MLB 2018-19 Offseason Thread

You could build a lot of low-income housing for $335 million.

Serve a lot of free school lunches, too.

 

Just did a quick and incomplete scan of baseball-reference on Hall of Fame players in their age 39 season. Power hitters like Harper who did pretty well if not their peak in that year include Mays, Aaron and Reggie Jackson. If Harper goes on to have a Hall career, and why would you pay that much if you don't think he will, he has a chance to be less than a financial and talent deadweight to the Phillies in 2032. I mean, it might be unfair to compare anybody to Mays or Aaron, but not to Reggie, a legit Hall of Famer, but not one of the 15 or so greatest who ever lived.

 

Exhibit A: Pujols

 

Pujols didn't really fall off a cliff in production terms until last season (age 38). The previous three or four seasons with the Angels, he was still a useful bat. That's not how he was getting paid, of course, but his contract was not a washout for the Angels in that time.

 

This offer makes a lot more sense to me.

 

This is all just dick measuring. He wanted/needed either the AAV or length "record".

It's why I never spent a calorie worrying if Player A is making $25 million or $35 million

 

Well, he should have studied math a bit more. JFC.

Where’s dq?

 

$180M or $330M? $150M guaranteed is not an insignificant amount. Can't assume the $$ offered now is going to be there in 4 yrs. Look at Bosh, Reggie Lewis, Demarcus Cousins, Matheny (concussions). You're just one injury away.

 

Even Harper and his fucking JUCO education should have been smart enough to figure this out.

 

Exactly

Harper needed to lead SportsCenter with: The Biggest Contract Ever. It was the goal since 11th grade. For him and his family it was validation. Philly, LA SF SD CHISOX. it didn't matter. Tokyo Giants came in with 15 years / 400 Boras would have binder pointing out that Japanese baseball is the best league in the world.

Boras desperately wanted to lead SportsCenter with: The Biggest Contract Ever. For him its also validation. He wants the attention. He needs to feel worshipped when he walks into some 18 year old kids' living room to plant visions of gold bullion in their heads.

neither truly needed it, but they both desperately wanted it.

Its weird that Trout didn't recruit Harper to the Angels. without a salary cap, players go where the contract is best or where they want to be. No superteams in baseball or Harper would play in Anaheim or Boston or the Yankees.

 

His JUCO education just got him 330 mill guaranteed.