Blue Jays aren't messing around. They know how hard it was to get to the World Series and aren't being complacent. I do wonder if they'll bring back Bichette as well, honestly wouldn't surprise me if they did with how much money they're spending this offseason, but even without him their lineup is dangerous. They've got to be the favorites in the AL.
I expected Bregman back with the Red Sox, but the Cubs are a good fit with a better chance to consistently win the division.
Essentially a 2 year deal then. I'm happy my Dodgers signed Tucker and they didn't have to commit long term. The $60 million per year means fuck all to them anyway.
They're really overpaying for WAR at over 10 mil per projected war not a good deal.
Sheer hypothetical - what do teams like the Dodgers do of the seemingly inevitable Lockout does in fact end with a Salary Cap?
Honestly? Good for Bo - get that bag.
I really find it funny. The only reasons they didn't send the Astros to the woodchipper after their scandal was because it was a scary precedent to set with the only relatively close case being the Black Sox scandal which was more than a century ago and because there is a very good chance that the MLB investigation found out that the cheating probably wasn't uncommon among the teams at the time and they didn't wanna piss off many owners. Knowing this policy of 'exceptional cheating vs. commonplace cheating,' if the Hall of Fame in theory is supposed to be a hall in Cooperstown to celebrate the players without whose contributions the story of the game of baseball would be incomplete, wouldn't the roid-heads still have represented the pinnacle of their era? In an era full of juicers, they still found a way to rise to the top and consistently be among the best. They should be rewarded a tiny bit just like how Pedro Martinez and the other reported non-juicers in that era were rated considering they had to go against the steroid era.
They don't want long investigations affecting their media deals, their relationship with the unions, and the government. They don't want uncertainty of their product costing them potentially billions in media rights when a cheating allegation might harm the organization long term. They don't want to punish players in way where it might lead to a lockout. And they don't want another prolonged inquiry from the government like with the steroid era where players are nervously answering questions from congressmen in front of the entire world.
