Words are cheap. Actions are more telling.Originally Posted by 5GoldGloves:OF,75
Mookie didn't have to sign an extension with the Dodgers. We all thought he was one of those guys who wanted to take the risk and get to free agency.
Seems like he wanted to be in LA, does it not?
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Ohtani will not get a guaranteed $500 million.
Tough to say. We were two months of cancelled games into the season when he finally signed. If the Dodgers were the goal, he certainly strung them along for a while…
Do you know when the Dodgers presented the offer?
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Ohtani will not get a guaranteed $500 million.
Therein lies the futility of talking numbers when it comes to dollar signs. Just consider the debates here: Well, he may be worth $20 million, but no one deserves $30 million to play a kid's game!
MLB may be irrational, but it's full of young men -- many without business degrees -- who hire successful agents to get them the best possible rations.
No. I would assume negotiations began shortly after the trade because I doubt the Dodgers viewed Mookie as a one season rental.
You're assuming facts not in evidence.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Ohtani will not get a guaranteed $500 million.
Right, but why did Seager score and Correa get left on the sidelines? Blind luck, perhaps?
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Ohtani will not get a guaranteed $500 million.
I suppose it’s very possible Mookie had no intention of signing with LA. But after some 50 games of his option year were cancelled and there was no end in sight, he reconsidered his position.
Did that happen? We’ll never know. Possible? Certainly…
Word got out that Correa spends his winters throwing rocks at old people?
This is supposed to be a serious discussion!
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Ohtani will not get a guaranteed $500 million.
Totally assuming.
But it is a very common practice. Like happened with Lindor one year before.
It makes sense to know what their budget would be as early as possible since they didn’t know there would be a pandemic and probably wanted to make other moves that they needed to know whether or not they could afford..
And throwing rocks at old people is such frivolous behavior…
All we can do is do what we do: speculate (this is why some posters need to relax... unless, of course, they're secret agents planted here by the Red Sox PR dept).
With Seager, maybe there was a bidding war -- it only takes two. And maybe, both were division rivals...
... or one was the Yankees, who maybe preferred Seager for his lefty swing to aim at jokefield in Yankee Stadium... and for his non-Correa villainous Astro history. If there was any club that had reason to avoid Carlos, it was NY, especially after he dissed Jeter's D (omg).
Btw: re. Story, we really shouldn't be that surprised by his horrendous nightly swings and misses -- now in his 7th year, his 162-game average is 190 strikeouts. When I was a kid, Bobby Bonds set the all-time single season K record with 189 in 1970. The bigger problem with Story is he almost has twice as many whiffs as hits: 41 to 22.
But a bigger total shock has to be Marcus Semien, with only 20 hits, zero home runs, and a .157 batting average. This was a star hitter who not only just set the all-time HR record for second basemen, but a guy who was third in MVP voting for two different teams in two different cities the last two full years (no Coors factor there).
It's still early, and hitting is down across the board. I think these guys will all rebound. How far is yet to be determined.
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