99 day MLB lockout is now over

[saltydog]

Likely the Yankmees are no longer shopping for a shortstop. The remaining free agents are starting to run out of potential jobs I guess.

Trevor Story and Carlos Correa are still out there, but they'd break the bank.
Other than that, the SS market is pretty dry.

Not sure who's got the money. Might not get as rich as they think.

Likely Dodgers are gonna spend on Freeman, so who else has the cash and cap?

P.S. He's a West Coasty, don't see him going to Toronto

Also, why would Toronto do that with Vlad at 1B?

[Reservoir Dog]

Likely the Yankmees are no longer shopping for a shortstop. The remaining free agents are starting to run out of potential jobs I guess.

Trevor Story and Carlos Correa are still out there, but they'd break the bank.
Other than that, the SS market is pretty dry.

Not sure who's got the money. Might not get as rich as they think.

Likely Dodgers are gonna spend on Freeman, so who else has the cash and cap?

P.S. He's a West Coasty, don't see him going to Toronto

If you look at current payrolls with luxury tax included the are only 6 teams that can't afford to grab one of those guys.
Boston Red Sox
San Diego Padres
Chicago White Sox
New York Yankees
Los Angeles Dodgers
New York Mets

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/tax/

[Reservoir Dog]

Likely the Yankmees are no longer shopping for a shortstop. The remaining free agents are starting to run out of potential jobs I guess.

Trevor Story and Carlos Correa are still out there, but they'd break the bank.
Other than that, the SS market is pretty dry.

Not sure who's got the money. Might not get as rich as they think.

Likely Dodgers are gonna spend on Freeman, so who else has the cash and cap?

P.S. He's a West Coasty, don't see him going to Toronto

Freeman was born in the US but both his parents are Canadian.

[Burn1dwn]

Likely the Yankmees are no longer shopping for a shortstop. The remaining free agents are starting to run out of potential jobs I guess.

Trevor Story and Carlos Correa are still out there, but they'd break the bank.
Other than that, the SS market is pretty dry.

Not sure who's got the money. Might not get as rich as they think.

Likely Dodgers are gonna spend on Freeman, so who else has the cash and cap?

P.S. He's a West Coasty, don't see him going to Toronto

If you look at current payrolls with luxury tax included the are only 6 teams that can't afford to grab one of those guys.
Boston Red Sox
San Diego Padres
Chicago White Sox
New York Yankees
Los Angeles Dodgers
New York Mets

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/tax/

One of those is not like the others. Good to see small market team going all in. Just need to make better decisions with the money.

[Biker]

Braves sign Matt Olson to replace Freddie Freeman.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschloss ... 558ca86e9a

So where does Freddie go? Jays or Dodgers?

Dodgers I bet

BTW....this is a huge upgrade for the Braves even though the media insisted they re-sign Freddie

[Reservoir Dog]

Braves sign Matt Olson to replace Freddie Freeman.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschloss ... 558ca86e9a

So where does Freddie go? Jays or Dodgers?

Dodgers I bet

BTW....this is a huge upgrade for the Braves even though the media insisted they re-sign Freddie

The Dodgers are over the salary cap. They don't have the money.

[Biker]

Braves sign Matt Olson to replace Freddie Freeman.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschloss ... 558ca86e9a

So where does Freddie go? Jays or Dodgers?

Dodgers I bet

BTW....this is a huge upgrade for the Braves even though the media insisted they re-sign Freddie

The Dodgers are over the salary cap. They don't have the money.

There is no salary cap, Rick

[Reservoir Dog]

Braves sign Matt Olson to replace Freddie Freeman.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschloss ... 558ca86e9a

So where does Freddie go? Jays or Dodgers?

Dodgers I bet

BTW....this is a huge upgrade for the Braves even though the media insisted they re-sign Freddie

The Dodgers are over the salary cap. They don't have the money.

There is no salary cap, Rick

There's a luxury tax, Bubbles.

[Biker]

Braves sign Matt Olson to replace Freddie Freeman.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschloss ... 558ca86e9a

So where does Freddie go? Jays or Dodgers?

Dodgers I bet

BTW....this is a huge upgrade for the Braves even though the media insisted they re-sign Freddie

The Dodgers are over the salary cap. They don't have the money.

There is no salary cap, Rick

There's a luxury tax, Bubbles.

Which is far different than a luxury tax cap, Rick. Words mean something. Use them correctly or STFU

[Reservoir Dog]

Braves sign Matt Olson to replace Freddie Freeman.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschloss ... 558ca86e9a

So where does Freddie go? Jays or Dodgers?

Dodgers I bet

BTW....this is a huge upgrade for the Braves even though the media insisted they re-sign Freddie

The Dodgers are over the salary cap. They don't have the money.

There is no salary cap, Rick

There's a luxury tax, Bubbles.

Which is far different than a luxury tax cap, Rick. Words mean something. Use them correctly or STFU

You know exactly what I meant. You're just an asshole.

