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I think as a NRI with a potential salary of like $2.5M he’d be a great add. I agree, I wouldn’t want to hand him a major league job though.

My guess is they haven’t offered a prospect like Clifford just yet. That being said, they desperately need a CF and there is no one out there of Robert’s caliber. And if we’re being honest, Clifford is a good not great prospect. Enough warts there that he’s theoretically attainable for Robert. The only challenge is the Mets don’t really need money, so absorbing part of his contract probably doesn’t help.

Exactly

They are far and away the most loaded. They make $330M a year on their regional TV deal alone. That alone is more than what Forbes estimates the Pirates made in total revenue in 2024.

Oh I will never forgot. Someone has to hold that dude accountable. And don’t get me wrong, he obviously has some connection, but as with most “insiders” like him they love the attention and tend to overplay their hand.

Again, the Dodgers are spending more based on a larger revenue base than all of their peers. They aren’t absorbing massive losses each year in an attempt to win at all costs. If you want to celebrate their amazing regional TV contract and attribute that to trying harder, by all means have at it.

I won’t accept anything less than Clifford for Robert. Throw his ass in LF against RHP, move Baldwin over to CF, and go with some RF platoon (Pereira along with Kelenic or a cheap LH vet) until Braden is ready. Benintendi shares the DH spot with the two catchers and fills in at LF occasionally. Hill makes the roster to help against LHP and serve as a late inning defensive replacement (god knows we’ll need him with this OF group). I could 100% live with that setup for the season. If the Big Red Dog can’t handle LF, the DH spot will likely open up at some point in the near future and he can shift there. And if Baldwin can’t handle CF (or the OF in general) on a regular basis, he moves to a true UT role playing a little bit everywhere.

If it’s NorthsideBob, we have confirmed he’s not all that he claims to be.

Gotcha…so you dislike market size parity in sports. Unfortunately for everyone else, both are huge problems. And to say a team with significantly more revenue is trying more because they spend more is like saying I’m a better dad because I buy my kids more Christmas gifts than someone with less means. It’s a ridiculous argument that ignores a key underlying element of the broader situation.

Who is saying this?

I will say this…Conforto (or someone like him) makes a lot more sense if you are trading Robert and moving Baldwin to CF.

He’s always been on Heyman’s payroll. Like some of Jon’s posts look like copy & paste directly from Boras.

Theoretically you do it to maximize your payroll space in the near term, but I think GMs are starting to see those landmines fast approaching with past mega deals and trying to be smarter about it.

Also, it’s very clear they want to rotate Benintendi much more frequently through the DH spot. Between that and the Quero/Teel situation, I don’t see any room for another DH. And even if there is room, Sosa is arguably the best player than Vientos? I have no idea why we’d be interested in RH DH type at this point.

Where do you see we need to trade Robert for financial reasons?

Acuna doesn’t do anything for me unless he’s a secondary piece. If my scouts felt Baty could play LF, I’d do that trade in a heartbeat. Not sure the Mets give up four years of Baty for Robert though unless they are super desperate for a CF.

Gotta disagree. You don’t trade Robert to add an infielder you have nowhere to play. Either get something that helps long-term or you hold out until the trade deadline.

Again, why is this an either/or thing? Both are fucking problems and should be addressed.

Where would he even play?

I’m not saying he’s worth it, but you have to remember with these insane long-term contracts that the AAV’s are very much diluted by back years with limited expected production. Tucker’s contract very much makes sense for expected production over the next four years.

Why do they want infielders though?

What you’re ignoring is the fact that the Dodgers have essentially bought themselves a guaranteed playoff spot every year. No go look at the bottom 10 clubs and see how frequently they make the playoffs. When you’re rocking a sub $100M payroll, your margin for error for development, health, & even luck is basically zero. The Dodgers don’t deal with these same challenges the can afford insane levels of depth. They can also build a team that is optimized to win World Series and reduce a lot of the volatility that is the MLB playoffs. Let me frame this another way…why is is this a good thing? Who is benefiting from the Dodgers outspending many teams but a 4x to 5x ratio?

So as long as they are theoretically “beatable” you are ok with a team being able to spend +4x the amount as certain small market teams?

This is an absolutely absurd post. The Dodgers have a regional TV deal that lets them outspend the competition and the dumb MLB has limited rules in place that prevent them from doing so. Glad you think it’s cool a sport has no market size parity.

100%. There is fucking parity in this stupid fucking league. If I didn’t absolutely love the Sox for some sick reason, I wouldn’t waste a second watching the MLB.