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Call your shots now...

1.  Where does Harper go?

2.  Where does Machado go?

3.  Where does AJ Pollack go?

4.  Where does Dallas Keuchel go?

5.  Where does Patrick Corbin go?

6.  What does Adrian Beltre do?

Does he get traded because he's a free agent in 2020?

7.  Arenado

8.  Goldschmidt

9.  Bumgarner

10.  Khris Davis

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  • best comment i read so far about the contract length.   "There are Phillies fans not yet born that will be throwing batteries at him in the later years of this contract".

  • From Levi Weaver's column in The Athletic:  

  • Gammons rambles way too much and it's like his editors are afraid to touch his work, but I like him because he loves baseball.  Not just MLB.  Gammons loves BASEBALL. And he hit this one out of t

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1.  Yankees

2.  Philly

3.  Mets

4.  Mariners

5.  Yankees

6.  1-year contract with Texas

7.  Traded at the end of July

8.  (I literally have no idea if AZ is trying to resign him.)  If he gets traded, I think it's in the offseason to Houston.  I don't think AZ will go into March with him not extended.

9.  SF extends him.

10.  99.9% chance they trade him in the offseason.  Guessing Seattle?

 

Forgot about Donaldson, but fuck him.

I doubt Oakland trades Davis to any AL West team, but stranger things have happened.

Weren't the Cubs listed as one of the top potential destinations for Harper?

Harper to Philly, Machado and Corbin to Yankees, Keuchel to Reds, Pollock to Astros

Bumgarner traded to Milwaukee. 

Beltre retires.

Arenado gets extended

 

1. Harper to Cubs

2. Machado to Philly

3. Pollack to Indians

4. Keuchel to Angels

5. Corbin to NYY

6. Beltre to TEX/ 1-year

7. Arenado - not traded/COL contends

8. Goldschmidt - traded

9. Bumgarner - not traded (but should be)

10. Davis - not traded/OAK contends

I’m still trying to figure out who in the flying fuck AJ Pollack is? 

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58 minutes ago, spystud13 said:

I’m still trying to figure out who in the flying fuck AJ Pollack is? 

It's pronounced PO-lak.

On 10/30/2018 at 9:14 PM, Beau Vine said:

Call your shots now...

1.  Where does Harper go?

2.  Where does Machado go?

3.  Where does AJ Pollack go?

4.  Where does Dallas Keuchel go?

 

 

Flinging shit at the wall 

1. LA Dodgers

2. Cardinals

3. Houston

4. Brewers 

 

Rangers declined Chirinos’ $2.375M option, that is crazy. That is stupid cheap. 

12 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

kershaw back to the dodgers, 3 years/$93 million.

Him playing anywhere else just wouldn't feel right.

21 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

kershaw back to the dodgers, 3 years/$93 million.

So he basically agreed to a 1-year extension on his current deal?

correct.  i think he's taking a little less over the next couple of years in return for the 3rd year.

Apparently Chirinos’ option would have been $4.5M after incentive escalators kicked in. Still cheap. 

Glad it was only one additional.  Not sure there'll be much in the tank when that expires.  

35 minutes ago, spystud13 said:

Apparently Chirinos’ option would have been $4.5M after incentive escalators kicked in. Still cheap. 

Gotta save money for Choo..fml

It would have been fun to see Kershaw on the open market.

1.  Where does Harper go? Cubs - New tv deal gets even sweeter with him in the fold. 

2.  Where does Machado go? Phillies, then they get Trout 2020

3.  Where does AJ Pollack go? Braves

4.  Where does Dallas Keuchel go? Mariners

5.  Where does Patrick Corbin go? Yankees

6.  What does Adrian Beltre do? Don't really care

Does he get traded because he's a free agent in 2020?

7.  Arenado - No

8.  Goldschmidt - Yes (Twins, Mariners, or Rays)

9.  Bumgarner - Yes and he should be

10.  Khris Davis - No

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5 hours ago, spystud13 said:

Apparently Chirinos’ option would have been $4.5M after incentive escalators kicked in. Still cheap. 

Any explanation out of the Rangers?  

Two years ago tonight my ass was getting drunk as fuck watching the Cubs win the WS.

It's hard to understand why Kershaw would take that deal, at least from a purely financial standpoint. $28m might be about right for his age 33 season but it's going to be even tougher for him to get a longer-term deal going into his age 34 season. 

It's hard to understand why Kershaw would take that deal, at least from a purely financial standpoint. $28m might be about right for his age 33 season but it's going to be even tougher for him to get a longer-term deal going into his age 34 season. 


I thought he could get at least 5 years guaranteed on the FA market and I agree with you. I don’t trust Kershaw or Bum 3 years from now with the amount of mileage they have.
Any explanation out of the Rangers?  


JD being JD. Yayy
18 hours ago, DanRydell said:

It's hard to understand why Kershaw would take that deal, at least from a purely financial standpoint. $28m might be about right for his age 33 season but it's going to be even tougher for him to get a longer-term deal going into his age 34 season. 

Maybe maximizing his career earnings isn’t his top priority.  

5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Maybe maximizing his career earnings isn’t his top priority.  

Hence why I said, "at least from a purely financial standpoint."

Yeah I could see Kershaw as a retire-early kind of guy. He broke in at a young age, he is clearly in decline and has had a lot of injury issues (including back stuff). 

On 11/2/2018 at 11:39 PM, DanRydell said:

It's hard to understand why Kershaw would take that deal, at least from a purely financial standpoint. $28m might be about right for his age 33 season but it's going to be even tougher for him to get a longer-term deal going into his age 34 season. 

He'll be 33 going on 40.  I think it puts the dodgers financially in a better chance to win a title and that's all he's got left to check off on his list. 

I think he knows he's going to be done by 34 or 35 anyway and I don't think he likes the limelight. Seems to fly way under the radar. 

Yeah I could see Kershaw as a retire-early kind of guy. He broke in at a young age, he is clearly in decline and has had a lot of injury issues (including back stuff). 


Yeah, he feels a lot like Felix Hernandez. And Bum is another on that boat.

Are you kidding me? How the hell is JD Martinez not a finalist for AL mvp? Absolutely ridiculous. 

On 11/3/2018 at 10:12 PM, UTexasFight said:

Apparently neither is getting a ring

Why you gotta be like dat?

Shohei, Gleyber, Andujar AL ROY finalists. 

Acuna, Soto, Buehler in the NL. 

 

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3 hours ago, spystud13 said:

 

 

Discuss. 

Davey Johnson probably deserves in.  They do let in too many managers/execs, so Pinella might get in to.

They'll vote Lee Smith in.  

There are worse players than Will Clark in.  

I think Joe Carter is literally the most overrated player of my lifetime.  

But my greatest fear is a HoF with Kuhn, Selig, and Steinbrenner, but without Marvin Mitchell.

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The MLBPA  has literally not talked to the owners/commish (by choice) since before the start of the 2018 season.  But the teams and Manfred keep leaking stuff like this to the media for some reason.  

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