2023 MLB Thread: Texas Rangers World Series Champions

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Kenley Jansen to Boston 2/$32M

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Padre offered $400M over 10 years to Judge

[Mecca]

Judge is going to be a massive albatross at the end of that deal, it's hard to see his body aging well.

[Heart of fools gold]

Dec 7, 2022 11:18:26 GMT -5 Mecca said:

Judge is going to be a massive albatross at the end of that deal, it's hard to see his body aging well.

Sure probably but the deal had to happen. Could you imagine the nuclear fallout of the NY media and fans if Judge walked. Hal and Cashman could never show their face in public again if they didn't make the deal. And yet that same media and fanbase (myself included) will be here around the 7 year mark of the contract saying "how could the Yankees do this deal oh its killing them oh how stupid they were" its a damned if you do damned if you don't for the organization and they went with the positive press in the present

[Mecca]

Dec 7, 2022 11:28:14 GMT -5 Heart of fools gold said:

Dec 7, 2022 11:18:26 GMT -5 Mecca said:

Judge is going to be a massive albatross at the end of that deal, it's hard to see his body aging well.

Sure probably but the deal had to happen. Could you imagine the nuclear fallout of the NY media and fans if Judge walked. Hal and Cashman could never show their face in public again if they didn't make the deal. And yet that same media and fanbase (myself included) will be here around the 7 year mark of the contract saying "how could the Yankees do this deal oh its killing them oh how stupid they were" its a damned if you do damned if you don't for the organization and they went with the positive press in the present

They probably should have attempted to do a deal far earlier so they didn't have to sign him for so long.

Giving massive long term deals to guys that are 30 is never good.

[The Captain]

Dec 7, 2022 11:36:31 GMT -5 Mecca said:

Dec 7, 2022 11:28:14 GMT -5 Heart of fools gold said:

Sure probably but the deal had to happen. Could you imagine the nuclear fallout of the NY media and fans if Judge walked. Hal and Cashman could never show their face in public again if they didn't make the deal. And yet that same media and fanbase (myself included) will be here around the 7 year mark of the contract saying "how could the Yankees do this deal oh its killing them oh how stupid they were" its a damned if you do damned if you don't for the organization and they went with the positive press in the present

They probably should have attempted to do a deal far earlier so they didn't have to sign him for so long.

Giving massive long term deals to guys that are 30 is never good.

They did and Judge turned it down to bet on himself. It was always his intention to test free agency.

Then he had an MVP season and broke the AL home run record.

[Rolent Tex]

Cardinals are finalizing a deal with Willson Contreras.

[Mecca]

Dec 7, 2022 11:52:23 GMT -5 The Captain said:

Dec 7, 2022 11:36:31 GMT -5 Mecca said:

They probably should have attempted to do a deal far earlier so they didn't have to sign him for so long.

Giving massive long term deals to guys that are 30 is never good.

They did and Judge turned it down to bet on himself. It was always his intention to test free agency.

Then he had an MVP season and broke the AL home run record.

I just don't understand these teams, who pulled the blanket over their eyes that paying guys for multiple unproductive seasons is just what everyone does?

[sfvega]

Dec 7, 2022 11:06:00 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Kenley Jansen to Boston 2/$32M

Turrible, I love it. He's gonna be blowing saves for the fake poverty franchise.

[sfvega]

Dec 7, 2022 11:58:42 GMT -5 Rolent Tex said:

Cardinals are finalizing a deal with Willson Contreras.

Goddamn it.

[HMARK Center]

Dec 7, 2022 10:32:55 GMT -5 ghost said:

Mets have signed Jose Quintana for two years, $26 million. So rotation for now looks like Scherzer, Verlander, Carrasco, and Quintana.

And apparently the Mets are in on trying to sign Kodai Senga out of Japan, so if that happens and then you've got Peterson, Megill, and Lucchesi as the 6-8 starters, that's pretty insane depth.

It's also an old rotation, so that depth would be important, but the great part is that most of them would only be on the books for a couple more years...which would mean Ohtani would still be on next year's free agency table...

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Dec 7, 2022 11:52:23 GMT -5 The Captain said:

Dec 7, 2022 11:36:31 GMT -5 Mecca said:

They probably should have attempted to do a deal far earlier so they didn't have to sign him for so long.

Giving massive long term deals to guys that are 30 is never good.

They did and Judge turned it down to bet on himself. It was always his intention to test free agency.

Then he had an MVP season and broke the AL home run record.

He was also pissed at the offer and Cashman for leaking it. He damn near doubled his money from what he was offered

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Xander and Boston had a meeting this morning

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Dec 7, 2022 11:15:04 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Padre offered $400M over 10 years to Judge

Padres are getting f***ing shafted in this offseason, no one wants to play for them even with them offering more cash lmfao

[BRV]

I said the following on Aug. 30, and not a word of it has changed with the news of the Yankees signing Aaron Judge to a nine-year, $360 million contract.

Aaron Judge's pursuit of 62 home runs will be captivating through the month of September, but if he seeks something in the neighborhood of even what Francisco Lindor received from the Mets (10 years, $341 million), I wouldn't fault the Yankees for going another route.

Judge will turn 31 next April and he hasn't been the picture of health, missing significant time in 2018, 2019, and 2020 for a variety of injuries. Also, this isn't the late-90s, where power hitters are reaching their peaks in their mid-30s. He's going to begin regressing and declining pretty much the moment the ink dries on his contract.

Whoever signs Judge needs to be extremely cautious about who they're investing in and what a blockbuster contract could potentially do to them long-term.

I understand that Aaron Judge means more to the New York Yankees than dollars and cents. He's the torchbearer of the signature franchise in Major League Baseball, the heir apparent to legends like Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Reggie, and Jeter. But he's also a colossal health risk entering his age-31 season starting the first year of a contract that will pay him $40 million annually until he's nearing 40 years old. This has the risk to mirror disastrous deals like Albert Pujols to the Angels (10 years, $240 million at age 32) and the Miguel Cabrera extension in Detroit (8 years, $248 million at age 31).

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

I guess Judge has officially confirmed I will never be rooting for him in his career, f*** the Yankees

Also I assume this means the Giants 2023 season is officially over lmfao. That Jon Heyman tweet is gonna be in their nightmares.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

5/$87.5M for Wilson Contreras to Cards

[The Captain]

Dec 7, 2022 13:11:57 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

I guess Judge has officially confirmed I will never be rooting for him in his career, f*** the Yankees

Also I assume this means the Giants 2023 season is officially over lmfao. That Jon Heyman tweet is gonna be in their nightmares.

To be fair, Heyman said they signed Arson Judge, not Aaron. 😛

[ghost]

Dec 7, 2022 13:13:55 GMT -5 The Captain said:

Dec 7, 2022 13:11:57 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

I guess Judge has officially confirmed I will never be rooting for him in his career, f*** the Yankees

Also I assume this means the Giants 2023 season is officially over lmfao. That Jon Heyman tweet is gonna be in their nightmares.

To be fair, Heyman said they signed Arson Judge, not Aaron. 😛

Heyman is never going to live that down. 

[Perd]

Willy is a Cardinal. I’m ambivalent. I would’ve rather seen him sign with any other team. But I wouldn’t have wanted the Cubs to give him that contract. If his bat stays viable, he’s worth it. If it doesn’t, he’s a zero sum player.

Now g get Correa, Cubs.