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12-02-2017, 09:24 PM | #1381 | |
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But, Stanton wants to play in LA and the Dodgers havent completely shut the door on trading for him, though they havent exactly made it a priority either. There isn't a team in the league that wouldnt want Stanton in their lineup and with his NTC he can afford to just sit back and force the Marlins to trade him exactly where he wants to go, even if it means they get 3rd tier return. |
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12-02-2017, 10:08 PM | #1382 | |
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12-03-2017, 05:50 PM | #1383 |
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Ohtani's list appears to be heavily west coast influenced as well and he's also meeting with the Giants.
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12-03-2017, 06:06 PM | #1384 |
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Forget it an gut the team.
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12-05-2017, 10:30 AM | #1385 |
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Cardinals make a big splash in FA!
Hope he learned a bit over there in Japan and didn't just feast on lesser talent because his numbers in the majors would make me puke for $7-8M a year. https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...ikolmi01.shtml |
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12-05-2017, 10:44 AM | #1386 | |
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But the Marlins want salary relief and the Dodgers want to get under the luxury tax. He can wish in one hand and shit in the other... I've moved on; it's almost certainly not going to happen. The delay is actually decent news because if he really wanted to go to SF as was originally reported, this would be done by now. Or if he absolutely refused to go to STL, I think this would still be done by now. But it's clear that he really wanted to go to LA and that's just not there for him. So now he's choosing between a couple of backup plans and hasn't absolutely said no to STL...yet. I figure that happens in the next 24 hours, though. |
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12-05-2017, 10:47 AM | #1387 | |
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The Marlins aren't going to move him without ditching nearly all of that salary. And if the Dodgers refuse to exceed the cap, he's not going to LAD. I suspect he relents and goes to SF. He marks time for 3 years, opts out and then goes to LAD in 2021. It's the path of least resistance. |
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12-05-2017, 10:56 AM | #1388 |
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Posted in Royals thread as well. Cardinals tv rights will be affected by this. Disney buying the FOX Sports Regional Networks.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/05/disn...--sources.html |
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12-05-2017, 11:00 AM | #1389 | |
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Not sure why this would impact Cardinals tv rights. |
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12-05-2017, 11:17 AM | #1391 |
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Ah. Well I don't imagine Disney will be paying full freight to the Cardinals and then curtailing access, though I could be wrong. I can't see any way they can escape any obligation on the underlying rights deals to the respective ballclubs and if they still owe the money, it seems unlikely they wouldn't provide the content to as many viewers as possible.
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12-05-2017, 11:35 AM | #1392 | |
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12-05-2017, 11:56 AM | #1393 | |
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**** that. This isn't some AL team that we can worry about should they make it to the WS. If the Cardinals are in any way serious about competing for a pennant, ignoring the fact that this is a zero sum game so you can get Yasiel Puig (who they would never EVER attempt to acquire) is insane. No way; it would have to be cripplingly painful for the Dodgers and considering that they almost blew up a trade for Darvish so they could avoid trading Alex Verdugo, who is a good but not great prospect (high floor guy; a bit Derrin Erstady, IMO) they are clearly putting a premium on any prospect in their system worth having. So no, under no circumstances would I be conspiring with the enemy so we can make them 15% better while making ourselves 5% better. That's textbook also-ran shit that maybe I'd consider if we were 15 games better than the Dodgers are on paper. But seeing as how they're at least 10 games better than we are at the moment, I'm not the slightest bit interested in widening an already significant gap. |
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12-05-2017, 12:07 PM | #1394 | |
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