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Agreed. 130-140 games is appropriate if he’s up day 1.

What is a lot? 130-140 games? More?

I mean, Heimlich pled guilty. He is, in fact, a criminal.

Prove it.

Harrison is guy you may be able to get if they overpay a little. I’m talking 1yr/4-5M. He has more value to a competitive team that can use him in a utility role, IMO. If we offered him $1M and other teams offer him spring invites, I can see him going for a Spring invite. If he’s offered $1M from competitive clubs, and we offer him $4M, he may consider us. These other guys being discussed (Correa, Bryant, Seager, Baez, etc) aren’t coming here unless we massively overbid. Why would they want to come here? They’ll have other offers. And if we do overbid, then we won’t have the payroll flexibility to make other necessary improvements.

Imagine the homeruns they’ll give up on that little field.

Story, Seager, Baez, Correa. Which one will be the best when they are in their 30s?

This year’s free agent crops will absolutely love a $100M floor. At first glance, the reduction of cap and increase of tax actually seems like that would help deep pocket teams like NYY and LAD. I think SG mentioned it before, but MLB should really look into what the NBA does in terms of Bird rights and such to help keep stars in town.

He does not have a no trade clause according to 2019 articles before he was traded. Evidently they were close with Cincinnati on a deal.

I’ve seen no indication that they are looking to shed salary. Hell, they paid Cole Hamels $1M to not pitch for them while trading for Scherzer and Turner. Their pitching has been plagued by injuries. Price helps them win which they are trying to do. Next year, May is out for a large chunk of the season and Scherzer could end up leaving. I just don’t see them eager to get rid of Price for nothing.

What would the Dodgers want/need from us for them to give us Price? Who do we have that would make them better that they couldn’t just go out and get in FA?

I’ll bite. Besides Rutschman and Rodriguez, what assets do they have to trade to make the MLB product better? Someone may want Mullins, but would the return outweigh his production in any meaningful way?

Ryu was also coming off an injury plagued year and a bit older. But, yeah, his resume is better that Ray’s. I’m not taking into consideration that the owners may do some “lite-collusion” and keep FA prices down prior to a labor fight.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets 5/100. This isn’t an outstanding FA crop for SP. You don’t have Cole/Strasburg blowing up the top end of the market so bigger pocket teams will be in play. Ryu got 4/80 as a 32 year old. Wheeler 115M.

They are not going to give Robby Ray the 9 figure contract needed to land him.

Appears to be a pattern with this guy. A woman in Ohio is making similar claims.

After the trades, the Nationals have added 10 players to their top 30. They’ve gone from the worst farm system to a middle of the road one in 24-48 hours.

Edwin Jackson will pitch for team USA in Tokyo. Wished Adam Jones and Matt Wieters joined him.

The league is in the wrong, too. I definitely agree with that. But I still believe that Roberts is being weak here (and I generally like Roberts). Bauer is the one with the most blame for putting everyone in this situation.

One can interpret that as the league is mandating that they start him. Or that the Dodgers went to the league and asked “what do we do here.” And the league said you can start him while we investigate. The latter is more realistic to me. Doesn’t prevent Roberts from being able to say, you know, these allegations are horrific. Perhaps I have Bauer sit out a start or two while we get more information.

The league gets to dictate who manager plays?

But it’s not out of Roberts’ hands. He can still make the choice not to start him. And he should, imo. Pretty pedestrian move by Roberts.

? Pretty sure SD hates having their best team this century. Jealousy is a poor look. Sad.

You can’t pitch him on Sunday if you are Roberts and the Dodgers.

So maybe like the 4th inning tonight?