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Harrison Bader for $10.5M to the Mets? Ye cats OPS+ of 85 in '22 and 69 in '23. How 'bout them Mets

OK, I guess. Thanks for that. Apparently AA has a much higher opinion of Sale's likelihood of health than I do. He just looks like he's not substantial enough to tolerate two or three more years of one of the most violent things you can do to your body. I remember Sale saying something about...

That doesn't make sense. Why would we pay him $16M more? $500k current + $10M in 2039 is nowhere near $16M. We've got him with $17M from Boston and $5.1M current value from us in '24. Or as you say, the Boston money is already done. But that would be total comp of $33M this year, which isn't...

JPX, How are you getting there? The Sox are paying us $17M this year. He's entitled to $17.5M this year, another $10M ($4.6M PV in '24 dollars) in 2039. So $17.5M + $4.6M = 22.1M in 2024. Why would he agree to $16M? Then a year at $22M, $2M more than his current '25 option now guaranteed...

So he's taking $16M instead of $27.5M? He's already signed for 2024. That doesn't seem to jive.

Was his last Chris Sale baseball card from 2019?

Wow, that's a lot of risk. Alex Anthopoulos, riverboat gambler.

Yeah, probably, and maybe the pull of SoCal is on his mind. However, the Angels are awful and 40 tough miles from Pacific Palisades, and the Dodgers have just invested a billion-two on Glasnow, Yamamoto and Ohtani. The Padres owner died and they've been trimming payroll significantly and found...

Maybe. Kelenic isn't a sure thing, though. If he starts 1-49 we may want to have a little more playable backup.

Could be. But he only got 300 ABs in Boston last year, and he is 35, maybe he'd be down. I thought Pillar was a pretty good fit for that role. Grichuk might be, too. Michael Taylor (the other one). Couple other guys.

I think the role of manager, by definition, includes multiple tactical decisions that give fans the opportunity to second guess - and to take heat when it comes out wrong. And sometimes, they push the wrong buttons. But sometimes, we make our judgements with incomplete information...

I give this plan my full endorsement

I've actually heard AA say (and read in the Athletic), "We pursued Nola". I suppose that could just mean a touching base phone call in case Philly didn't work out, but that was not what Alex inferred. Perhaps that rejection spurred AA's bizarre streak of acquisitions of bad money contracts...

Sure. Ozuna gets up four times a game, waddles to the plate, burns 80 calories. It’ll help keep his weight down.

Backup LF RHH who can also play center. Duvall, Grichuk, Pillar.

While Nola has had a nice career, his ERA has been mid 4.00s two of the last three years. He hardly looks dominant any more. The Phillies might rue the day they offered that contract.

I don’t think Snit is as galactically retarded as most of the board thinks he is. He surely understands that he has a Ming vase and needs to treat it with the utmost caution. Even Sale has to be aware of his limitations, no matter how stubborn he is.

I’m wary, too, but I like the gamble. A few weeks ago we were discussing back of the rotation options and I was thinking, this isn’t it. We’ve got guys who can eat innings, guys who can get outs. What we could use is a difference maker. To dominate in October. For $300M and a decade of...

Present value of $10M in 2039 assuming 5% discount rate is about $4.6M. Plus the current $500k leaves his cost a touch over $5M.

I think that was a stress fracture of his scapula.