Official Around Baseball 2023 Thread

jpx7 said:
You have to let him spend, and you can’t care about long-term sustainability, but he can craft some short-term bonafide playoff clubs with the best of them.
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I guess I just don’t see anything he’s done that literally anyone who’s allowed to spend couldn’t.
 
Super said:
I guess I just don’t see anything he’s done that literally anyone who’s allowed to spend couldn’t.
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Counter-examples are Padres and Mets (not to mention the Angels), though the former have way underplayed their RD. There are wines teams, too, like the Zaidi Giants who tried to spend big and failed to entice anyone.
 
Super said:
The Phillies are oddly very happy with Dombrowski
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He’s not my flavor, but he’s done a good job rounding out the roster with Marsh, Pache, Hoffman, etc.

He’s built good pitching staffs.

Schwarber is overpaid and has to play out of position, but he’s a good hitter. Castellanos is really his only true blemish.

AA is light years ahead of him, but I think Dombrowski is a good fit for a big payroll team.
 
jpx7 said:
Counter-examples are Padres and Mets (not to mention the Angels), though the former have way underplayed their RD. There are wines teams, too, like the Zaidi Giants who tried to spend big and failed to entice anyone.
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Zaidi is brilliant but he strikes me as being penny wise and a dollar short.
 
jpx7 said:
How much of that has been ownership, versus personal conviction. Bloom had the same problem in Boston.
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Giants have and can run high payrolls right? It seems like most of his moves are centered around signing a bunch of 1 year prove it deals. And to his credit, they’ve mostly worked out. But the upside of someone overachieving on a one year deal is they become free agents and leave (see Gausman, Kevin… Rodon, Carlos),

He’s done a great job there and I wouldn’t really have any complaints if I were a Giants fan. But ultimately they give off an aura of going nowhere slow.
 
CrimsonCowboy said:
Ummmm…………
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He was taking a dump at team facilities when the GM came in talking on the phone saying how stupid he was for not trading show-hey and ‘going for it’ instead. Show-hey pops ups and leaves. GM stands there amazed at what just happened. Later after stewing on it the GM calls show-hey in and tells him the has been DFA’d. He says ‘sorry kid, letting you go. Can’t keep anyone who doesn’t wash their hands after using the restroom’.

Huge mess.
 
He has missed the past 10+ games due to an oblique issue. My guess, rather than the entertaining one above, is that they determined the oblique will keep him out the rest of the season and he will likely go ahead with the surgery on his elbow to give him a head start on recovery.

But obviously, his time as an Angel is FINNISH
 
Ohtani passed up like 100+ million to sign with the Angels a year or two early. He should be passed at the Angels. Or atleast whoever convinced him the Angels weren't a dumpster fire.
 
I might be wrong but I don’t see Ohtani getting a 10 year deal like some have been getting. There’s to much uncertainty around him with whether he’s a pitcher and DH or just a DH.
 
Hudson2 said:
I might be wrong but I don’t see Ohtani getting a 10 year deal like some have been getting. There’s to much uncertainty around him with whether he’s a pitcher and DH or just a DH.
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He’s a DH because he’s a pitcher. If he can’t pitch, I have zero doubt he would be an elite defensive outfielder. He’s fast and has a great arm. And also he’s baseball Jesus.

If his pitching days are over, he will pick up a glove.
 
chop2chip said:
He’s a DH because he’s a pitcher. If he can’t pitch, I have zero doubt he would be an elite defensive outfielder. He’s fast and has a great arm. And also he’s baseball Jesus.

If his pitching days are over, he will pick up a glove.
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Wasn’t he a really good SS?
 
Angels are the worst ran team in MLB. I forget the stat but it was something like the top 10 WAR in the last decade or something for a player that didn't make the playoffs, aside from 1 season of Harper, it was all Trout and Ohtani.
 
Can you imagine having the best trading piece in baseball and not using it? He could have spun Trout and Ohtani at the deadline and restocked the farm system and worked on everything else.
 
zitothebrave said:
Can you imagine having the best trading piece in baseball and not using it? He could have spun Trout and Ohtani at the deadline and restocked the farm system and worked on everything else.
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Maybe just me but I don’t think trout nets you much with his contract. I mean you would get something. But not some incredible haul. Show hey now would have netted a nice return.
 
zitothebrave said:
Can you imagine having the best trading piece in baseball and not using it? He could have spun Trout and Ohtani at the deadline and restocked the farm system and worked on everything else.
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Doubtful. Trout is a 32, makes 35 million for the next 6 years, and is going to play in 85% of your games or less. Nobody is backing up the truch for that.

Ohtani is a stud but was 2 month rental.

Sure, you may get a nice prospect for each of them. But there is no Tex level of farm restocking here. Those days are gone.
 
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