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deGrom’s strikeout to walk ratio the last two partial seasons has been incredible. He more than doubled it to 13.3 and 12.8. Only 19 walks with 248 strikeouts in 156 innings—both crazy stats. He took both walks and strikeouts to another level of great. On pace for over 300 strikeouts per season in both 2021 and ‘22!

Seems it all boils down to staying healthy. He did prior to 2021. And how much aging will matter—he is 34.5 years old.
 
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Creeperfrog

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deGrom’s strikeout to walk ratio the last two partial seasons has been incredible. He more than doubled it to 13.3 and 12.8. Only 19 walks with 248 strikeouts in 156 innings—both crazy stats. He took both walks and strikeouts to another level of great. On pace for over 300 strikeouts per season in both 2021 and ‘22!

Seems it all boils down to staying healthy. He did prior to 2021. And how much aging will matter—he is 34.5 years old.
I just think they need a lot more than a high priced pitcher. I would work on the other needs first, but I'm just an observer and don't know the team details
 

Eight

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haven't stayed at a holiday inn express in a few years and not trying to play general manager, but do want to ask if it is smart of the padres to invest over 600M in shortstops on their roster
 

bmoney214

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Seller Cory Youmans caught the ball at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, during an Oct. 4 game between the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers. He turned down a $3 million offer for the ball and elected to put it up for auction.

scheissing dumbass. Should have took the $3million.
 

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Seller Cory Youmans caught the ball at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, during an Oct. 4 game between the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers. He turned down a $3 million offer for the ball and elected to put it up for auction.

scheissing dumbass. Should have took the $3million.

Yeah, I’m taking the $3MM too. Unless he’s planning to hold on to it for 20yrs and then sell.
 
Star shortstop Dansby Swanson, age 28, signs with the Cubs. Of all the star SS signings this past three off-seasons, this may turn out to be the best at 7 years and 177 million, 25.3 per year. We know he plays.

He is iron man, DURABLE, playing 160 and 162 regular season games the last two years. He is very good in the field, winning the Gold Glove last year.

His hitting may be swinging up, last year his best at .277/.329/.447/.776 in a year when hitting was down due to a less lively ball. A .760 OPS in 2021.

I do wonder why the Braves let him go—he wanted to stay and is from Atlanta. A bit puzzling, but maybe they are just stubborn on large contracts.
 
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bmoney214

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I do wonder why the Braves let him go—he wanted to stay and is from Atlanta. A bit puzzling, but maybe they are just stubborn on large contracts.
Atlanta's front office has made some head scratching moves the last couple of seasons. Freddie Freeman wanted to stay last year and they let him walk too. I think Freddie's situation had something to with his agent and some communication issues.
 
Dang Mets grab shortstop Carlos Correa too at 12 years, 315M, already having Francisco Lindor at shortstop at 10 years 341 million. I guess this moves 6’4” Correa to 3rd to save on his body. He has the strong accurate arm.
Correa will be replacing, Eduardo Escobar at 3rd, so a big upgrade. Escobar's slash line last year .240/.295/.430/.726.

Escobar can be a 10 million dollar backup for when Correa is hurt/injured, ha.

The 1st Luxury Tax threshold for team payroll is 233M. The Mets have now passed the 4th threshold and will pay a 90% tax on Correa’s 2023 salary. Their 2023 team tax payroll will be about 382M. Mets will be well over 100 million higher than the Yankees 2nd place 249M tax payroll.
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@JeffPassan
Since free agency began, the Mets signed:

- Carlos Correa, $315M
- Brandon Nimmo, $162M
- Edwin Díaz, $102M
- Justin Verlander, $86.6M
- Kodai Senga, $75M
- Jose Quintana, $26M
- Omar Narvaez, $15M
- Adam Ottavino, $14.5M
- David Robertson, $10M

Total outlay: $806.1 million
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The Mets owner—

Steven A. Cohen (born June 11, 1956) is an American hedge fund manager and owner of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball since September 14, 2020, owning roughly 97.2% of the team. He is the founder of hedge fund Point72 Asset Management and now-closed S.A.C. Capital Advisors, both based in Stamford, Connecticut.
 
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Eight

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So when’s the Mets physical?



very interesting as to why the giants had some different feelings about the deal after the physical

curious what one finds in a physical that makes an organization rethink a 12-year guaranteed contract with a 28-year old who has had some injury issues, back maybe, something degenerative maybe?
 
Cohen has signed nine free agents this winter at a cost of $806 million. According to Baseball Prospectus, the Mets’ payroll for 2023 is $384.3 million, which incurs a luxury tax hit of $111.6 million. Cohen will pay more in taxes next season than seven teams are paying in payroll.

The luxury tax system began in 1997 as an unofficial braking mechanism against runaway team spending. Teams could spend as much as they wanted, but the three-tiered tax was designed to affix a cost to outlier spending. The CBA signed last March added a fourth tier—for repeat offenders, a 90% tax on payrolls greater than $293 million—that immediately became known as the “Cohen Tax” threshold because he was viewed as the only owner to which it might apply. Cohen has obliterated that threshold without worry. Correa, for instance, will cost him $49.87 million in 2023 with the 90% tax.
 
Productive players in their late 30s are the rarest they have been in 50 years….
  • Baseball was a young man’s game in the 1960s and ’70s, through three expansions. In those times many players still took offseason jobs and used spring training to “get in shape.”
  • The early 1980s saw such a huge growth in extended careers that it looks like an outlier. The years ’82 to ’87 averaged 13 productive players per season, compared to 6.5 in the 11 years before and 7.9 in the 11 years after.
  • The steroid era extended careers. From 1999 through 2008, which reflects the last group who accrued the benefits before testing began in ’04, the game averaged 13.6 productive older players each year—an extended peak compared to the early-’80s spike.
  • In 14 years after the steroid era’s peak, the number of productive older players has been cut by more than half, to an average of 6.1 per season. Last season saw only four productive older players: Justin Turner, Carlos Santana, Justin Verlander and Adam Wainwright. In 2004 there were 19.
…Again, there's been a decline since 2009, and the numbers do not support the massive investments in aging hitters. The past six seasons have seen only 15 older productive hitters, an average of just 2.5 per year—or half as many as the previous six-year average and down from seven per year in the steroid era.
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Older players are getting more money as the game is getting younger. The average age of a hitter last season was 28.3. In 2004, it was 29.3, the oldest mark in baseball history (with the exception of the years 1944 and ’45, when many players served in the military).

The average age of a hitter exceeded 29 every year from 2000 to ’07, thanks largely to steroids. Except for 1944 to ’45, it never happened once before or since. It has been no higher than 28.4 for the past eight seasons—the first such extended emphasis on youth since the 1970s.
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The newest class of players with megacontracts includes more money at more advanced ages. Until the trendline changes, the incentive for clubs is less about sport science than it is accounting and the cost of acquiring the player.
 
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Eight

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Santa might be taking Carlos' $315 Million. Talk about having a [ Finebaum ]ty Christmas.


asked the question above and it seems a few things have leaked out a bit, something degenerative in the lower leg/ ankle area and don't think the giants simply got cold feet and found a reason to blow up the deal as they just signed another boras client who interestingly enough is recovering from an injury

both conforto and rodon's contracts included opt outs after season one

now there is talk about the mets and carlos having discussion about the terms of his contract, do we see less guaranteed money and some protection for the club if there is a degenerative issue
 
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