2023 MLB Thread

[Blackjack]

MLB trades are so weird. This is like trading McDavid for a few decent prospects. I know it’s a rental, but Jesus.

 

[NjDevsRR]

Cashman actually cooking?

 

[Saugus]

MLB trades are so weird. This is like trading McDavid for a few decent prospects. I know it’s a rental, but Jesus.

Yes, but in this analogy, the Oilers are also broke because their owner died and the salary cap doesn't exist.

The Yankees are one of the few teams that can pay the market value for Soto in UFA. I guess the Padres figure they might as well get some assets for him while they can.

 

[Louskoolaid89]

Soto at Yankee Stadium can do some absurd things potentially. Only entering his prime. What will good old John Sterling come up with? Lol

 

[Clam Jensen]

Soto at Yankee Stadium can do some absurd things potentially. Only entering his prime. What will good old John Sterling come up with? Lol

“And the verdict is in, Juan Sotomayor is guilty of mashing dongs”

 

[Forge]

 

[NjDevsRR]

absolutely disgusting money. Middle class continues to decrease while the rich get richer

 

[denverdevil]

That's a bananas amount of money.

 

[Incharge1976]

Hearing a ton of it is deferred too. Lets see what happens with two TJ issues.

 

[Emperoreddy]

That contract is going to age so poorly. It's MVP hitting and Cy young pitching money but he won't throw one pitch next year.

Idk the way the Angels handled him the last couple of years really scares me about how his arm holds up

 

[lightsout]

It's twice the average annual salary of Trout's contract, nearly double the total money of Judge's deal, and more than 2.5 times the average annual salary of Harper's deal. It's an absolutely absurd contract.

Imagine a new hack-a-Shaq where teams just walk Ohtani every time. $70 million a year to see teams just put him on first every time.

 

[njdevils1982]

$432,000 per game.... glad the cubs didnt fall for this scam

 

[Clam Jensen]

Stupid amount of money. It’s going to be an albatross after a couple years.

 

[Incharge1976]

$432,000 per game.... glad the cubs didnt fall for this scam

Yes but hearing it's heavily deferred to evade the luxury tax. I'm going to laugh if it's something like a 25 year payout. Baseball really needs to average out the salaries for the luxury tax because the Dodgers will still be in on Yamamoto if they are paying him something ridiculously low like $30M out of the $70 in the first X amount of years.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Baseball needs a cap ceiling and a cap floor

 

[njdevils1982]

Baseball needs a cap ceiling and a cap floor

mets phillies yankees all over 200 M in payroll

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the A's..... 38.6 M

 

[My3Sons]

Baseball needs a cap ceiling and a cap floor

The players think they are getting more this way but I’m skeptical the total amount of payroll is much different than it would be with the sort of cap baseball would generate.

 

[lightsout]

10 years and $350 million is right around what the top players have gotten the past few years. This deal has doubled that. It's mind boggling.

 

[My3Sons]

10 years and $350 million is right around what the top players have gotten the past few years. This deal has doubled that. It's mind boggling.

To be fair, Ohtani is like two players so look at it that way.

 

[NJDevs26]

Yes but hearing it's heavily deferred to evade the luxury tax. I'm going to laugh if it's something like a 25 year payout. Baseball really needs to average out the salaries for the luxury tax because the Dodgers will still be in on Yamamoto if they are paying him something ridiculously low like $30M out of the $70 in the first X amount of years.

Imagine if the Mets did this deal, the handwringing would be through the roof about how it’s bad for baseball and how dare we find a workaround to effectively get a much higher luxury tax. But since it’s the Dodgers and Magic, all good!

 

[Emperoreddy]

Imagine if the Mets did this deal, the handwringing would be through the roof about how it’s bad for baseball and how dare we find a workaround to effectively get a much higher luxury tax. But since it’s the Dodgers and Magic, all good!

I never get why LA doesn't get the salary hate the NY teams get.

 

[njdevils1982]

I never get why LA doesn't get the salary hate the NY teams get.

am i missing something? LAD is just above league average while the NY teams are both in the top 3

 

[NJDevs26]

am i missing something? LAD is just above league average while the NY teams are both in the top 3

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They cleared payroll for Ohtani last year, there’s no way that’s current as of today - his point is you never hear about the Dodgers spending even though they’ve been above the Yankees a lot in the last decade while the Mets have had effectively one year of being a ‘villain’ (and a cartoon character villain at that for all the good it did us) yet they get so much more handwringing than the West Coast Godzilla

 

[Forge]

am i missing something? LAD is just above league average while the NY teams are both in the top 3

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Off season isn't over.

They were #1 in payroll spending in 19, 20, 21, and 22 I believe. They won't be the top every year, but they are definitely that type of team

 

[njdevils1982]

They cleared payroll for Ohtani last year, there’s no way that’s current as of today - his point is you never hear about the Dodgers spending even though they’ve been above the Yankees a lot in the last decade while the Mets have had effectively one year of being a ‘villain’ (and a cartoon character villain at that for all the good it did us) yet they get so much more handwringing than the West Coast Godzilla

just checked previous years....i see your point

thanks