2024 MLB General Chat

Congrats Dodgers, I'd say more but since you were one of about 6-7 teams to have a ligit chance of winning, it's kind of hollow.

Here's the issue with baseball and they don't want to ever talk about fixing it. In the NFL over the last 20 years, about every team has had some measure of success, at least making it to the playoffs and being in contention, all 32 teams. In baseball this does not happen, and as currently constructed, never will. The LA Dodgers had 18 players this season make $4 million or more, my team the Reds, had 4. The Guardians had 8. Now in contrast, the SF Giants had 14 players make over $4 million and the stunk, so it's not just spending money, to be fair.

But here's the issue. The higher salary teams have more latitude when it comes to player injuries and performance. The Dodgers had 6-7 of there higher salaried players not even participate in the playoffs. Very few teams in baseball could make a run in the postseason with that many key players injured. Some teams can just go buy more players, most cannot.
 
19AL63 said:
More than the Dodgers winning the series it sound like the Yankees gave it away.
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Just Game 5. The Dodgers won the series fairly, even with their star suffering from a dislocated shoulder. The Yankees stars had no such excuse.
 
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The Dodgers told their players in scouting meetings that the Yankees were built on talent rather than fundamentals, Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported. Los Angeles knew that the Yankees would beat themselves with self-inflicted errors. All they had to do was put the ball in play and watch the Bronx Bombers implode.

The Dodgers noted that the Yankees were the worst baserunning team in the Majors by nearly every metric. The team's analytics also found that the Yankees had the worst-positioned outfield in the majors. There was no command on relay throws, and players like Jazz Chisholm Jr. were often just standing still.
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Dodgers World Series strategy had so little respect for Aaron Boone and the Yankees

The New York Yankees collected talent. The Los Angeles Dodgers built a team.
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wolves82 said:
100%. Don't get me wrong, he is great, maybe the best hitter in baseball. $51 million per year is one thing, fairly outrageous. But what gets me is that it runs through age 41. Insane.
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Yeah, no idea why you’d sign a player into his 40’s. Maybe it’s the Mets taking him off the board for other teams for the rest of his career, but seems silly.
 
My question to Juan Soto and any of these guys who hold out for contracts.... How much money do you need? Soto has already accumulated more money that he'll ever need, his family for generations. He could not get paid the rest of his career and he'd be just fine. So what is this all about? It drives me crazy when so much attention is paid to what guys get paid. I could care less what athletes get paid.
 
Gh0st said:
Yeah, no idea why you’d sign a player into his 40’s. Maybe it’s the Mets taking him off the board for other teams for the rest of his career, but seems silly.
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The likelyhood that he plays until he's 40 is remote. They just sign these guys to crazy contracts knowing the last few years will be voided, or they'll get traded or deferred. It's kind of silly.
 
14Red said:
The likelyhood that he plays until he's 40 is remote. They just sign these guys to crazy contracts knowing the last few years will be voided, or they'll get traded or deferred. It's kind of silly.
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What?

They’re going to be on the hook for that contract. It doesn’t get voided. No one will trade for it. If anything, he’d be DFA’ed at the tail end and someone would pick him up for the veteran’s minimum, with the Mets still paying the original contract.
 
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14Red said:
The players that sign these 12-15 year contracts. They are not going to play that long.
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He likely will play nearly that long, if not the entire 15 years. Votto did. Pujols did. Miggy did. Soto is only 26 (just turned 26 in October). He’ll be about to turn 41 when the contract is over.
 
AEW Champion said:
He likely will play nearly that long, if not the entire 15 years. Votto did. Pujols did. Miggy did. Soto is only 26 (just turned 26 in October). He’ll be about to turn 41 when the contract is over.
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15 years is a long time, especially when you have more money than you'll ever need. How do those last few years look for the guys you mentioned?
 
14Red said:
15 years is a long time, especially when you have more money than you'll ever need. How do those last few years look for the guys you mentioned?
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Pretty damn good from the players perspective. Maximum payout for minimum output. You’re the only person who wouldn’t take that.
 
Orin Swift said:
Pretty damn good from the players perspective. Maximum payout for minimum output. You’re the only person who wouldn’t take that.
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There’s zero pressure on Soto to perform for the rest of his baseball career. No deferred money, only opt out clause is for him after 3 years. If he stinks, he just rides it out or sits home collecting his checks.
 
14Red said:
The likelyhood that he plays until he's 40 is remote. They just sign these guys to crazy contracts knowing the last few years will be voided, or they'll get traded or deferred. It's kind of silly.
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We all agree that the contracts are foolish from the team's perspective. But the agent and the player ask for it, and some team always gives it to them. Cannot blame the players. If a regular Joe employee asks for a 1000% raise, and the employer says "OK sure", of course the employee will laugh all the way to the bank.
 
In an unusual turn of events, the Los Angeles Dodgers auctioned off Tommy Edman’s routine fly ball, forever remembered as the one Aaron Judge dropped during Game 5 of the World Series. The ball fetched $43,510, with proceeds going to the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation. What made headlines, however, was the auction's title: "Dropped Fly Ball by Aaron Judge," which many saw as a pointed jab at the Yankees and their star player.



 
And interesting study by major league baseball surrounding the injuries in pitchers and possibly solutions. Last season, over 400 pitchers landed on the IL in major league baseball, up significantly from the year before. Oddly, the pitch clock wasn't named as a factor in this. A minor league experimented with the concept of a team would lose it's DH if they starting pitcher didn't go at least 5 innings, forcing pitchers to maybe not go "max effort" to extend their time. I'll be interested to see if any major changes come about.
 
cjb5656 said:
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'It was time': Yanks welcome new facial-hair rule

New closer Devin Williams and several former Yankees stars helped nudge owner Hal Steinbrenner into changing the franchise's decades-old policy on facial hair.
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Didn’t the Reds have a similar no facial hair policy at some point?
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Yes, the Cincinnati Reds had a no facial hair/ long hair policy, and I believe it was until the late/ mid 90's before it went away. Greg Vaughn was at the center of this I believe. So yes, you look at the 1990 world series champs, no beards, no long scraggly hair. It was really kind of an unspoken rule across baseball into the 70's. The Oakland A's really kind of pushed the first narrative with longer hair, mustache's and beards. To me, to look like a ball player means a short, clean haircut and no facial hair, but I'm old. I have no idea why some of these guys would even want to have long hair and play ball in the heat they do.
 
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