Click here to read a transcript of Tuesday’s chat with MLBTR’s Steve Adams.
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Ya’ll getting destroyed trying to bait Steve into saying something negative about deferrals. Quit crying about it and email your complaints to your team’s POBO.
Thanks for answering so many questions!
Steve, ONE Posey will not sign Alonso. He has CLEARLY stated they’re changing the K or Homer mentality. The Padres and Dbacks had great success last year with situational hitting, 2 strike adjustments, etc. The Alonso way is fading out (and Pete is fading as well) and TWO, Posey refused to sign Burnes to an opt out style contract. He wants players that want to play there awhile. I understand the posters begging for Alonso but I don’t understand why you agree with them.
claude, Yeah, I agree. From what I understand, the supposed interest in Alonso was just from some non-committal comment from Posey. Were they to sign Alonso to a short-term deal with opt-outs, and if his numbers are suppressed at Oracle, as I suspect they will be, does he opt-in since his value would drop? It has the potential for a disastrous, under-water deal for several years.
Wade/Flores should provide 75-80% of Alonso’s normal production for 33% of the cost, with no guarantee the Giants would get that normal production from him. Why risk getting potentially stuck with a big contract for an underperforming Alonso?
I wonder how much the deferral narrative would be different is LA had had the exact same off-season….. but was coming off a Game 5 loss to San Diego instead of a World Series win.
Maybe the media/MLBTR should only report on the money committed by said team in these deferred deals and not include the interest that’ll accrue over time? It’s very confusing for the general public, aka the fans. Btw, the Dodgers now have as much deferred money owed to players compared to the total evaluation of the Cleveland organization (~1.4B$). Let that one sink in!
It’s only confusing to those who don’t grasp basic economics…so, yeah, a significant portion of fans.
Thank you and nice job Steve! You handled the Dodgers’ deferrals stuff like a pro.
Agreed! So much pathetic crying about deferrals. It’s hilarious to see all the petty jealous comments so easily shut down with facts and receipts by Steve. None of these people ever gave a single sold crap about this before the Ohtani contract. Even when it was being leveraged by other WS champions. And even now when they know that Ohtani offered the same structure to other teams. It’s like they only hear what they want to hear. These losers need to go be mad at their own owners who are playing this purely as a business instead of playing to put together a winning team if they can (see my Mariners along with the other usual suspects).
What a bunch crybaby’s
Baseball fans on this chat are so pathetic. Whining about the Dodgers doing what every team could do but are too greedy to do is so sad and a bad reflection on a certain portion of mlb fans. The fact these people continue to think the Dodgers are going something novel or wrong reflects poorly on their literacy and understanding of simple economics.