MLB Offseason 2023-24: The $700 Million Man

[1001001]

See, I like the pace of baseball. Maybe people casually watching on TV think differently.

Is there anything better in the summer than a nice long baseball game?

Well, sure there is, but you get my point.

I don’t see the need to speed it up.

 

[Aragorn]

Yamamoto to the Dodgers for 12 years, $325 million.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id...nobu-yamamoto-agrees-join-dodgers-sources-say

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Gods damn, that's a billion dollars for two players.

Tell me again how owners are poor?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'm cool with it. Soto was more important anyway.

 

[1001001]

Yamamoto to the Dodgers for 12 years, $325 million.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id...nobu-yamamoto-agrees-join-dodgers-sources-say

What?

That's nuts. Not the contract necessarily but that he went to the fucking Dodgers.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I hope they end up out of the playoffs for years to come.

 

[Aragorn]

The Mets, with a payroll of $374.7 million, still finished fourth in their division. Now they have to pay the most expensive luxury tax ever at $101 million, more than double the previous record. What happens to that money anyway?

 

[BillJ]

The Mets, with a payroll of $374.7 million, still finished fourth in their division. Now they have to pay the most expensive luxury tax ever at $101 million, more than double the previous record. What happens to that money anyway?

A chunk of it goes to Miami and Oakland in revenue sharing.

 

[Aragorn]

Ohtani buys Joe Kelly's wife a Porsche. Kelly had given Ohtani his #17 jersey number.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

IKF is off to Toronto on a 2-year deal.

 

[Timby]

IKF is off to Toronto on a 2-year deal.

Now they have a righty OF bat, problem solved! (I don't remember anyone specifying it needing to be a good bat.)

 

[Aragorn]

Wander Franco was a no-show for his Dominican Republic summons. Local authorities raided two homes looking for him. He is now a fugitive.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Damn, that's sharpest fall from grace I've seen in baseball in a long time.

 

[BillJ]

Wander Franco was a no-show for his Dominican Republic summons. Local authorities raided two homes looking for him. He is now a fugitive.

I understand. No one wants to go to jail in the DR. But, they’ll eventually find him.

 

[Aragorn]

Red Sox trade Chris Sale to Braves for Vaughn Grissom.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I just saw that one. While Grissom hasn't quite lived up to hopes, I still like this is a bad deal.

 

[BillJ]

Red Sox trade Chris Sale to Braves for Vaughn Grissom.

I just saw that one. While Grissom hasn't quite lived up to hopes, I still like this is a bad deal.

Red Sox are also sending $17 million to the Braves.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Ah, okay. Not so bad then.

 

[Danny99]

Now they have a righty OF bat, problem solved! (I don't remember anyone specifying it needing to be a good bat.)

Plan the freakin' parade.

There are a lot of unhappy Blue Jays fans who remember this team picking up Derek Fisher because of all the tools Shapiro and Atkins seemed to think he had.

 

[Aragorn]

Wander Franco showed up to be interviewed by prosecutors today, and they arrested him for not showing up for last week's meeting.