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They only care about the postseason. Will probably invest the Kershaw money in 4/5 innings eater types to stabilize the back end of the rotation.

Montas will get $30-35 million. The bounce back guys are all now pipe dreams. Maybe Martin Perez and Alex Wood?

More frustrating is CLE and MIN begging the rest of the division to actually fight. They're just totally surrendering.

Well, 33 year old catchers have such a limited shelf life. Maybe the year off will rejuvenate him physically. Grandal basically fell directly off a cliff, but he was a regular for most of his career, compared to Stassi's baseline. All that said, experience means a heckuva lot at playoff time. IMO, Gary Sanchez would have been a better flip candidate because the majority of his value comes from offense.

Being blocked from Minnesota, KC, StL, both Chicagos and Milwaukee isn't exactly a death sentence for 2024...Flyover Territory has never been more appropriate a phrase/description. If those cities aren't enough...they will even block Denver in western Iowa.

Travel to Seoul for Opening Series w/Ohtani lol...simple answer there is to support minor league baseball franchises if they are independently run. But even the minors is consolidating behind deca millionaire/oligopoly groups. Clintons and Burlingtons and Waterloo's are all dead.

TLR might be even less popular than JR and Terry Bevington at this point.

Decision maker now for the Nashville White Sox...but allowing Dave Stewart to run out front for appearance's sake.

The White Sox are now Waffle House gruel...not even close to I-Hop or Village Inn. Maybe a Denny's...in the 80s and 90s.

Not sure how Seidler dying and the RSN models of revenue generation drying up help the White Sox exactly. It's contributing to basically the bottom half of the major leagues being left behind from a competitiveness standpoint. Especially those same lower tier teams being more risk averse like the Orioles and holding onto their prospects for dear life for fear of "all in" seasons that blow up like the White Sox over 2022-23. Sox are currently in the #30 position despite being in a massive media market and with their own self-controlled tv networks even...how is that even possible? What fans want the opposite of Seidler, an ownership group whose primary goals are financial and where a 3rd to 4th place finish might be considered ideal if setting record profits?

Kirby is on the market too after pulling himself from a game down the stretch? Or mostly Gilbert?

Padres fit because they’re not going to make any more commitments longer than 2 or possibly three years into the future in all likelihood with ownership changes more than likely on the horizon. But Preller has been burned so many times adding vets for youth that he’s going to be much more gunshy this time around. New Boston GM has to do something big to establish his own identity and remain relevant in that division…

They didn’t trade him due to pressure from SoxTalk, lol. You can add AJ Pollock to that previous list…he fooled Hahn in a similar way to Benintendi. Heyward to a lesser extent.

But we did that with Machado and Harper, lol…even signed Jay and Alonso.

Well, the White Sox didn’t find one single 3-4ish fWAR Chris Taylor, Max Muncy, k*** Rodriguez, Outman or Justin Turner in ten years of Hahn. The Dodgers…pre and post Friedman, have been able to come up with one of those guys on average every two seasons.

Nobody said anything not being a winning team in the regular season. It’s only about postseason titles at this point.

And 2013-2023 has guaranteed what exactly in the postseason? If the Dodgers had four 2005 White Sox postseasons in a row…would anything change at all for Jerry Reinsdorf? And if Friedman had some magical elixir that only worked for him and none of the other Rays executives, wouldn’t they have more than one 3/8ths of a season title (2020) played in neutral Texas in like 20+ opportunities across all those teams with former Rays’ front office execs leading them? The issue with the Rays’ Way isn’t the postseason at all. It’s winning the whole thing. Even Dodgers fans would get frustrated with ownership…Roberts and Friedman if they fall short now with all the advantages in the world. The Padres had one of the best ERAs in baseball last year with FOUR superstars and it only led to an 82-80 record…there’s going to be a tremendous amount of pressure on the Dodgers next year and in his first season back pitching after two UCL surgeries. And then how would his never being able to pitch again (third tear in future) affect him psychologically? The pressure of US and Japanese media being increased 3-4X? Of course it sounds insane right now to question whether it will be a resounding success…but nobody even can project the financial state of affairs for the US and world economies ten decades from now into the future.

Would be cool to have a Hawkeye in the organization again....the last Sox draft pick (Blake Hickman) from ACE/Public League didn't have much of a career, but Brecht is a different animal entirely.

Last first rounder from MS didn't do so bad...well, not until 2023.

Only $29 million for just 2024 (including buyout) or $49 million for 2024/25. No go for the Marlins.

On the eve of a scheduled introductory press conference with the Dodgers to present history's first $700 million athlete, Ohtani set yet another mark -- according to Fanatics, his No. 17 Dodgers jersey set a record for sales within 48 hours of a jersey release. https://t.co/lnwhe4z3qL https://www.mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-s-dodgers-jersey-sets-fanatics-sales-record

Fine. Then imagine the next four seasons in a row...the Dodgers flame out in the first/second round like 2022/23. Even if Ohtani was the MVP all of those seasons...it seems like six consecutive playoff disasters would cause many in the fanbase to want a new GM...because there's an organizational failure somewhere else.

Well, then the Dodgers would never be able to fire their GM...at least for another decade.

If Friedman leaves or is fired...? That could work the other way around if Ohtani's pitching totally fell apart and he was "just" an 825-850 hitter for a couple of seasons...due to lingering injuries for example. Interesting clause, at the very least. Of course, the real financial consequences are far down the line.

They (MLB.tv) have game highlights, each ball put into play and the full games (TV and audio feeds, usually both, but always at least one with very rare exceptions). Then youtube also has game highlights as well, just to name a few options.