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lol @ brochacho claiming the winter meetings were boring. Tiktok brain claims another victim.
@tom b: safe to assume the person asking that question (user name: ‘dipoto’) is a fan of the Mariners (possibly Jerry himself lol) and I suppose it may have felt boring from the perspective of a Mariners’ fan. I felt they were far from ‘boring’!
Nevermind.
Dang it Mark, was hoping this would be Nick’s initiation to chats!
Why do I get the feeling the A’s are deliberately losing draft picks (Severino had a QO, now trading a pick to the Rays), to minimize their draft expenses and help off-set some of the increased big league payroll?
That would be shooting oneself in the foot.
If they’re trying to save money they wouldn’t sign free agents to expensive 3 year deals… like I dunno how you think what you said makes sense. How much do you think the A’s have to spend in the draft? Oh by the way teams don’t have to spend any money in the draft just because they have 10 million to spend they could select all seniors and spend 2 million.you fundamentally don’t understand how the draft works nor the surplus value young players provide to small market teams who they can control for 6 years of big league service.
You absolutely can. Competitive balance picks (picks between rounds 1 and 2) are traded all the time.. So what are you talking about? It’s amazing how arrogant keyboard warriors can be in their wrongness.
I think the Tigers are going to take a serious swing at Sasaki next month.
“If they’re trying to save money they wouldn’t sign free agents to expensive 3 year deals…”
Because they have to in order to get their revenue sharing money and avoid a fight with the union. There’s no such pressure coming from their draft allocation, so that’s where they’re cutting back.
Of course they *shouldn’t* be doing that, but they shouldn’t have been limiting MLB payroll either all these years, either. I’m saying this is coming from ownership. Telling them “I don’t care what your allocation is, if we’re going to raise payroll, then we can only spend X on the draft.” The front office is looking at that and thinking “well, we can’t spend this money, so let’s trade it and/or use other teams’ reluctance to sign players’ QOs to our advantage when pursing free agents.”
“Oh by the way teams don’t have to spend any money in the draft just because they have 10 million to spend they could select all seniors and spend 2 million”
Right, so there’s no need to keep that allocation when they’re going to come in way under it regardless. May as well leverage some of it to bolster your MLB roster.
Posturing by players & teams try get the best deal. Who will blink first.
You think the Phillies pumped Bohm and Casty around to deflate their egos or were they actually intending to make a case for improvement?