2022-23 free agent signings tracker

[Can_of_corn]

20 hours ago, Frobby said:

I can’t figure out the Padres’ economics. Not sure where you’re getting $250 mm for next year though.  

I saw a quote about the Padres payroll.  I don't have it on hand but the gist of it was....the owner is a billionaire.  

He'd rather spend on the team instead of using it as a source of income.

[Just Regular]

15 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I saw a quote about the Padres payroll.  I don't have it on hand but the gist of it was....the owner is a billionaire.  

He'd rather spend on the team instead of using it as a source of income.

Wasn't the Mark Cuban Personality Profile questionnaire supposed to address that sort of thing?

[Can_of_corn]

4 minutes ago, Just Regular said:

Wasn't the Mark Cuban Personality Profile questionnaire supposed to address that sort of thing?

Cohen bought a team.

Here is the quote.

 

He's beaten cancer twice so maybe his priorities are different.

[Just Regular]

I'm curious to see how far the league lets Clubs go playing tax games.    I've posted a couple times snarking about it, but it isn't a complaint - the CBA allows and its a pathway for players to get paid, and Clubs to structure it palatably for them.

Knowing the Orioles zest for deferred money, maybe Elias goes to Boras - "okay, we can do Judge's $360 million for Correa.   We want him for 18 years."     The contract can expire some year near to drafting Adley Rutschman, Jr.

Kind of messes up the AAV yardstick for anyone whose ego relies on that, or any crowdsourcers who innocently expect AAV to align with player quality.

Edited December 9, 2022 by Just Regular

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, Can_of_corn said:

I saw a quote about the Padres payroll.  I don't have it on hand but the gist of it was....the owner is a billionaire.  

He'd rather spend on the team instead of using it as a source of income.

Yeah he seems to be subsidizing the team.   Nice for Padres fans.  

[Just Regular]

Cot's this morning has the Xander and Nimmo numbers from yesterday uploaded.

The 30 Clubs forecast Opening Day 26-man payrolls are at 4152 million.    Their 2022 totals were ~4373 million, so league wide another couple hundred million in AAV to go before last year matched.    TBD how much higher it will go.

The NL is about $300mm ahead of the AL for the moment, as LAA's $185mm remains good for 2nd highest in our league for now.   ATL 193, PHI 217, SD 229 and NYM 312 above Ohtani's team in the other league.    Yankees with Judge at 250.

[backwardsk]

What happens with luxury tax penalties?  Do they get distributed to the other teams?

[Just Regular]

Seidler gave a "budgets get better when you win World championships, and that's our goal" quote at the presser up at the table with Boras, Xander and Preller just now.

Happy for Manny - saw a blurb the only team in baseball history with four 6-win players has been the '27 Yankees.

Seidler also characterized himself "like all of us I'm day to day and year to year" in response to a question if on the 10-year time frame he can retain all four superstars, FWIW.

[Frobby]

Knock Senga off the list.   He goes to the Mets for 5/$75 mm.  Seems more reasonable than I was expecting.  

[Frobby]

Updated through Senga.  So far 37 players have been signed to contracts exceeding $5 mm/yr, totaling $2.371 bb (excluding an undisclosed amount for Kiermaier).   

[Frobby]

Biggest spenders through 12/10:

Mets $461 mm (Diaz, Verlander, Quintana, Robertson, Nimmo, Senga)

Phillies $387 mm (Turner, Walker, Strahm)

Yankees $371 mm (Judge, Kahnle)

Padres $306 mm (Bogaerts, Martinez)

No other teams over $125 mm, I believe.  

[Ripken]

"Roster Resource projects the Mets for a 2023 payroll of roughly $334.68MM, and a luxury tax number of just over $349.5MM...  Since this is the Mets’ second consecutive year of tax overage, they’ll face a two-time repeater penalty, as well as a 90 percent overage tax on any dollar spent beyond the $233MM mark.  This works out to around $104.85MM in tax penalty."

From: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/12/mets-to-sign-kodai-senga.html

[btdart20]

Dodgers are holding out for the Ohtani sweepstakes in 2023.

[SteveA]

Manaea to the Giants.  2 years, $25mm with an opt out.

This is from Jon Heyman, who reported Judge to the Giants last week, so take it for what you think it's worth.

[Tony-OH]

Visual representative of who's left as of today.