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  1. Stratos
    I wouldn't do the 3rd one.
  2. Stratos
    How do you know this? How do you know that Ricketts doesn't set a max payroll and largely leaves it up to Jed to figure out how to maximize the wins with that money? That's also exactly what they've said is how it happens. I think if there's going to be major spending on a player Jed and the FO go over it with a fine-toothed comb to make sure it's the best move for them, and then take all that data/evidence and show it to Tom to get his final ok on spending that money. I think he generally trusts Jed to do his job. Tom's not a baseball guy, WTF does he know about winning ballgames? IMO it's all data-driven. They've worked out the math and in their analysis they conclude that these huge 300/12 type deals don't produce as many wins for the team as e.g. 2 separate 150/6 deals. We don't really know what that math is, but I think they probably have a good argument. I wouldn't call these mega-contracts, but just as an example if the Cubs could have cut bait on Heyward and Lester halfway through their contracts we would have been much better off. The likelihood that a player on a mega-contract outperforms that contract is close to zero. The best they can do is live up to it, and that doesn't happen often.
  3. Stratos
    I don't know the exact solution but the disparity between payroll between the richest and small market teams seems to be increasing and it isn't good for competitiveness and the sport in general. They need to do something next CBA. Total spending isn't the issue, it's the distribution.
  4. Stratos
    And the 50 million signing bonus. Cost the Dodgers 35.5 AAV equivalent.
  5. Stratos
    Maybe they should figure out how to make the playoffs less random. I say a 7 game divisional series is the bare minimum they could try.
  6. Stratos
    On the plus side, if I become a Dodger fan for the next few years life is suddenly super amaziing! We just got Ohtani and Yamamoto baby!!
  7. Stratos
    Fair enough. My assumption is Yamamoto will be about as good as Steele, but hard to say.
  8. Stratos
    Yes, the only way anyone wins the WS now is by luck. The Dodgers won 100 games this season and just added Ohtani, Yamamoto, and Glasnow. Urias was worth 1 WAR last season, but if they let him walk they still added about 15 wins. Lucky for us Ohtani can't pitch yet.
  9. Stratos
    The Dodgers now have 4 players who are better than anyone on the Cubs. Any time Glasnow is healthy you can count 5. Maybe the Dodgers sign Soto and Sasaki next year, that would be fun.
  10. Stratos
    After this season the Dodgers will be running out Ohtani, Yamamoto, Glasnow, and Kershaw in the rotation, and have a lineup anchored by 3 of the 4 best players in baseball with Ohtani, Betts, and Freeman. This is insane. And the offseason isn't even done yet, they could keep adding...
  11. Stratos
    He cost them $425 million. Who the heck else was going to be in on that? F*** the Dodgers. Ohtani and Yamamoto can now afford to buy the Dodgers and move them to Tokyo.
  12. Stratos
    Yeah because of the stupid deferred Ohtani contract.
  13. Stratos
    Well to be fair the Dodgers this offseason haven't been just re-signing their own players to big deals and handing out huge dollars to old people.
  14. Stratos
    Looks like Christmas is cancelled in the Derwood household...
  15. Stratos
    Taillon will probably do better next year but he gives up way too many flyballs and it's been a trend each of his last 3 seasons. That's not good. There's no path besides pure luck where he doesn't give up a lot of HR if he pitches like that. I like his curveball but his fastballs all suck. Hitters hammer them.
  16. Stratos
    If it makes you feel any better, a reminder that Jed met with Counsell without anyone knowing and the signing came out of the blue, and the Swanson and Stroman signings had no heat from what I remember until just before they happened. Sounds like Yamamoto won't sign until after the new year, and Imanaga might wait for him. The top 4 non-Japanese FA's left are Bellinger, Snell, Chapman, Montgomery, and they all are Boras clients, so there's no action there either until well into January it seems. Stroman and Hader are left as well, plus a lot of solid bats we've talked about like Hoskins, Garver, Belt etc. There's only like 3 big names off the FA board so far: Ohtani, Nola, and Lee, and seems no other teams had any realistic chance at Ohtani or Nola including Cubs. It's just a slow market this year.
  17. Stratos
    Hader was given a QO. Womp-womp.
  18. Stratos
    Read that he had real problems getting used to the WBC baseball, which is similar to the MLB ball, so maybe teams had some pause there. I get it, it's still a dice roll to sign a player from another league, and he's only a reliever. It's like bringing up a prospect from AAA, but even riskier, you don't know what will happen.
  19. Stratos
    Cubs are a joke if they don't take the division this year. Reds might be annoying this year though.
  20. Stratos
    You could say that about every single prospect ever. At some point you have to take a risk and play a prospect if you want to cash in on the potential surplus they can provide. PCA has a high floor. Even if he doesn't hit that great he's young, fast, and athletic and is going to cover a ton of ground in CF and probably take home some gold gloves.
  21. Stratos
    Enjoyed this article.
  22. Stratos
    Hoskins is a Boras guy, like Chapman and Bellinger, as is Snell. Maybe some others too I'm missing.
  23. Stratos
    True. And I support that philosophy as long as the total payroll spending is an acceptably high amount. Point of my post is that if they were in on Lee then they're at least considering signing a FA to fill CF rather than for sure going with PCA/Tauchman/Canario in 2024. Seems like they want to add at least 1 LHB to the lineup. Happ is the only regular who can hit LH right now.
  24. Stratos
    Maybe the Brewers bribe umps because they like to cheat n stuff lol
  25. Stratos
    30m AAV for Snell is a bit much for a 4 WAR player. He won the Cy Young but isn't exactly a workhorse every year and looks like he got lucky last year quite a bit given the xFIP.
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