Around Baseball 2022

[Ehjays]

[Horses Fart]

Justin gonna be flicking the dolla dolla bills all over Kate’s big ass titties tonight. Lucky man.

[Brownie19]

Bryan Reynolds went from 98 percentile in "Outs Above Average" to the dreaded 6 percentile last year. What happened?

[Ehjays]

Carlos Rodon Seeking Six-Year Deal
By Steve Adams | December 5, 2022 at 11:43am CDT

With Jacob deGrom and Justin Verlander off the market — to the Rangers and to the Mets, respectively — Carlos Rodon is the clear top starting pitcher left on the free-agent market. As one would expect for a 29-year-old lefty (30 next week) who opted out of the second season of his contract on the heels leading the National League in strikeouts, the asking price appears quite high. Jon Heyman of the New York Post reports that agent Scott Boras and Rodon have been seeking a six-year deal at an annual rate of $30MM or more. (Notably, that report pre-dates Verlander’s new agreement with the Mets.) Heyman suggests that the Yankees are the large-market team that is most focused on Rodon at present.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/...ee-agency.html

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Justin gonna be flicking the dolla dolla bills all over Kate’s big ass titties tonight. Lucky man.

lol

[John_Havok]

Bryan Reynolds went from 98 percentile in "Outs Above Average" to the dreaded 6 percentile last year. What happened?

Saw that yesterday as well, hard to say but i doubt his actual abilities degraded that much. Could just be a blip.

[Stangstag]

Carlos Rodon Seeking Six-Year Deal
By Steve Adams | December 5, 2022 at 11:43am CDT

With Jacob deGrom and Justin Verlander off the market — to the Rangers and to the Mets, respectively — Carlos Rodon is the clear top starting pitcher left on the free-agent market. As one would expect for a 29-year-old lefty (30 next week) who opted out of the second season of his contract on the heels leading the National League in strikeouts, the asking price appears quite high. Jon Heyman of the New York Post reports that agent Scott Boras and Rodon have been seeking a six-year deal at an annual rate of $30MM or more. (Notably, that report pre-dates Verlander’s new agreement with the Mets.) Heyman suggests that the Yankees are the large-market team that is most focused on Rodon at present.

Makes the Gausman deal look like a steal in comparison

[Stangstag]

Saw that yesterday as well, hard to say but i doubt his actual abilities degraded that much. Could just be a blip.

Gotta be some defensive positioning thing

[Ehjays]

[Ehjays]

The Mets have to be close to $300 mil payroll

[L54]

Kershaw never seemed like the type of dude who was out to 'maximize his value' at every stop. He has more than enough money in the bank at this point, and just cares about racking up career accolades as a Dodger legend and having a shot at the World Series every year. He also might be willing to take slight discounts so the Dodgers can do other things like sign Freddie Freeman to a contract.

He might've switched teams if some team was willing to give him stupid money (like the DeGrom contract), but I don't think many teams are due to his injury history (and his stuff and velo seem to be declining every year).

Pretty much. He’s going to be known as one of the greatest Dodgers ever, spend his entire career there and have a chance at a WS every year. He doesn’t need 80M to move home to Dallas and play for a bad team.

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Pretty much. He’s going to be known as one of the greatest Dodgers ever, spend his entire career there and have a chance at a WS every year. He doesn’t need 80M to move home to Dallas and play for a bad team.

Yeah. He's the Dodgers all-time leader in Ks and is a couple years from being the franchise leader in wins. Cementing his legacy as the greatest Dodger pitcher of all-time and pitching for the best team in baseball is apparently worth it to him vs. going to Texas and winning 80 games with a mediocre team. I can't imagine wanting to leave LA if I were in his shoes.

[Stottlemyres_Bloody_Chin]

Some BS that Schilling is getting the shaft.

Fuck him

[Stottlemyres_Bloody_Chin]

That’s not really it

The guy is an insane loser and was tweeting jokes about killing journalists, saying muslims are nazis, stuff like that

Agreed. Schilling can get fucked

[Carlos Danger]

Fuck him

Insightful commentary, clear rational behind your reasoning, coupled with meticulously sourced evidence.

Good post!

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Phillies getting Trea Turner according to Passan.