January 23, 20242 yr 3 minutes ago, CWSpalehoseCWS said: $11M for a guy that will make roughly 10 starts for you. Yuck. They are going to end up with a rotation of 15 guys who give you 10 starts each.
January 23, 20242 yr Both Tony Gonsolin and Dustin May will return from Tommy John surgery. Between Ohtani, Yamamoto, Glasnow, Miller, Sheehan, Stone, Gonsolin and May, the Dodgers look to have upwards of eight legitimate rotation arms for the 2025 season, depending upon how everything shakes out here in the next 15 or so months. Not to mention Clayton Kershaw eventually... Edited January 23, 20242 yr by caulfield12
January 23, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, CWSpalehoseCWS said: $11M for a guy that will make roughly 10 starts for you. Yuck. Yeah seriously. How does this guy keep getting paid
January 23, 20242 yr 7 hours ago, Bob Sacamano said: Yeah seriously. How does this guy keep getting paid LHP. Reportedly good stuff. Eeovaldi was all potential until he wasnt, although he possessed Top 5% stuff and younger.
January 23, 20242 yr Still 7/25 top free agents unsigned according to Mlbtr, but much higher percentage remaining for #'s 26-50. Can't imagine the White Sox jumping into the Jorge Soler market unless the price was under $15 million...even that might be too high.
January 23, 20242 yr imagine being competent enough to not only add guys who will add wins on their own, but to add depth behind them
January 23, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, Squirmin' for Yermin said: Super weird signing for the Dodgers.. We must be asking for the MOON. The Dodgers are opting for a broadside of glass cannons. Kinda fascinated to see how it works.
January 23, 20242 yr I wonder which of the guys they might try out in the bullpen. I could see Paxton being a guy you might gamble on a season there if you don't need him as a starter in April - he was still throwing 95+ last year, could he get that up to 96-97 in one inning outings?
January 27, 20242 yr On 1/23/2024 at 12:09 AM, Bob Sacamano said: Yeah seriously. How does this guy keep getting paid He got money from a team that literally has an unlimited supply. There is clearly a problem with the financial system when they make all of those big signings and still have a measly $11 million for this chump.
January 27, 20242 yr Despite that massive spending…Dodgers still spelled with a small d. One poster here and Jerry Reinsdorf would be particularly horrified.
January 31, 20242 yr https://www.yahoo.com/news/james-paxton-dodgers-lower-guarantee-221142300.html Reworked from $11 to $7 million
February 1, 20242 yr This guy is the pitcher version of Eloy/Moncada. Pretty good when healthy but never healthy.
February 1, 20242 yr 2 hours ago, caulfield12 said: https://www.yahoo.com/news/james-paxton-dodgers-lower-guarantee-221142300.html Reworked from $11 to $7 million In other words he failed his physical
February 1, 20242 yr 16 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said: In other words he failed his physical Maybe not failed, but there were serious concerns.
February 1, 20242 yr 3 minutes ago, ptatc said: Maybe not failed, but there were serious concerns. Yes, they lowered the guaranteed money and made his deal more incentive-based because of whatever “red flag” they saw. If he truly “failed” the physical, the Dodgers could have nullified the deal completely and signed someone else. Edited February 1, 20242 yr by WhiteSox2023
February 1, 20242 yr https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2024-01-31/dodgers-pitching-questions-walker-buehler-yoshinobu-yamamoto-tyler-glasnow James Paxton will be the team’s reclamation project of the year, a position that was occupied last year by $13-million bust Noah Syndergaard. Flamethrower Bobby Miller will return with a season of major league experience to his name. The staff is more talented than last year’s but is the group any more reliable? The Dodgers could have a rotation that is the best in baseball — or one that is no better than it was last year. At this point, can the Dodgers really say they’re a better team than the Atlanta Braves? .... Scenario 2: The 5-foot-10 Yamamoto wears down over the 162-game season. Glasnow breaks down yet again, and the 120 innings he pitched last year remain his career high. Buehler falls into the 45% to 50% of Tommy John revision patients who don’t return to their previous level of performance. The 35-year-old Paxton, who finished last season on the disabled list and pitched six games in the three previous seasons combined, has nothing left. Miller’s development stalls. The rotation is once again in a shambles in October and the Dodgers crash out in the first round. The two scenarios are equally plausible, which feels problematic. The $470-plus million the Dodgers spent to upgrade their rotation was basically spent on high-priced lottery tickets. In their defense, they have more lottery tickets than they did last year, which gives them a greater margin for error. If, say, Paxton doesn’t perform up to expectations, it won’t be as damaging to the team as Syndergaard’s failure was last season. Their depth, which includes a couple of second-year pitchers in Gavin Stone and Emmet Sheehan, will permit the Dodgers to carefully manage the workloads of their more delicate arms. There’s a chance Kershaw could still return to the Dodgers and provide them with help late in the season. Kershaw, a free agent, is expected to sit out at least the first half of the season as he recovers from shoulder surgery. Dustin May is recovering from an elbow operation and could also pitch this season. The stakes are high. The Dodgers’ chances of winning a championship might be better in 2025 when Ohtani resumes pitching after recovering from his second major elbow operation, but that doesn’t mean they can afford to waste the opportunity in front of them this year.
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