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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 3, 2022 17:51:44 GMT -5
O's are meeting with Noah Syndergaard
Aaron Judge expected to have a 9 year deal when he finally signs with someone
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Post by The Captain on Dec 3, 2022 17:57:52 GMT -5
The Wilpons were weirdly inconsistent in how they spent. Some years, they had payrolls up there with the Yankees, Dodgers, and Red Sox of the game. Some years, they suddenly pretended they were the little engine that could and had a mediocre payroll at best.
There's a lot of shady shit about Steve Cohen, but he's never going to be afraid to spend.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 3, 2022 18:12:13 GMT -5
I wonder if Kershaw waited a little longer, if he would went to Texas after DeGrom
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 3, 2022 20:18:02 GMT -5
Cards looking at Catchers
Got meetings with Contreras and Vasquez while also looking at trades
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 3, 2022 20:18:54 GMT -5
Cubs interested in Dansby Swanson
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Post by Vampiro138 on Dec 3, 2022 21:35:02 GMT -5
Cubs interested in Dansby Swanson Cubs...you are a major market team, quit shopping the discount bins and spend!!! 17th in payroll for a team in Chicago is a damn joke!! We arent the damn A's!! Swanson is Jason Heyward but with Javy Baez strikeout rate...hard pass on this. |
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Post by sfvega on Dec 3, 2022 22:18:41 GMT -5
Cubs interested in Dansby Swanson Cubs...you are a major market team, quit shopping the discount bins and spend!!! 17th in payroll for a team in Chicago is a damn joke!! We arent the damn A's!! Swanson is Jason Heyward but with Javy Baez strikeout rate...hard pass on this. Swanson is a pretty good SS. You can, and I'm sure will, do a lot worse. |
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Post by ghost on Dec 3, 2022 23:37:40 GMT -5
Cubs interested in Dansby Swanson Cubs...you are a major market team, quit shopping the discount bins and spend!!! 17th in payroll for a team in Chicago is a damn joke!! We arent the damn A's!! Swanson is Jason Heyward but with Javy Baez strikeout rate...hard pass on this. Yeah I wouldn't trust Swanson on a long term deal. Great defense but bat has been consistently below average over full seasons except for 2022. He should definitely be the shortstop a team settles on when they miss out on Turner, Correa, or Xander. |
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Post by hashtagdaley/JudasDay on Dec 4, 2022 12:38:30 GMT -5
O's are meeting with Noah Syndergaard Aaron Judge expected to have a 9 year deal when he finally signs with someone God the back half of that deal is going to suck. Lmao |
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Post by HMARK Center on Dec 4, 2022 14:43:57 GMT -5
The Wilpons were weirdly inconsistent in how they spent. Some years, they had payrolls up there with the Yankees, Dodgers, and Red Sox of the game. Some years, they suddenly pretended they were the little engine that could and had a mediocre payroll at best. There's a lot of shady shit about Steve Cohen, but he's never going to be afraid to spend. Fred Wilpon got sole ownership after buying out his partner Nelson Doubleday around 2002; they did spend a lot to build the 2006-2008 Mets teams, but there were two big issues: -They'd spend on the big league roster, but not on any damn thing else. Minor leagues, scouting, the draft, player development, player health and injury prevention, especially not on analytics, they just did absolutely nothing to improve the organizational infrastructure that might've kept the team from hitting so many LOLMETS situations over the years. -Once the Bernie Madoff shit hit the fan, that was that, they weren't going to spend big again (at least not commensurate with being a NYC-sized market team). It's part of why Bud Selig all but forced them to bring Sandy Alderson in circa 2011; Alderson was given the idea he'd finally get to have a real budget to build a team with, but instead he was sent there because he was sort of the grandfather of what became Moneyball and because he'd had some success with limited payrolls in Oakland and San Diego. Basically, even when they did spend big, they did it really, really badly most of the time. Like, bringing in Carlos Beltran? Great move. Not beginning to address a critical lack of pitching depth in the minors, leading to those Beltran teams falling apart in 2007 and 2008 when their bullpens fell apart? Bad move. Hiring Tony Bernazard and him challenging minor league players to fights? Whoops! |
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 4, 2022 17:57:43 GMT -5
Red Sox have not made a competitive offer to Xander
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 4, 2022 18:58:03 GMT -5
A’a closing in on Sean Murphy trade
No Destination known yet but it isn’t ATL
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Post by sfvega on Dec 4, 2022 21:24:55 GMT -5
Fred McGriff makes the HOF. Still no Bonds but he probably had a better shot making it with the writers voting. Former players who came from that era and did it clean would never vote for Bonds. McGriff was underrated though so good for him. Back-to-back-to-back AAU National Championships. |
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Post by animaniac on Dec 4, 2022 21:25:44 GMT -5
Very happy to see the Crime Dog voted in.
