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    Remaining Free Agent Speculation and Signings (Trades, too)

    Pivetta isn't moving to the pen, Montgomery or not. He's got his issues, but he can give you innings, and is a strong contender to make a leap to next tier starter.
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    Blake Snell to the Giants

    Yeah, this is well-put. Somebody said this in another thread, but Boras's approach is anchored by the belief that a rising tide will lift all boats. That hasn't really happened. What the rising tide has definitely done is lift Boras's boat, as most of the money gets directed to the top-end of...
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    Blake Snell to the Giants

    I think we're grasping a bit at straws here. Now, anything is possible, and we're not in Snell's head. But I'd be stunned if maximizing his finances was not his primary goal during this free agency. That would make Boras's strategy even more surprising. Snell could/should have done better, even...
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    Dylan Cease traded to Padres

    I get what you’re saying. And I’ve been a little perplexed myself at times, at how liberal Preller seems to be with prospect value. I also realize they’ve had some tough seasons, as you’ve outlined - and I’m still stunned by that stupid Bogaerts contract. Then I look at the excitement of...
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    Dylan Cease traded to Padres

    Yeah, I used to sneer at AJ Preller, but I don't any more. I'm actually a little bit admirative. This is like Dombrowski. You may quibble with the approach, and perhaps they will be a disaster in five years; we know what happens when DD leaves. But man, you can't deny they seem to care, are...
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    Revised contract predictions for Snell and Montgomery

    OK, that's a fair assessment, thanks.
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    Revised contract predictions for Snell and Montgomery

    This just doesn’t compute to me. If I “prioritize geography and comfort over money”, why would I take on Scott Boras as an agent? Everybody knows Boras goes for maximizing the biggest contract (I’m not passing judgement on that, just outlining his MO). The only way that doesn’t happen is when...
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    Offseason rumors

    Yes, but the noise (it seems) is coming from his side. The whole thing actually doesn't make any sense. You can't take Scott Boras as your agent to go after the most money, then suggest you prefer not to go to a big market. Who else is going to give you the most money?
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    2024 MLB Spring Training News & Notes

    Fantastic.
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    Offseason rumors

    Scott Boras. He's ruining our Spring.
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    Offseason rumors

    I don't know. That quote is like a Rorschach test. You read into it what you are predisposed to read into it. I read the quote as – “we understand that you have to spend in baseball to win, and spending wildly doesn’t correlate to making profits”. I mean, that’s common sense. Saying that doesn’t...
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    Offseason rumors

    That’s easy for Friedman to say - the GM who has a seemingly unlimited budget. If I were a GM -with a budget-, I don’t think I’d use the dodgers as a template for what is or isn’t rational in free agency. And really, being rational is not about being rational on every free agent. I think it’s...
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    Offseason rumors

    The Red Sox are playing this exactly right, in my opinion. You set a (presumably reasonable) value for the player and you stick to it. If he takes it, great. If he doesn’t, you wish him well and move on to a plan B, whatever it is. Boras’s approach is to wait, get fans to panic, and whip up the...
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    Offseason rumors

    Perhaps. But a financial argument against giving Boras whatever he wants can be a perfectly reasonable argument. These things are rarely black and white. In the absence of info on exactly what Boras wants, who knows? Why hasn’t anyone else signed them? Unless we’ve entered the realm of “it’s...
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    Offseason rumors

    Yeah, I thought that was a good piece. Behind a paywall, so I can’t quote too much, but this point stood out to me: “The Boras philosophy is typically to not just get a player a contract deal that they find personally satisfactory, but to routinely establish new thresholds and benchmarks for...
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