Offseason Hot Stove 2024-25 Thread

Hopefully this just forces a salary cap. Hope the owners hold out 2 years if necessary. They have the money to wait em out.

Salary cap

All tv money distributed equally.

This should be what the owners demand for the good of the game. In the mean time, baseball gods need to send a plaque of injuries on the dodgers like God did to Egypt.
 
Hulavol said:
Here’s the thing - this team, as it stands right now- is one of the best in baseball and WS worthy. I don’t think AA feels any pressure to do anything other than add to the bullpen, and he may not even do that until he sees what he really has come ST-( he’s got several young arms that could easily slot there). I am of the thinking that AA may be more interested in not doing anything to dampen the not- too distant - future and he may just hoard cash and trade capital to deal with the inevitable injuries during the season.
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True, but part of me still thinks he wants to empty out a lot of the farm by trading them for established major league players. Braves may have the pieces to pull either or both of Lopez and Correa from the Twins. Pohlads are finally trying to sell the team and often times to accomplish that, a franchise will dump its high-buck players. The Braves' window is probably as open as its going to get before it slowly starts closing. I just can't believe that Anthopoulos has made all the moves--especially the extensions--without desperately wanting to win a World Series.
 
Kirby Yates to the Dodgers.

This is unprecedented.

Utter madness.

Funny. Ridiculous. Completely nonsensical.

Never seen anything like it.
 
Outside of Blake Snell, not a single move the Dodgers have made this offseason should have been cost-prohibitive to the Braves or any other serious contender. Especially not a for a team that is rolling in the dough from The Battery and is in effect a regional team with fans all over the country.
 
The Dodgers now have about 4-5 options for the "closer role" in Scott, Yates, Phillips, Kopech, and Treinen.

Which means they have 4-5 options for important spots in any of the 6th, 7th, and 8th innings.

That team is going to be ridiculous.
 
SJ24 said:
The Dodgers now have about 4-5 options for the "closer role" in Scott, Yates, Phillips, Kopech, and Treinen.

Which means they have 4-5 options for important spots in any of the 6th, 7th, and 8th innings.

That team is going to be ridiculous.
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They have an insane amount of weapons to deploy. Their depth is crazy.
 
You all need to take a deep breath.

About the Dodgers, anyway. Hyperventilating about the Braves' terrible offseason is both acceptable and encouraged.
 
SJ24 said:
The Dodgers now have about 4-5 options for the "closer role" in Scott, Yates, Phillips, Kopech, and Treinen.

Which means they have 4-5 options for important spots in any of the 6th, 7th, and 8th innings.

That team is going to be ridiculous.
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They played a lot of mix-and-match last season especially when Phillips had a rough stretch. Phillips still had the most saves (18), but Hudson had 10 and 11 other guys had at least one save (Vesla had 6). I see the same pattern emerging. I think it can be argued that Yates, Treinen, Scott, and Kopech all have better raw stuff than Phillips. Whatever the approach, Dodgers will likely have enough guys in the bullpen that ensures everybody will have enough rest.
 
SJ24 said:
Kirby Yates to the Dodgers.

This is unprecedented.

Utter madness.

Funny. Ridiculous. Completely nonsensical.

Never seen anything like it.
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We better enjoy the next 2 years, cuz a lockout in 27 is happening. But a top 5 bullpen of Kopech, Scott, Yates, Treiinen and Phillips is crazy. Plus the other guys they have.
 
Heyward said:
We better enjoy the next 2 years, cuz a lockout in 27 is happening. But a top 5 bullpen of Kopech, Scott, Yates, Treiinen and Phillips is crazy. Plus the other guys they have.
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I failed to mention Vesia, who is a great lefty.

And they get Graterol back around August, which is like trading for a good bullpen piece.
 
Enscheff said:
It's kinda funny now actually.
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Precisely. I am loving it.

They have now signed in a single offseason:

a multi-time Cy Young winner
the best Japanese pitcher
the best posted Korean position player
the best closer
the 2nd best closer
Michael Conforto

And have resigned Blake Treinen, Teoscar Hernandez, and given Tommy Edman a 74 million dollar extension.

I think this beats the 2009 Yankees offseason.
 
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