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11-06-2023, 03:15 PM | #1 |
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I guess Craig wanted to go from losing in the first round of the playoffs to just missing the playoffs.
Good riddance.
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I guess Craig decided that he simply couldn't Bear Stearns. (Ouch! That's the worst pun I've done in years.) |
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Lots of $$$ being spent, even on unproven talent - https://www.mlb.com/news/jackson-cho...wers-extension
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Anybody else disappointed that Shohei Ohtani has kept such close wraps on his moves during his FA? Anybody dying for information?
No? Only baseball reporters who wouldn't mail Ohtani a get well card if his career ended in the next 5 minutes? The baseball "insiders" sound like they are sore they aren't getting extra air time reporting useless rumours. GET OVER YOURSELVES, Buster! The man's 9 figure business is none of yours!
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I never thought my team would be in the Ohtani race, despite being a contender
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12-07-2023, 01:03 AM | #10 |
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Not sure if the Yankees are helping themselves in getting soto. They need more depth, not less. Still IÂ’m sure theyÂ’ll take him and hope he doesnÂ’t get injured.
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How does a generational talent get traded twice by the times he is 25?
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Soto/Boras turned down 15 yrs/$440m, so Washington traded him. Then, with Soto due to make $33m this year and then be ready to enter free agency, combined with the Padres' numerous high-profile moves over the last two years being very pricey but not resulting in wins, San Diego reasonably thought that it made sense to get something for him before he signs elsewhere... Not a criticism of Soto, but so far he has chosen money over stability. Within a year, though, it's a good bet that he will have boatloads of both. |
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With Baltimore and Tampa Bay running their teams legitimately better from the ground up, it's hard to believe that this trade will be a deciding factor in the Yankees making the playoffs much less winning the World Series.
While I am no Boras fan, I don't think he could have done much to prevent the Washington or San Diego trade, any other agent would have done the same thing, and as far as I know agents have little to do with trades(as opposed to free agency) Last edited by monkeyman576; 12-07-2023 at 06:41 AM. |
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No, but I don't think the goal of Boras was to prevent those trades. Far from it, actually. The all-about-money agenda/philosophy of Boras - and pretty much any player signing on with him, in this case Soto - is what precipitated those trades. |
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The Yankees trade for Soto does probably make them better (though it absolutely cripples their pitching depth; they've lost 10 starters in the last 48 hours). The trade for Verdugo though is weird with the added Soto context; while Verdugo fits exactly what they need in a vacuum (lefty corner OF with high contact and low K/whiff), it also means Plan A is now Judge being the everyday CF, which seems like a disaster both because he's an old injury-prone superstar they've invested almost $400M in, and also because he goes from being incredible defensively in RF to a liability in CF.
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Soto is overrated. Or maybe I say that because I just don't like him.
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As nobody has actually bothered to post the trades, here they are:
San Diego Padres traded LF Juan Soto and CF Trent Grisham to New York Yankees for RHP Michael King, C Kyle Higashioka, RHP Randy Vásquez, RHP Jhony Brito and RHP Drew Thorpe. Boston Red Sox traded LF Alex Verdugo to New York Yankees for RHP Greg Weissert, RHP Richard Fitts and RHP Nicholas Judice. So the Yankees traded a back-up catcher, one good pitcher, and various spare parts for a new outfield? Not bad. I should guess that Gold Glove Grisham sees most of the CF time, with Soto/Verdugo/Judge covering the other two slots and the DH. May not prove cost-effective, but looks good on paper, IMO. |
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Soto is a rental, no way he resigns with the Yankees. They may not have given up a lot but I don't see that it changes the needle at all. They need pitching and depth, not hitting.
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Why do you say that? Because they Yankees won't meet his price, or because he won't want to be in NY? My thinking is that he's a Boras guy so if the Yankees end up as the highest bidder and there are no extenuating circumstances (like Soto really wanting to be in a particular city and that team nearly matching the highest offer), that's where he'd end up...
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