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  1. Thurston Fluff
    This is the best Christmas surprise I've had since I had to put my dog down a week before Christmas. Seriously though, when you have one of the best catchers in the game how much time is the backup going to get? It would take a couple months to find out if he's a total waste which would give Quero some time in AAA and save some service time. Even if Quero isn't ready on offense he's one of the best defensive catchers in the minors. That should be enough to help the team in a backup role in the second half. If Quero can hit then Contreras can DH more.
  2. Thurston Fluff
    You're absolutely correct. They chose financial solvency and the ability to keep their franchise over winning. I mean every small market could spend like the Dodgers for the chance to one World Series every 32 years. Granted there would be seven different owners over that period of time but you know. Priorities.
  3. Thurston Fluff
    That's my point. MLB is more local than national. Ohtani will get a large share of the non-local sales but that isn't a major portion of total sales. While Ohtani will a larger share of the local sales the major portion of those will come at the expense of other players not extra local sales created by him. Taking sales away from Freeman and Betts doesn't improve the dodgers bottom line. The one area he will help is international sales. How large that is I don't know but it will be fairly large. Large enough to make up the cost is another question.
  4. Thurston Fluff
    Do they really make so much more off him though? Do dodger fans buy an Ohtani jersey plus another Dodger player jersey or do they just buy Ohtani's? There will no doubt be significant sales of people who follow him alone. But he'd have to reach a Michael Jordan level of personal following to make that contract worth it. I don't think any baseball player does that. He may sell by far the most merch and the way it's counted would make it appear like Ohtani was the one who brought that revenue in but if that person would have bought one anyway it wasn't generated by him. Had he gone to a team that doesn't sell out every game or has a tv contract coming up soon he'd have a larger personal impact. Given the Dodgers sell out their stadium anyway it doesn't really drive more attendance to games and their TV contract is set in stone until something like 2039 or so. For him to make that much extra he'd have to sell an awful lot of merchandise to people who wouldn't have bought anything other than his. I just don't see how even he makes enough people who don't normally buy merchandise suddenly shell out premium dollars for a t-shirt and cap to justify the contract.
  5. Thurston Fluff
    This is the least surprising thing I've seen in a long time. Both who signed him and what was paid.
  6. Thurston Fluff
    From everything I've read he got his buyout.
  7. Thurston Fluff
    Why move a failed starter who found success in the bullpen back to where he failed? It looks to me like they want to have more than one multiple inning reliever and he's one of them. Honestly I think having Wilson, Ross and Rea all in the pen means they can fill out the starting rotation with five inning types. Our rotation looks to have at least three who are either coming off injury, a rookie and Miley who is old and not very durable. It'd make sense to have a lot of long/swing men this season. If one steps up as a legitimate starter, all the better. I just doubt they're planning on relying on any of the three to lock down a rotation spot.
  8. Thurston Fluff
    Not quite. He got the buyout this season by declining the option and has another buyout next season. Had he taken the deal he'd have made $10 million. By turning it down and signing a new contract he makes his base salary of $8.5 + $1 buyout plus the $1.5 buyout for 2024. So he essentially made half a million more in guaranteed money plus a possible $2.5 more if he reaches his incentives.
  9. Thurston Fluff
    I don't believe he can be sent down without going through waivers. Also not sure if he has to accept a demotion or if he can opt for free agency. Either way I doubt they signed him to with the idea he can send time in AAA.
  10. Thurston Fluff
    If there was a way to know which area was going to need depth then it would make sense. But we don't know where the injury, or under performance bug is going to rear it's ugly head. If we were in a situation where there was a major shortage in one area and a major surplus in the other I'd get it. But that isn't the case. Our pitching depth is nearly as good as last season and there's more ways to shore it up than trading controllable young talent with options away. What we will be lacking next season is elite starting pitching but I don't think we can get that via trade. As a general rule, I don't think you get better overall depth by trading away depth.
  11. Thurston Fluff
    None. They all have options and depth is important. It isn't like all of them have accomplished everything they could in AAA.
  12. Thurston Fluff
    It's the extra 2 years of control in his prime at $10 million that make this an easy decision. Add in two more team options at a higher rate and this a no brainer. We're getting a potential superstar signed to a deal a throughout his prime that league average players get in free agency. His floor is probably close to league average. He gets to hit free agency at 30 which gives him time to cash in once more. Win, win.
  13. Thurston Fluff
    Seems to me the most risk is up front. He'd have to be below average not to be worth $10 million a year. The chances of that happening looks to be early in his career as opposed to later on. We've got a lot of prearby players keeping the payroll down so we can absorb the contract early on and reap the rewards later when he hits his prime. The risk is if he only ever becomes Jason Heyward and he's only ever worth $10 million a year.
  14. Thurston Fluff
    Maybe their plan is to only allow grounders to third.
  15. Thurston Fluff
    Dating apps are pure crap. I registered on five different apps and not a single one knew what year my dining set was made.
  16. Thurston Fluff
    It's likely they will spend more but that might be just to maintain their current level than to improve. Cody Bellinger is going to cost them more than $12.5 million and Stroman chose free agency because he wanted to make more than he would have if he stayed. So they either pay more to keep both or pay more for someone else his caliber. To get better would be added costs on top of what it would cost to remain the same. Which is why free agency isn't the panacea to improving a team it's made out to be.
  17. Thurston Fluff
    I think a lot of people are looking at 2024 as a mini rebuild. Rebuilds tend to be with cheap players because there's little reason to pay when there's little hope of being competitive. I get why some think we're going to rebuild but I don't agree. It'd be hard to ask for and receive half a billion of public funds only to turn around and cut payroll. There's enough talent in the pipeline to keep this thing going if we supplement the roster of youngsters with a veteran or two.
  18. Thurston Fluff
    If last postseason didn't dispel your notion of what constitutes a championship roster I don't know what to say.
  19. Thurston Fluff
    Or they waited until the last minute for some other reason. The fact remains nobody was willing to give up anything for him and we were forced to let him go for nothing. That's a pretty good indication nobody was willing to trade anything for him.
  20. Thurston Fluff
    Why would anyone trade so much as a single used baseball for a guy who likely won't pitch a single inning, make $11 million, and be a free agent when he is healthy enough to pitch again? It's worse than trading for nothing from their perspective.
  21. Thurston Fluff
    This seems more like a Blake Perkins move than a move for a starter. The only difference is Perkins had an option left. I seriously doubt they have him penciled in as the starter. He does provide some power off the bench I suppose. Question for someone who knows how arbitration works. If the Brewers cut bait before the season starts are they on the hook for his salary?
  22. Thurston Fluff
    So? We have to operate like the money spent on him is a bonus if everything pans out, not something we rely on to fill a need.
  23. Thurston Fluff
    I think they non-tender him and take their chances of resigning him later. If someone wants to overpay in a trade by the deadline today take it. Why take a chance of paying him a huge amount to rehab and him deciding to become a free agent instead of signing a team friendly extension?
  24. Thurston Fluff
    That's a very large assumption. It could be as simple as him not thinking he could do it at a level that would actually help. If the manager really wanted him to do it he could have just put him in the lineup and said you have no choice.
  25. Thurston Fluff
    He did refuse but context matters. The fact that he did so in Seattle is irrelevant as he had the entire off season and spring training knowing he had to learn a new position. The Brewer asked him to do it in the middle of the season. I think if he felt more comfortable on defense to begin with he might have tried. He dude struggled at the position he played his entire pro career. I can't imagine how bad he'd have looked playing an entirely new position on the fly in the middle of the season. Personally, I think it was kind of a "do you think you can do it?" sort of request and he said probably not.
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