FA tracker thread

[Sports Guy]

Not that he was likely a candidate to come to the Os but Nola is close to a deal to stay in Philly

This should help set that market.

[Bahama O's Fan]

So.. is free agency open now or only to resign your own?

[Sports Guy]

Holy sh!t!!!!!!!!

 

[Sports Guy]

7 years for Nola probably means 4+ years for some of the FAs we have discussed for the Os, even if some we already knew that.

[Sports Guy]

6 minutes ago, Bahama O's Fan said:

So.. is free agency open now or only to resign your own?

The window to sign your own guys is 5 days after the WS. After that, anyone can sign FA.

[Just Regular]

Return #1 - the $25mm AAV matches the Fangraphs crowdsourced guess - gut reaction is Nola leaned on years.

I heard Britt on an Athletic podcast saying Ohtani could get done by or at Winter Meetings.

He's enough of a standout Plan A for a bunch of teams that except for stuff like Nola/PHI, Kershaw/LAD, if I was a top free agent without a meaningful long term relationship I probably wouldn't close until I knew how the Clubs who "miss" Ohtani are bidding for me.

[backwardsk]

Phillies MO is to give longer contracts with smaller AAV (Harper, Turner). But I guess they forgot to lower the AAV on this one.

 

Hope other teams don’t bail them out by taking on the Castellanos contract.  Similar to the Yankees/Stanton situation.

[JimGinSP]

2 hours ago, Sports Guy said:

Holy sh!t!!!!!!!!

 

Well Dave Dombrowski is gonna do Dave Dombrowski kinda things.  He probably feels he got a bargain since he was the GM in Boston 8 years ago who signed David Price to a 7 year $217m contract. 

Edited November 19, 2023 by JimGinSP
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[Sports Guy]

I have some friends and family that are Phillies fans.

They are celebrating this.

It’s interesting to think about it that way. No one cares that it’s too many years or too much money.  Just that he stayed.

I don’t want to see the Os piss away money whether they can do or not….but there’s also something to be said about your team doing whatever it takes to win and not caring about consequences that you can navigate around long term..if you have ownership willing to navigate them.

[backwardsk]

We know that the Braves were in on him. Nola’s team used that to bid Philly up.

 

 

[royalstillman]

Well that didn't take long to, in all probability, price us out of the TOR free agent market. 

[Frobby]

It’s $11 mm more than Chris Davis got, and Nola will probably be a lot more productive.  If I’m a Phillies fan, I’m definitely happy about this.  

[Can_of_corn]

24 minutes ago, royalstillman said:

Well that didn't take long to, in all probability, price us out of the TOR free agent market. 

That was already the case.

[royalstillman]

23 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

That was already the case.

True enough.

[Orioles0615]

Elias see's the market...makes shocked Pikachu face