Market distorting overpay, Hoss. Tucker deal is too outrageous. We must be missing something. The possibility cannot be dismissed that the owners are allowing, even encouraging, the Dodgers to monopolize high end talent in order to consolidate general opinion that a fundamental restructuring of the industry's finances is necessary.
You may well be right, Publius. Or do they just think the Dodgers will hang themselves in the long run?
Tucker batted .266 last year, and his OPS dropped 152 points. He is a lifetime .273 hitter, who has never played an entire season and missed a combined 110 games over the last two years. Baseball reference rated him a -0.7 WAR in the field last year.
I can see overpaying for Babe Ruth. This is overpaying for Roy White.
Eliminates the Dodgers, probably. No other team, certainly not the Yankees, are even going to approach those numbers for Bellinger. The Yankees are probably willing to come closest. Boras is negotiating against himself now, I think. His main leverage at this point is spite. "He'll sign elsewhere for less just to prove a point".
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Fire Harbaugh!
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DeleteWhy? He appears to be doing want he always wanted. MANAGE. SMILE WITH A GIDDY SMILE. SERVE UP A HEEPING PILE OF BS TO YANKEES' FANS.
ReplyDeleteMy best guess is that AA is being a little bit sarcastic .
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We swoon over Boone,
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They annoy
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And we follow them
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DeleteTucker to the Dodgers. $240 mill: 4 years at $60 mill a pop. We HAVE slipped into an alternate reality.
ReplyDeleteWith opt-outs after ‘27 & ‘28.
ReplyDeleteI’m just SO surprised
ReplyDeleteMarket distorting overpay, Hoss. Tucker deal is too outrageous. We must be missing something. The possibility cannot be dismissed that the owners are allowing, even encouraging, the Dodgers to monopolize high end talent in order to consolidate general opinion that a fundamental restructuring of the industry's finances is necessary.
ReplyDeleteYou may well be right, Publius. Or do they just think the Dodgers will hang themselves in the long run?
ReplyDeleteTucker batted .266 last year, and his OPS dropped 152 points. He is a lifetime .273 hitter, who has never played an entire season and missed a combined 110 games over the last two years. Baseball reference rated him a -0.7 WAR in the field last year.
I can see overpaying for Babe Ruth. This is overpaying for Roy White.
And what does it mean for Bellinger?
ReplyDeleteEliminates the Dodgers, probably. No other team, certainly not the Yankees, are even going to approach those numbers for Bellinger. The Yankees are probably willing to come closest. Boras is negotiating against himself now, I think. His main leverage at this point is spite. "He'll sign elsewhere for less just to prove a point".
ReplyDeleteRoy White! Meeemmmmmmmories.....
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