Wonder what happened to Chipper? They said he was ill and was replaced.
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Post by BRV on Dec 4, 2022 22:55:52 GMT -5
Fred McGriff makes the HOF. Still no Bonds but he probably had a better shot making it with the writers voting. Former players who came from that era and did it clean would never vote for Bonds. McGriff was underrated though so good for him. Back-to-back-to-back AAU National Championships. A player needed 12 votes from the 16-person committee to be enshrined in Cooperstown. Bonds got less than four votes. That’s 18 percent, about 18 points lower than the worst he’d ever finished in his 10 years on the BBWAA ballot. It’s time to face reality — and it’s a shame — Barry Bonds is never making the Baseball Hall of Fame. |
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Post by XIII on Dec 5, 2022 7:14:57 GMT -5
The baseball HoF denying Bonds, Clemens, and others is ridiculous. Anyone with any sense knows that players from at least the 60s on were using everything from amphetamines to steroids to glean a competitive advantage. I don’t much keep track from Bonds era but I’m sure some juicers among his peers have already been enshrined.
Pud Galvin is in despite taking and endorsing monkey testosterone way back when. LMAO
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Post by Heart of fools gold on Dec 5, 2022 10:51:16 GMT -5
The baseball HoF denying Bonds, Clemens, and others is ridiculous. Anyone with any sense knows that players from at least the 60s on were using everything from amphetamines to steroids to glean a competitive advantage. I don’t much keep track from Bonds era but I’m sure some juicers among his peers have already been enshrined. Pud Galvin is in despite taking and endorsing monkey testosterone way back when. LMAO HOF voters are a bunch of stuck up sanctimonious clowns who try and act like baseball has pure and noble history with 0 skeletons in the closet except for the steroid era where they act like it was the biggest blackeye for the sport eventually that sentiment will change when the old guard dies off completely |
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Post by HMARK Center on Dec 5, 2022 12:10:44 GMT -5
There's buzz that Verlander will soon be a Met, with a 2 year deal (3rd year mutual option) worth over $85 million.
The source of that rumor? I swear to God, Carlos Baerga.
Dude's apparently broken a number of signings in recent years, so that kept me from immediately dismissing it as bullshit.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Dec 5, 2022 12:26:11 GMT -5
There's buzz that Verlander will soon be a Met, with a 2 year deal (3rd year mutual option) worth over $85 million. The source of that rumor? I swear to God, Carlos Baerga. Dude's apparently broken a number of signings in recent years, so that kept me from immediately dismissing it as bullshit. Having Verlander on a short deal as the DeGrom replacement is a smart move, that is if Verlander still has more in the tank. |
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 5, 2022 12:33:06 GMT -5
There's buzz that Verlander will soon be a Met, with a 2 year deal (3rd year mutual option) worth over $85 million. The source of that rumor? I swear to God, Carlos Baerga. Dude's apparently broken a number of signings in recent years, so that kept me from immediately dismissing it as bullshit. It’s official |
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