed last year. Let’s see how it goes.
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Should we consider the idea that no other teams were willing to beat this package (brewers, cubs, etc) and the tigers were just tunnel vision on getting out of the last $10m-$12m of the deal? I know FG put out that article about how Milwaukee or Tampa needed to trade for him, but their business model somewhat relies on cost suppressed players filling spots at the major league level. If I’m the GM of one of those teams, the goal is to make the playoffs every year and roll the dice as many times as possible, and they’re both already pretty much guaranteed spots. A big market team, like the dodgers or some other big city team, hypothetically, should not have to operate like that.
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Based on what? We just saw the tigers trade skubal for a package with zero major league experience like 48 hours after we all ‘read’ that they are looking for three major leaguers plus premium prospects. We have to stop letting local reporters provide coverage for hoyer/ptr
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The dodgers picking up the immaterial salary that the brewers were publicly willing to pick up isn’t going to change anything from a bargaining standpoint. the dodgers will have a top five farm system next year. Whether that’s because of the superior way they produce players or the way they get a 27 year old pitcher to still be a top 70 prospect…who knows. But this trade is not a revenue issue.
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Also instead of ‘woe is us, of course it’s the dodgers’ should we talk about whether Shaw/wiggins/kepley or whatever would have been a better package and maybe if that would have been cooler
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RIP the tigers are asking for three major league players (including Ben brown) plus prospects
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I only read the headline but isn’t paying the remainder of his salary like, a baseline assumption for every team?
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Good start from Shota, agree we should get to him early.
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He's averaging 93.1 mph on his fastball this year. This past start he averaged 94.1 mph and that was the highest average velocity in a start this year. As a starter he has a 4.96 FIP and a 4.21 xFIP, league average is 4.19. We should be aiming higher.
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Is there really a high probability that we're going to ship out one of our relievers and need extra arms lying around? Or would this just be for mechanics reasons....you need to cut someone to add new pitcher to the roster/40 man, but new pitcher is stuck in LA or Detroit and won't be here until Sunday
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Bertz is better at this than I am but for starters there's no guarantee he maintains this velocity. He had it in 2023 and then it went away for a couple years. And then beyond that, the quality of contact he's giving up seems to be worse. His FIP is the worst of his career, xERA and xFIP are down slightly but certainly not to levels you'd want 180 innings out of. If you think the elite LOB% is somehow just a thing he can do, I guess you can put a multiplier on otherwise mediocre metrics. But I'm still very skeptical.
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We don’t know if Cabrera or brown is coming back at all, but the odds of them contributing this year are a lot higher if they’re coming out of the pen (not to mention they could come back quicker). Better starters also lessens the strain on the bullpen because they’ll be needed for less innings.
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Thank you for your service
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Bregman up to 103 wRC, Nico up to 89 wRC. Your turn Jed.
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4-2 in 10 doesn't sound too impressive but we had a .345 xBA in the game, so going to hold off on any sort of offense concern. busch stadium is playing like a huge pitchers park and we just got hits in the wrong order. come home tomorrow and take care of business against a very beat up yankees team (with likely an exhausted pen, 12 innings yesterday and 11+ today). brewers on the west coast. by the time we have to worry about the dodgers we should have better pitchers.
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He’s such a freak
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…the offense?
