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12-20-2017, 08:12 PM | #407 |
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The Rays are sending between 12-17 million to San Francisco as part of the deal AND eating all of Span's contract.
That's going to basically give Longoria to the Giants for free this year and also give them major relief vs the luxury tax. So now they've shipped out 15 million in a terrible contract on a minus-value player, while taking on Longoria for what amounts to 69-74 million over five years. Easy to see why they pulled the trigger. Don't get the Rays angle. They must have loved Arroyo. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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12-20-2017, 09:24 PM | #408 |
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12-20-2017, 10:14 PM | #409 |
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12-20-2017, 10:35 PM | #410 |
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That's too bad for the Rays. Longoria is the type of guy you'd like to see stay around forever.
I'm really worried Moose is about to screw us and sign a deal that isn't going to get us a pick. I wonder what it would take for Dayton to make a serious run at him too. You'd have to backload the daylights out of these things, but it's not going to help any "rebuilding" process if we aren't getting draft picks for these guys. |
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12-20-2017, 11:48 PM | #411 | |
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Rebuild window is shorter, of course, if you keep Hosmer and Moustakas, too. If Moustakas signs anywhere, they get a comp pick, just a matter of when in draft. It would be after comp balance b if less than $50 million guaranteed.
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12-21-2017, 07:29 AM | #412 |
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If you're SF why not try and win the best year or two? What's the downside? "We lose a year of rebuild!" Pffft. Haven't we learned diff franchises have diff rebuild schedules? Cleve has done several in the past 20 years.
I don't like what Det did, they gave away everything and it looks like they'll be in a 5+ year wilderness. If not longer. Sux did much the same. |
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12-21-2017, 03:12 PM | #413 |
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@jcrasnick: The #Royals have focused more on Eric Hosmer than their other big free agents, Lorenzo Cain and Mike Moustakas, sources say. They're looking like the #Padres main competition for Hosmer. But can they wait so long that Duda, LoMo and the other Plan B's drop off the board?
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Because 'Plan B' isn't Duda or LoMo. It's...****, I dunno...Soler? I mean if Hosmer walks, are they really going to care who they plug in at 1b for the next 2-3 years? And if all else fails, there's always Pedro Alvarez - the single worst defensive player I have ever seen. The guy who is such a bad defender that I saw him stand a foot or more away from 1b while taking a throw from SS on multiple occasions. Dude just set up in the wrong spots, like there was a phantom base he was just certain he was standing on. Just a comically bad defender.
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An ESPN article today: Is there anybody left to sign Eric Hosmer?
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12-21-2017, 06:37 PM | #418 |
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Seems like Boras is really blowing this for Hosmer.
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12-21-2017, 07:27 PM | #420 |
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I'm guessing Boras didn't expect it to go this poorly, but some of this is just the nature of baseball today. It's why I wasn't super high on trading anyone at the deadline. The market for position players just isn't what it used to be. All of these big market teams are being more careful with their money, and most all of them have put their focus on developing their own position players. They aren't trading their top prospects away, and they aren't trying to simply "buy" a team anymore.
The Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers, have all developed their own offensive prospects. Judge, Sanchez, Bryant, Rizzo, pretty much the whole Dodgers lineup. Same thing with the Astros even, develop your big talent (Correa, Springer, Altuve) and supplement them with smart free agent moves. |
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