Well, we need somebody to replace Maldonado’s offensive output.
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And his base-running
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I don’t think M2 could possibly work up enough speed to tip over.
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If Maldonado were standing on 3rd and Peña was on first I feel confident they’d reach home at the same time
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I understand that JV’s full salary counts against our cap. That obviously puts us up against the threshold before Crane starts paying a luxury tax. What I don’t get is he’s not paying JV’s salary in real dollars so why is he being stingy with the offseason spend?
Everyone is getting on Brown’s ass pretty hard, but Crane might be cutting him off at the knees.
Ohtani to the Dodgers. Always made the most sense as a landing spot for him but I still hate it.
Edit: I will say that at 700 million they definitely overpaid. Props to his Agent. Much as I hate the Dodgers, Shohei is awesome, so I do hope he’s able to get healthy and live up to that contract. Makes the game better when he’s hitting and pitching. But I have my doubts.
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10 years, $700MM.
I think he makes as much as the top 3 Astros salaries combined.
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Dodgers better hope Ohtani remains healthy less they become Angels 2.0.
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I’ll do you one better. 70 million is more than the Orioles and Rays spent on their entire teams last year. And they finished with the best records in the AL. It’s truly an absurd amount of money.
What’s more is that the 700 million total is what people estimated he could garner before his injury. Over the last month or two however, all the analysts/experts were projecting his market value to be somewhere between 450-600 million. Which begs the question who exactly were the Dodgers bidding against?
The answer is ofc pretty easy to narrow down because there’s really only two other teams that can afford to throw around that money. I’m not sure how hard the Yanks were pursuing him, so I think what we’re seeing is the Cohen effect. I think that guy is going to single handedly inflate the market for top FAs by about 25-30% from now on.
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Staggering sum of money for a baseball player.
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What I’m trying to figure out when this surgery happens……if he is ever going to pitch again he has to have it at some point.
When he does he has to heal and recover….you can’t keep hitting and recover at the same time……I’m not sure how you make that happen without taking a year off with no activity.
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He’s a great ambassador for the sport…not just in Japan. I really like the guy and I’d be overjoyed to have him an Astro. But dayum. I’m old enough to remember when a million dollars a year was crazy. This is close to a billion. At this rate my son will see the first trillion dollar contract when he’s fifty
He had his procedure already. Happened at the end of September I believe.
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The Astros owner, John McMullen, wouldn’t give Nolan Ryan a pay increase of $1MM, so he left for the Rangers.
By today’s standards…chicken feed.
Really? And he is supposed to hit by March?
Sounds crazy to me.
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What’s crazy is Ohtani reportedly made 40 million off endorsements this year. So in all he’ll easily eclipse a billion in earnings over the course of his playing career.
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Yah that seems early to me. I suppose it depends on exactly what his procedure was. We think it was TJ but they haven’t actually said. He had TJ previously on Oct 1st in 2018 and didn’t make his 2019 debut until May. So assuming he had TJ again, that would basically be rushing his previous recover time table up two months.
I doubt we see him that early unless the procedure he had really was more of a minor procedure.
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The Meyers talk has me concerned.