Offseason Hot Stove 2024-25 Thread

mfree80 said:
If deferrals are such a great idea, how come nobody else does it?
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I'm a per year basis? Sure. But you can only kick the can down the road so long.

The Dodgers will find it nearly impossible to compete in about 5 years without spending a 300-350 million dollar roster every year.
 
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With quality FA pitching immensely easier to find than hitting this FA class, I would put my trade assets into hitting, with Jesus Sanchez, Carlos Correa, and Bo Bichette topping my list.
 
Carp said:
With quality FA pitching immensely easier to find than hitting this FA class, I would put my trade assets into hitting, with Jesus Sanchez, Carlos Correa, and Bo Bichette topping my list.
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The Blue Jays for some reason seem to think they are a top team and are willing to spend big so BB probably doesn’t get traded even though he should.
 
CrimsonCowboy said:
Dodgers are becoming what the Yankees were in the late 90s and early 2000s
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I had the same thought. They have a lot of money to throw around, but Friedman seems to have gone counter some of this strategies when he was in charge of the cash-strapped Rays. Trades/Signings for guys like Glasgow, Kershaw, and now Snell are all expensive and have red flags (especially at that price). MLB is going to have to do something about deferred money provisions in contracts, but my guess is the MLBPA would fight any limitation. On a straight calculation of approximately $35 MM per year, if Snell pitches 150 innings, he'd be earning over $230,000 per inning.
 
Hudson2 said:
The Blue Jays for some reason seem to think they are a top team and are willing to spend big so BB probably doesn’t get traded even though he should.
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I read somewhere during the end-of-season wrap-ups that the Blue Jays saw Bichette's 2024 as a blip and not a trend in terms of performance and they were intent on bringing him back in 2025. I agree that the Blue Jays have made a ton of odd decisions and miscalculations in the recent past and maybe hanging on to Bichette will be another one.
 
Hudson2 said:
Common sense does. This was their big money spend for the rotation. They’ll more than likely get Sasaki to.
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Maybe you are right but Sasaki maybe start at the minors for a little bit. Ohtani maybe is not ready to pitch day 1 and Glasnow always get hurt. Hopefully not but Dodgers are getting ridiculous.
 
The present value of the Snell deal matches very closely to the $160M he was projected to get by MLBTR. They seem to be very good at these projections as long as flukey market forces don’t affect a contract….like a player waiting too long and tanking their own market.
 
The Dodgers are going to have to use a 6 man rotation given how many pitchers they have coming back from injury. Plus Sasaki like Yamamoto is used to pitching once a week.
 
The thought that comes to mind after hearing the news of the Snell signing (along with more deferred money), is the gap in the league between the big spending teams and non spending teams continues to increase every year. This is especially evident now that the big spending teams mostly all have smart people in their front office. They don't just throw money around, they look for any competitive advantage when it comes to player development, analytics, and now loopholes like deferred money. It's really hard to see how some of these smaller market teams will ever compete again. But MLB did this to themselves.

Let's just be happy we root for a team who turned out to be one of those smart big spending teams.
 
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