[Biker]

Dodgers I bet

BTW....this is a huge upgrade for the Braves even though the media insisted they re-sign Freddie

The Dodgers are over the salary cap. They don't have the money.

There is no salary cap, Rick

There's a luxury tax, Bubbles.

Which is far different than a luxury tax cap, Rick. Words mean something. Use them correctly or STFU

You know exactly what I meant. You're just an asshole.

You're likely correct on the latter

[FSchmertz]

Likely the Yankmees are no longer shopping for a shortstop. The remaining free agents are starting to run out of potential jobs I guess.

Trevor Story and Carlos Correa are still out there, but they'd break the bank.
Other than that, the SS market is pretty dry.

Not sure who's got the money. Might not get as rich as they think.

Likely Dodgers are gonna spend on Freeman, so who else has the cash and cap?

P.S. He's a West Coasty, don't see him going to Toronto

If you look at current payrolls with luxury tax included the are only 6 teams that can't afford to grab one of those guys.
Boston Red Sox
San Diego Padres
Chicago White Sox
New York Yankees
Los Angeles Dodgers
New York Mets

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/tax/

One of those is not like the others. Good to see small market team going all in. Just need to make better decisions with the money.

So the big budget teams are all capped out (like anyone but Uncle Stevie would really care, and even he doesn't see: The Cohen Tax).

So which of the cheapy teams, aka the 4A, are going to pay for Story or Correa?

[8-TrackJones]

Olson signs extension with Braves. 8-year $168 million deal.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/br ... ar-AAV5Ov1

[Burn1dwn]

Likely the Yankmees are no longer shopping for a shortstop. The remaining free agents are starting to run out of potential jobs I guess.

Trevor Story and Carlos Correa are still out there, but they'd break the bank.
Other than that, the SS market is pretty dry.

Not sure who's got the money. Might not get as rich as they think.

Likely Dodgers are gonna spend on Freeman, so who else has the cash and cap?

P.S. He's a West Coasty, don't see him going to Toronto

If you look at current payrolls with luxury tax included the are only 6 teams that can't afford to grab one of those guys.
Boston Red Sox
San Diego Padres
Chicago White Sox
New York Yankees
Los Angeles Dodgers
New York Mets

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/tax/

One of those is not like the others. Good to see small market team going all in. Just need to make better decisions with the money.

So the big budget teams are all capped out (like anyone but Uncle Stevie would really care, and even he doesn't see: The Cohen Tax).

So which of the cheapy teams, aka the 4A, are going to pay for Story or Correa?

Hopefully not the Giants, Snakes or Rocks

[Burn1dwn]

Olson signs extension with Braves. 8-year $168 million deal.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/br ... ar-AAV5Ov1

Why does this seem like a deal? His age?

[Reservoir Dog]

Olson signs extension with Braves. 8-year $168 million deal.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/br ... ar-AAV5Ov1

Why does this seem like a deal? His age?

The $168 million is fully guaranteed. Plus, he's from Atlanta so I think he gave them a Home Town discount.
He'll be getting $22 mill a year and his market value was $23 so it's really not that far off.

[saltydog]

Olson signs extension with Braves. 8-year $168 million deal.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/br ... ar-AAV5Ov1

Why does this seem like a deal? His age?

The $168 million is fully guaranteed. Plus, he's from Atlanta so I think he gave them a Home Town discount.
He'll be getting $22 mill a year and his market value was $23 so it's really not that far off.

That's a hell of a deal for ATL long term.

[8-TrackJones]

Freddie Freeman signs with Dodgers. 6 yr. $162 million.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb- ... er-report/

[Reservoir Dog]

Freddie Freeman signs with Dodgers. 6 yr. $162 million.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb- ... er-report/

Holy fuck!
That's going to put the Dodgers $50 million into the Luxury Tax.
50 fucking million !!! They're crazy!

[Reservoir Dog]

Kind of surprised Carlos Correa took a 3 year deal. Perhaps he wants to hit the open market again when he's still only 30 years old?

With Nick Castellanos going to the Phillies, about the only big name left is Trevor Story.

[8-TrackJones]

Kind of surprised Carlos Correa took a 3 year deal. Perhaps he wants to hit the open market again when he's still only 30 years old?

With Nick Castellanos going to the Phillies, about the only big name left is Trevor Story.

Trevor Story signs with Boston. 6yr. - deal $140 million. He will play 2nd base.

[Biker]

Manny Machado rocking a LGB shirt!

[Burn1dwn]

El Ministro de Defensa. Monster season for Manny coming. I can feel it.

Probably pissed that his 300 million is more like a 240 Million now.

[Burn1dwn]

Opening Day and Padres finally add a closer.

[Burn1dwn]

Identical twins pick up the save and loss during SD/SF game last night.

I know baseball has been around a long time but it seems crazy that this is the fifth time twins have been in the same game.